Rancho Notorious

Episodes

1. 27

   RN Special: Mike Mills and C'mon C'mon

   Out of the blue, a special episode featuring an interview with writer-director Mike Mills about his new film, C'mon C'mon.

   Feb 17, 2022

   26m
2. 26

   RN Special: Mike Mills and C'mon C'mon

   Out of the blue, a special episode featuring an interview with writer-director Mike Mills about his new film, C'mon C'mon.

   Feb 17, 2022

   26m
3. 25

   RN 5/05: "Back to the Festival"

   Dan and Kailey are back at Rancho Notorious for a special episode looking ahead to the 2019 New Zealand International Film Festival. This show also includes the complete version of Dan's interview with Incredibly Strange programmer (and first-time feature director) Ant Timpson from this week's...

   Jul 9, 2019

   1h 03m
4. 24

   RN 5/04: "Festival Highlights"

   After a long hiatus, Dan and Kailey are back at Rancho Notorious for special episode looking ahead to the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival.

   Jul 13, 2018

   1h 14m
5. 23

   RN 5/03: "Raw Like Sushi"

   Dan and Kailey gather at Rancho Notorious for an ad hoc Anzac Day recording. On the agenda is gruesome French body-horror Raw, Jude Law in Paolo Sorrentino's HBO series The Young Pope, an update on the continuing efforts to watch 52 films by women in a calendar year and Dan explains why this will...

   Apr 27, 2017

   1h 10m
6. 22

   RN 5/02: Pork Pies

   Dan and Kailey are joined by Hayden Frost from the Never Repeats podcast (who are watching every single NZ film from 1977 to the present day) to discuss the new remake of Goodbye Pork Pie and RNZ Checkpoint host John Campbell calls in to talk about his favourite film of recent times…

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   Feb 8, 2017

   1h 29m
7. 21

   RN 5/01: "I am a passenger, and I ride and I ride..."

   Dan and Kailey debate the new sci-fi blockbuster Passengers (starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) and provide the hottest of hot takes on the just announced Golden Globes. The summer box office winners and losers are also discussed.

   Jan 10, 2017

   1h 14m
8. 20

   RN 4/19: A Very Rancho Christmas 3

   Recorded live around the dining table at Rancho Notorious in Silverstream, a collection of the best and brightest gather to break bread and sum up the year in movies. Kailey and Dan are joined by Nine to Noon reviewer Sarah McMullan, actor John Leigh and curator of natural history at Whanganui...

   Dec 26, 2016

   1h 37m
9. 19

   RN 4/18b: Extra! Extra!

   Kailey is back from her North American trip (and staying on the ranch) so we thought we would squeeze one more episode into season four. Kailey and Dan discuss two new films starring Amy Adams, Arrival and Nocturnal Animals, and Dan interviews the director of Hell or High Water, David Mackenzie,...

   Nov 14, 2016

   1h 17m
10. 18

    RN 4/18: Hot Mess

    Kailey has made it to Vancouver for the final days of this year's Vancouver International Film Festival and joins us live to report on her epic trip around North America. Dan is joined in the studio by Rajeev Mishra from the N to Z of Film to talk about it and other top Kiwi movie podcasts and we...

    Oct 19, 2016

    1h 11m
11. 17

    RN 4/16: International Relations

    Kailey is in Vancouver on the first leg of this year's big trip and she's seen the new film A Light Between Oceans which has only just premiered in Venice. The film stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander and was partly shot in New Zealand last year. Dan talks to huge film fan and regular...

    Sep 8, 2016

    44m
12. 16

    RN 4/17: Something about dragons

    Kailey is in Canada for the final week of the Toronto International Film Festival where she saw ten films in three days. Meanwhile Dan is joined in Silverstream by Phil Smith to review Pete's Dragon and Steve Newall Skypes in to talk about their survey of the best films of 2016 (so far).

    Sep 8, 2016

    1h 20m
13. 15

    RN 4/15: Kubo tugs the Heart Strings

    Kailey's contract at NZIFF has finished so she can start reviewing again - so she starts by catching up with the new Ghostbusters. Dan gets back in to the commercial release scene with Laika's Kubo and the Two Strings. And the pair wrap-up this year's NZIFF highlights.

    Aug 22, 2016

    58m
14. 14

    Rancho Notorious 4/14: Morning Tea with BG

    NZIFF director Bill Gosden visits Rancho Notorious for freshly baked muffins and freshly brewed coffee and to chat about this year's event which opens in Auckland on Thursday. Dan also talks to the Incredibly Strange strand programmer Ant Timpson over Skype and interviews Canadian director Atom...

    Jul 11, 2016

    1h 27m
15. 13

    Rancho Notorious 4/13: Well and Truly Launched

    Newstalk ZB's Darren Bevan bravely steps in to Kailey's role for a week while she works hard to launch the 2016 NZIFF programme. On that exciting subject, Darren, Dan and Doug Dillaman discuss Monday's announcement in detail including trends, highlights and hidden gems. Also, Dan talks to German...

    Jun 22, 2016

    1h 21m
16. 12

    Rancho Notorious 4/12: The Other Nice Guys

    Kailey and Dan are back and, in what might be the most self-indulgent episode ever recorded, they try and summarise five weeks of moviegoing in less than an hour, with only essential diversions into topics like doughnuts, volunteer fire-fighting and Hutt Valley real estate.

    Jun 8, 2016

    55m
17. 11

    RN 4/11: DocEdge Special Edition

    While Dan moves house and the Ranch is all in boxes, we have a special interim edition of the podcast - the full interview with DocEdge co-director Dan Shanan that was recorded last week for At the Movies.

    May 10, 2016

    19m
18. 10

    RN 4/10: I Wanna Be Like You-oo-oo

    Kailey and Dan are in the Newtown studio for the last time to review Jon Favreau's new version of Disney's The Jungle Book, along with other recent releases, and Dan chats to Orphans & Kingdoms writer-director Paolo Rotondo about the film which is playing in cinemas now.

    Apr 27, 2016

    1h 09m
19. 9

    RN 4/9: Autumn Events Special Edition

    In lieu of a standard episode we present a special preview of the 2016 NZIFF Autumn Events programme which starts in Auckland this week. Dan spoke to director Bill Gosden about every film in the programme. You can see video highlights from the interview along with clips from some of the films at...

    Apr 12, 2016

    31m
20. 8

    Batman v Superman v Darth Vader

    Kailey and Dan are joined via a Skype link from the Cayman Islands by our comic book cinematic unvierse expert Andy James. The three of us pick apart the new Batman v Superman film (spoilers!) and try to predict where this story is going in future films. Dan interviews Toni Bestard, co-director…

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    Mar 30, 2016

    1h 08m
21. 7

    RN 4/7: “Actually, there is such a thing as ‘society’.”

    Kailey and Dan are joined by Chris Hormann, President of the Wellington Film Society, to talk about this year's programme and the health of the film society movement across New Zealand. Dan interviews Temuera Morrison and Akuhata Keefe about their roles in the new film Mahana, and Kailey reviews...

    Mar 3, 2016

    1h 15m
22. 6

    RN 4/6: "Dead Right or Dead Wrong"

    Kailey and Dan discuss the week's film news including Baftas and the Berlinale, review Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool and Cate Blanchett in Carol and Dan interviews Sébastien Donnadieu, new director of the Alliance Française French Film Festival which starts a two month tour of New Zealand this week.

    Feb 17, 2016

    1h 29m
23. 5

    RN 4/5: The Producers

    A temporarily Kailey-free episode featuring interviews with two of New Zealand's most successful screen producers: Two-time Oscar nominee Finola Dwyer and 2016 Sundance success Carthew Neal.

    Feb 3, 2016

    38m
24. 4

    RN 4/4: Spotlight on the media

    Dan and Kailey are joined by Colin Peacock from RNZ's Mediawatch to talk about the acclaimed drama Spotlight about the Boston Globe's investigation of child abuse and cover-ups by the Catholic church. Dan and Kailey square off over The Revenant and discuss the recent Academy Award nominations.

    Jan 20, 2016

    1h 32m
25. 3

    RN 4/3: A Very Rancho Christmas 2015

    The podcast version of the 2nd annual - originally streamed live from the Rancho kitchen - summing up of the year in film, tv and other cool stuff. Around the dinner table are Dan, Kailey, Sarah McMullan, Ben Woodward and Mike Dickison. On the line from Sydney is ABC Radio National's Jason Di…

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    Dec 18, 2015

    1h 32m
26. 2

    RN 4/2: Good in the mountains

    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, 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…

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    Dec 10, 2015

    1h 22m
27. 1

    Rancho Notorious for 27 November 2015

    Dan and Kailey talk about Bond #24 - Spectre - and Hunger Games #4 - Mockingjay Part 2 - plus the usual mix of box office stats and other news from the world of moving pictures.

    Nov 26, 2015

    58m