Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin: Supergirl, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Would I Lie To You

Nights' Dan Slevin, one of the best film reviewers in any medium, is consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Friday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Susana Lei'ataua to review:IN CINEMASSupergirl (directed by Craig Gillespie). New addition to James Gunn’s DC Comics cinematic universe, Australian Milly Alcock plays Superman’s cousin, Kara. Unlike Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman, Kara arrived on Earth as a teenager and is experiencing all the alienation and grief that results from being separated from her parents and community. When her only companion, Krypton the superdog, is poisoned by Brgands, she has to learn how to use her powers to save him - and another orphan (Eve Ridley) with revenge on her mind.PAID STREAMING - NetflixOne Hundred Years of Solitude (directed by Alex García López and Laura Mora, 2024-26). An epic adaptation of the legendary magical realist 1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez, this is the biggest film or television production to come out of Colombia. A multigenerational story of a family and a town against the background of the sweeping social and political changes in Latin America across the second half of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th.FREE STREAMING - TVNZ+ and ThreeNowWould I Lie to You (2007). Now in its 19th season, this is a hit British comedy panel show where celebrity guests share unbelievable stories, as panellists attempt to separate truth from lies.[picture id="4JMFTF3_supergirl_webp" crop="16x10" layout="full"]Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details