At The Movies

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 TRAILERNorm: The Tale Of Norm MacDonald TRAILERAnimals TRAILERGo 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 - AppleTenzing (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 CINEMASKlara 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 TRAILERWhalefall TRAILERLa bola negra TRAILERGo 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 CINEMASNAZA (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 - NeonThe 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