James Cameron

Greedy corporations seeking Unobtainium are the bad guys in James Cameron's Avatar movie franchise. Associate Professor Nicola Gaston discusses the parallels between the fictional mineral and solid… Audio

This week the people who make the local stuff for our screens big and small urged the powers-that-be to tax the likes of Netflix and Disney Plus to fund it. But producers here can already get tax… Audio

In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about a titanic amount of coverage of the Titan submersible tragedy. Also: complaints about an unfair focus on… Audio

Her fulltime job is as a priest at St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Maryland, Virginia, but in her 'other' life, Rev. Pamela 'Pan' Conrad has worked as a member of the tactical operations team for… Audio

Last month, New Zealander Rob McCallum became the deepest diving Kiwi ever after achieving a preliminary depth of 10,925 metres (35,843 ft) at the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trump… Audio

Film director James Cameron is defending his decision to graze hundreds of dairy cattle on his farm, despite being an outspoken critic of animal agriculture.

Cameron and his wife, environmentalist… Video, Audio

If you’re looking for an excuse to upgrade your TV, Terminator: Dark Fate makes a compelling argument, reports Dan Slevin. Video

Noelle McCarthy talks about the environment and environmental politics with film director James Cameron, and Dunedin's new Mayor, Aaron Hawkins. Recorded at Otago Museum. Audio

Noelle McCarthy talks with the film director James Cameron about his passion for exploring the natural world, and its connection to his career in cinema. This event was recorded at Otago Museum. Audio

Randy Newman has won almost everything there is to win over the course of his storied musical career, but has never toured New Zealand before. He'll add that to his list of accomplishments when he… Audio

Visiting Canadian professor Robert Hackett is currently in the country as a short-term Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury's Erskine program. He is an expert on media coverage… Audio

Why do some people spend years trying to answer a single question, or even risk their lives to discover something new? In this hour, TED speakers explore how curiosity leads to unexpected places.

Hollywood film director and environmentalist James Cameron says more New Zealanders should consider going vegan or vegetarian. The director of Avatar and Titanic lives a lot of the year in New… Audio

Timed perfectly to slip in under cover of the multiple Captain Marvel reviews appearing in outlets big and small, here’s Dan Slevin’s review of the other giant superhero fantasy film featuring a… Video

In each episode of 'Unspooled' the film critic Amy Nicholson and the actor, comedian, and all-round movie buff Paul Scheer take a film from the American Film Institute's Top 100 list, and pull it… Audio

Kathryn Ryan speaks to Dr James Cameron about regional anaesthesia, a procedure where drugs are injected near nerve centres to numb a particular area of the body like an arm or leg. He says it has… Audio