Cinematica

We do the American Hustle with David O. Russell and his cast of Oscar-nominees, take a trip to Burma with The Railway Man, ask whether it's true that there's no fool like an old fool in Last Vegas and say goodbye to Kailey after two and a half years.

Simon is still on holiday so Kailey and Dan review Bruce Dern's Cannes-winning performance in Nebraska and Justin Bieber's Believe then special guest Blair Collie helps fact check Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Simon is on holiday so Dan and Kailey talk about 47 Ronin, The Book Thief and - yes - the Golden Globes, even though we swore we never would.

What we did on our holidays - The Wolf of Wall Street, August: Osage County, Short Term 12, Philomena and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Part two of the epic summing up of cinema in 2013 - featuring Graeme Tuckett, Liam Maguren, Marie O'Sullivan, David Larsen, Sarah Watt and Glenn Kenny.

Simon, Kailey and Dan (plus guests Graeme Tuckett, Sam McCosh, Darren Bevan, Rachel Taylor and Andrew Todd) look at the year in cinema - their top films, worst experiences, trends and what they are looking forward to in 2014.

With Liam Maguren from Flicks  we take the Night Train to Lisbon, hang out with Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, play Ender's Game, forecast Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 and later on in the show Dan and Darren Bevan give you the verdict on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Vince Vaughan remakes the Canadian hit Starbuck as Delivery Man, the late James Gandolfini stars with Julia-Louis Dreyfuss in Enough Said and the backing singers get the spotlight in 20 Feet from Stardom.

This week we get dirty. Really dirty. (Not The Counselor-dirty – we're not animals) No, we get stuck in to Mud and Filth and, of course, we also run the ruler over the new Hunger Games movie - Catching Fire.

Chloe Grace Moretz is Carrie in the new remake from Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), Benedict Cumberbatch is Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate and we do a quick run-down of a few recent releases you might have missed.

Lee Daniels' The Butler is a Black history lesson set in the White House, novelist Cormac McCarthy teams up with Ridley Scott to make a conundrum called The Counselor and we visit Kashmir to see the Valley of Saints.

Darren Bevan (@geekboy73) joins us for a classic Aussie book turning into a classic Aussie film in Tim Winton's The Turning – we also interview one of the producers - and the Marvel Universe gets even more complicated with Thor: The Dark World.

Shortly before he leaves for Screen Australia, NZFC CEO Graeme Mason called in to Cinematica to talk about the state of the industry - and the organisation - he leaves behind.

Tom Hanks fights off Somali pirates in Captain Phillips, Keri Russell searches for Mr. Darcy in Austenland and Domnhall Gleeson and Bill Nighy travel in time in Richard Curtis's new rom-com About Time. Dan interviews outgoing NZFC CEO Graeme Mason.

In this week's episode Dan and Kailey climb Everest in 3D (Beyond the Edge), try and break the bank of an internet casino (Runner Runner) and solve the mystery of two missing children (Prisoners).

Kailey is on holiday and Simon is sick so Dan is joined by Sarah Watt from the Sunday Star-Times to discuss Naomi Watts in Diana, Danny Trejo as Machete in Machete Kills and Wahlberg and Washington in the comedy thriller 2 Guns.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are lost in space in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity while Hugh Laurie teaches the kids of Bougainville about Charles Dickens in Andrew Adamson's Mr. Pip.

Let Cinematica guide you towards the most age-appropriate entertainment for your little ones (with the help of the Dominion-Post's Graeme Tuckett). Also featuring an extract from the special Light House Cinema Q&A with Lloyd Jones, author of the novel that inspired MR. PIP.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Light House Cuba, author Lloyd Jones talks to Dan Slevin about his novel Mister Pip and the film that is based on it, Andrew Adamson's MR. PIP.

Driving around in circles in Rush; what's behind the locked door in The Best Offer and what the flip is going on in Mood Indigo? We also interview Tony Lambert, the director of the 18th Italian Film Festival.