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TELEVISION STREAMING ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY 2022 VIEWPOINT KENNETH BRANAGH JACINTA FITZGERALD ERIK THOMSON JOSEPH & KATHERINE SKELTON MISS MANAGE PAM & TOMMY THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER SOLD

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C’mon C’mon; Red Rocket; The Godfather Part I; Death on the Nile; The Worst Person in the World; Parallel Mothers; Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life; Studio 666; Jackass Forever; Aline; Marry Me; Cyrano, plus more

6 Moonfall dark side to the Moon 14 Belfast memories are made of this ENTERTAINMENT & EVENTS

44 Venus Rising Royal New Zealand Ballet 45 NZ Television Awards Ian Mune, legend 46 20 Years of NZ Fashion Week girls (& more) on film WATCHING IN SKY HIGHLIGHTS CountryTV, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, Rialto Channel 27 Honey Boy ”I’m your cheerleader honey boy” 28 Pride Month Special celebrate pride FREE TO AIR TV 30 Black Sea Golden Ladder the Visual Album Troy Kingi. STREAMING 33 Inventing Anna who do you think you are? 34 Pam & Tommy the greatest love story ever sold WATCHING NOW VIEWPOINT 14 Kenneth Branagh man of many talents 16 Jacinta FitzGerald fashion forward 22 Erik Thomson yes chef! 40 Katherine & Joseph Skelton RNZB higher & higher 48 Miss Manage what are you watching? 50 Directory cinemas nationwide WATCHING SOON

Torn Streaming, page 37

Parallel Mothers Cinema, page 9

Inventing Anna Streaming, page 33

20 Years of NZ Fashion Week Events, page 46

The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel Streaming, page 32

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In February we celebrate LOVE! Real-life love, Pride love, love of film, love of telly, love of stories in every form! This month, Hélène Ravlich speaks to the real-life married couple dancing in Royal NZ Ballet’s upcoming Venus Rising , asks cabaret drag diva, Miss Manage, what she loves, and also chats to the iconic – and lovely – actor Erik Thomson about his new hit Australian comedy Aftertaste . On the big screen, you’ll find many facets of love in Cyrano , Marry Me , Parallel Mothers , Flee, Book of Love, Red Rocket and more. Continue your love of streaming and TV, with the greatest love story ever sold in Pam & Tommy , and fall in love (or lust) with the red hot Mexican series Dark Desire . And, amidst all the Covid challenges to live events, check out the film celebrating twenty years of loving NZ Fashion Week on page 46. All you need is love? All you need is in VIEW’s February issue! GIVEAWAYS WIN

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TELEVISION STREAMING ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY 2022 VIEWPOINT KENNETH BRANAGH JACINTA FITZGERALD ERIK THOMSON JOSEPH & KATHERINE SKELTON MISS MANAGE PAM & TOMMY THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER SOLD

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Inventing Anna Streaming, page 33

Jackass Forever Cinema, page 10

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder Streaming, page37

Moonfall Cinema, page 6

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M Sex Scenes

DARK SIDE

TO THE MOON

MOONFALL – PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE Everybody’s in for a bumpy ride after a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth. With mere weeks before impact, and the world on the brink of annihilation, a NASA executive and former astronaut is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past and a so-called conspiracy theorist believe her. As the film heads inexorably towards its epic climax, these unlikely heroes take on an impossible last-ditch mission – to go up into space and solve whatever’s wrong with the moon. Co-written and directed by disaster movie specialist Roland Emmerich. Halle Berry, Donald Sutherland, Patrick Wilson, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer.

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FILM

HIGHLIGHTS

C’MON C’MON A man and his young nephew forge a tenuous but

transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future. It’s about listening – really listening – to what other people have to say. Written and directed by Mike Mills. Joaquin Phoenix, Woody Norman, Gaby Hoffmann. PREMIERES 17TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE RED ROCKET Finding himself down and out in L.A., a washed-up porn star heads back to his hometown in Texas, where he crashes with his estranged wife and mother-in-law. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, he meets a young woman who he thinks he could make into a star – in the sex industry. An uncomfortable depiction of a deluded anti-hero willing to do whatever it takes in his pursuit of a sleazy version of the American dream. Simon Rex, Suzanna Son, Bree Elrod. PREMIERES 10TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE THE GODFATHER PART I The film follows the Corleone mob family as the youngest son Michael goes from a reluctant outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Praised by audiences and critics alike, it was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and won three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, & Best Actor for Marlon Brando. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of director Francis Ford Coppola’s great classic, a new 4K remaster, that enhances the original sound and image quality, is being re-released into selected cinemas for a limited season. Special event – PREMIERES 25TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE BELFAST A moving portrait of childhood and family, love and courage. Feature page 14 – PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE

DEATH

ON THE NILE Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation, aboard a glamorous river steamer with a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed fellow travellers, turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. A daring mystery-thriller about the emotional chaos and deadly consequences triggered by obsessive love. A story full of wicked twists and turns, based on the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie. Kenneth Branagh directs and stars, with Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Armie Hammer... and

the list goes on. PREMIERES 10TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE

C’mon C’mon Premieres 17th

The Godfather Part I Premieres 25th

Red Rocket Premieres 10th

Death on the Nile Premieres 10th

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MEMORIA After hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, a Scottish woman traversing the jungles of Colombia, begins experiencing a mysterious and disturbing sensory syndrome. Saturated in anthropological and esoteric concepts, the film is a hypnotic, unquantifiable, occasionally impenetrable sonic odyssey from a unique cinematic voice. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Tilda Swinton. PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE FLEE Told mostly through animation, this documentary weaves together a stunning tapestry of images and memories to tell the deeply affecting true story of a man grappling with his traumatic past. Once a child refugee from Afghanistan he carries a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years – one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. His extraordinary journey of self- discovery, revealled through heartfelt interviews, shows that only by confronting the past can he carve out a future. PREMIERES 24TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE HIVE Like many of the other women in her closely-knit Kosovo town, Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war many years earlier. However in this rural patriarchal society, women mustn’t work, and she is struggling to provide for her family. Defying tradition, she starts a small food business with other war widows, and together they find healing and solace in the new venture – but their will to live independently is soon met with open hostility. Based on a true story. PREMIERES 24TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE INDIA SWEETS & SPICES After returning from college to her home in a wealthy Indian American neighbourhood, a young woman soon upends her family’s well-ordered life with her brash new independence. When secrets about her parent’s past come to light during a dinner party, it soon pushes her to a daring and ultimately hilarious confrontation. PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD A young woman is turning thirty and her life is an existential mess. Several of her talents have gone to waste, and her successful older boyfriend is pushing for them to settle down. One night by chance she meets a charming younger man, and before long it’s out with the old and in with the new, as she throws herself into yet another relationship hoping for a new perspective on her life... But she will come to realise that some life choices are already behind her. Renate Reinsve won Best Actress at Cannes 2021 for the dark romcom-drama. PREMIERES 10TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE

Flee Premieres 24th

The Worst Person in the World Premieres 10th

Hive Premieres 24th

Memoria Premieres 3rd

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PARALLEL

MOTHERS WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY PEDRO ALMODÓVAR – PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE Almodóvar’s style is immediately front and centre, with his signature visuals, and a story focused on women and motherhood. In this film two women’s lives intersect while they wait together at the hospital to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident: one is middle-aged, doesn’t regret it, and is exultant; the other is a teenager, scared, repentant and traumatized. They form a remarkable bond as they both confront motherhood, and the series of cascading events that unfold, which lead to unforeseen, and deeply emotional, consequences for both of them. Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Rossy de Palma.

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MARK HUNT: THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE The ‘Super Samoan’ survived a brutal childhood and fighting in the streets to become a K1 World Champion, and UFC title contender. Now he’s risking it all to fight for justice in the sport he loves. Not just a sports story... this is a tale of human triumph. PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE UNCHARTED A street-smart thief joins a seasoned treasure hunter to recover a fortune lost over 500 years ago. The heist becomes a globe- trotting, clue-deciphering, knuckle-clenching race to claim the prize. Prequel to the PlayStation action-adventure games. Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali. PREMIERES 17TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE BLACKLIGHT There are but a few things in life that can be considered certain: death, taxes, and Liam Neeson showing up in movies in which he beats up bad guys. This time he’s a freelance government “fixer,”specialising in extracting exposed deep-cover operatives, who uncovers a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks. PREMIERES 10TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE STUDIO 666 The legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into a mansion steeped in grisly rock & roll history to record their anticipated 10th album, but soon supernatural forces threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band. Horror- comedy from a story by Dave Grohl and featuring the band. SPECIAL EVENT – PREMIERES 24TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE

JACKASS

FOREVER The original Jackass crew, with a little help from some crazy new cast members, return for another round of hilarious, wildly absurd, and usually dangerous, displays of stunt- comedy. As they push the envelope even further, Johnny Knoxville has revealed that a stunt where he stepped into the ring with a bull, and came off second-best, left him with a brain injury (and the requisite broken bones), finally forcing him to call it quits on a glittering career of putting his body on the line for entertainment. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, and the rest. Don’t try any of this at home!! PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE

Uncharted Premieres 17th

Blacklight Premieres 10th

Studio 666 Premieres 24th

Jackass Forever Premieres 3rd

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incredible t rue story Based on Cél ine Dion's

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MARRY ME A pop superstar is moments away from getting married in front of an audience of fans, when she learns that her fiancé is a cheat. She has a meltdown on stage, and in a moment of inspired insanity, picks a total stranger from the crowd and marries him on the spot. As forces conspire to separate the newlyweds, they must decide if two people from such different worlds really could find love together. Packed with original songs by Jennifer Lopez who stars with Owen Wilson. PREMIERES 10TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE ALINE A ‘biopic’ of Canadian singing sensation Aline Dieu, a fictional character very closely inspired by the life of Celine Dion – and although the story follows her life virtually beat for beat, most of Dion’s best-known songs proved impossible to get the rights to. However the film became instantly iconic when the 57-year-old actor-director, Valérie Lemercier, made the audacious decision to play Celine Dion at every age

CYRANO This musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s classic 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac, is a symphony of emotions with music, romance, and beauty in a re-imagining of the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle. A man ahead of his

time, Cyrano, dazzles whether with ferocious

wordplay at a verbal joust, or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, too self-conscious to woo his true love, Roxanne, himself, and convinced that his physical short-comings render him unworthy of her love, Cyrano offers his skills as a poet to a young suitor in an effort to bring the two together. Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett,

of her life – including as a 5-year-old child. PREMIERES 17TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE THE BOOK OF LOVE

An uptight and unsuccessful English writer is surprised when his book suddenly becomes a hit in Mexico. When he travels there for a promotional tour with the translator, he soon discovers the reason for it’s popularity: she has rewritten his dull book as a steamy erotic novel. Tempers flair and sparks begin to fly, as the two find love and lust despite themselves. PREMIERES 24TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE

Kelvin Harrison Jr. PREMIERES 24TH  CLICK TO SEE MORE

Marry Me Premieres 10th

Cyrano Premieres 24th

The Book of Love Premieres 24th

Aline Premieres 17th

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MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS

BELFAST WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH

A semi-autobiographical film set in the Northern Ireland capital in the late 1960s. At the centre of the film is Buddy, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks and a blossoming romance. But as the 1960s stagger to a close, Buddy’s childhood dreams turn into a nightmare. Simmering social discontent suddenly explodes in Buddy’s own street and escalates, fast. First a masked attack, then a riot, and finally a city-wide conflict, with religion fanning the flames further afield. Catholics vs Protestants, loving neighbours suddenly deadly foes. Buddy must make sense of this chaotic new landscape of lockdown, peopled by heroes and villains – that once existed only on the cinema screen, but now threaten to upend everything he knows and loves – as an epic struggle plays out in his own backyard. Can his father be the hero he needs him to be? Will his mother sacrifice her past in order to protect her family’s future? How can his beloved grandparents be kept safe? And how can he love the girl of his dreams? The answers lie in Buddy’s compelling, funny, poignant and heart-breaking journey through riots, violence, the joy and despair of family relationships and the agony of first love, all accompanied by the dancing, music and laughter that only the Irish can muster when the world turns upside down. Dame Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Jude Hill. PREMIERES 3RD  CLICK TO SEE MORE

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MAN OF MANY TALENTS SIR KENNETH BRANAGH

The multifaceted talent of the Irish-born English actor, director, and writer, Sir Kenneth Branagh is on full display this February as he looms large over two films releasing in cinemas this month. He serves as writer and director of Belfast , and as director and lead actor for the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery novel Death on the Nile . Belfast is a movie straight from Branagh's own experiences as a boy – charting a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down with the onset of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever, but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain. Belfast is an uplifting film in spite of the story’s tragic details, and the deeply personal project is on-track for Awards Season success, with its directing, script writing, and performances being recognised, and it has already won Branagh the Best Screenplay Golden Globe. The past two years have been a time riddled both with anxieties and the reflection that can accompany them, and Branagh channeled his unrest and contemplations into Belfast – a black-and- white tribute to his childhood. “I felt at the beginning of the pandemic, when I was writing this, that we needed to be a little kinder to ourselves,” he has said. “We all needed to appreciate and value however imperfect – and every family, I suppose, is bound to be – the gifts that we’ve been given.” Read more about Death on the Nile page 7

Henry V 1989 Academy Award Nominee Best Director and Actor

My Week with Marilyn 2011 Academy Award Nominee Best Supporting Actor

Murder on the Orient Express 2017

Hamlet 1996

Academy Award Nominee Best Adapted Screenplay

WATCHING NOW PEOPLE

An experienced sustainability strategist and vintage fashion lover, Jacinta FitzGerald is the programme director for inspiring local initiative, Mindful Fashion NZ, a collective of Kiwi design- ers, suppliers and manufacturers keen to reduce their social and environmental impact. She also runs MakeGood, a con- sultancy that works with innovative apparel sector brands in New Zealand and globally to put sustainable practices at their core, and seeks to ensure the old model of take-make-waste, which exploits people and the planet along the way, is a thing of the past. She was introduced to current Mindful Fashion NZ board members, designer Kate Sylvester and her husband, Wayne Conway via a client in the United Kingdom, when MFNZ was still in its infancy, “so I was able to become involved very early on in the strategising about what an organisation that wanted to take on sustainability in a collective way would look like”. She went on to become one of the founding board members before taking on the role of Programme Director, which she is thriving in today. FitzGerald had a long career in fashion working as a designer and patternmaker for a number of companies, before step- ping away in 2012 after becoming disillusioned by the indus- try’s lack of commitment to more planet-conscious practices. “I felt like it was heading towards total annihilation – for want of a better word – so I stepped away and went back to university,” she explains. There she completed a research paper into sustainability in the fashion industry, which put her onto the trajectory of where she is today. FASHION FORWARD THE FASHION INDUSTRY EMITS MORE CARBON THAN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS AND MARITIME SHIPPING COMBINED, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO? WRITER HÉLÈNE RAVLICH TALKS BEST PRACTICE WITH SUSTAINABLE FASHION CONSULTANT AND PROGRAMME DIRECTOR FOR NEW ZEALAND INITIATIVE FOR CHANGE, MINDFUL FASHION , JACINTA FITZGERALD

Cirkel Life, Winter 2021 collection

“IT TAKES A LOT OF INTEGRITY & LOOKING AT EVERY STAGE OF YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN SO THAT YOU ARE DESIGNING PRODUCTS WITH PEOPLE & PLANET IN MIND.” – Jacinta FitzGerald

Pictured at top: Karly Morrow of Cirkel Life. Second row: Nisa’s Emily Partridge & founder, Elisha Watson, and Nisa Swim 2021 collection.

Third row: Juliette Hogan, and Juliette Hogan collection. Peri Drysdale of Untouched World, and ‘Beckett’ shirt from Untouched World collection. Bottom: ‘Ophelia’ knit from Standard Issue collection, and Emma Ensor of Standard Issue

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FitzGerald has completed project-based work with many global and local brands, and says her international connections have been in- valuable to her work with MFNZ today. The or- ganisation recently published a Sustainability Insights Report into our fashion industry, which was a first for New Zealand. The incredibly de- tailed report demonstrates the collective progress being made in the New Zealand fashion industry, and also presents a path for- ward for positive sustainability action. One of the main reasons it came about was to raise the profile of the industry in order for the likes of the government and consumers to take notice, “because we needed to be taken se- riously if any change was going to happen,” says FitzGerald. “The report was essential for >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54

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