Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin: Hope, Mayday & The Quiet Earth

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 joins Mark Leishman to review:IN CINEMASHope (produced, written and directed by Na Hong-jin). Epic South Korean sci-fi about a small fishing town attacked by a mysterious, powerful and aggressive monster.PAID STREAMING - Apple TVMayday (written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein). Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh star in a Cold War action comedy about an American pilot shot down over the Soviet Union needing help from a retired KGB agent to get back across the border.FREE STREAMING - KanopyThe Quiet Earth (directed by Geoff Murphy, 1985). Kiwi classic sci-fi as Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find he is the only creature left alive on the planet and roams the empty streets of Auckland looking for the reason why.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details