13 Nov 2025

Screentime: Train Dreams, Dead of Winter, Spinal Tap 2

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 13 November 2025
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Film and television reviewer James Croot joins Kathryn to discuss Train Dreams, an American drama film which stars Joel Edgerton as a railway worker developing the line across the US, and struggling with his place in a changing world.

Dead of Winter is an action film starring Emma Thompson as a widow who stumbles across a kidnapping.

And Spinal Tap 2 continues the original 1984's mockumentary about a fictional heavy metal band who reunite for one final show.

James Croot is film and television reviewer for Stuff

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