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Review: The Velvet Queen
The Velvet Queen sees French author-adventurer Sylvain Tesson travel with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier to the Tibetan wilderness in search of a rare big cat. In competition at Cannes 2021. Video, Audio
Television Critic: Guy Williams
Today Guy talks to Jesse about New Zealand Basketball being shown free to air on a Saturday night on Prime TV, Girls 5 Ever on TVNZ on demand and also on the same platform, Jame Mustipic Abandonment… Audio
Film Review: Graeme Tuckett
Today Graeme talks to Jesse about Doctor Strange and The Velvet Queen, a French documentary on hunting the Tibetan Snow Leopard. Audio
Preview: 2022 Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival
Dan Slevin has tasted this year’s cinematic celebration of the curated world around us. Video
Review: A Hero
A Hero is the latest from Iranian master Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman). A winner at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it tells of a bankrupt man who gains a popular reputation when he… Video, Audio
Taken
Liam Neeson's monologue in the 2008 movie Taken is spine-tingling. Can the Whakamāori crew achieve the same results? Lights, camera, ACTION. Video, Audio
Magic Wands
Dr Natalie Plank, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Victoria University of Wellington investigates the power of the magic wand and we learn some great… Audio
Film Review with Dom Corry
Dom Corry reviews The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum and Downton Abbey: A New Era. Audio
Review: Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) is a documentary looking at the longest-reigning monarch in British history, Elizabeth II. It's told in chapters covering everything from her love of horses, her mixed… Video, Audio
Review: Everybody Hates Johan
Everybody Hates Johan covers almost as long a period, as title character Johan's hobby - and later profession - of blowing things up, gets in the way of his relationship with the patient girl next… Video, Audio
At The Movies - The unbearable weight of massive talent
The unbearable weight of massive talent sees a fictional version of movie star Nicolas Cage going undercover for the CIA at the birthday of his biggest fan. Co-stars Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones) and… Audio
At The Movies for 27 April
Simon Morris goes to two movies about, in one way or another, celebrity - a comedy that fictionalizes a well-known star, and a documentary about one of the most famous women alive. He also picks a… Audio
Film Review: Ali Ventura
Ali has been to see The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent in cinemas and has been watching Windfallat home on her Netflix account. Audio
At The Movies - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Everything everywhere all at once stars former martial arts star Michele Yeoh as a middle-aged laundromat owner suddenly called on to save several universes. Featuring Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) and… Audio
At The Movies - All The Old Knives
All the old knives is a spy thriller about an investigation into a hijacking that went very wrong. Stars Chris Pine (Star Trek), Thandiwe Newton (TV's Line of duty), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix)… Audio
Review: The Last Bus
In The last Bus, Timothy Spall uses his bus pass o get from John O’Groats to Land’s End. Trouble is it’s a Scottish one. Video, Audio
At The Movies for 20 April
Simon Morris reviews three wildly diverse movies - one exploring another trendy "multiverse", an old-age pensioner travelling from one tip of the UK to the other, and an old-fashjoned spy thriller… Audio
Preview: 2022 Scandi Film Festival
Dan Slevin is pleased to see Scandinavian films given a cinema spotlight. Video
Film criticism during a pandemic slump
Dan Slevin reflects on his changing viewing habits as the pandemic drags on.
'You only take two things with you' - Jane Seymour on life, death and dementia
Hollywood star Jane Seymour's role as a grandmother with Alzheimer's has taken her to new places, but also has an important message, she tells Sunday Morning. Audio
