Movies

Whitney charts the rise and fall of one of the great music stars of the Eighties and Nineties - Whitney Houston. Video, Audio

The NZ International Film Festival is in its 50^th year in Auckland and has a rich history of screening - among many other genres – movies focused on music.

Shaun D Wilson and Festival director Bill… Audio

A live orchestra will accompany a screening of silent film The General as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival. Conductor Peter Scholes explains how the APO adds something special to… Audio

Dan Slevin says SoHo’s Howards End is a satisfyingly modern take on an Edwardian classic. Video

Filmmaker Lorna Tucker is proud of her documentary about the "still punk" 77-year-old fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, even though Westwood has called it "mediocre".  Video, Audio

The Heart Dances reveals more of the tribulations involved in putting on a show than anyone involved was expecting, says Dan Slevin.

From The Beatles to One Direction, millions of young girls and women over the decades have fallen in love with boy bands and some have taken their obsessions to the extreme. Australian film Producer… Video, Audio

One night a few years ago in Derry, Northern Ireland, Majella O Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Film-maker Sinead O'Shea is a journalist who writes for the Irish Times… Audio

Skate rinks were breeding grounds for hip-hop talent in the '80s – but is anyone roller skating these days? The new documentary United Skates explores the underground skating scene still alive in… Video, Audio

Australian film maker Benjamin Gilmour talks about his sobering war film, Jirga, shot in dangerous conditions, on location in Afghanistan. He was originally preparing to shoot Jirga in Pakistan, until… Audio

Sari Braithwaite takes a look at what got cut by the Australian censors between 1958 and 1971 in the documentary [CENSORED]. Video, Audio

Estonia is currently the hot centre for 'auteur' animation and the short film 'Mindscape' is a fine antidote to mainstream schlock, say the animation curators for the NZ Film Festival. Audio

The Equalizer 2 sees Denzel Washington return to help out some more people with the odds stacked against them. Video, Audio

Simon Morris goes to the latest sequel - The Equalizer 2, starring Denzel Washington. He also investigates the award-winning animation of Estonia, and a documentary called Censored - what got cut by… Audio

Cargo was picked up by Netflix at the 2017 Adelaide Film Festival. Dan Slevin wonders when Netflix will come shopping at NZIFF. Video