At The Movies

Kate Rodger reviews Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson in an unauthorised biopic of Chris Hansen; Pressure, with Brendan Fraser as Eisenhower and Andrew Scott as meteorologist James Stagg; and Black Sheeps, the sequel to 2006’s Black Sheep.

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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 Emile Donovan on Nights every Thursday, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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

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The 2026 British and Irish Film Festival started yesterday across the country

Dan previews three of the 25 titles in the programme: WICKER ; THE THREE URNS  and DEREK VS DEREK 

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The Frighteners. This week is the 30th anniversary of one of the first big international movies to come out Wellington and one of the best comedy horrors of all time.

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Gnomes  Australian six-part comedy horror TV series starring Asa Butterfield as a small-town cop dealing with an army of murderous gnomes led by Tess Haubrich as the Gnome Queen.

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Michelle Langstone reviews Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, a moving Disney+ documentary on the Gallagher brothers’ reunion; Norm: The Tale of Norm MacDonald, Judd Apatow’s melancholy portrait of the comedian; and Animals, Ben Affleck’s gripping kidnap thriller on Netflix.

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Afternoons critic Dominic Corry is with Jesse in the Auckland studio to share the movies he's been watching: Clayface (in cinemas) Wildwood (in cinemas)

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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:

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The Last Lighthouse (1973). BBC documentary (on their excellent BBC Archive channel) about the lonely life of the lighthouse keepers on Bishop Rock - the furthest away from mainland Britain, in the freezing Atlantic Ocean.

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Tenzing (directed by Jennifer Peedom). Biopic about the Nepalese-Indian Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who - along with Sir Edmund Hillary - was the first to ascend the peak of Chamolangma (or Mt. Everest) in 1953.

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Klara and the Sun (directed and co-written by Taikia Waititi. Adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, this is the story of a robot (or Artificial Friend) who is purchased by a family as company for their genetically-enhanced daughter who is struggling physically and mentally with the pressure she is under.

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Dan Slevin reviews three new films: Sense and Sensibility, Georgia Oakley’s Austen adaptation with Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay; Whalefall, a survival thriller starring Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin; and La Bola Negra, an epic queer drama with Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close.

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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:

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NAZA (directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor). From two of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, NAZA is based on interviews with two dozen anonymous Israeli security and intelligence officers about the methods and tactics being used in the war on Gaza. NAZA is the technical jargon (a military acronym in Hebrew) they use for a civilian victim of “collateral damage”.

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The Agency (season one). Espionage thriller set in the London offices of the CIA. Michael Fassbender plays “Martian”, recently returned from six years undercover in Ethiopia and struggling to adjust to life back home - especially when he discovers that the woman he fell in love with in Addis Ababa is also now in London. Cast includes Jeffrey Wright, Katherine Waterston and Richard Gere.

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Kate Rodger chats to Jesse Mulligan about the not so great reviews coming out for Klara and the Sun, shares her reckons and the pair discuss Tenzing too!

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Kate Rodger reviews three new films: Tenzing, Jennifer Peedom’s Everest drama with Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe; The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network sequel with Jeremy Strong; and Unabomber, Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay in a Netflix thriller.

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Afternoons' critic Dominic Corry reviews The Social Reckoning and NAZA.

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