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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Featuring a new documentary following the young heavy metal Alien Weaponry, a filmed performance of the hit Broadway musical Come From Away and Pig (2021) which stars Nicolas Cage who plays a former chef who now supplies truffles to the finest restaurants in Portland. Audio
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Jacinda Ardern documentary wins award at Sundance Film Festival
1 Feb 2025A new documentary about former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern has won a top award at the Sundance Film Festival. Video
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The Night Agent's Luciane Buchanan
1 Feb 2025Kiwi star Luciane Buchanan aka Rose from The Night Agent is back in the second season of the Netflix show which attracted 98 million fans in S1's first three… Audio
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A new documentary brings the Haka Party Incident into the public conversation
1 Feb 2025A new documentary on the Haka Party Incident tells the story of the 'three-minute war' through the eyes of the people who fought it
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Featuring a new documentary following the young heavy metal Alien Weaponry, a filmed performance of the hit Broadway musical Come From Away and Pig (2021) which stars Nicolas Cage who plays a former… Audio
Review - The Companion
The Companion is a twisted tale of a man who ropes in his sex-bot…. or rather, his "emotional support companion" - to a plot not covered by her User's Guide. Starring Sophie Thatcher (Heretic) and… Audio
Review - Nightbitch
Nightbitch is a Disney Plus semi-fantasy about a mother of a toddler being driven into unexpected territory. Can she be turning into a dog? Starring Amy Adams (Arrival), Scoot McNairy (Woody Guthrie… Audio
Review - Babygirl
Babygirl sees Nicole Kidman in a Golden Globe-nominated turn as a frustrated CEO of a big tech company, who finds herself being lured into dangerous erotic territory by her new intern. Co-starring… Audio
At The Movies - End Of The Golden Weather
Simon Morris returns, having missed out on a bumper summer of good movies, all lining up for the awards season. He's less than impressed with his first selection, involving slightly kinky women CEOs -… Audio
Jacinda Ardern documentary wins award at Sundance Film Festival
A new documentary about former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern has won a top award at the Sundance Film Festival. Video
The Night Agent's Luciane Buchanan
Kiwi star Luciane Buchanan aka Rose from The Night Agent is back in the second season of the Netflix show which attracted 98 million fans in S1's first three months. Audio
A new documentary brings the Haka Party Incident into the public conversation
A new documentary on the Haka Party Incident tells the story of the 'three-minute war' through the eyes of the people who fought it
New Zealand's last war
A new documentary on the Haka Party Incident tells the story of the 'three-minute war' through the eyes of the people who fought it. Audio
New Zealand's last war
A new documentary on the Haka Party Incident tells the story of the 'three-minute war' through the eyes of the people who fought it. Audio
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident screen critic is back for a bumper set of reviews, including films Maria (2024) and The Haka Party Incident (2025), as well as TV picks The Franchise, Shrinking, Silo season 2 and The… Audio
Wētā FX animator on Oscar nominations
Dave Clayton is an animation supervisor at Wētā FX. Audio
What the world makes of the new Ardern doco
"It would be a bit of an exaggeration, but just a bit, to say it trolls Donald Trump," writes The Hollywood Reporter 's critic.
Music feature: the scores of Bernard Herrmann
Citizen Kane, Psycho, Vertigo, Taxi Driver - many consider these to be some of the greatest movies ever made, and there's one person linking them all together... Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann was one of… Audio
Cher: 'This is who I am. This is what I've got'
Singer and actor Cher's stellar career spans six decades. She talks to RNZ's Jesse Mulligan about looking back in her new The Memoir, Part One. Audio
How Sir Sam Neill is spending his summer
International news is so "uniformly bleak" that Sir Sam Neill feels better for not following it too closely these days. After filming two TV shows last year, the 77-year-old is enjoying a low-key… Video, Audio
At the Summer Movies - Known Unknowns
Dan Slevin reviews four new films in cinemas: In A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet is the young Bob Dylan changing the world of music forever, Wolf Man remakes the famous horror creature for the… Audio
Review - We Live in Time
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh have tremendous chemistry together as a young couple who fall in love but then have to contend with a disastrous medical diagnosis. Dan Slevin reviews. Audio
Review - Wolf Man
Dan Slevin reviews a 21st century reimagining of the famous Universal Pictures monster, starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. Audio
Review - A Complete Unknown
Biopic about Bob Dylan's early years in Greenwich Village and his journey from coffee house folk singer to his legendary electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, reviewed by Dan… Audio
