TV on the big screen, movies on our phones – does size even matter anymore?
After viewing the latest season of Top of the Lake in a cinema, Aaron Yap looks at the increasingly blurred lines between films, TV shows, and everything in between.
Aaron Yap
Aaron Yap is a film writer for Flicks and movie buyer for Fatso. He loves movies. And dogs.
The Expanse is like The Wire… but in space
Aaron Yap plumbs the depths of The Expanse, a sci-fi space opera that's drawn comparisons to some of television's greatest.
The last video stores
Decimated first by piracy and then by streaming, video stores are meant to have vanished. But some have survived, and their success signposts how they might thrive into the future, writes Aaron Yap.
Grim and gruesome Midnight Sun is Nordic Noir at its best
Aaron Yap reviews the new Scandi-crime drama Midnight Sun and finds it gross yet engrossing.
‘People still watch DVDs?!’: Why the TV box set is still going strong
Like books and vinyl records, DVD box sets are holding firm against the streaming tide, writes Aaron Yap.
Celebrating Norma Bates, television’s greatest and definitely worst mother
In the lead-up to Mother's Day, Aaron Yap collates the best moments of his favourite TV Mum, Norma Bates of Bates Motel.
Throwback Thursday: Remember that time New Zealand made its own Black Mirror?
Aaron Yap binges local series This Is Not My Life, a sci-fi mystery that could sit comfortably alongside Black Mirror and Orphan Black, and asks why we stopped making genre TV.
Louis C.K.’s comedic sidekick finally gets the spotlight in Better Things
Aaron Yap reviews Pamela Adlon's Better Things, the semi-autobiographical exploration of Hollywood and parenthood co-written by Louis C.K.
Why aren’t these awesome shows available to legally stream in New Zealand yet?
There's a bevy of great new television shows that we can't watch in New Zealand without breaking the law, and Aaron Yap has had it up to HERE.
Married at First Sight is a beautiful bloodbath from hell
Aaron Yap has become obsessed with the latest season of Married at First Sight Australia. He explains why the ingenious reality show puts traditionally scripted television to shame.
