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Jacinda Ardern documentary wins award at Sundance Film Festival
A new documentary about former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern has won a top award at the Sundance Film Festival. Video
The Night Agent's Luciane Buchanan
Kiwi star Luciane Buchanan aka Rose from The Night Agent is back in the second season of the Netflix show which attracted 98 million fans in S1's first three months. Audio
A new documentary brings the Haka Party Incident into the public conversation
A new documentary on the Haka Party Incident tells the story of the 'three-minute war' through the eyes of the people who fought it
New Zealand's last war
A new documentary on the Haka Party Incident tells the story of the 'three-minute war' through the eyes of the people who fought it. Audio
New Zealand's last war
A new documentary on the Haka Party Incident tells the story of the 'three-minute war' through the eyes of the people who fought it. 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
Wētā FX animator on Oscar nominations
Dave Clayton is an animation supervisor at Wētā FX. Audio
What the world makes of the new Ardern doco
"It would be a bit of an exaggeration, but just a bit, to say it trolls Donald Trump," writes The Hollywood Reporter 's critic.
Music feature: the scores of Bernard Herrmann
Citizen Kane, Psycho, Vertigo, Taxi Driver - many consider these to be some of the greatest movies ever made, and there's one person linking them all together... Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann was one of… Audio
Cher: 'This is who I am. This is what I've got'
Singer and actor Cher's stellar career spans six decades. She talks to RNZ's Jesse Mulligan about looking back in her new The Memoir, Part One. Audio
How Sir Sam Neill is spending his summer
International news is so "uniformly bleak" that Sir Sam Neill feels better for not following it too closely these days. After filming two TV shows last year, the 77-year-old is enjoying a low-key… Video, 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Sing Sing
Colman Domingo summons deep wells of pain and pride as a maximum security inmate in this deeply authentic prison drama.
Video, AudioNetflix raises prices after reporting biggest-ever subscriber jump
Netflix has announced it will raise prices on most of its subscription tiers in the US and Canada after the streaming giant reported 19 million new subscribers in the last quarter of 2024.
Road Trip: Katie Wolfe
Katie is a multi-talented director, writer and actor. She has won critical acclaim for her work, particularly for her most recent theatre piece The Haka Party Incident, which is about to hit the big… Audio
Five of the most 'Lynchian' David Lynch moments
From primal screams and mystery men to Kiwi music and cows, we take a look back at some of the late auteur's weirdest happenings. Video
