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Crave! talks to Jamie McDell

February 25, 2022 01:21 - 22 minutes - 25.4 MB

Kiwi singer Jamie McDell releases her latest album today, and she’s take a few minutes to talk to Crave! about family, recording, and the musicians she’s been fortunate enough to work with in Nashville making her record. Read more →

Crave! episode 102: Clickbait

September 28, 2021 23:07 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MB

Netflix continues to turn out classy, high-budget dramas. The latest is Clickbait, a stylish, engaging thriller that manages to make a few interesting points about modern life and wrap itself in a clever narrative structure. For all that, it has… Read more →

Crave! episode 101: Money Heist is back!

September 16, 2021 00:24 - 27 minutes - 32 MB

Aotearoa finds itself back in lockdown, and so Kiwis are looking for things to keep us entertained. One of last year’s great breakout hits was La Casa De Papel, the Spanish thriller better known in the English-speaking world as Money… Read more →

Crave! episode one hundred

September 03, 2021 23:22 - 32 minutes - 37 MB

Crave! has finally reached three figures! Steve and Simon refuse to let a pandemic hold them back, and Crave! returns, with a slightly updated format. We’re just looking at one thing per episode for a while, and for our one… Read more →

Crave! episode 99: Wrath Of Man, Locked Down, ZeroZeroZero

May 08, 2021 00:36 - 27 minutes - 31.2 MB

Crave! is back, and this week Simon and Steve are doing their best to contain their frustration—they’re not angry, they’re just very, very disappointed—at Guy Ritchie’s latest, Wrath Of Man. Significantly less disappointing is Locked Down, surely the first of… Read more →

Crave! episode 98: Black Hands, Des, Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Dobbyn, The Beths.

November 07, 2020 23:35 - 55 minutes - 63.9 MB

It’s been a while, but Crave! is back, and better than ever. In a heavily Kiwi-centric comeback episode, Steve and Simon talk about Black Hands, the new dramatisation of the Bain family killings, and about local acts Dave Dobbyn at… Read more →

Crave! episode 97: Radioactive, Eurovision, True Detective, Taylor Swift’s new album

August 06, 2020 04:52 - 51 minutes - 58.5 MB

As Simon and Steve inch ever closer to their hundredth episode, the emphasis remains on films. Radioactive is the story of Marie Curie, and a film that both our reviewers found quite engaging. Less so Eurovision Song Contest: The Story… Read more →

Crave! episode 96: Greed, The High Note, Money Heist, Shtisel, The Sinner, and a chat with James Reyne.

July 08, 2020 23:40 - 1 hour - 71.4 MB

Crave! is finally back, after months of lockdown and carefully managed isolation. In this first post-lockdown edition, Steve and Simon disagree on Greed, the satire on the nasty wealthy from Michael Winterbottom, but agree on The High Note, a film… Read more →

Crave! episode 95: Alien Weaponry, The Book of Mormon, Bombshell, The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Emma, and a few thoughts about what’s next.

March 18, 2020 04:54 - 45 minutes - 52.2 MB

In what could be the last episode of Crave! to fully feature live entertainment for quite some time, Simon and Steve share a few thoughts about what lies ahead. But in more positive thoughts, Steve has a lot of good… Read more →

Crave! episode 94: Elton John, Parasite, Queen, La Belle Epoque, Birds Of Prey

February 19, 2020 06:35 - 1 hour - 89.1 MB

Simon and Steve were very fortunate to be at the first scheduled Elton John concert in Auckland this weekend, because it turned out to be his last at Mount Smart Stadium, Elton having abandoned the show almost two hours in.… Read more →

Crave! episode 93: Laneway 2020, Bastille, Richard Jewell, Like A Boss, Underwater

January 31, 2020 21:44 - 53 minutes - 61.3 MB

Music leads this week. Steve’s been busy at Laneway 2020 enjoying most, but not all, of the music on offer, while Debbie, our Intrepid Guest Reviewer, has a lot of positive things to say about Bastille. In movie news, the… Read more →

Crave! episode 92: 1917, The Gentlemen, Cats, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

January 16, 2020 00:28 - 58 minutes - 67.1 MB

Steve and Simon are back from a Christmas break, with a rather film-centric first-of-the-year episode of Crave!. The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s latest version of his cockney-wide-boy caper, has entertained both of our reviewers, while Sam Mendes’ First World War epic… Read more →

Crave! episode 91: Knives Out, The Irishman, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lauv, and Khalid

December 08, 2019 04:14 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MB

Knives Out is the new Daniel Craig black comedy-thriller, and it’s delighted both Steve and Simon, who also have a few thoughts about where the first official trailer for what’s likely to be Craig’s last Bond outing, No Time To… Read more →

Crave! episode 90: U2, Jojo Rabbit, Terminator: Dark Fate

November 13, 2019 07:44 - 55 minutes - 63.5 MB

Steve won the toss this week, and scored the one ticket Crave! got to see U2. Turns out, it was quite a score—a very enjoyable concert with a bonus beforehand. Simon and Steve have both enjoyed Jojo Rabbit enormously—who’d have… Read more →

Crave! episode 89: Joker, The Goldfinch, Postmodern Jukebox, and Steve’s interview with Steve Hackett

October 14, 2019 06:57 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB

The film everyone’s talking about right now is Joker, and Steve and Simon are in agreement: it’s a quite remarkable film. Not, by any stretch, light entertainment, but it’s a compelling watch. The critics have been in agreement about The… Read more →

Crave! episode 88

September 27, 2019 08:47 - 1 hour - 86.1 MB

Good Boys might not have been written by Seth Rogan, but it has his fingerprints all over it. It might lack substance, but it’s very, very funny. Simon is slightly less impressed with IT Chapter 2, but Steve has a… Read more →

Crave! episode 87: Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood; Six Degrees Of Separation; Tom Walker; We Will Rock You; Late Night; and an interview with Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze

August 24, 2019 01:28 - 1 hour - 89.6 MB

Crave! is back after a short winter break, and the big film that’s welcomed Steve and Simon back is Quentin Tarantino’s ninth, and possibly last, possibly penultimate, film, the awkwardly-named Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. Steve’s been to the theatre,… Read more →

Crave! episode 86: The Lion King, Crawl, Toy Story 4, Yesterday, and Steve’s interview with Aubrey Logan of Postmodern Jukebox

July 24, 2019 08:25 - 1 hour - 74.5 MB

The Lion King is the latest effort in Disney’s trawl through its back-catalogue of classic animations, and while it’s undeniably a technical masterpiece, it’s left Simon and Steve both quite cold. Unlike Yesterday, the Curtis/Boyle collaboration about the only man… Read more →

Crave! episode 85: Men In Black, Sometimes Always Never, Years And Years, the new Bruce Springsteen album Western Stars, and a chat with Skyscraper Stan

June 26, 2019 23:20 - 55 minutes - 63.5 MB

Men In Black: International should have been so good. And yet it wasn’t. Neither Steve nor Simon can find many positive things to say about this disappointing film. Sometimes Always Never, on the other hand, the new Bill Nighy outing,… Read more →

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