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Recent seasons of already popular shows dominate this week's new-to-streaming listings, writes Dan Slevin. Read more Video

A big selection of classics from the Australian New Wave of the 70s and 80s is Dan Slevin’s highlight of this week’s new-to-streaming feature films. Read more Video

Dan Slevin says SoHo’s Howards End is a satisfyingly modern take on an Edwardian classic. Read more Video

The Heart Dances reveals more of the tribulations involved in putting on a show than anyone involved was expecting, says Dan Slevin. Read more

Cargo was picked up by Netflix at the 2017 Adelaide Film Festival. Dan Slevin wonders when Netflix will come shopping at NZIFF. Read more Video

Dan Slevin delves deeper into the 2018 film festival programme. Read more Video

Dan Slevin saw the premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen’s vicious new television satire. Read more Video

After a long hiatus, Dan and Kailey are back at Rancho Notorious for a special episode looking ahead to the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival. Read more Audio

Dan Slevin has a first look at the programme for this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival. Read more Video

Kiwi director Andrew Niccol mines his usual obsessions to reduced effect in the futuristic thriller Anon, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

The Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places tells of the unlikely, feisty and affectionate partnership of two French artists. Dan Slevin finds it delightful. Read more Video

As the nights get longer, film fans like Dan Slevin turn to specialised offerings such as the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival. A film about a softly-spoken Dutch garden designer is his… Read more Video

When the first season of Occupied was on screen the Russians were a fictional threat. Has reality caught up with the conceit, asks Dan Slevin? Read more Video

Is the best film of 2018 only available on Netflix? Dan Slevin suspects it might be. Read more Video

Abbas Kiarostami’s 1990 pseudo-documentary Close-Up is a masterpiece of empathy, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Thanks to the Dystopian Film Festival, fans are getting a rare chance to see a Kathryn Bigelow cult film on the big screen, reports Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Darkest Hour is a love letter from screenwriter Anthony McCarten to speechwriter Winston Churchill, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Daughters of the Dust was the first film by an African-American woman to get a US theatrical release and then it disappeared. Luckily for us, says Dan Slevin, Netflix is now streaming it for everyone.

The Florida Project is a glowing call-back to the greats of the Italian New Wave, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Before they created Transparent, writer-director Jill Soloway made an indie feature about an upper-middle class woman tiptoeing into a world of sexual transgression. Dan Slevin found it intriguing but… Read more Video