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Rancho Notorious, a fortnightly podcast about movies (and other cool stuff), is the naughty stepchild of RNZ Widescreen. Produced by Dan Slevin and co-hosted by Kailey Carruthers, the show features local and international guests, news, reviews, giveaways and competitions.

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    RN Special: Mike Mills and C'mon C'mon

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2022 26:30


    Out of the blue, a special episode featuring an interview with writer-director Mike Mills about his new film, C'mon C'mon.

    RN Special: Mike Mills and C'mon C'mon

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2022 26:30


    Out of the blue, a special episode featuring an interview with writer-director Mike Mills about his new film, C'mon C'mon.

    RN 5/05: "Back to the Festival"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2019 63:37


    Dan and Kailey are back at Rancho Notorious for a special episode looking ahead to the 2019 New Zealand International Film Festival. This show also includes the complete version of Dan's interview with Incredibly Strange programmer (and first-time feature director) Ant Timpson from this week's episode of At the Movies.

    RN 5/04: "Festival Highlights"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2018 74:33


    After a long hiatus, Dan and Kailey are back at Rancho Notorious for special episode looking ahead to the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival.

    RN 5/03: "Raw Like Sushi"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2017 70:44


    Dan and Kailey gather at Rancho Notorious for an ad hoc Anzac Day recording. On the agenda is gruesome French body-horror Raw, Jude Law in Paolo Sorrentino's HBO series The Young Pope, an update on the continuing efforts to watch 52 films by women in a calendar year and Dan explains why this will be the last episode for the foreseeable future.

    RN 5/02: Pork Pies

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2017 89:51


    Dan and Kailey are joined by Hayden Frost from the Never Repeats podcast (who are watching every single NZ film from 1977 to the present day) to discuss the new remake of Goodbye Pork Pie and RNZ Checkpoint host John Campbell calls in to talk about his favourite film of recent times, Oscar-nominee Moonlight.

    RN 5/01: "I am a passenger, and I ride and I ride..."

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2017 74:46


    Dan and Kailey debate the new sci-fi blockbuster Passengers (starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) and provide the hottest of hot takes on the just announced Golden Globes. The summer box office winners and losers are also discussed.

    RN 4/19: A Very Rancho Christmas 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2016 97:17


    Recorded live around the dining table at Rancho Notorious in Silverstream, a collection of the best and brightest gather to break bread and sum up the year in movies. Kailey and Dan are joined by Nine to Noon reviewer Sarah McMullan, actor John Leigh and curator of natural history at Whanganui Regional Museum, Dr Mike Dickison. Host of ABC Radio National's film show, The Final Cut, Jason Di Rosso also calls in to tell us what the Australian year in film has been like.

    RN 4/18b: Extra! Extra!

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2016 77:03


    Kailey is back from her North American trip (and staying on the ranch) so we thought we would squeeze one more episode into season four. Kailey and Dan discuss two new films starring Amy Adams, Arrival and Nocturnal Animals, and Dan interviews the director of Hell or High Water, David Mackenzie, about the making of the modern day Western and working with the great Jeff Bridges. We also have double passes to the new Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta to give away.

    RN 4/18: Hot Mess

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2016 71:10


    Kailey has made it to Vancouver for the final days of this year's Vancouver International Film Festival and joins us live to report on her epic trip around North America. Dan is joined in the studio by Rajeev Mishra from the N to Z of Film to talk about it and other top Kiwi movie podcasts and we have ten double passes to I, Daniel Blake to give away.

    RN 4/16: International Relations

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2016 44:49


    Kailey is in Vancouver on the first leg of this year's big trip and she's seen the new film A Light Between Oceans which has only just premiered in Venice. The film stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander and was partly shot in New Zealand last year. Dan talks to huge film fan and regular two-word review tweeter Simon Bunckenburg about going to the movies in London.

    RN 4/17: Something about dragons

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2016 80:07


    Kailey is in Canada for the final week of the Toronto International Film Festival where she saw ten films in three days. Meanwhile Dan is joined in Silverstream by Phil Smith to review Pete's Dragon and Steve Newall Skypes in to talk about their survey of the best films of 2016 (so far).

    RN 4/15: Kubo tugs the Heart Strings

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2016 58:55


    Kailey's contract at NZIFF has finished so she can start reviewing again - so she starts by catching up with the new Ghostbusters. Dan gets back in to the commercial release scene with Laika's Kubo and the Two Strings. And the pair wrap-up this year's NZIFF highlights.

    Rancho Notorious 4/14: Morning Tea with BG

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2016 87:39


    NZIFF director Bill Gosden visits Rancho Notorious for freshly baked muffins and freshly brewed coffee and to chat about this year's event which opens in Auckland on Thursday. Dan also talks to the Incredibly Strange strand programmer Ant Timpson over Skype and interviews Canadian director Atom Egoyan about his new feature Remember which stars Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau.

    Rancho Notorious 4/13: Well and Truly Launched

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2016 81:01


    Newstalk ZB's Darren Bevan bravely steps in to Kailey's role for a week while she works hard to launch the 2016 NZIFF programme. On that exciting subject, Darren, Dan and Doug Dillaman discuss Monday's announcement in detail including trends, highlights and hidden gems. Also, Dan talks to German director Giulio Ricciarelli whose debut feature Labyrinth of Lies was Germany's selection for the Best Foreign Language Oscar this year and arrives in New Zealand this weekend.

    Rancho Notorious 4/12: The Other Nice Guys

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2016 55:07


    Kailey and Dan are back and, in what might be the most self-indulgent episode ever recorded, they try and summarise five weeks of moviegoing in less than an hour, with only essential diversions into topics like doughnuts, volunteer fire-fighting and Hutt Valley real estate.

    RN 4/11: DocEdge Special Edition

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2016 19:35


    While Dan moves house and the Ranch is all in boxes, we have a special interim edition of the podcast - the full interview with DocEdge co-director Dan Shanan that was recorded last week for At the Movies.

    RN 4/10: I Wanna Be Like You-oo-oo

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2016 69:50


    Kailey and Dan are in the Newtown studio for the last time to review Jon Favreau's new version of Disney's The Jungle Book, along with other recent releases, and Dan chats to Orphans & Kingdoms writer-director Paolo Rotondo about the film which is playing in cinemas now.

    RN 4/9: Autumn Events Special Edition

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2016 31:04


    In lieu of a standard episode we present a special preview of the 2016 NZIFF Autumn Events programme which starts in Auckland this week. Dan spoke to director Bill Gosden about every film in the programme. You can see video highlights from the interview along with clips from some of the films at rnz.co.nz/widescreen .

    Batman v Superman v Darth Vader

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2016 68:22


    Kailey and Dan are joined via a Skype link from the Cayman Islands by our comic book cinematic unvierse expert Andy James. The three of us pick apart the new Batman v Superman film (spoilers!) and try to predict where this story is going in future films. Dan interviews Toni Bestard, co-director of the documentary I Am Your Father, about David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader.

    RN 4/7: “Actually, there is such a thing as ‘society’.”

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 75:49


    Kailey and Dan are joined by Chris Hormann, President of the Wellington Film Society, to talk about this year's programme and the health of the film society movement across New Zealand. Dan interviews Temuera Morrison and Akuhata Keefe about their roles in the new film Mahana, and Kailey reviews The Lady in the Van and Three Wise Cousins.

    RN 4/6: "Dead Right or Dead Wrong"

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2016 89:57


    Kailey and Dan discuss the week's film news including Baftas and the Berlinale, review Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool and Cate Blanchett in Carol and Dan interviews Sébastien Donnadieu, new director of the Alliance Française French Film Festival which starts a two month tour of New Zealand this week.

    RN 4/5: The Producers

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2016 38:05


    A temporarily Kailey-free episode featuring interviews with two of New Zealand's most successful screen producers: Two-time Oscar nominee Finola Dwyer and 2016 Sundance success Carthew Neal.

    RN 4/4: Spotlight on the media

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2016 92:19


    Dan and Kailey are joined by Colin Peacock from RNZ's Mediawatch to talk about the acclaimed drama Spotlight about the Boston Globe's investigation of child abuse and cover-ups by the Catholic church. Dan and Kailey square off over The Revenant and discuss the recent Academy Award nominations.

    RN 4/3: A Very Rancho Christmas 2015

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2015 92:11


    The podcast version of the 2nd annual - originally streamed live from the Rancho kitchen - summing up of the year in film, tv and other cool stuff. Around the dinner table are Dan, Kailey, Sarah McMullan, Ben Woodward and Mike Dickison. On the line from Sydney is ABC Radio National's Jason Di Rosso and, via the magic of the movies, the NZ Top Ten box office results are read by a famous British acting knight.

    RN 4/2: Good in the mountains

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2015 82:11


    Dan and Kailey are joined by Graeme Beasley from sportsfreak.co.nz to talk about the Lance Armstrong biopic The Program as well as Graeme's favourite sports movies, Jackson Wood is on the line from Chicago where he's on a movie-inspired road trip around the mid-West and our hosts enthuse about the new Paolo Sorrentino film Youth starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.

    Rancho Notorious for 27 November 2015

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2015 58:05


    Dan and Kailey talk about Bond #24 - Spectre - and Hunger Games #4 - Mockingjay Part 2 - plus the usual mix of box office stats and other news from the world of moving pictures.

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