Cinematica

Dan talks to Musa Syeed, writer-director of the Kashmiri film VALLEY OF SAINTS, playing in the New Zealand International Film Festival, 2013.

Dan takes a look behind the curtain at how the biggest movie event on the New Zealand calendar is produced. Featuring interviews with Director Bill Gosden and his team in Wellington and Auckland.

Cinematica interviews our first superstar – Nick Frost from THE WORLD'S END which we also review, plus Del Toro's PACIFIC RIM and all the animated school holiday specials, MONSTERS U, EPIC and DESPICABLE ME.

Our 100th episode! Another small screen legend gets the big screen treatment – The Lone Ranger; Steve Coogan plays porn king Paul Raymond in The Look of Love, Simon dissects a 20 year relationship in Before Midnight. 

A live recording of the Q&A after the special screening of WHITE LIES at the Light House Cuba cinema, fetauring Dana Rotberg, John Psathas, Antonia Prebble and Witi Ihimaera.

Is the Man of Steel going to fly? What's going on in The Place Beyond the Pines? Plus, highlights from the White Lies live Q&A featuring Dana Rotberg, John Psathas & Antonia Prebble.

The New Zealand International Film Festival was launched in Auckland and Dan was there. Back at the multiplex, Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jay Baruchel play themselves at the end of the world in This Is the End. Viggo Mortensen shows off his Spanish in Everybody has a Plan and James Cromwell has a plan for a house in Canadian drama Still Mine.

Brad Pitt is chased all over the planet by zombies in World War Z, Will Smith's son Jaden chases all over the planet looking for a beacon disguised as a pizza cutter in After Earth, Remembrance and Camille Rewinds are the arthouse reviews, and @sakura59 sums up the Sydney Film Festival.

Mads Mikkelsen plays an ordinary bloke under extraordinary pressure in The Hunt and Jesper Christensen is an extraordinary bloke trying to change the course of history in The Last Sentence.

Baz Luhrman's THE GREAT GATSBY; our verdict on SHOPPING; BEKAS is about two cute kids from Kurdistan and FAST & FURIOUS 6 is about a bunch of blue collar car criminals catching a super-criminal on the world’s longest runway.