23 Aug 2024

Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

From Nights, 9:30 pm on 23 August 2024

Nights' resident screen critic, Dan Slevin, is back with three tips for your weekend viewing pleasure.

Tonight, he looks at New local drama set in a fictional 1950s residential girls' home on an island in Lyttelton Harbour, We Were Dangerous (Stewart-Te Whiu, 2024) In Cinemas.

The latest adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famous thriller novel about the conman and fantasist Tom Ripley, Ripley (Zaillian, 2024). Paid Streaming (Netflix);

And a fantastic stop-motion animation film for all the family featuring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Jared Harris and plenty of British comedy luminaries, The Boxtrolls (Annable/Stachi, 2014) Freestreaming (TVNZ+)

We Were Dangerous

We Were Dangerous Photo: Photo by Kirsty Griffin