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At The Summer Movies: The Holidays Begin
Podcast episode — 25 December 2024Dan Slevin reviews three new films arriving in cinemas for the summer holidays. Mufasa: The Lion King is a prequel about the patriarch Mufasa and how he came to lead the animals of Pride Rock. Anora is a Cannes award winner about a Brooklyn lap dancer given a shot at a new life. And Better Man is a biography of Robbie Williams in which the pop star is portrayed as a performing chimpanzee.
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The Lion King, Anora and the Better Man
Audio 25 Dec 2024Dan Slevin reviews three new films arriving in cinemas for the summer holidays. Mufasa: The Lion King is a prequel about the patriarch Mufasa and how he came to lead the animals of Pride Rock. Anora… Audio
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Movie review - Mufasa The Lion King
Audio 25 Dec 2024Dan Slevin reviews a prequel for the popular Disney musical franchise, directed by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins and featuring the voices of Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Tiffany Boone. Audio
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Movie review - Better Man
Audio 25 Dec 2024Biography of Robbie Williams in which the English pop star is portrayed as a performing chimpanzee (digitally created by New Zealand's Weta Digital). The film is directed by Michael Gracey (The Great… Audio
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Movie review - Anora
Audio 25 Dec 2024The 2024 winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or is a comedy/drama about a Brooklyn lap dancer (Mikey Madison) who is given a shot at new life when the big spending son of a Russian oligarch falls head over… Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Audio 20 Dec 2024Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Maggie Tweedie to review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024), documentary Sugarcane (2024), and a selection of free-streaming family movies on ThreeNow: The… Audio
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Dan Slevin's best films of 2024
Dan Slevin looks back at the cinematic year and picks his 10 top films - and not a horror flick among them.
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident screen critic reviews The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024), Christmas horror-comedy It's A Wonderful Knife (2023), and free streaming option British sci-fi Attack the… Audio
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Is the age of the "moviestar" over?
Resident Nights screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to debate whether the glittering age of the moviestar is over. Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Tonight critic Dan Slevin covers The Movie Teller (Scherfig, 2023), Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways, and Hunting Aotearoa. Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review the new films Taki Rua Theatre - Breaking Barriers & Moana 2, the miniseries Agatha All Along and the Tom Cruise classic Edge of… Audio
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A galaxy of great film scores
A new documentary gives film critic Dan Slevin an opportunity to rave about movie composer John Williams. Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan with some picks for the weekend. Audio
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Saturday Night is more exhausting than entertaining
Jason Reitman's new comedy Saturday Night is "manically nostalgic" and ultimately more exhausting than entertaining, writes Dan Slevin. The 1970s are ugly in Jason Reitman's new comedy Saturday Night…
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review the new Gladiator II film, Australian indie film Time Addicts, Naga which is set in Saudi Arabia and the classic British… Audio
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Review: Saturday Night
Podcast episode — 13 November 2024Jason Reitman’s comedy focuses on the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the debut of the famous television variety show Saturday Night Live. Dan Slevin reviews.
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Review: Music by John Williams
Podcast episode — 13 November 2024Dan Slevin reviews a documentary about the legendary screen composer, John Williams, and his seven decade career in Hollywood.
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FULL SHOW: Uplift
Podcast episode — 13 November 2024Dan Slevin reviews Music by John Williams, a Disney+ documentary about the legendary film composer; Australian animated tragicomedy, Memoir of a Snail, and Saturday Night, a comedy about the birth of the entertainment juggernaut, Saturday Night Live.
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Review: Memoir of a Snail
Podcast episode — 13 November 2024Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot’s latest feature is a tragicomedy about twins separated after the death of their father and their eventual recovery. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Movie review - Memoir of a Snail
Audio 13 Nov 2024Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot's latest feature is a tragicomedy about twins separated after the death of their father and their eventual recovery. Reviewed by Dan Slevin. Audio
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Movie review - Saturday Night
Audio 13 Nov 2024Jason Reitman's comedy focuses on the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the debut of the famous television variety show Saturday Night Live. Dan Slevin reviews. Audio
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Movie review - Music by John Williams
Audio 13 Nov 2024Dan Slevin reviews a documentary about the legendary screen composer, John Williams, and his seven decade career in Hollywood. Audio
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At the Movies for 13 November 2024
Audio 13 Nov 2024Dan Slevin reviews Music by John Williams, a Disney+ documentary about the legendary film composer; Australian animated tragicomedy, Memoir of a Snail, and Saturday Night, a comedy about the birth of… Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review French film Suddenly (2024), two music documentaries, and Saving Private Ryan (1998) streaming on TVNZ+. Audio
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FULL SHOW: Transformations
Podcast episode — 06 November 2024On At the Movies, Dan Slevin reviews three films in which change can be welcome or unwelcome but inevitable all the same. In Head South, a Christchurch teenager discovers New Wave music and a way forward to the rest of his life. Here is a simultaneously experimental and sentimental film about the multiple generations of people who pass through a simple suburban Pennsylvania living room. And in A Different Man, a New York actor with a facial disfigurement is offered a miracle cure – but will it make him happy?
