Emile Donovan chats with critic Dominic Corry about two new action films on at the cinema.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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Young Washington (2026, directed by Jon Erwin). The story of the Founding Father, from the death of his own father when he was only 11, to his enlistment in the Virginia Militia fighting alongside the British in the French and Indian War of 1754-1755. Stars William Franklyn-Miller as Washington with support from Ben Kingsley, Kelsey Grammer and Mary-Louise Parker.

PAID STREAMING - DocPlay

The American Revolution (six episodes, 2025, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt) and The Civil War (nine episodes, 1990, directed by Ken Burns). The Civil War is seen by many people as Burns’ masterpiece - five years in the making and the definitive screen presentation of a great and terrible chapter of US history. 

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The New Zealand Wars (1998, written and presented by James Belich and directed by Tainui Stephens). A five-part series based on Belich’s acclaimed work of historical scholarship attempting to redefine how we understand our fractious colonial story.

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Michelle Langstone reviews Spa Weekend, a comedy about old friends whose reunion is derailed by a chaotic fourth, starring Anna Faris, Michelle Buteau, Leslie Mann and Isla Fisher; and Savage House, a Georgian smallpox comedy-drama with Richard E Grant and Claire Foy as a debt-riddled noble couple.

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Afternoons critic Kate Rodger joins Jesse to review Case 137 and Colours of Time.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:

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Mike Post’s The Rockford Files Theme kicks off our chat about private detectives on screen, including Colin Farrell’s performance in Sugar, following the end of the show’s second season.

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Tony (directed by Matt Johnson). Tony is a kind of origin story for the food and travel writer Anthony Bourdain (who passed away in 2018). A teenage Anthony spends the summer of 1975 in a New England resort town trying to woo a girl but finds himself falling in love with restaurant kitchens instead.

FREE STREAMING - YouTube

Gavin Shoebridge’s EV motoring reviews. Until recently, they were on behalf of Ecotricity, but now he's moved to the Auto Media Group’s channel, The EV Guys.

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Dan Slevin reviews three new films: One Night Only, a comedy set in a US where pre-marital sex is legally banned except one night a year; & Sons, with Bill Nighy as a reclusive novelist reuniting his estranged family; and De Gaulle: Tilting Iron, an epic wartime biography.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review:

IN CINEMAS

The End of Oak Street (directed by David Robert Mitchell). In 1982, an ordinary American family finds that their neighbourhood has been transported back in time to a prehistoric period populated by incredibly dangerous dinosaur creatures. Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor.

PAID STREAMING - Netflix

Voicemails for Isabelle (directed by Leah McKendrick). A romantic comedy in which a young apprentice chef, alone in San Francisco, leaves hilarious and emotional voicemail messages on her late sister’s cellphone, not realising that the number has been reassigned to an ambitious commercial real estate agent who listens to them and falls in love. Starring Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson.

FREE STREAMING - Kanopy

Sasquatch Sunset (directed by Nathan and David Zellner, 2023). Beautiful nature documentary fantasy that follows a family of Northen California Sasquatch as they experience four seasons together and the challenges of the encroaching human world. Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough.

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Afternoons critic Dominic Corry shares his review of three new films, one local (from the NZIFF) and the other two in cinemas from next week!

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Nights’ resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review: Savage House, a scabrous 18th-century comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy; Deep Water, a shark survival thriller; and 1979 sci-fi epic Meteor, streaming free on Tubi.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Dan Slevin Emile Donovan to review:

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Savage House (directed by Peter Glanz). Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy star in a scabrous comedy set in the 18th century as a social climbing couple prepare to host an important dinner.

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Deep Water (Directed by Renny Harlin). Survival thriller in which an airliner en route from Los Angeles to Shanghai is forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean where the survivors must contend with another danger - hungry sharks. Starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley.

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Meteor (directed by Ronald Neame, 1979). A star-studded affair about a joint USA and USSR effort to save Earth from an imminent extra-terrestrial threat.

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Kate Rodger joins Jesse to share what she's been watching at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Minotaur, The Fox and the classic French film BETTY BLUE.

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