Dan Slevin
Review - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Winner of the Best Script award at Cannes last year, this film is a costume drama about the doomed relationship between an 18th Century painter and the women whose portrait she is painting. Reviewed… Audio
At the Movies for 15 April 2020
Dan Slevin is filling in for Simon Morris - and because of the lockdown devoting his attention to home entertainment - and he reviews Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a costume drama about a relationship… Audio
Studio Ghibli on Netflix
Netflix has just added over a dozen films from the Japanese anime Studio Ghibli and Dan Slevin samples some of the wonderful songs featured in their films. Audio
The Operative
Dan Slevin reviews a thriller about a mysterious woman (Diane Kruger) who goes undercover in Iran for the Israeli security service, Mossad. Audio
Adopt a Highway
Ethan Hawke stars in a drama about a just released ex-con who discovers an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food joint where he works. Reviewed by Dan Slevin. Audio
At the Movies for 8 April 2020
Dan Slevin is filling in for Simon Morris - and because of the lockdown devoting his attention to home entertainment - and he reviews Ethan Hawke as an ex-con trying to find his way in the modern… Audio
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Dan Slevin reviews an arthouse drama about a young man who tries to win back his childhood home in the face of ongoing gentrification and alienation. Audio
Lost Girls
A Netflix drama based on the true story of a mother (Amy Ryan) who campaigned for local police to find her daughter who she believed was a victim of the Long Island Serial Killer. Reviewed by Dan… Audio
Mark Cousins and Women Make Film
Dan Slevin interviews the acclaimed film scholar Mark Cousins about his career and his new 14-hour collaboration with Tilda Swinton, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (Rialto Channel)… Audio
At the Movies for 1 April 2020
Dan Slevin is filling in for Simon Morris and – because of the lockdown – is devoting his attention to home entertainment. He reviews the Netflix drama Lost Girls, The Last Black Man in San Francisco… Audio
Review - Les Miserables
Out of control cops in the Paris projects are filmed by a watching drone as they abuse a kid and their attempts to get the footage only makes things worse. Dan Slevin reviews. Audio
Review - Queen and Slim
Dan Slevin reviews contemporary drama about a mismatched couple on the run from the cops across the Deep South of the US. Audio
Review - Onward
Pixar's latest family animation takes place in a fantasy world of elves, centaurs, cyclopses and manticores - who are just like us. Reviewed by Dan Slevin. Audio
At The Movies for 25 March 2020
Dan Slevin is filling in for Simon Morris and he reviews Pixar’s Onward, the drama Queen & Slim and the French thriller Les Misérables. Audio
Movie review - The Current War
Finally getting a release after years on the shelf thanks to the Harvey Weinstein scandals, The Current War has been handed back to the director (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) and is now released in a… Audio
Movie review - Mr Jones
Dan Slevin reviews this pan-European drama that tells the story of a mild-mannered Welsh journalist who stumbled across one of the greatest crimes of the 20th Century - the Soviet Famine in Ukraine in… Audio
Movie review - The Invisible Man
Low budget studio Blumhouse teams up with horror auteur Leigh Whannell and star Elisabeth Moss to reboot the famous Universal Studios property (reviewed by Dan Slevin). Audio
At the Movies for 4 March 2020
Dan Slevin is filling in for Simon Morris and he reviews Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man, the drama Mr. Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Current War. Audio
Uncut Gems
Dan Slevin reviews the acclaimed film by the Safdie Brothers which stars Adam Sandler as a New York jeweller and gambling addict hoping to make one more big score. Audio
Midway
An epic - and supposedly historically accurate - recreation of the greatest underdog victory in the history of naval warfare (reviewed by Dan Slevin). Audio