Don’t get me wrong, Making a Murderer had me obsessing, but when you stay up late Googling and discover all the other evidence that didn’t fit the filmmaker’s remit, it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.

I love pretty much any true crime documentary, but I’m beginning to realise that if you think you know exactly what happened in a decades-old cold case within the first half hour, chances are you’re watching something dubiously edited and heavily skewed.

The Two Faces of January(2014)
Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, who wrote The Talented Mr Ripley, and set in the scorching sunlight of Athens, Crete and Istanbul in 1962, this smartly paced suspense movie ensnares Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac in a wary, but very stylish, triangle. It’s never clear who can be trusted, but the summer suiting, Italian polo shirts and clean-cut mid-60s grooming are infallible, embodying a surprisingly contemporary chic.

Alongside glitzier, action-packed titles, Netflix also has 10 incredibly chill options for those who are into slow TV.

Slow TV is basically footage of an event, unadorned by voiceovers, background music or editing, that plays for as long as it takes. Train Ride Bergen to Oslo, for instance, is seven hours and 14 minutes of footage from a train journeying from Bergen to Oslo, through small picturesque towns and long black tunnels, past coastline, and up into snowy mountains. The only

On Independence Day in America (or New Zealand’s July 5), a robotic spaceship entered the orbit of Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet, for the first time. It took the Juno spacecraft five years to reach the distant planet, and entering its orbit came down to a 35 minute window of nerve-wracking monitoring. New Zealander Isha Welsh was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with NASA’s scientists that day. We asked him about what it was like.

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The Spinoff’s film and TV critic Alex Casey read the whole film festival brochure so you don’t have to. Here are her picks of the ones to book now.

High-Rise

Don’t let Tom Hiddleston cradling Taylor Swift on a rocky beach be the most searing image of the actor in 2016. Instead, see him dress super sharply in some well-fitted 1960s nihilism in High-Rise. Based on the novel by J G Ballard, High-Rise is a relentless satire on the dizzying heights

An engineering marvel, Rotorua’s Redwoods Tree Walk lets you experience what it’s like to be a bird or a tree­-sitting protestor.

There’s something magical about being up in the canopy of a forest. Maybe it’s the way the noises of the world become muffled and inconsequential; maybe it’s the paleness of the light up there, the daintiness of dappled shadows. Maybe the air you’re breathing is enriched by healthful chlorophyll? OK, now I’m

Standfirst: A documentary at the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival celebrates the ineffable beauty of a disappearing artform.

There are some mournful statistics disclosed towards the end of Neon, a painstakingly assembled film by Australian documentary­-maker Lawrence Johnston, currently touring the country with the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival.

Of the hundreds of thousands of neon signs that lit up Manhattan from 1900 to 1960, only a few hundred

This month in Auckland, there’s a fantastic flurry of new works from photographer Russ Flatt, an artist who makes pictures that are profound, emotionally engaging, and slyly entertaining, all at once.

Flatt spent more than a decade shooting high­-end fashion editorials in London and New York, before launching his art practice in New Zealand in 2013. He’s tall and narrow with big, serious eyes and you can sense a steely self-­possession behind his quiet, careful