Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin: The End of Oak Street, Voicemails for Isabelle and Sasquatch Sunset
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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week. Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review: IN CINEMAS The End of Oak Street (directed by David Robert Mitchell). In 1982, an ordinary American family finds that their neighbourhood has been transported back in time to a prehistoric period populated by incredibly dangerous dinosaur creatures. Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. PAID STREAMING - Netflix Voicemails for Isabelle (directed by Leah McKendrick). A romantic comedy in which a young apprentice chef, alone in San Francisco, leaves hilarious and emotional voicemail messages on her late sister’s cellphone, not realising that the number has been reassigned to an ambitious commercial real estate agent who listens to them and falls in love. Starring Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson. FREE STREAMING - Kanopy Sasquatch Sunset (directed by Nathan and David Zellner, 2023). Beautiful nature documentary fantasy that follows a family of Northen California Sasquatch as they experience four seasons together and the challenges of the encroaching human world. Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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