2 Oct 2026 04:20
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin: Verity, Anemone & The Social Network
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.
Night's resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:
IN CINEMAS
Verity (directed by Mike Showalter). Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway star in a thriller based on a best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us). Johnson plays a struggling writer asked to become a ghostwriter for a best-selling author who has a mysterious ailment (Hathaway).
PAID STREAMING - Netflix
Anemone (directed by Ronan Day-Lewis). Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement after eight years to work on his son’s debut feature. Set in the mid-90s, Day-Lewis plays Ray, a British Army veteran who disappeared in mysterious circumstances 20 at the height of the Irish ‘Troubles”. 20 years later, his brother (Sean Bean) has to persuade him to finally return home.
FREE STREAMING - TVNZ+
The Social Network (written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by David Fincher, 2010). On Funerals & Snakes back in 2010, Dan wrote: "Hugely entertaining, but with less insight into the modern world of virtual communities and social media than one might have hoped. Perhaps that film is still to come from somewhere.” Sorkin’s follow-up, The Social Reckoning, is in cinemas from next week.
