It's the final weekend of January 2025 (god I'm old), which means it's time for a Tairāwhiti throwdown with wall-to-wall killers courtesy of Campbell! Press the button...
President Donald Trump signed in an executive order effectively banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Tuesday Wire Host Mack Smith filed a report on the situation and then spoke to Hazim Arafeh, President of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand.
Dr. Maria reviews French/Belgian comedy Saint-Amour, a father and son's boozy journey through an oenophile's France with a particularly sexually active taxi driver. Starring Gérard Depardieu, of course.
In which Dr. Maria reviews season three of Danish drama The Legacy, Jonny appreciates Jules' new segment sting, and everyone begins to wax probiotic about sauerkraut.
In which Dr. Maria reviews critically acclaimed Australian feature Jasper Jones, a tale of sleepytown murder set against a background of 1960s institutionalised racism. Although, to be honest, the team get quite distracted by weeds. ...Great film though.
Can prequels ever really stand alongside their original source material? Dr. Maria asks the question of Westside: Series 3, the popular prequel to NZ cultural juggernaut Outrageous Fortune.
Dr. Maria talks to us about the part biopic, part reconstruction, part pack-of-fibs that is Becoming Bond. The odd doco/bio hybrid centers on the Bond film canon's only single shot 007 player, the Australian car mechanic turned model George Lazenby. Narrated by Lazenby himself, how did Maria enjoy a film on the man Dame Diana Rigg once described as: "...obsess[ed] with himself ...utterly, unbelievably ... bloody impossible"?
Spookers follows the stories of a diverse group of amateur performers who unite to terrify punters at NZ's largest scream park, situated in a former psychiatric hospital.
Dr. Maria talks to us about the packet of amber soaked weirdness that is Neruda. The odd bio/noir/farce hybrid centers on fascist police chief Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal) as he searches for fugitive communist poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) in a cartoonish game of cat and mouse. The 2016 film comes widely acclaimed, but Maria... is it any good?
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