Aaron Yap is a film writer for Flicks. He loves movies. And dogs.
Theatre owners are up in arms that potential blockbuster Mulan is to be premiered not in cinemas, but on Disney's streaming platform, Disney+.
With the first 'hybrid' NZIFF kicking off, Aaron Yap explores both the upsides and downsides to this unprecedented shakeup.
At the end of every year, our Monitor columnist Aaron Yap wraps up his likes, dislikes and learnings from a shifting media hellscape.
Craving some spooky TV that isn't soaked in 80s kitsch? Try the bone-chilling Channel Zero, writes Aaron Yap.
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 plumbs the depths of The Expanse, a sci-fi space opera that's drawn comparisons to some of television's greatest.
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.
Aaron Yap reviews the new Scandi-crime drama Midnight Sun and finds it gross yet engrossing.
Like books and vinyl records, DVD box sets are holding firm against the streaming tide, writes Aaron Yap.
In the lead-up to Mother's Day, Aaron Yap collates the best moments of his favourite TV Mum, Norma Bates of Bates Motel.
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.
Aaron Yap reviews Pamela Adlon's Better Things, the semi-autobiographical exploration of Hollywood and parenthood co-written by Louis C.K.
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.
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.
Aaron Yap, The Spinoff's most die-hard 24 fan, tells you all you need to know about the return of 24, with a new star and a new name – 24: Legacy.
Aaron Yap picks some classic New Zealand films that are due a television revival.
Hungry for more spy thrillers, Aaron Yap devours The Honourable Woman and finds a breathtaking performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
In his final Monitor column for the year, critic Aaron Yap lists his 10 favourite shows from 2016.
With television reboots of classic movie franchises needing a strong dose of holy water. Aaron Yap explains why The Exorcist TV show is neither a hit nor a flop.
With dozens of new television shows being aired every month, it's hard to keep up. Aaron Yap finally got around to seeing The Flash and found it to be everything he'd ever dreamed of.
For Monitor this week, Aaron Yap watches BBC series Criminal Justice, the lesser-known original version of HBO sensation The Night Of, and compares the two gripping murder mysteries.
For Monitor this week, Aaron Yap basks in the grinning goofiness of DUKE's Angie Tribeca, the best cop show spoof you probably aren't watching.
Aaron Yap rounds up some TV shows that managed to make it to the big screen without stuffing it up.
Aaron Yap reviews The Kettering Incident, the Tasmanian Gothic drama that has just as much mystery as it does moths.
For his Monitor column this week, Aaron Yap looks at the spectrum of Psycho reboots from the terrible '80s sequels to the unhinged prequel series Bates Motel.
In this week's TV column, Aaron Yap looks at how social media platform Snapchat threatens to usurp traditional viewing habits.
