Cinematica

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.