Movies
Television Critic: Claire Chitham
Today Claire Chitham talks to Wallace about the US version of Shameless and Angelyne. Audio
Review: Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary true story of a fake spy dropped off to fool the Nazis about the Allied battle plans. Stars Colin Firth, Matthew McFadyen and Kelly McDonald. Video, Audio
Review: Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary true story of a fake spy dropped off to fool the Nazis about the Allied battle plans. Stars Colin Firth, Matthew McFadyen and Kelly McDonald.
Video, AudioBookmarks with Jordan Hamel
This week's guest is a New Zealand Poetry champion, co-editor of the climate change anthology 'No Other Place to Stand' Jordan Hamel. Audio
Sam's Take: Moon Knight
Sam is back with a look at the latest of Disney+'s Marvel series, the mind-bending adventures of Moon Knight.
'The Right Stuff' actor Fred Ward dies at 79
Veteran film and television actor Fred Ward, 79, best known for playing gruff, tough-guy roles in movies such as "Tremors," "Escape from Alcatraz," and "The Right Stuff," died on Sunday, his publicist…
Supernovae
Jan Eldridge, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland, explores the use of supernovae (or exploding/dying stars) in fiction. Audio
Film Review with Dom Corry
Today Letterboxd Editor-at-Large and RNZ afternoons film critic Dom Corry talks to Jesse about Operation Mincemeat and The Northman. Audio
Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness features Benedict Cumberbatch as Marvel Comics' resident sorcerer trying to make sense of several alternate universes. Featuring Benedict Wong (The Martian… Video, Audio
Review: The Velvet Queen
The Velvet Queen sees French author-adventurer Sylvain Tesson travel with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier to the Tibetan wilderness in search of a rare big cat. In competition at Cannes 2021. Video, Audio
Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness features Benedict Cumberbatch as Marvel Comics' resident sorcerer trying to make sense of several alternate universes. Featuring Benedict Wong (The Martian…
Video, AudioReview: The Velvet Queen
The Velvet Queen sees French author-adventurer Sylvain Tesson travel with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier to the Tibetan wilderness in search of a rare big cat. In competition at Cannes 2021.
Video, AudioTelevision Critic: Guy Williams
Today Guy talks to Jesse about New Zealand Basketball being shown free to air on a Saturday night on Prime TV, Girls 5 Ever on TVNZ on demand and also on the same platform, Jame Mustipic Abandonment… Audio
Film Review: Graeme Tuckett
Today Graeme talks to Jesse about Doctor Strange and The Velvet Queen, a French documentary on hunting the Tibetan Snow Leopard. Audio
Preview: 2022 Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival
Dan Slevin has tasted this year’s cinematic celebration of the curated world around us. Video
Review: A Hero
A Hero is the latest from Iranian master Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman). A winner at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it tells of a bankrupt man who gains a popular reputation when he… Video, Audio
Review: A Hero
A Hero is the latest from Iranian master Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman). A winner at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it tells of a bankrupt man who gains a popular reputation when he…
Video, AudioTaken
Liam Neeson's monologue in the 2008 movie Taken is spine-tingling. Can the Whakamāori crew achieve the same results? Lights, camera, ACTION. Video, Audio
Magic Wands
Dr Natalie Plank, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Victoria University of Wellington investigates the power of the magic wand and we learn some great… Audio
Film Review with Dom Corry
Dom Corry reviews The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum and Downton Abbey: A New Era. Audio