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High Maintenance, cooking show bonanza and Downhill
Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz looks at High Maintenance, a comedy-drama about a New York drug dealer. He's also addicted to cooking shows and sums up a few he's been watching, including The Chef… Audio
Review - Guns Akimbo
Guns Akimbo sees Daniel Radcliffe on the run, with guns bolted to his hands. He has 24 hours to kill or be killed. Directed by Jason Lei Howden (Deathgasm). Video, Audio
Review: The Legend of Baron To'A is a funny film with heart
At the Movies - In The Legend of Baron To'A, Fritz returns to his South Auckland neighbourhood to try and live up to the legacy of his late wrestling-star dad. Video, Audio
Review - Military Wives
Military wives is about an army social club choir, run by two bickering choir directors. Starring Kristen Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan. Video, Audio
At The Movies for 11 March 2020
Simon Morris looks at three films - including two New Zealand films - aimed at very different audiences. Audio
Review: The Last Thing He Wanted
The Last Thing He Wanted on Netflix is a tragic misfire, reports Dan Slevin. Video
Young kiwi filmmaker Keziah Manabat
Young Auckland filmmaker Keziah Manabat, a student at Yoobee South Seas film School was the only kiwi to have been nominated at the Water Sprite Film Festival which was held in the UK over the… Audio
Calling Home: Claire Harvey in Palau
Claire Harvey only intended to be in Palau for 12 months when she accepted the role of President of the National Development Bank of Palau. She's Calling Home this morning from her base on Palau's… Audio
Graeme Tuckett's film picks
Graeme reviews The Way Back, Births Deaths and Marriages and Downhill. Audio
Movie review - The Current War
Finally getting a release after years on the shelf thanks to the Harvey Weinstein scandals, The Current War has been handed back to the director (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) and is now released in a… Audio
Movie review - Mr Jones
Dan Slevin reviews this pan-European drama that tells the story of a mild-mannered Welsh journalist who stumbled across one of the greatest crimes of the 20th Century - the Soviet Famine in Ukraine in… Audio
Movie review - The Invisible Man
Low budget studio Blumhouse teams up with horror auteur Leigh Whannell and star Elisabeth Moss to reboot the famous Universal Studios property (reviewed by Dan Slevin). Audio
At the Movies for 4 March 2020
Dan Slevin is filling in for Simon Morris and he reviews Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man, the drama Mr. Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Current War. Audio
New Year: Auckland and Wellington Film Societies
You know that summer is over when the film society programme starts up again. Dan Slevin reports on this year’s offers from Auckland and Wellington.
Why trigger warnings don't help
Advocates for trigger warnings have made strong claims about their benefits, but Dr Christian Jarrett has studied a wealth of research and doesn't think we are able to brace ourselves emotionally when… Audio
Dark Waters, The Current War, Mad About You
Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at the movie Dark Waters, based on a decades-long legal battle between lawyer Rob Bilott, who Nine to Noon interviewed late last year, and DuPont Chemicals… Audio
Review - The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse is a unique-looking drama that plays like an old folk-tale of two men driven mad in a lighthouse off the coast of New England. Stars the Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe and Robert… Video, Audio
Movie review: Working Woman
Working Woman is an Israeli film that offers unexpected angles to the old story of sexual harassment in the workplace. Directed by Michal Aviad. Video, Audio
Review - The Professor and the Madman
The Professor and the Madman tells the story of the unlikely pair who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. Starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn. Video, Audio