Lee Daniels' The Butler is a Black history lesson set in the White House, novelist Cormac McCarthy teams up with Ridley Scott to make a conundrum called The Counselor and we visit Kashmir to see the Valley of Saints.

Darren Bevan (@geekboy73) joins us for a classic Aussie book turning into a classic Aussie film in Tim Winton's The Turning – we also interview one of the producers - and the Marvel Universe gets even more complicated with Thor: The Dark World.

Shortly before he leaves for Screen Australia, NZFC CEO Graeme Mason called in to Cinematica to talk about the state of the industry - and the organisation - he leaves behind.

Tom Hanks fights off Somali pirates in Captain Phillips, Keri Russell searches for Mr. Darcy in Austenland and Domnhall Gleeson and Bill Nighy travel in time in Richard Curtis's new rom-com About Time. Dan interviews outgoing NZFC CEO Graeme Mason.

In this week's episode Dan and Kailey climb Everest in 3D (Beyond the Edge), try and break the bank of an internet casino (Runner Runner) and solve the mystery of two missing children (Prisoners).

Kailey is on holiday and Simon is sick so Dan is joined by Sarah Watt from the Sunday Star-Times to discuss Naomi Watts in Diana, Danny Trejo as Machete in Machete Kills and Wahlberg and Washington in the comedy thriller 2 Guns.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are lost in space in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity while Hugh Laurie teaches the kids of Bougainville about Charles Dickens in Andrew Adamson's Mr. Pip.

Let Cinematica guide you towards the most age-appropriate entertainment for your little ones (with the help of the Dominion-Post's Graeme Tuckett). Also featuring an extract from the special Light House Cinema Q&A with Lloyd Jones, author of the novel that inspired MR. PIP.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Light House Cuba, author Lloyd Jones talks to Dan Slevin about his novel Mister Pip and the film that is based on it, Andrew Adamson's MR. PIP.

Driving around in circles in Rush; what's behind the locked door in The Best Offer and what the flip is going on in Mood Indigo? We also interview Tony Lambert, the director of the 18th Italian Film Festival.