Dan Slevin
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident screen critic is back to review 2025's five Oscar-nominated feature documentaries, and Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants (1996) streaming for free on the Internet Archive. Audio
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Our weekly catchup with Nights' resident screen critic. Audio
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin reviews Captain America: Brave New World, Silo Season 2 on Apple TV+, and a Valentine's oldie Moonstruck starring Cher and Nicolas Cage. Audio
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
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
Movie review - The Brutalist
In The Brutalist, a Hungarian architect comes under the wing of a captain of industry. Audio
Movie review - Maria
In Maria, the prima donna Maria Callas contemplates her waning powers. Audio
Movie review - The Haka Party Incident
In The Haka Party Incident, a University of Auckland drinking party is disrupted by Maori activists and the course of New Zealand history is changed forever. Audio
At the Movies for 29 January 2025
This week Dan Slevin rounds out At the Summer Movies with Maria, the prima donna Maria Callas contemplates her waning powers. In The Brutalist, a Hungarian architect comes under the wing of a captain… 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
Review - Sing Sing
Colman Domingo summons deep wells of pain and pride as a maximum security inmate in this deeply authentic prison drama. Video, Audio
Review: Emilia Perez
Golden Globe winning musical about a Mexican drug cartel boss who undergoes gender reassignment treatment, reviewed by Dan Slevin. Audio
Review: Dragonkeeper
An animated Spanish-Chinese co-production featuring the voices of Bill Nighy and Bill Bailey, about a young girl who goes on a journey to hatch a dragon egg and save the species from extinction. Dan… Audio
At the Summer Movies - Global Village
Dan Slevin reviews four new films in cinemas: Emilia Pérez is a musical about Mexican cartel boss who goes through gender reassignment; Flow is an animated film from Latvia about a cat and his animal… Audio
Review: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Dan Slevin reviews the sequel to the 2018 crime thriller starring Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. Audio
Review: Flow
Dan Slevin reviews an acclaimed animated film from Latvia about a black cat and his animal friends escaping a catastrophic flood. Audio
Movie review - The Room Next Door
In Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, Tilda Swinton plays a dying woman who asks a final favour from a friend (played by Julianne Moore). Dan Slevin reviews. Audio
