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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. Don’t Look Back In Anger TRAILER Norm: The Tale Of Norm MacDonald TRAILER Animals TRAILER Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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) Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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: FREE STREAMING - BBC Archive YouTube 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. PAID STREAMING - Apple 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. IN CINEMAS 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. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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. Sense and Sensibility TRAILER Whalefall TRAILER La bola negra TRAILER Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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 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”. PAID STREAMING - Neon 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. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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! Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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. Tenzing TRAILER The Social Reckoning TRAILER Unabomber TRAILER Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Afternoons' critic Dominic Corry reviews The Social Reckoning and NAZA. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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 Social Reckoning (written and directed by Aaron Sorkin). Follow-up to Sorkin’s 2010 Oscar-winning script The Social Network. This story follows Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) as they attempt to tell the world how Facebook has profited from inciting disinformation, hatred and discord via their powerful social media algorithm. PAID STREAMING - AroVision Dead Man’s Wire (directed by Gus Van Sant, 2025). In 1977 Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), a disgruntled Indianapolis real estate developer took the president of his mortgage company hostage at gunpoint. The drama was followed for several days by local and national media, but especially by local DJ Fred Temple (Colman Domingo) who became Kiritsis’ main communication channel to the outside world. The story has also recently been told on TV in the drama American Hostage (Neon). FREE STREAMING - BBC Archive YouTube The Last Lighthouse (1973). BBC documentary about the lonely life of the lighthouse keepers on Bishop Rock - the furthest away from mainland Britain, in the freezing Atlantic Ocean. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Michelle Langstone reviews Big Girls Don't Cry, Paloma Schneiderman's Sundance Audience Award-winning debut feature; Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu's satirical thriller starring Tom Cruise, and The Wizard of the Kremlin. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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. Night's resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review: IN CINEMAS Verity (directed by Mike Showalter). Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway star in a thriller based on a best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us). Johnson plays a struggling writer asked to become a ghostwriter for a best-selling author who has a mysterious ailment (Hathaway). PAID STREAMING - Netflix Anemone (directed by Ronan Day-Lewis). Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement after eight years to work on his son’s debut feature. Set in the mid-90s, Day-Lewis plays Ray, a British Army veteran who disappeared in mysterious circumstances 20 at the height of the Irish ‘Troubles”. 20 years later, his brother (Sean Bean) has to persuade him to finally return home. FREE STREAMING - TVNZ+ The Social Network (written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by David Fincher, 2010). On Funerals & Snakes back in 2010, Dan wrote: "Hugely entertaining, but with less insight into the modern world of virtual communities and social media than one might have hoped. Perhaps that film is still to come from somewhere.” Sorkin’s follow-up, The Social Reckoning, is in cinemas from next week. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Kate Rodger reviews the two films it seems everyone is talking about right now - and a warning, she doesn't pull any punches! Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Dan Slevin reviews three new films for the school holidays: Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, an Aardman Halloween special; Forgotten Island, an animated adventure inspired by Philippine mythology; and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom – TRAILER Forgotten Island – TRAILER Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – TRAILER Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Afternoons film critic Dominic Corry reviews Heart of the Beast, Resident Evil and Mayday. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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: MUSIC & PAID STREAMING - Disney+ Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post (feat. Larry Carlton) Hill Street Blues was a pioneering police drama from 1981-1987 which featured an ensemble cast, gritty environments and challenging storylines - at least for its time. IN CINEMAS Heart of the Beast (directed by David Ayer). A special forces veteran (Brad Pitt) and his companion dog, also a combat veteran, go on a trip into the wilds of Alaska but he experiences a medical event and crashes their plane. They are now on a deadline to find safety before his health deteriorates further or the forbidding environment overwhelms them. FREE STREAMING - ThreeNow Fantastic Mr Fox (directed by Wes Anderson, 2009). Stop-motion animated adaptation of the beloved Road Dahl children’s story featuring a star-studded cast including George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray. Mr. Fox (Clooney) writes the gossip column for the local paper but miss the excitement of stealing chickens. Eventually, his true nature gets the better of him, and he takes on the terrible chicken farming threesome of Boggis, Bunce and Bean, unleashing disaster on his community. How will he repair all the damage? Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details