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RNZ News
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
A festival of hope
Simon Morris talks to NZ International Film Festival Director Paolo Bersolin about the programme for 2025. After a rocky few years, Bersolin promises this year's selection accentuates the positive. Featuring award winners from around the world, a New Zealand selection saluting Jacinda Ardern, Don McGlashan and Fred Dagg, two Beatle-adjacent movies and a famous chainsaw massacre!
Telegraph
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The 30 best films on Netflix to watch now
It's a brave soul who would play pot luck with Netflix's film selection: you could easily wind up with a particularly tatty Netflix Original Movie and rue the day you subscribed. Watch out for The Titan, starring Sam Worthington as a genetically-modified ex-Marine who becomes an alabaster superhuman, or Tyler Perry's turgidly worthy war drama The Six Triple Eight, which could send whole battalions to the Land of Nod. Luckily, I've set about sorting the wheat from the chaff. Of course, Netflix will never be the place for fans of say, 1940s screwball comedy, or the work of Akira Kurosawa. The oldest Hollywood film currently on the service, which I've included, is The Sting (1973) – and there's very little else before the late 1980s. The algorithm is a mystery. There are films that land at number one for a week or two, and then are never heard of again. Finding the keepers on here takes a bit of digging around, then, but they do exist – at least, for as long as the service gives them legs. Whether a film is worth a second spin, or a sixth, was probably the biggest factor in choosing what made the cut. After all, the best film dates on Netflix are almost never first-time views or punts on something shiny and new. They're more likely to be catch-ups with trusty old friends. Skip to: Drama Pig (2021)
