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Recorded on Anzac Day, Dan and Kailey discuss Raw and The Young Pope, update #52filmsbywomen and explain why this is the last episode for a while. Audio

Arriving on home video this weekend, the true life story of an African prince and his middle class English bride feels like it owes more to its BBC origins than its director.

Dan Slevin, RNZ's film guy, discusses the new Netflix documentary series Five Came Back, the story of five great directors from Hollywood's golden age who volunteered to serve in WWII as documentary… Video, Audio

If you are looking for an introduction to the work of the Danish master, Carl Th. Dreyer, his final film probably isn’t the best place to start, says Dan Slevin. Video

Roger Ebert famously called Liliana Cavani’s post-holocaust potboiler “despicable” but Dan Slevin says it has earned a place in European cinema history. Video

It's the 25th anniversary of the Pasifika Festival, and RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin has been delving into the films set in the Pacific over the last few decades... and has concluded that Hollywood has… Video, Audio

Tantalisingly rare, Godard’s challenging documentary is said to be the high point of the great director’s “late period”. Video

With the news that no less than seven writers have been commissioned to work on the forthcoming King Kong vs Godzilla movie, Dan Slevin decided to look back on the best giant monster movies. Audio

It would be a shame if Before I Fall was reduced to something as simple as “Teen Groundhog Day” when it has more to offer, says Dan Slevin. Video

Dan Slevin previews the 11th annual French Film Festival which opens in Wellington tonight.

With the Oscars on Monday, Dan Slevin reminds us that the Academy often gets it very, very wrong. Video, Audio

This year Hollywood has decided that we need the sexiness of 50 Shades Darker as our Valentine's cinema treat and inspired by that, our movie guy, Dan Slevin from RNZ Widescreen, has been looking into… Video, Audio

Dan and Kailey are joined by Hayden Frost from the Never Repeats podcast (who are watching every single NZ film from 1977 to the present day) to discuss the new remake of Goodbye Pork Pie and RNZ… Video, Audio

Widescreen's Dan Slevin reviews Pork Pie, Fences, and Split. Audio

Polish director Agnieszka Holland has directed 14 feature films in a 45-year career. Dan Slevin starts with her best-known picture. Video

Chaplin still doesn’t do it for Dan Slevin, and he’s not sure if he ever will. Video

Hidden Figures - the hit film based on the untold true story of the African-American mathematicians and engineers who helped NASA get to space in the 60s - has just passed 100 million dollars at the… Audio

Hidden Figures is important, influential and inciting. What it isn’t – at least not often enough – is very good, says Dan Slevin. Video

Simon Morris is having a cup of tea and a lie down after Matinee Idle's summer season so filling in is Dan Slevin. He reviews Hidden Figures, Manchester By The Sea, Moonlight and The Country Doctor… Video, Audio