Win Daffodils

Win Daffodils

To celebrate the release of Daffodils, thanks to Sony Home Entertainment, you can win a copy!

About Daffodils

DAFFODILS is a heart-aching drama of a quintessential New Zealand marriage.

Told with iconic New Zealand music. we follow the bittersweet nuances of a couple’s life, expressed with contemporary re-imaginings of iconic hit songs of New Zealand artists.

They include Crowded House, Bic Runga and Dave Dobbyn.


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WWE 2K20 - Becky Lynch & Roman Reigns on cover

WWE 2K20 - Becky Lynch & Roman Reigns on cover

“Step Inside” WWE® 2K20 and Experience Franchise Firsts with Cover Superstars Becky Lynch® and Roman Reigns™

Women’s Evolution inspired 2K Showcase, diversified MyCAREER experience, streamlined controls and debut of WWE 2K20 Originals headline initial product features reveal

Sydney, Australia – August 6, 2019 – 2K has announced current Raw® Women’s Champion Becky Lynch® and WWE Superstar Roman Reigns™ as the cover Superstars for WWE® 2K20, the forthcoming release in the flagship WWE video game franchise. Lynch and Reigns will serve as ambassadors for WWE 2K20’s worldwide marketing campaign – “Step Inside” – which invites players to enter the world of WWE and face a variety of new and exciting challenges in the virtual ring. WWE 2K20 is currently scheduled for worldwide release on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and the Xbox One family of devices, including the Xbox One X and Windows PC. Players who purchase the WWE 2K20 Deluxe Edition or Collector’s Edition will receive in-game bonuses, including playable Superstars Chyna, Hulk Hogan, Mankind and The Rock®, in addition to the Standard Edition game.

To view the trailer click the image below

“My career has been about breaking barriers and doing what nobody else has done before. Being the first female Superstar on the cover of a WWE 2K video game is no exception,” said Becky Lynch.

“As a gamer myself, being on the cover of WWE 2K20 alongside ‘The Man’ Becky Lynch and joining the likes of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and John Cena is a huge career and personal milestone for me,” said Roman Reigns.

WWE 2K20, in direct response to fan feedback, will include several franchise firsts alongside streamlined gameplay and a variety of popular modes. The story-driven, objective-based 2K Showcase: The Women’s Evolution will follow the careers of the Four Horsewomen – Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch, SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley®, Charlotte Flair® and Sasha Banks®. Controls will be streamlined to allow new players to jump into the game more easily, while experienced players will still enjoy a challenge.

In addition, WWE 2K20 players will be able to compete as both male and female Superstars in MyCAREER and Mixed Tag matches, while last year’s popular WWE Towers returns with exciting new challenges, including a story-driven Tower centered around the career of Roman Reigns.

The game will also introduce a new service model – WWE 2K20 Originals – set to deliver a wealth of 2K Showcase add-on content for player exploration beyond the game’s initial launch. Each of the WWE 2K20 Originals will present a new playable world and its own unique theme, with more details to be announced in the coming months. WWE 2K20 Originalsis downloadable content that may require additional purchase.

“Becky Lynch and Roman Reigns embody passion, determination and perseverance, and they’re both major game changers within the larger WWE landscape,” said Chris Snyder, Vice President of Marketing for 2K. “They are the spirit ofWWE 2K20, which is going to introduce changes requested by our fans. They asked for female-driven MyCAREER and 2K Showcase offerings, and we’re giving them just that, as well as streamlined controls and our brand new WWE 2K20Originals. We can’t wait to reveal more details soon.”

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In addition, 2K today announced details surrounding WWE 2K20 premium product offerings:

About the WWE 2K20 Deluxe Edition

Players who purchase the WWE 2K20 Deluxe Edition, available in both physical and digital varieties at participating retailers, will receive in-game bonuses for the PS4™ system, Xbox One and Windows PC. Offering more than 35% in savings, the WWE 2K20 Deluxe Edition includes the following items:

• Copy of WWE 2K20 video game with Deluxe Edition packaging;
• Accelerator - Take control of your WWE 2K20 experience with the Accelerator. Players can gain access to all unlockable content available at launch via the game’s Purchasable section and take full control of the overall rankings and attribute levels of all playable characters;
• Kickstart - Get a leg up in your MyCAREER by unlocking and boosting your MyPLAYER ratings and attributes with 25 additional Attribute Points and 8 Additional Skill Points. Plus, get a 25,000 VC starting bonus to unlock more Superstar parts, Moves and more! In addition to this, start with all Boost Slots unlocked plus 15 free Boosts, 2,000 free Tokens and 400 free Deluxe Tokens;
• Complete set of WWE 2K20 Originals content packages (more details to be announced);
• Additional bonus digital content, including playable Superstars Chyna™, in her first WWE 2K appearance, Hulk Hogan, “$500 Shirt” The Rock®, and Rock ‘n’ Sock Connection Mankind™ (more details to be announced);
• WWE SuperCard Limited Edition Cards (included with physical versions only).

About the WWE 2K20 Collector’s Edition

Players who purchase the WWE 2K20 Collector’s Edition at participating retailers will also receive in-game bonuses for the PS4™ system and Xbox One. Offering more than 40% in savings, the WWE 2K20 Collector’s Edition is available in physical format only, features a 20^th Anniversary of SmackDown theme and includes the following items:

• Copy of WWE 2K20 video game with Collector’s Edition packaging;

• Accelerator - Take control of your WWE 2K20 experience with the Accelerator. Players can gain access to all unlockable content available at launch via the game’s Purchasable section and take full control of the overall rankings and attribute levels of all playable characters;
• Kickstart - Get a leg up in your MyCAREER by unlocking and boosting your MyPLAYER ratings and attributes with 25 additional Attribute Points and 8 Additional Skill Points. Plus, get a 25,000 VC starting bonus to unlock more Superstar parts, Moves and more! In addition to this, start with all Boost Slots unlocked plus 15 free Boosts, 2,000 free Tokens and 400 free Deluxe Tokens;
• Complete set of WWE 2K20 Originals content packages (more details to be announced);
• Additional bonus digital content, including playable Superstars Chyna™, in her first WWE 2K appearance, Hulk Hogan, “$500 Shirt” The Rock®, and Rock ‘n’ Sock Connection Mankind™ (more details to be announced);
• Physical collectibles including:
• Exclusive WWE SmackDown! Ring Skirt Relic Piece (2002-2008)
• Limited Edition WWE SmackDown! Legend Autographed Plaque (Kurt Angle™, Rey Mysterio® or Edge®)

• WWE SuperCard Limited Edition Cards.

Win King Of Thieves

Win King Of Thieves

To celebrate the release of Michael Caine's latest, King Of Thieves, on home release and thanks to Sony Home Entertainment, you can win a copy!

About King of Thieves

One high security vault. 

Millions up for grabs. 

One hell of a retirement fund.

A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. 

What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. 

Based on infamous true events.

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Midsommar: NZIFF Review

Midsommar: NZIFF Review

Director Ari Aster's next project after Hereditary is a descent into a psychological freefall, rather than an out-and-out freakout fest.

The ever wonderful Florence Pugh stars as Dani and Jack Reynor stars as Christian, her feckless boyfriend. When something happens to Dani (an event best left unspoiled, thanks to the pre-titles play out of dread), the pair try to get back on track.

Invited by Christian to tag along to a trip to a commune in Sweden where he and a handful of mates are heading for research, Dani finds her uncertainty in their relationship escalating.

It's exacerbated by the pagan rituals and lifestyle of those at the Swedish midsummer festival in Hälsingland .... but there's more going on than any of them realise.

If Hereditary was psychological terror, then Midsommar is the break-up album.

A sprawling, slow-moving descent that's in no rush to unveil its hand, the film's commitment to unsettling can be interpreted in many ways.

Whether it's a take on Americans crashing European ways of life and disrupting cultural matters, or simply a feeling of off-kilter unusual behaviours, Midsommar's desire to unnerve is there from the start - and carefully telegraphed.

Artfully executed by Aster, and beautifully choreographed by DP Pawel Pogorzelski, and blessed with a turn of frailty and subtlety by Pugh as she negotiates extreme trauma, Midsommar is more about the horrors of human behaviours than the appearance of the supernatural and what it can entail.

There are lashings of humour throughout, but as the crescendo of the creepy builds, there's more a sense of uncertainty rippling through this Wicker Man / League of Gentlemen hybrid folk horror and bucolic beastliness.

The horror comes in the consequences, and the reality of what's next - and while the conclusion may infuriate some and feel derivative to others, what Aster's done is essentially cycle back to the beginning's themes.

Midsommar is less a dream, but even less a nightmare - it's a waking breathing feeling of insomnia, and it's stiflingly good because of it.

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary: NZIFF Review

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary: NZIFF Review

It's hard to consider what should be said about The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, given that most of the twists and turns of director Ben Berman's doco are best experienced unspoiled.

Suffice to say this meta-piece looks at what next for The Amazing Johnathan, a comedy magic act from the US aka Johnathan Szeles after he's diagnosed with a fatal heart condition and given one year to live.

Three years later, Szeles is still around and contemplating a return to the scene....

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary is a perplexing twisty doco that keeps one-upping itself when it comes to reveals.

At its heart, it's really about two men who are trying to find their way through something - Szeles for his own mortality and Berman for what kind of doco maker he wants to be.

But for the audience, it's also about finding their way through something because every time you think you may know what's coming, you're wrongfooted. Berman's crafted something that like a magic trick, has you wondering what's next and what the truth and the illusion ultimately is.

The meta touches work nicely, and the construction of this riddle is nicely crafted - but if you're expecting to emerge from The Amazing Johnathan Documentary with answers all neatly put in place, you may want to reassess your expectations.

Sorry We Missed You: NZIFF Review

Sorry We Missed You: NZIFF Review

Ken Loach's latest piece of socially shocking miserabilism in the UK is a savage indictment of how the everyday family is being beaten down by those abusing the system.

And yet, in among the blood-boiling moments of Sorry We Missed You, Loach displays elements of everyday love and compassion along with humour that helps you along the 100 minutes of what plays out.

Kris Hitchen plays Rikki, the head of a family who is scrabbling day to day to make ends meet. Taking the chance to become a franchisee of a delivery company, Rikki finds himself part of a contract that serves the masters better than it does the servants.

Coupled with the fact his wife Abby (Debbie Honeywood) is working 14 hours a day as a carer, the pair is left hardly any time for their two children.

Stretched as thinly as it will go, something is likely to snap in Rikki and Abby's lives...

Clothed in savage condemnation of the zero hours' slavery, Loach's film promotes a growing sense of depression, as well as a sense of latent activism in the audience.

But it's the realism here, and the intimate relatability that gives Loach his power in this film - a growing sense of desperation from both Hitchen and Honeywood creates an aching, gnawing sense of disillusionment as events threaten to swallow them up.

There's nothing here that's played for easy drama, merely a growing sense of a maelstrom about to encompass the everyday family. And because of that it's even more horrifying to behold.

There's an anger in Sorry We Missed You, but Loach is restrained enough a director to realise that simply playing out events will get the required results in the audience. It's horrifically affective and affecting - ultimately, Sorry We Missed You is one social drama not ignore - both on screen and off it.

Maiden: NZIFF Review

Maiden: NZIFF Review

Director Alex Holmes' crowd-pleasing tale of the battle of the sexes and the triumph of women breaking through in the traditional male sport of the sailing is a triumph from beginning to end - even if it doesn't break the mould in terms of presenting a documentary.

Using archival footage from the Whitbread Round the World Race from the 1989-1990 race, Holmes threads together a tale of how Tracy Edwards' determination changed the face of the race, as well as the perception of a generation.

In the 80s, racing was the sole guardianship of men; but Edwards had a fire for being a sailor, even if the media and the sport had other thoughts. Initially starting off in a kitchen (the sexism outrage is palpable throughout), Edwards soon realised the only way to be taken seriously was to get her own crew and her own ship.

But even though every step of the way was problematic for Edwards, Holmes threads together a stirring tale that creates a crescendo of inspiration that soon becomes a tidal wave of empowerment.

Whether it's using the dry wit of those interviewed or footage where various sexist commentators are laid bare, Holmes' tale never stops short of thrilling. When stripped down to its bones, Maiden is the classic sporting tale of the underdog, but what it delivers more of, is a rousing call for change at the time, and a celebration of what Edwards and her crew managed.

However, Maiden is never preachy, and it wisely shows Edwards in her flaws - but throughout the disasters, it's the determination which shines through. Don't be surprised if you leave Maiden feeling inspired to make a change - or embarrassed at what we used to be.