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Rancho Notorious

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 2/2: The All-Star Salute to Studio Ghibli

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious, Reviews

Dan and Kailey are joined by Sarah Watt, Liam Maguren, Tim Wong, David Larsen and Dominic Corry to cel­eb­rate the works of Ghibli, the fam­ous Japanese anim­a­tion stu­dio, and talk about their favour­ite pro­duc­tions. They also review the Bill Murray vehicle St. Vincent and intro­duce the word “edu­casham­ing” to the world.

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RN 2/1.2: Saving Sgt. Pitt

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious, Reviews

The second half of this week’s show (fea­tur­ing a spe­cial guest appear­ance from one of our exec pro­du­cers Tony Pratt). Show Me Shorts film fest­iv­al dir­ect­or Gina Dellabarca is inter­viewed and Tony and Dan review Brad Pitt in David Ayer’s Fury.

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RN 2/1.1: Soul Boys and Dead Lands

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious, Reviews

Special guest host (and exec pro­du­cer) Tony Pratt joins us for an epic start to Season Two, so big that it has to be split into two parts. Part One fea­tures inter­views with Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp, The Dead Lands dir­ect­or Toa Fraser and a review of the com­edy This is Where I Leave You star­ring Justin Bateman and Tina Fey.

Show Notes are com­ing after we post Part Two on Monday. Sorry…

RN 1/18: Backlash

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious, Reviews

Dan and Kailey are joined by Doug Dillaman from Lumiere Reader to dis­cuss two new music-themed films: jazz drum drama Whiplash and the Mick Jagger-produced bio­graphy of James Brown, Get On Up. Dan also talks to Aaron Yap from NZ’s Fatso DVD-by-mail ser­vice about the state of home video and hi-definition in this country.

Listen as Doug acci­dent­ally X‑rates a per­fectly inno­cent biopic!

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RN 1/17: Guilty as charged

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious, Reviews

Once again Dan (in Wellington) and Kailey (in Vancouver) are joined by Fairfax seni­or film review­er Graeme Tuckett. Hear more from Kailey’s adven­tures at the Vancouver International Film Festival; plus all three col­lab­or­ate on a review of Robert Downey Jr. in The Judge and Graeme and Dan count the laughs in Let’s Be Cops. Also fea­tur­ing sev­er­al non-gratuitous men­tions of Game of Thrones that should do a good job of boost­ing our iTunes ratings.

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