Cinematica

We do the American Hustle with David O. Russell and his cast of Oscar-nominees, take a trip to Burma with The Railway Man, ask whether it's true that there's no fool like an old fool in Last Vegas and say goodbye to Kailey after two and a half years.

Simon is still on holiday so Kailey and Dan review Bruce Dern's Cannes-winning performance in Nebraska and Justin Bieber's Believe then special guest Blair Collie helps fact check Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Simon is on holiday so Dan and Kailey talk about 47 Ronin, The Book Thief and - yes - the Golden Globes, even though we swore we never would.

What we did on our holidays - The Wolf of Wall Street, August: Osage County, Short Term 12, Philomena and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Part two of the epic summing up of cinema in 2013 - featuring Graeme Tuckett, Liam Maguren, Marie O'Sullivan, David Larsen, Sarah Watt and Glenn Kenny.

Simon, Kailey and Dan (plus guests Graeme Tuckett, Sam McCosh, Darren Bevan, Rachel Taylor and Andrew Todd) look at the year in cinema - their top films, worst experiences, trends and what they are looking forward to in 2014.

With Liam Maguren from Flicks  we take the Night Train to Lisbon, hang out with Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, play Ender's Game, forecast Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 and later on in the show Dan and Darren Bevan give you the verdict on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Vince Vaughan remakes the Canadian hit Starbuck as Delivery Man, the late James Gandolfini stars with Julia-Louis Dreyfuss in Enough Said and the backing singers get the spotlight in 20 Feet from Stardom.

This week we get dirty. Really dirty. (Not The Counselor-dirty – we're not animals) No, we get stuck in to Mud and Filth and, of course, we also run the ruler over the new Hunger Games movie - Catching Fire.

Chloe Grace Moretz is Carrie in the new remake from Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), Benedict Cumberbatch is Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate and we do a quick run-down of a few recent releases you might have missed.

Lee Daniels' The Butler is a Black history lesson set in the White House, novelist Cormac McCarthy teams up with Ridley Scott to make a conundrum called The Counselor and we visit Kashmir to see the Valley of Saints.

Darren Bevan (@geekboy73) joins us for a classic Aussie book turning into a classic Aussie film in Tim Winton's The Turning – we also interview one of the producers - and the Marvel Universe gets even more complicated with Thor: The Dark World.

Shortly before he leaves for Screen Australia, NZFC CEO Graeme Mason called in to Cinematica to talk about the state of the industry - and the organisation - he leaves behind.

Tom Hanks fights off Somali pirates in Captain Phillips, Keri Russell searches for Mr. Darcy in Austenland and Domnhall Gleeson and Bill Nighy travel in time in Richard Curtis's new rom-com About Time. Dan interviews outgoing NZFC CEO Graeme Mason.

In this week's episode Dan and Kailey climb Everest in 3D (Beyond the Edge), try and break the bank of an internet casino (Runner Runner) and solve the mystery of two missing children (Prisoners).

Kailey is on holiday and Simon is sick so Dan is joined by Sarah Watt from the Sunday Star-Times to discuss Naomi Watts in Diana, Danny Trejo as Machete in Machete Kills and Wahlberg and Washington in the comedy thriller 2 Guns.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are lost in space in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity while Hugh Laurie teaches the kids of Bougainville about Charles Dickens in Andrew Adamson's Mr. Pip.

Let Cinematica guide you towards the most age-appropriate entertainment for your little ones (with the help of the Dominion-Post's Graeme Tuckett). Also featuring an extract from the special Light House Cinema Q&A with Lloyd Jones, author of the novel that inspired MR. PIP.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Light House Cuba, author Lloyd Jones talks to Dan Slevin about his novel Mister Pip and the film that is based on it, Andrew Adamson's MR. PIP.

Driving around in circles in Rush; what's behind the locked door in The Best Offer and what the flip is going on in Mood Indigo? We also interview Tony Lambert, the director of the 18th Italian Film Festival.

Shakespeare sounds good in the Kiwi Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song, there's a silent movie twist on Snow White in Blancanieves and Vin Diesel brings back his anti-hero Riddick for another episode.

The new Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine, What Maisie Knew, White House Down and François Ozon’s In the House. Plus, a clip from our special Q&A with the women behind Gardening with Soul.

The full Q&A for Gardening with Soul, recorded at the Light House Petone on 8 Sept 2013. Featuring director Jess Feast, producer Vicky Pope, editor Annie Collins, the star of the film Sister Loyola Galvin and hosted by Cinematica's Dan Slevin.

Ashton Kutcher impersonates Steve Jobs in Jobs, Bruce Willis impersonates an action hero in Red 2 and Denmark/NZ co-production The Weight of Elephants slips quietly into theatres.

Guest reviewer Liam from flicks.co.nz (@AManof100Words) helps out on The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and Kick-Ass 2, Shakespeare is sexy again in Joss Whedon's LA version of Much Ado About Nothing and Greta Gerwig’s Frances Ha hits local screens.

Reviews and news but no interviews: Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, Park Chan-wook’s Stoker plus coming-of-age comedy The Way, Way Back. Listen for ticket giveaways, too.

Two director interviews this week: Neil Jordan (Byzantium) and Park Chan-wook (Stoker), plus reviews of The Wolverine and Pain & Gain as well as the usual news and comment.

In which Dan forgets everyone's name, Simon is back and Kailey is away sick: The Gos stars in Only God Forgives and magic tricks star in Now You See Me, plus we interview Cannes Grand prix winner Matteo Garrone about Reality.

Live at the Paramount, Wellington - Nick Ward reviews The Heat; we interview mother and daughter Gaylene Preston and Chelsie Preston-Crayford who both have films in the New Zealand International Film Festival, Sean Baker, director of the LA indie Starlet and Anthony Powell (Antarctica: A Year on Ice).

Recorded in front of an audience at Auckland's Wintergarden: @rudysix reviews Behind the Candelabra; we interview Curtis Vowell and Sophie Henderson from the New Zealand feature Fantail; Shirley Horrocks, director of the documentary Venus: A Quest ; Ant Timpson and director Evan Katz tell us about Cheap Thrills and we meet the people behind flicks.co.nz.

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.

Last week’s interview with Andy Miller from @academycinemas in Auckland and THIS week's interview with Louis and Mark from new Kiwi feature SHOPPING. We return to Vegas with the Wolf Pack in THE HANGOVER PART III and check out THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST.

KON-TIKI is an real-life adventure on the high seas, BROKEN isn't broken at all, The Rock goes undercover to bring down some drug dealers in SNITCH and we get a report from a Kiwi on the Croisette at Cannes – Sarah Reese from the French Film Festival.

Star Trek goes boldly Into Darkness, Colin Firth tries comedy in Gambit, Harmony Korine's confrontational Spring Breakers hits cinemas and we speak to Espen Sandberg, one of the directors of the true life adventure Kon-Tiki. Guest reviewer: Andrew Todd (@mistertodd).

Robert Redford is back in the world of political thrillers in The Company You Keep, Beth Brash from eatandgreet.co.nz helps review Haute Cuisine and Dan i/v's Pietra Brettkelly, director of the New Zealand doco Maori Boy Genius.

Is Brandon Cronenberg a chip off the old block? We look at ANTIVIRAL to find out, ballet hopefuls put themselves through hell in FIRST POSITION and guest host Sarah Watt gives us the lowdown on JURASSIC PARK 3D and what it’s like to go on a star-studded STAR TREK junket.

The hottest ticket in town is Robert Downey Jr. in IRON MAN 3; the hottest ticket in America two weeks ago was EVIL DEAD, the dreaded Gerard Butler tries to save the White House from terrorists in OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN – yes, it's the school holidays.

The former East Germany is the setting for Christian Petzold’s BARBARA; Tom Cruise tempts fate with the daringly titled OBLIVION; zombies are brought back to life by love in WARM BODIES and we preview our i/v with Espen Sandberg, co-director of KON-TIKI.

This week we argue the pros and cons of being a WALLFLOWER, examine the Stone Age comedy THE CROODS plus the star-studded drama set in the world of classical music, PERFORMANCE. Dan interviews Leandro Cavalcanti from the Reel Brazil film festival.

NZFF Director Bill Gosden joins us for the whole show, Simon goes into a TRANCE watching the new Danny Boyle, Kailey reports back from the land of romance-obsessed teenage girls (THE HOST) and Dan enlists in Hasbro's own special forces - the G.I. JOES.

Marion Cotillard plays a killer whale trainer in RUST AND BONE, Bill Murray plays FDR in HYDE PARK ON HUDSON  and Gael Garcia Bernal plays an adman in NO. Chris Hormann (@TheMyrka) tells us about this year’s Film Society programme.