Movies
African Film Festival 2020
The African Film Festival, which launches tonight in Auckland,brings together 26 films from more than 27 countries. Audio
Review - Fatman
Fatman is Santa Claus as you’ve never seen him - but do you want to? Mel Gibson plays a gun-toting, backwoods sort of Santa, doing deals with the Pentagon and facing a hitman hired by a disgruntled… Video, Audio
Review - Fatman
Fatman is Santa Claus as you’ve never seen him - but do you want to? Mel Gibson plays a gun-toting, backwoods sort of Santa, doing deals with the Pentagon and facing a hitman hired by a disgruntled…
Video, AudioReview - Made in Italy
Made in Italy stars father and son Liam Neeson and Micheal Richardson as a father and son trying to make a quick sale of a Tuscan villa. Audio
Review - Mank
Mank is director David Fincher’s (The Social Network, Gone Girl) love letter to Old Hollywood and the self-destructive genius who wrote the script for Orson Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane. Stars… Video, Audio
Review - Mank
Mank is director David Fincher’s (The Social Network, Gone Girl) love letter to Old Hollywood and the self-destructive genius who wrote the script for Orson Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane. Stars…
Video, AudioAt The Movies for 25 November 2020
Simon Morris confesses he occasionally lets prejudices get the better of him when he goes to the movies - favourable ones in the case of movie gossip like Mank, less so when it comes to films about… Audio
Review: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Dan Slevin returns to Japan through the medium of a classic anime romance, The Place Promised in Our Early Days. Video
Colin Maclaren: The Man On The Island
Colin Maclaren is the central figure in a new locally produced documentary The Man On The Island. The island in question is Rakino (population: 19), 2 kilometres long and 1 kilometre wide, and 22… Video, Audio
Kirsten Johnson: Dick Johnson is Dead
Cinematographer and director Kirsten Johnson was afraid of losing her father to dementia, so she got in first, killing him off in imaginative and comical ways in her new film Dick Johnson is Dead. Video, Audio
Story of the Day with Caitlin Cherry
Caitlin Cherry talks about inaccuracies in The Crown which are busily being corrected by royal historians. Audio
The Crown: Where's the line between fact and fiction?
The Crown is "reality hijacked as propaganda," argues Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins. Audio
10 years on from the Pike River disaster
Documentary maker Tony Sutorius became involved with the families of the Pike River disaster victims while he was filming the last year of Helen Kelly's life. He talks to Jesse about the work they've… Audio
Review - Freaky
Freaky sees a cheerleader swap bodies with a serial killer! From the people who brought you Happy Death Day, and starring Vince Vaughan (Swingers). Audio
Review - A Son
A Son is an award-winning Tunisian film about a couple desperate to save their son’s life after he’s accidentally shot by a terrorist’s bullet. Audio
Review - Rams
Rams stars Sam Neill and Michael Caton (The Castle) as two sheep-owning brothers dealing with an outbreak of disease in the region. Co-stars Miranda Richardson (Blackadder). Video, Audio
Review - Rams
Rams stars Sam Neill and Michael Caton (The Castle) as two sheep-owning brothers dealing with an outbreak of disease in the region. Co-stars Miranda Richardson (Blackadder).
Video, AudioAt The Movies for 18 November 2020
Simon Morris defends putting foreign clips on the show, in a week that offers a Tunisian family drama, a comedy thriller set in an American high school, and an Australian remake of a popular Icelandic… Audio
