Luke Buckmaster

At last, some good news! Hamilton has arrived and it is magnificent.

Reese Witherspoon gives another expert portrayal of an uptight fusspot.

You might say this sci-fi series is about a plane full of strangers desperately trying to avoid a tan.

Pulse-pounding Spanish crime thriller moves hellaciously fast.

Here’s your one-stop-show guide to this very snappy show – and its very weird host.

We come to terms with one hell of a show.

We expected better from you, Spielbergo.

The latest action film from director Robert Rodriguez will not be coming to a cinema near you.

It’s time to revisit John Carpenter’s prophecy of a world clogged by signals and stimulus.

The western was baked into the very foundation of the moving image.

If you’re in Auckland, Luke Buckmaster implores you to see this.

Twenty years after The Big Lebowski first arrived in cinemas, critic Luke Buckmaster revisits this inimitable comedy to see what makes it tick. 

Will every male weepie released in the foreseeable future pale in comparison to The Grey? Director Joe Carnahan’s 2011 survival in the wilderness drama received a positive response from critics and audiences, yet the film’s greatness remains largely unrecognised. This is perhaps in part because it was marketed as a Liam Neeson vehicle, released in […]

There have been lots of Netflix original films released so far in 2018. Critic Luke Buckmaster picks the good, the bad and the awful.

The only thing bigger than its surprise release is how dire it is, writes Luck Buckmaster.

The story of 1922 – at least for a little while – is about a father and son bonding, with the terrible caveat that they are doing so through a mutual plan to murder their wife/mother. Australian filmmaker Zak Hilditch, adapting a Stephen King novella, renders misogyny as something passed down with chilling ambivalence by […]