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The Hateful Eight: Neon NZ Film Review Cinema's enfant terrible returns with his eighth outing, a sprawling epic yet intimate film about justice, simmering tensions and life after the Civil War. It's the story of bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who are powering through the wintry Wyoming landscape in a stagecoach on their way to Daisy's appointment with the ultimate hangman. But as the storm sets in deeper, Ruth finds two others on the road seeking shelter; one is former union soldier turned bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson in usual commanding form) and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) the soon-to-be new sheriff of Red Rock where both Ruth and Domergue are bound. Holing up in a stopover cabin until the storm passes, the quartet find a bunch of new unexpected faces. Forced to seek shelter, Ruth begins to feel uneasy as the pot starts to boil over with mistrust... Age has not diminished Tarantino...

Undine: Movie Review Less successful than perhaps director Christian Petzold would hope, Undine's tale of a doomed romance with supernatural elements falls short in some of its story telling. Paula Beer is Undine, a historian who lectures locally about the past of Berlin and who as the film begins tells former lover Johannes that if he leaves her, she will have to kill him. Despite this, Johannes leaves, and just as it looks like Undine will exact her vengeance, she chance meets local diver Christophe (Franz Rogowski), latching onto him and launching into an affair. Undine's supernatural moments are what lets the film down. For a film obsessed with water, and whose enjoyment probably relies greatly on some knowledge of the Ondine story, Undine is stubbornly obtuse and difficult to piece together. Moments tend to occur with little reason, and seemingly minor coincidences that are supposed to connect don't quite resonate perhaps as they should. Thankfully, in the midst of all...

Mortal Kombat: Neon NZ Film Review Sometimes, a film does exactly what it says on the tin and nothing more. One such case is Mortal Kombat, the latest in a line of video game adaptations to hit the big screen, much to the nervous anticipation of fans and the general apathy of a public that's overwhelmed by soulless game movies that amount to nothing and rarely get a sequel. There's plenty of fan service in Mortal Kombat that pays homage to its fighting platform roots. From the dropping of lines from the game's various victory voiceovers to the general adherence to the lore, it's clear director Simon McQuoid knows who he's pitching the film to - it's just a shame the script and parts of the execution don't do more to build an excellent prologue that pitches both mythology, mystical edges and a desire for revenge through the generations. In truth, nobody expects a deep plot for video game films - just something serviceable to make sure the film hits its requir...

The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Movie Review Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield Director: Michael Showalter The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a film that hinges solely on the performances of its two leads, with each complementing the other in ways that help them excel on the screen. Which is fortunate, because as a drama and biography, The Eyes of Tammy Faye clearly really doesn't know what it wants to be. Charting the journey of Tammy Faye Bakker as she negotiated her way into the world of televangelism in the 1970s, Jessica Chastain is excellent as the infinitely perky, potentially naive and believing-the-best-of-people Tammy Faye.  It's possibly helped by a script that really does champion her point of view, and does little else to delve deeper into the potential complexities of the crimes the Bakkers were committing, stealing from their evangelical foundation for their own use.  The Eyes of Tammy Faye implies that Jim Bakker (a fierce Andrew Garfield, in one of his career best) ...

Benedetta: Film Review Cast: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson Director: Paul Verhoeven Based on a true story, notorious director Paul Verhoeven's latest, a tale of a lesbian affair involving two nuns, is nowhere near as salacious as you'd think it would be - especially given Verhoeven's flair for lingering shots on women in various stages of undress. French actress Efira plays Benedetta, a nun in the small Italian province of Pescia, who begins her life as a young girl wanting to go into the local convent, the Convent of the Mother of God, run by Charlotte Rampling's Abbess. When her father manages to buy her way in to the Convent, Benedetta early on learns the strict ways of the Abbess as she tells her "Your worst enemy is your body." But things come to a head as Benedetta starts to experience visions of Jesus coming to her as her husband, and when she forms a friendship with cast out Bartolomea (Patakia) which grows into lus...

Flee: In The Shade Film Festival Review Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen  Jonas Poher Rasmussen's animated tale of refugees and redemption is adept at humanising the face of a section of the human populace so often demonised by shallow headlines and attention-grabbing reporting. Focussing in on a series of animated interviews with Amin Nawabi, a refugee forced to abandon his family home in Afghanistan, Rasmussen weaves a story of lives disrupted and of families torn asunder by conflict. Mixing animation, archival Super 8 footage and evocative songs from the 80s pop scene, Rasmussen's tale of a refugee caught out in the system is nothing short of compellingly told, and emotionally exceptional.  It's a survivor's story at heart, but importantly, it's never a story about a victim - conversely, there's a feeling of empowerment throughout Rasmussen's simplistic telling of Amin's story. There's an immersive feel to this tale as it pulls the audience into pr...

What's on Neon in February 2022 Here's everything that's playing on Neon in New Zealand during February 2022. Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber  This seven-part drama chronicles one of Silicon Valley's most successful and most destructive start ups, Uber. The story focuses on Uber's hard-hitting CEO, Travis Kalanick, and his sometimes tumultuous relationship with mentor Bill Gurley.  Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Looper, Snowden) and Uma Thurman (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction).  SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER AVAILABLE FROM FEBRUARY 28  Raised by Refugees It's the new millennium in Auckland City, and Pax Assadi is your typical 12-year-old who's obsessed with hip hop, basketball, girls, and Eddie Murphy. His parents came to NZ in the late '80s as refugees and all they want him to do is study hard and eventually become a doctor. All Pax wants to do is fit in and feel accepted, but with 9/11 a very fresh memory, that's easier said than...

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection: PS5 Review Developer: Naughty Dog Platform: PS5 Released by Sony Interactive Once more into the breach with Nathan Drake with this PS5 release that doesn't really reinvent what Naughty Dog had planned with the original games, but builds on the studio's aspirations of making them more cinematic. Collecting together the conclusion of Nathan Drake's arc in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and the shorter spinoff Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, it's worth noting these releases don't really do anything new with the core games and their mechanics, but simply gives them a performance spit and polish for the PS5 and uses the haptic feedback for gunplay. Whether that's enough for most gamers will be a no doubt contentious issue (especially as Uncharted 4 is part of the PS Plus Collection that comes bundled with the subscription on PS5), but what is worth noting is that the games have been given a performance upgrade that makes them sing...

Licorice Pizza: Movie Review Cast: Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Tom Waits Director: Paul Thomas Anderson More a hang out movie than an outright narratively driven affair, Phantom Thread director Paul Thomas Anderson's latest is a 70s set tale about the long route to a true love story. Cooper Hoffman plays hustler kid Gary Valentine, a child actor, would-be businessman and hype maker whose grandeur comes from his own self belief. During the annual school photograph session, Valentine sees assistant Alana (Haim) and decides that she will be woman that he's going to marry. Pursuing her doggedly around the school, Gary's surprised when she shows up for a date with him despite a 10-year age difference - marking the start of their zig-zag romance and their adventures through the San Fernando Valley. To call Licorice Pizza meandering is perhaps to do it a disservice, but the almost ramshackle nature of the film, its manifest-anything protagonist and its l...

What's on DocPlay in February 2022 Here's what's new and coming to DocPlay in February 2022. February 7 Catching a Killer: The Hwaseong Murders This is the incredible story of South Korea’s most infamous cold case and its first ever serial killer. The notorious killer plagued the rural city of Hwaseong with 10 murders in just four years, leading to the largest manhunt the country has ever seen, and a 30-year long investigation. In 2019, new DNA technology uncovered the real culprit, exposing a monumental miscarriage of justice. This special mini-series recaps the twists and turns of the police investigation, the vital evidence that was overlooked and the emotional trauma felt in a town where locals were scared to leave their homes. Featuring searing testimony from witnesses, dramatic reconstructions, and exclusive interviews with Sung-yeo Yoon, the man convicted of the serial murders, who wrongly served 20 years in prison. 10 February Wild Things WILD THINGS follows a new g...

Zola: Movie Review Cast: Taylour Page, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo, Nicholas Braun Director: Janicza Bravo Based on a 2015 viral Tweet thread from Aziah "Zola" King and a Rolling Stone article, Janicza Bravo's screeching road crime black comedy about strippers is a slice of life straight from an embellished voice put through a prism of Sean Baker's Tangerine. Page is Zola, a stripper whose mission is to tell the audience "a story about how me and this bitch fell out" and whose pronouncement kicks off a rollercoaster ride through a weekend in Florida. No sooner has Zola met The Girlfriend Experience's Riley Keough's Stefani, she's rushed headlong into a chance to make some serious money as a dancer in Florida. But as Zola heads down for what she hopes will be a weekend of fun, it soon transpires that Stefani's seeming pimp (Domingo) and clueless boyfriend Derrick (Braun) has other plans in mind for them. Soon, Zola is in over her head... With...

Peacemaker: TV Review Born out of a pandemic-induced shutdown, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad director James Gunn's Peacemaker series clearly wants to cater for an audience that has been satiated by the likes of The Boys and The Suicide Squad. John Cena's Christopher Smith aka Peacemaker returns, despite being shot and having had a building fall on him at the end of the aforementioned Suicide Squad movie. However, as the post credits to that film showed, he survived with only a damaged clavicle and has now been co-opted up to a secret clandestine group to avoid going to prison. It's hard not to give in to Peacemaker's silliness and sense of the ridiculous. While Gunn ever so slightly reined it in for The Suicide Squad, there is a feeling that Peacemaker lets both him and his star John Cena cut loose as much as they want - and the results are frequently hilarious, scabrous and puerile. But undercutting that is Gunn's appreciation for the genre, and his...

What's on Amazon Prime February 2022 Below are the highlights of What's on Amazon Prime in February 2022. THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL SEASON 4 AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FROM FRIDAY 18 FEBRUARY  It's 1960 and change is in the air. Looking to hone her act, Midge finds a gig with total creative freedom. But her commitment to her craft—and the places it takes her—creates a rift between her and the family and friends around her. The edgy, uncompromising, and hilarious new season includes guest appearances from Kelly Bishop, Milo Ventimiglia, John Waters, and Jason Alexander, and is written and directed by renowned creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel stars Emmy-winner Rachel Brosnahan, four-time Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub, two-time Emmy-winner Alex Borstein, Emmy-nominee Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak, Caroline Aaron, and Emmy-winner Luke Kirby.  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 will be available to stream here ...

What's on Netflix February 2022 ORIGINAL SERIES Raising Dion: Season 2 (01/02/2022) Nicole continues to raise a son who has much to learn about his superpowers. But with Dion growing stronger, danger may be closer than they think. Dark Desire: Season 2 (02/02/2022) As Alma tries to rebuild her life, a reunion with Darío rekindles their doomed affair and brings his more sinister side to the surface. Murderville (03/02/2022) Meet Senior Detective Terry Seattle (Will Arnett), Homicide Division. For Terry, every day means a new murder case and a new celebrity guest star as his partner. But here’s the catch: each episode's guest star isn’t being given the script. They have no idea what’s about to happen to them. Together, the guest star and Terry Seattle will have to improvise their way through the case... but it will be up to each celebrity guest alone to name the killer. Join them as they punch a one-way ticket to Murderville. The six-episode procedural crime comedy premieres gl...