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Toa Fraser’s real-life hostage thriller 6 Days is a reminder of a more innocent age of terrorism, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

In his memoir Nevertheless, Alec Baldwin spends a great deal of time worrying about money, says Dan Slevin. Read more

Paris Can Wait is a melancholy debut feature from a woman who has been around the movie business for nearly 60 years, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Dan Slevin previews some of the less-heralded features in this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival. Read more

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been expanded to include Spider-Man – and, according to Dan Slevin, it is now so unwieldy it only works as sitcom. Read more

The nights are getting longer and Dan Slevin recommends we spend more of them enjoying all the film festivals that are arriving in cinemas. Read more

Tati’s modern masterpiece can now be seen at its very best, but newcomers might want to start with his earlier films, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Raw announces Julia Ducournau as a name to remember and a talent to reckon with, according to Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Recorded on Anzac Day, Dan and Kailey discuss Raw and The Young Pope, update #52filmsbywomen and explain why this is the last episode for a while. Read more Audio

Arriving on home video this weekend, the true life story of an African prince and his middle class English bride feels like it owes more to its BBC origins than its director. Read more

If you are looking for an introduction to the work of the Danish master, Carl Th. Dreyer, his final film probably isn’t the best place to start, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Roger Ebert famously called Liliana Cavani’s post-holocaust potboiler “despicable” but Dan Slevin says it has earned a place in European cinema history. Read more Video

Tantalisingly rare, Godard’s challenging documentary is said to be the high point of the great director’s “late period”. Read more Video

It would be a shame if Before I Fall was reduced to something as simple as “Teen Groundhog Day” when it has more to offer, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Dan Slevin previews the 11th annual French Film Festival which opens in Wellington tonight. Read more

Dan and Kailey are joined by Hayden Frost from the Never Repeats podcast (who are watching every single NZ film from 1977 to the present day) to discuss the new remake of Goodbye Pork Pie and RNZ… Read more Video, Audio

Polish director Agnieszka Holland has directed 14 feature films in a 45-year career. Dan Slevin starts with her best-known picture. Read more Video

Chaplin still doesn’t do it for Dan Slevin, and he’s not sure if he ever will. Read more Video

Hidden Figures is important, influential and inciting. What it isn’t – at least not often enough – is very good, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video

Feudal Japan is the setting for the second movie in Dan Slevin’s odyssey through the top 50 films of all time. Read more Video