Kate Rodger reviews: Devil Wears Prada 2, reuniting Streep, Hathaway, Blunt and Tucci back at Runway; The Weed Eaters, a cannibalistic NZ horror about very bad munchies; and Greenland 2: Migration, Gerard Butler's post-apocalyptic follow-up.

Greenland 2: Migration trailer HERE

Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer HERE

The Weed Eaters trailer HERE

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Nights’ screen critic Dan Slevin reviews Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, tracing the band’s rise from East End pubs to stadiums; The Young Pope, the timely Jude Law papal drama; and Battletruck, a Kiwi post-apocalyptic cult classic.

On this week’s edition of Short-Cuts, Nights’ resident screen critic Dan Slevin reviews:

IN CINEMAS
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition — A documentary tracing the band’s journey from East End pubs to global stadiums, blending their story with fans, including Javier Bardem.

PAID STREAMING — Neon
The Young Pope — Not new, but back on Neon. A timely drama about a brash American pope, starring Jude Law and Diane Keaton.

FREE STREAMING — YouTube
Battletruck — A classic New Zealand post-apocalyptic film where rival clans battle over diesel in a broken future world.

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Film Critic Dominic Corry reviews Mortal Kombat II and The Great Arch (part of the Architecture and Design Film Festival) as well as fish and chip shops!

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Michelle Langstone reviews three new films: Peter Hujar's Day, reconstructing a lost conversation with the legendary photographer; Chelsea Preston Crayford's debut feature Caterpillar; and Apex, starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton.

Peter Hujar's Day Trailer: https://youtu.be/Rzp8uw-t-eA

Apex Trailer: https://youtu.be/kgv8jf_8dm0

Caterpillar: https://youtu.be/YhzyWBFBSBI

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Nights' Screen Critic Dan Slevin takes a look at The Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival, touring nationwide. Also streaming: Bait on Prime Video, a dark comedy from Riz Ahmed, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on Kanopy.

Nights’ Screen Critic Dan Slevin takes a look at the

IN CINEMAS - Nationwide

Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival, which opened in Auckland last night and runs across 13 towns and cities nationwide until 21 June. Dan reviews four of the films; Nuvola, The Great Arch, Googie and Stardust: A Story of Love and Architecture.

PAID STREAMING – Prime Video

Bait is a six-part comedy drama from Riz Ahmed, who also stars. It follows an Asian-British actor whose failed James Bond audition triggers a spiral of personal, professional and psychological fallout. It’s dark, funny and strange, featuring a voice performance by Patrick Stewart as a severed pig’s head.

FREE STREAMING – Kanopy
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a classic human drama about three men who strike gold in Mexico and quickly discover how greed unravels their pact to share it equally. It’s a tense, richly told story of ambition and mistrust, and a multiple Academy Award winner.

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Afternoons film critic Kate Rodger joins Jesse to give her hot takes on The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Apex.

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On Short-Cuts Dan Slevin reviews: Exit 8 Japanese film where a man is stuck in a looping subway puzzle, Greyhound & Finch – Tom Hanks in WWII naval thriller + post-apocalyptic road trip with a robot and One Life staring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Jewish children.

On this week's edition of Short-Cuts Nights resident screen critic Dan Slevin reviews:

IN CINEMAS
Exit 8 - A Japanese man on his way to work is trapped in a mysterious loop while trying to escape the subway. Solving the puzzles will lead him to Exit 8 but any failure takes him all the way back to Exit 0.

PAID STREAMING
Greyhound (2020) & Finch (2021) - Two Tom Hanks-led films: Greyhound is a tense World War II naval drama following a rookie commander navigating U-boat attacks in the Atlantic, while Finch is a post-apocalyptic road story about a dying inventor building a robot to care for his dog as they journey across a ravaged America.

FREE STREAMING – Māori+
One Life - the superb drama starring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, who - as a younger man played by Johnny Flynn - saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi-occupied Prague.

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Michael, the Jackson biopic starring his nephew Jaafar; The Time Traveller's Guide to Hamilton Gardens, opening the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival; and Sgt. Haane, Tearepa Kahi's 28th Māori Battalion ANZAC story.

Michael Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-YAcjaLuSI

The Time Traveller's Guide To Hamilton Gardens Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3PQESNEwY

Sgt. Haane Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-qino7ZNg

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Afternoons Critic Dominic Corry on whether 'Michael' really is the worst bio-pic of all time.

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Three new films: The President's Cake, an Iraqi Cannes winner set during the Gulf War; The North, a quiet Scottish Highlands reunion story; and Thrash, Netflix's hurricane shark film with Phoebe Dynevor.

The President's Cake Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIhlE3lfu6w

Thrash Trailer: https://youtu.be/hzyOsNyDkbM?si=enPHvbm9g-xaNzmF

The North Trailer: https://youtu.be/-SG46PKUCfQ?si=pB6YT76CZaADXVAU

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