Dan Slevin reviews Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson’s adaptation of Ibsen’s classic play about a frustrated, ambitious and manipulative woman who goes to great lengths to support her husband’s career.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Full Show: Eat the Rich
Bugonia is a black comedy about an executive (Emma Stone) kidnapped after she’s mistaken for an alien . Aziz Ansari’s comedy Good Fortune stars Keanu Reeves as a fallen angel. Hedda is an adaptation of Ibsen’s classic play starring Tessa Thompson.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review: Bugonia
Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone (in her fourth collaboration with director Jorgos Lanthimos) star in a black comedy about a desperate young man who kidnaps a wealthy pharmaceutical executive believing that she’s an alien sent to enslave the people of Planet Earth – reviewed by Dan Slevin.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Review: Good Fortune
Dan Slevin reviews a comedy about a low-level angel (Keanu Reeves) who tries to save a struggling gig worker (Aziz Ansari) in present day Los Angeles.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Full Show: Parents & Children
Dan Slevin reviews three new films: Robert Sarkies directs Pike River, a film about the aftermath of New Zealand’s worst modern workplace tragedy; Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a biopic about rock star Bruce Springsteen and the creation of his introspective masterpiece Nebraska; and in cinemas (soon to be streaming on Netflix), Frankenstein is Guillermo Del Toro’s epic passion project, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror about a mad scientist who believes he can breathe life into a dead flesh with disastrous results.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Join Simon Morris in the best seat in the house as he reviews the latest movies. At The Movies also plays at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoons on RNZ National.
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