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Picks of the Week for 9 February

By Audio, Cinema, Reviews

For the last three weeks I’ve been enjoy­ing the oppor­tun­ity to sit in for Simon Morris on RNZ National’s At the Movies. It’s a lot of work – at least a lot more work than writ­ing for the web­site – which means I haven’t had a chance until now to post the highlights.

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Picks of the Week for 12 Jan 2019

By Cinema, Reviews

It has been a long time between drinks here at Funerals & Snakes but that does­n’t mean that I have been idle. I con­tin­ue to write and broad­cast for RNZ (filling in for At the Movies on RNZ National and writ­ing for the Widescreen chan­nel on the web­site) and since the begin­ning of 2019 have tried to post at least a couple of reviews a week.

My deal with RNZ means I can­’t repost that work here but there is no reas­on why I can­’t start run­ning sum­mar­ies and high­lights for my many ‘fans’. I’ll prob­ably try and restart the news­let­ter, too, although what form that might take is still to be decided.

Rancho Notorious will be back in some form in 2020, too.

Anyway, here are this week’s picks:

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RN 4/3: A Very Rancho Christmas 2015

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious, Reviews

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The pod­cast ver­sion of the 2nd annu­al sum­ming up of the year in film, tv and oth­er cool stuff – ori­gin­ally streamed live from the Rancho kit­chen on Friday 18 December.

Around the din­ner table were Dan, Kailey, Sarah McMullan, Ben Woodward and Mike Dickison. On the line from Sydney was 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.

The show was recor­ded and engin­eered by Marc Chesterman (and what a good job he did of it too) in front of an audi­ence of fam­ily and friends of the show.

RN 4/2: Good in the mountains

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious, Reviews

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 of all time, 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.

Correction: the Boston Society of Film Critics did not snub Spotlight as it turns out (see below). That mis­un­der­stand­ing came about from tak­ing a joke tweet ser­i­ously which is an occu­pa­tion­al haz­ard in Film Twitter.

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