We attended the launch of this years Auckland Film Festival where we got to see the wonderful MEDIANERAS... which we loved, and get our hands on the awesome brochure. This episode is devoted to all that has captured our eye. There’s too many to make this nice and tidy - so brace yourselves for a list.

I Saw The Devil

Melancholia

Take Shelter

Taxi Driver

13 Assassins

Sleeping Beauty

Animation Now 2011

Animation For Kids 2011

Supinfocom

Page One: Inside The New York Times

Bobby Fischer Against The World

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travel Of A Tribe Called Quest

Attenberg

The Future

Martha May Marcy Marlene

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3D

Pina 3D

Cold Fish

Norwegian Wood

Fritz Lang's Metropolis / Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horrors

The Kid With A Bike

Arrietty

The Yellow Sea

The Man From Nowhere

Space Battleship Yamato

Meek's Cutoff

Hobo With A Shotgun

Troll Hunter

The Last Circus

Let The Bullets Fly

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi

Mana Waka

Project Nim

Tyrannosaur

Passione

Submarine

SUPER 8 leaves us super impressed... and we tell you all about it. As well as covering the plethora of new films out this week: GREEN LANTERN, BRIDESMAIDS, CEDAR RAPIDS, THE CONSPIRATOR, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE, MAMMUTH, CARS 2, BAD TEACHER, & BEGINNING OF THE GREAT REVIVAL.

It’s high time we outlined how things work around here, so we invite you backstage to our first Annual General Meeting, then it's straight into the origin of Magneto, Professor X... and the whole X-Men team... and I tell you right now, it's all First Class.

A Double Feature at the Capitol Cinema really impresses, which has a lot to do with Duncan Jones (aka. Zowie Bowie) making great films. Nige finally catches up with Temuera Morrison and Ray Winstone climbing all over NZ scenery. Nige also catches ARTHUR (Russell not Dudley), FAST FIVE, A CHINESE GHOST STORY, and has a wonderful story about his re-watch of THE ILLUSIONIST.

Drinks take precedent this week, as we slur our way through the latest Mjölnir welding Superhero, espouse our love for the English drama ANOTHER YEAR, and our streak of bad Chinese films end with the historical epic THE LOST BLADESMAN. Nige needs a few more to handle a certain CGI Easter Bunny (much to Cory's delight). Then we wrap with Kurosawa's classic Samurai piece and Charlie Sheen's old Vietnam movie. Happy Birthday Nige!

Disagreements & disarray this week as Zack Snyder gets all up in our face again and cannibals struggle to make their impression in WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. Frost & Pegg venture out with PAUL, Ray & Tem take a walk in TRACKER & Brando cracks in REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. Plus the World Cinema Showcase finishes up with SAGAN, UNCLE BOONMEE, SMASH HIS CAMERA & the 2007 raids of OPERATION 8

We pretend this is a regular job, job-type job and interview the Don of NZ Film - nice guy Film Fest Director Bill Gosden. Then its 8 films and running with our thoughts on; THE WAY BACK, TUCKER & DALE vs EVIL, RESTREPO, ARMADILLO, COLD WEATHER, OCEANS, SOURCE CODE, and FRANKENSTEIN. Now Frankenstein's really a filmed play... oh - and Armadillo's a Danish film - please disregard when we say it's Dutch (15 times).

We cover off drug fueled mystery thriller's, mystery fueled thrilling doco's, absurd surreal comedy horror's, beautiful British dystopian drama's, annoying Chinese action comedy's, and Duvall & Murray's deep drama. Fantastic films abound as the World Cinema Showcase starts, and we still manage to tell you what's on. Aren't you lucky.

Aliens Invading the Earth... Towns water supply running out... I guess I'd call Aaron Eckhart & Johnny Depp as well. That and we go toe to toe to reveal our favourites of 2010

The eagerly anticpated relationship Drama that made Nige's top ten of the year "Blue Valentine" combined with Matt Damon's Sci-Rom "The Adjustment Bureau" from a Philip K. Dick Short, make this episode a treat. We round off nicely with our picks for this year's World Cinema Showcase... and what's on.