PODCAST · tv
Crave!
by Crave!
Music, film and entertainment reviews from Simon Mercep and Steve McCabe — your weekly update from Auckland.
Episodes
-
Crave! talks to Jamie McDell
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. JAMIE MCDELL
-
Crave! episode 102: Clickbait
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 its flaws, but Steve and Simon both found it to be…
more -
Crave! episode 101: Money Heist is back!
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 Heist. Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó), Lisbon (Itziar Ituño), and...
-
Crave! episode one hundred
Murray Bartlett as Armand in The White Lotus 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 hundredth episode we’re...
-
Crave! episode 99: Wrath Of Man, Locked Down, ZeroZeroZero
Jason Statham in the profoundly rubbish Wrath Of Man. 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,...
-
Crave! episode 98: Black Hands, Des, Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Dobbyn, The Beths.
Bruce Springsteen | Letter To You 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 Spark Arena and The Beths at...
-
Crave! episode 97: Radioactive, Eurovision, True Detective, Taylor Swift’s new album
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. Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in Radioactive Less so Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, to...
-
Crave! episode 96: Greed, The High Note, Money Heist, Shtisel, The Sinner, and a chat with James Reyne.
Crave! is finally back, after months of lockdown and carefully managed isolation. Shtisel | שטיסל 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 which takes a great idea and…
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.
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 things to say about The Book of Mormon, the massively successful and remarkably...
-
Crave! episode 94: Elton John, Parasite, Queen, La Belle Epoque, Birds Of Prey
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. But while we’re hoping that maybe we’ll see him again when he comes back…
more
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Music, film and entertainment reviews from Simon Mercep and Steve McCabe — your weekly update from Auckland.
HOSTED BY
Crave!
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...