Sinopsis
A weekly topical magazine about current film releases and film related topics.
Episodios
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Review - F1
02/07/2025 Duración: 06minF1 – Formula One racing, and movie star’s movie star, Brad Pitt... What more could anyone want? Producer Jerry Bruckheimer returns to the scene of his Nineties Tom Cruise hit Days Of Thunder with more of the same. Featuring Javier Bardem (Dune), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) and newcomer Damson Idris (TV’s Snowfall). Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - The Great Lillian Hall
02/07/2025 Duración: 04minThe Great Lillian Hall sees multi award winning Jessica Lange play a legendary Broadway star suddenly confronted with a possible life and career-changing disability. Features Kathy Bates and Pierce Brosnan, it's directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael Cristofer.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Prestige Pictures
02/07/2025 Duración: 22minSimon Morris looks at three films that reflect a little more effort on the part of their makers – the star-studded Formula One spectacle, F1, a well-scripted tale from Broadway’s theatre district, The Great Lillian Hall starring Jessica Lange, and France’s hugely successful film version of the classic The Count Of Monte Cristo. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - The Count Of Monte Cristo
02/07/2025 Duración: 06minThe Count Of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man wrongfully convicted, determined to take revenge on those who wronged him. The first French film version of Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale for 50 years, it’s produced by the same team who made the recent Three Musketeers films.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - 28 Years Later
25/06/2025 Duración: 06min28 Years Later sees the return of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland to the zombie apocalypse they created 23 years ago. Now survivors settle on a small island, leaving the mainland to the rapidly mutating infected. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and newcomer Alfie Williams as the 12-year-old hero Spike.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - Elio
25/06/2025 Duración: 06minElio is the latest from Pixar Films – the story of a lonely, space-obsessed boy who dreams of being abducted by aliens. With an original story by Adrian Molina (Coco), Elio features the voices of Zoe Saldaña (Avatar), Brad Garrett (Ratatouille) and Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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What do men want?
25/06/2025 Duración: 22minSimon Morris takes a look at an unusually blokey collection of movies this week, including the return of the “infected” in Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, a documentary about the films of long-time partners, producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, and Pixar’s Elio, about a boy who gets his wish – to be abducted by aliens!Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - Merchant Ivory
25/06/2025 Duración: 05minMerchant Ivory tells the story of one of the longest ever movie-making partnerships, between Indian producer Ismail Merchant, American director James Ivory – and German-Jewish born writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Featuring interviews with Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and many others. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - How To Train Your Dragon
18/06/2025 Duración: 07minHow To Train Your Dragon is a remake of the popular animated feature with a difference. The live-action version is written and directed by the maker of the original Dean DeBlois (Lilo and Stitch). Once again starring Gerard Butler as Viking chief Stoick.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - K O
18/06/2025 Duración: 04minK O is a French Netflix thriller, that sees an MMA fighter accidentally kill an opponent in the ring, then feels obliged to protect his family from dangerous gangsters. Starring actual former MMA star Ciryl Gane. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - Materialists
18/06/2025 Duración: 06minMaterialists sees a successful matchmaker (Dakota Johnson) find herself torn between her heart and her head – between Mr Perfect and the far-from-perfect One That Got Away. Also starring Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, it’s written and directed by Celine Song, who made the Oscar nominated Past Lives.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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FULL SHOW: Festival Blues
18/06/2025 Duración: 22minSimon Morris looks enviously at the French Film Festival highlights that he can’t see until their general release. While he waits he checks out the “re-imagining” of the recent How To Train Your Dragon, the French John Wick, K O on Netflix, and a superior romance from the director of Past Lives. It’s called Materialists. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Wishing On A Star
11/06/2025 Duración: 22minSimon Morris regrets the passing of the old-fashioned film star, and reviews two movies featuring one-time “stars of tomorrow” – Ana de Armas in Ballerina, and Prime Video’s The Assessment, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander. And from Wales, an indie film with no stars to speak of, Chuck Chuck Baby.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - Ballerina
11/06/2025 Duración: 07minBallerina – now prefaced "From the world of John Wick" – sees a new face at the Continental Hotel for assassins. A young dancer seeks revenge for the death of her father. Joining John Wick regulars Keanu Reeves and Ian McShane is Ana de Armas (Knives out), Anjelica Huston (The Witches) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects). Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - The Assessment
11/06/2025 Duración: 05minThe Assessment finds a couple in a dystopian future trying to get permission to have a baby. But first they need to pass an assessment. Stars Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision), Himesh Patel (Yesterday) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina). Streaming on Prime Video.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - Chuck Chuck Baby
11/06/2025 Duración: 04minChuck Chuck Baby sees a woman in the production line of a chicken farm of the same name, suddenly confronted by her school crush. A winner at last year’s Welsh Baftas, it features a string of director Janis Pugh’s favourite songs.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - Bring Her Back
04/06/2025 Duración: 05minBring Her Back is a stylish Australian horror, in which two teen siblings are fostered by a woman who turns out to have her own issues. Can partially-sighted Piper get through an unexpected ordeal? Starring Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water), it’s directed by brothers Danny and Michael Philippu (Talk To Me).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - Kōkā
04/06/2025 Duración: 05minKōkā sees an ailing Māori matriarch and an angry delinquent form an unlikely team as they take a journey away from past traumas towards healing and reconciliation. A first feature by writer-director Kath Akuhata-Brown. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review - The Phoenician Scheme
04/06/2025 Duración: 06minThe Phoenician Scheme opens on the fabulously wealthy Zsa Zsa Korda setting out to make even more money, with the help of his daughter, a novice nun, and a Swedish tutor called Bjorn. Directed by Wes Anderson, it stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johanssen, Willem Dafoe, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Ayoade, Tom Hanks and Bill Murray as God. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Full SHOW: Where Are We?
04/06/2025 Duración: 22minSimon Morris finds himself confused by flashbacks, dream sequences – and Wes Anderson’s convoluted story structures. He sets out through the thickets of The Phoenician Scheme, Bring Her Back and New Zealand road-movie Kōkā. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details