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What we're watching: Secret City, season 1
Sleepy old Canberra is the scene of political and diplomatic shenanigans - and murder - in this Netflix series. Dan Slevin explains why it's worth a watch.
10 movies to fall in love with this Valentine's Day
Has it ever occurred to you that many of the best-known romantic movies are about doomed, tragic or failed love? Dan Slevin finds films to swoon over this Valentine's Day. Video
Christmas flicks for every kind of movie fan
In the mood for a festive film? RNZ movie critic Dan Slevin chooses 12 Christmas movies to suit nearly every taste. Video
The Phantom of the Open
Academy Award winner Mark Rylance starring as the real life "worst golfer in the world" in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN (reviewed by Dan Slevin).
Video, AudioThor - Love and Thunder
Dan Slevin reviews the new Marvel superhero movie THOR - LOVE AND THUNDER, written and directed by Taika Waititi.
Video, AudioReview - Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton produced, wrote, directed and starred in this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's 1999 detective novel. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
Video, AudioAvengers: Endgame - 'satisfying cinema event' with 'at least five endings'
With the latest $1 billion instalment in Marvel's Avengers franchise opening around the world this week, it's fair to say that this is now Disney's world, we are just living in it, Dan Slevin writes. Video
Review - Red Joan
Judi Dench plays a retired physicist accused of giving nuclear secrets to the Russians in Red Joan, reviewed by Dan Slevin.
Video, AudioReview - Capernaum
A 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his deadbeat parents for bringing him into a world where they couldn't care for him, reviewed by Dan Slevin.
Video, Audio'Johnny English Strikes Again': Lethargic performance in a tired franchise
Britain alone is worthy of a whole chapter in the 2018 Planet Earth Joke Book - but this film seems blissfully unaware of it all, going through the motions as if repeating the same old tired clichés…
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