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

Our listen­ers are com­mit­ted and opin­ion­ated film fans — the kind of people who like to talk back to the hosts and share what they know.

RN 4/3: A Very Rancho Christmas 2015

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious and 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 and 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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RN 3/6: Change appears to be the only constant

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious and Reviews

There are big changes afoot in the world of Rancho Notorious as Dan accepts an offer to go and work for Radio New Zealand. All will be explained in this episode.

Kailey and Dan also sum­mar­ise lots of recent releases at the New Zealand cinema includ­ing Trainwreck, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Southpaw, Vacation, Last Cab to Darwin, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and many more.

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RN 3/5: Minion Impossible (You can have that idea for free, Hollywood!)

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious and Reviews

Kailey and Dan are joined by former Sight & Sound scribe Tom Webb, now res­id­ent in Wellington, to dis­cuss Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Woody Allen’s Irrational Man and Tom’s picks for this year’s NZIFF.

Warning! This fea­tures the most inept plot sum­mary of a block­buster movie this – or any – year.

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RN 3/4: Views of the NZIFF Mountain

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious and Reviews

Kailey and Dan are joined from Auckland by film maker and appre­ci­at­or Doug Dillaman to dis­cuss the first week of the 2015 New Zealand International Film Festival. Dan also inter­views The Duke of Burgundy writer/director Peter Strickland.

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