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#PalmRoyale has doubled down against its critics in season two, and by quite some degree, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
Palm Royale has learned its lesson: Can’t be everything? Be effervescent
Palm Royale was always camp, always melodrama, yet this season feels particularly indebted to the rich tradition of 60s sitcoms.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
#PalmRoyale has doubled down against its critics in season two, and by quite some degree, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
The moment emerging pop star Oliver walks into an op shop staffed by Théodore Pellerin’s Matthew, a fascinatingly obsessive dance begins.
@stephenarussell.bsky.social hears more from the stars of #Lurker and writer-director Alex Russell - as well as highlighting some other suitably stalky viewing.
@stephenarussell.bsky.social hears more from the stars of #Lurker and writer-director Alex Russell - as well as highlighting some other suitably stalky viewing.
Lurker taps into the uneasy pleasures of the greatest stalker movies
Pairing Saltburn’s Archie Madekwe with Solo’s Théodore Pellerin, Lurker is a trip! We hear from the stars of this debut feature from the writer of Beef and The Bear.
www.flicks.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The moment emerging pop star Oliver walks into an op shop staffed by Théodore Pellerin’s Matthew, a fascinatingly obsessive dance begins.
@stephenarussell.bsky.social hears more from the stars of #Lurker and writer-director Alex Russell - as well as highlighting some other suitably stalky viewing.
@stephenarussell.bsky.social hears more from the stars of #Lurker and writer-director Alex Russell - as well as highlighting some other suitably stalky viewing.
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Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
There's plenty to add to your watchlist among this year's NZ Screen Awards winners - including recognition of Sam Neill and the late, great Lee Tamahori.
This year’s New Zealand Screen Award winners – and where to watch them
The Convert, Ka Whawhai Tonu & The Gone win big at this year’s NZSA—a celebration of Aotearoa film and television.
www.flicks.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
There's plenty to add to your watchlist among this year's NZ Screen Awards winners - including recognition of Sam Neill and the late, great Lee Tamahori.
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a new extract from my upcoming book WES ANDERSON: A RETROSPECTIVE is now available on @flicks.bsky.social
if you like it you can preorder the book at the bottom (or top) of the article 💛
if you like it you can preorder the book at the bottom (or top) of the article 💛
A Royal collaboration: Wes Anderson & Gene Hackman
In an extract from new book Wes Anderson A Retrospective, Flicks regular Clarisse Loughrey examines the brilliant, turbulent partnership powering The Royal Tenenbaums.
www.flicks.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
a new extract from my upcoming book WES ANDERSON: A RETROSPECTIVE is now available on @flicks.bsky.social
if you like it you can preorder the book at the bottom (or top) of the article 💛
if you like it you can preorder the book at the bottom (or top) of the article 💛
"I’m not sure I need a feature-length documentary to tell me that Eddie Murphy is funny," says @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
Being Eddie proves a satisfyingly watchable recap – if light on commentary
Netflix doco on comedy great Eddie Murphy fails to interrogate the charismatic entertainer – yet he’s still enough to justify a watch.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"I’m not sure I need a feature-length documentary to tell me that Eddie Murphy is funny," says @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
TRAIN DREAMS is not cerebral or pretentious, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social: "In fact it’s beautifully paced and a real pleasure to watch - one of the year’s quiet marvels and one of its best films"
Train Dreams is one of the great films of 2025
Joel Edgerton has drawn widespread acclaim for his performance in Netflix’s beautifully composed meditation on work, wonder, and lives that slip quietly through history’s cracks.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
TRAIN DREAMS is not cerebral or pretentious, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social: "In fact it’s beautifully paced and a real pleasure to watch - one of the year’s quiet marvels and one of its best films"
Freshly updated with five new cinemas raising the bar even higher, here are Australia's 25 most beautiful cinemas, as chosen by Cat Woods - movie theatres that have something very special about them to elevate the cinema experience.
The 25 most beautiful cinemas in Australia
Nothing beats seeing a movie in a stunning brick-and-mortar theatre: here’s our list of Australia’s greatest.
www.flicks.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Freshly updated with five new cinemas raising the bar even higher, here are Australia's 25 most beautiful cinemas, as chosen by Cat Woods - movie theatres that have something very special about them to elevate the cinema experience.
This is the worst movie of the year. What it is not, however, is useless, outdated or boring. It may in fact be, for better and for (much, much) worse, the film OF the year.
W is for War of the Worlds: The most 2025 movie of 2025
Everyone agrees that Ice Cube’s HG Wells reboot sucks. And isn’t that kind of beautiful?
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November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is the worst movie of the year. What it is not, however, is useless, outdated or boring. It may in fact be, for better and for (much, much) worse, the film OF the year.
Even remorseless alien killing machines with hideous faces and slathering maws have daddy issues, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social - but there's more going on in #PredatorBadlands too
Predator: Badlands is the right kind of worldbuilding
With Predator: Badlands, director Dan Trachtenberg turns franchise pulp into genuine worldbuilding—giving the franchise new moral terrain and unexpected softnesss.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Even remorseless alien killing machines with hideous faces and slathering maws have daddy issues, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social - but there's more going on in #PredatorBadlands too
As @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social writes of #Pluribus: "Perhaps the show’s most interesting tonal achievement is that it’s funny - usually funny-weird, sometimes funny ha-ha - but never in ways that jolt you out of the story or reduce the stakes."
Pluribus rewrites the end of the world with a blissfully strange twist
What if the end of the world felt…kind of lovely? The new show from the creator of Breaking Bad creates a truly genre-breaking apocalypse.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
As @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social writes of #Pluribus: "Perhaps the show’s most interesting tonal achievement is that it’s funny - usually funny-weird, sometimes funny ha-ha - but never in ways that jolt you out of the story or reduce the stakes."
Youthful narcissism manifests in an impossible balance in #ILoveLA, observes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: "The need to play model, muse, health queen, businesswoman, queer icon, activist, and psychologist, all while never letting slip that any of it’s a conscious effort."
Rachel Sennott is happy to poke fun at herself (and her generation) in I Love LA
Superficiality feels almost part of the point in a show where every emotion is ironic and every word a read.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Youthful narcissism manifests in an impossible balance in #ILoveLA, observes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: "The need to play model, muse, health queen, businesswoman, queer icon, activist, and psychologist, all while never letting slip that any of it’s a conscious effort."
New four-part Netflix series revolves around two key figures: 20th President of the USA James A. Garfield (Michael Shannon) and Charles J. Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), the man who assassinated him.
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
Death by Lightning is a wildly entertaining ride through historical chaos
Netflix’s four-part drama dives into the messy events leading up to the assassination of U.S. President James A Garfield. With excellent performances and a cracking script, this ain’t a dry history le...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
New four-part Netflix series revolves around two key figures: 20th President of the USA James A. Garfield (Michael Shannon) and Charles J. Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), the man who assassinated him.
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
If we thought we could have gotten away with "no regerts" in the headline, well, would've had a go at it...
...and no regerts
...and no regerts
Australian weekly box office report: top grossing cinema releases
Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Australian box office.
www.flicks.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If we thought we could have gotten away with "no regerts" in the headline, well, would've had a go at it...
...and no regerts
...and no regerts
Emotional, inspiring, tragic and anger-inducing Aotearoa true story #PikeRiver opens in top spot at the New Zealand box office (read our interview with stars Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - www.flicks.co.nz/features/pik...).
NZ weekly box office report: top grossing cinema releases
Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Aotearoa box office.
www.flicks.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Emotional, inspiring, tragic and anger-inducing Aotearoa true story #PikeRiver opens in top spot at the New Zealand box office (read our interview with stars Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - www.flicks.co.nz/features/pik...).
Our list of the year's best keeps growing and growing.
The best movies of 2025 so far… and where to watch them
These are the movies we’ve gotten excited about this year – and where you can watch them.
go.weareflicks.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Our list of the year's best keeps growing and growing.
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DOWN CEMETERY ROAD might be cashing in on the success of slow horses, but i dont mind when it’s the sort of show that knows how to have fun
And with television so dominated by dry Weetabix thrillers where everyone talks to each other like an information output machine, #DownCemeteryRoad (and, of course, #SlowHorses before it) feels like a total relief, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
Emma Thompson follows in Slow Horses’ footsteps with Down Cemetery Road
Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in a new espionage series drawn from the novels of Slough House author Mick Herron.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
DOWN CEMETERY ROAD might be cashing in on the success of slow horses, but i dont mind when it’s the sort of show that knows how to have fun
And with television so dominated by dry Weetabix thrillers where everyone talks to each other like an information output machine, #DownCemeteryRoad (and, of course, #SlowHorses before it) feels like a total relief, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
Emma Thompson follows in Slow Horses’ footsteps with Down Cemetery Road
Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in a new espionage series drawn from the novels of Slough House author Mick Herron.
go.weareflicks.co
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
And with television so dominated by dry Weetabix thrillers where everyone talks to each other like an information output machine, #DownCemeteryRoad (and, of course, #SlowHorses before it) feels like a total relief, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
You definitely already know that STRANGER THINGS is back, but what about all the other, even stranger stuff in store: samurais, a pandemic of happiness, assassins, and Kim Kardashian?
10 TV shows arriving in November 2025 that we're excited about
The beginning of the end for Stranger Things, plus a mysterious new series from the creator of Breaking Bad.
go.weareflicks.co
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You definitely already know that STRANGER THINGS is back, but what about all the other, even stranger stuff in store: samurais, a pandemic of happiness, assassins, and Kim Kardashian?
PIKE RIVER adds weight to Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse's voice just when our country and workers need it most.
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Pike River interview: “It makes you feel like you want your country back”
Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm on Pike River, the true story of Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse’s 15-year fight for answers and justice.
www.flicks.co.nz
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
PIKE RIVER adds weight to Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse's voice just when our country and workers need it most.
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Today’s scattered media environment makes it easy to bypass the suffering of children.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
The kids aren’t alright: unpacking horror’s recent mercilessness towards children
With Black Phone 2 upping the child violence on its predecessor, we look a little deeper into horror’s newest trend.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Today’s scattered media environment makes it easy to bypass the suffering of children.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
A robust, near-insurmountable argument for the genius of Martin Scorsese, according to @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - "yet it spends its runtime always teetering on the brink of revelation"
Mr. Scorsese celebrates his genius, but never probes too hard
Made by an artist already within Scorsese’s own inner circle, a new docu-series doesn’t look too closely at the more difficult chapters of his life.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A robust, near-insurmountable argument for the genius of Martin Scorsese, according to @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - "yet it spends its runtime always teetering on the brink of revelation"
Awesome to see THE WEED EATERS getting the recognition it deserves - as the acclaim continues, we hope the filmmakers remember their first major accolade... its prestigious, earth-shaking ranking as Flicks' #1 film at the NZ International Film Festival: www.flicks.co.nz/features/nzi...
SXSW Sydney Screen Festival Award Winners Revealed
The 2025 SXSW Sydney Screen Festival Award winners have been revealed, with a New Zealand horror/comedy taking home Best Feature Film.
au.variety.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Awesome to see THE WEED EATERS getting the recognition it deserves - as the acclaim continues, we hope the filmmakers remember their first major accolade... its prestigious, earth-shaking ranking as Flicks' #1 film at the NZ International Film Festival: www.flicks.co.nz/features/nzi...
The A-to-Z of Trash reaches V with VAMPIRE'S KISS. Is this even a bad movie? Is it trash, worthy of inclusion in this series?
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
V is for Vampire’s Kiss: despite all my rage, I am still just Nicolas Cage
Cage eats an actual cockroach in this seminal work of scenery-chomping – harder than it sounds, when you’re wearing plastic fangs.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The A-to-Z of Trash reaches V with VAMPIRE'S KISS. Is this even a bad movie? Is it trash, worthy of inclusion in this series?
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
If you got freaked out by THE DAY AFTER, THREADS, FAIL-SAFE or any other realistic film about nuclear war, buckle up for Kathryn Bigelow's #AHouseOfDynamite, says @stevenewall.bsky.social
A House of Dynamite joins the ranks of the most nervy nuke thrillers
Decades after the Cold War, a nuclear holocaust is closer than we’d like to admit. As close as 18 minutes, in Kathryn Bigelow’s disturbing new film…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If you got freaked out by THE DAY AFTER, THREADS, FAIL-SAFE or any other realistic film about nuclear war, buckle up for Kathryn Bigelow's #AHouseOfDynamite, says @stevenewall.bsky.social