Tuesday new releases: 10 February 2026
We Bury the Dead, Is This Thing On?, Shelter and Scarlet are all in cinemas.
I’m laid low by a heavy cold at the moment so I don’t have it in me to write these up.
Luckily, thanks to RNZ I already talked about them at length so there are links below. Listen and enjoy.
We Bury the Dead turns out to be the film I liked best of the four — a melancholy twist on the zombie genre, set in a Tasmania where everyone has been killed by an American military weapons experiment. Daisy Ridley plays the grieving widow of Matt Whelan, who volunteers to help with the clean-up after hearing rumours that the dead aren’t all staying dead and there might be chance to reconcile.
I talked to Mark Leishman about this on Thursday night’s Nights.
The old At the Movies slot on Sunday afternoons has been replaced by a segment on Culture 101 called The Big Screen. I’m one of a trio of rotating critics who come into chat ad lib with host Perlina Lau about new releases. My co-contributors are Kate Rodger and Michelle Langstone.
I had my first go on Sunday afternoon1 where I reviewed the last three of this week’s new releases: Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? (loved everything in front of the camera, hated everything that the camera did to photograph it), Jason Statham vehicle, Shelter (it’s the variations on a Jason Statham theme that are interesting and this is more gritty and satisfying than most), and Mamoru Hosoda’s “trippy” take on Hamlet, Scarlet.
I’ve no guarantees that this affliction will be over by tomorrow or Thursday so I may not be back in your inbox this week. Apologies.
Incidentally, the old At the Movies podcast feed has been reconfigured so that all RNZ on air movie reviews should show up. Just me at the moment …