Movies
At The Movies for Wednesday 14 August 2024
Simon Morris checks out three films that depend on a star to lift their game. Two succeed - a romance with a sting in the tail called It ends with us and an endearing Kiwi road-movie called Bookworm… Audio
At The Movies - Mr Blake at Your Service
French hit Mr Blake at your service sees John Malkovich (Dangerous liaisons) play a British businessman (entirely in French!) who takes a job as a butler in a French stately home. Also starring… Audio
At The Movies - Deadpool and Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine sees two Marvel Comics mavericks combine to save Disney's beleaguered MCU. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are joined by a dazzling array of cameos, including Emma Corrin (The… Audio
At The Movies for Wednesday 31 July 2024
Simon Morris realizes there are several worlds of movies around this week - from Marvel's Multiverse in Deadpool & Wolverine to the popular French hits, typified by The President's wife with Catherine… Audio
Review: The President's Wife
The President's Wife sees the unstoppable Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour) portray another force of nature - Bernadette Chirac, wife of President Jacques Chirac, who became more popular than her… Video, Audio
Review: The President's Wife
The President's Wife sees the unstoppable Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour) portray another force of nature - Bernadette Chirac, wife of President Jacques Chirac, who became more popular than her…
Video, AudioThese are the films to watch out for, says film fest boss
Simon Morris talks to the new director of Whānau Mārama, the New Zealand International Film Festival. Paolo Bertolin plucks some highlights from. this year's programme, including Cannes sensation The… Video, Audio
These are the films to watch out for, says film fest boss
Simon Morris talks to the new director of Whānau Mārama, the New Zealand International Film Festival. Paolo Bertolin plucks some highlights from. this year's programme, including Cannes sensation The…
Video, AudioThe best movies of 2024 so far
RNZ film reviewer Simon Morris picks his five favourite movies of the year to date. Have you seen his pick of the bunch? Video
At the Movies for Wednesday 12 June 2024
Simon Morris continues to be unimpressed by the so-called "blockbuster season", and finds better - or at least more interesting - stuff on Netflix this week. Audio
At the Movies: Under Paris
Under Paris is part shark-thriller, part French cop movie and part Greenie parable - which is why it's getting enthusiastic thumbs-up from unexpected quarters. Video, Audio
At the Movies - Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth in the buddy-cop franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Does it have the same magic 30 years after the first episode? Video, Audio
At the Movies: Hit Man
Hit Man, from arthouse darling Richard Linklater, tells the true-ish story of a "fake hitman" working for the New Orleans Police Department. Video, Audio
At the Movies: Under Paris
Under Paris is part shark-thriller, part French cop movie and part Greenie parable - which is why it's getting enthusiastic thumbs-up from unexpected quarters.
Video, AudioAt the Movies - Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth in the buddy-cop franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Does it have the same magic 30 years after the first episode?
Video, AudioAt the Movies: Hit Man
Hit Man, from arthouse darling Richard Linklater, tells the true-ish story of a "fake hitman" working for the New Orleans Police Department.
Video, AudioReview : Copa 71
Copa 71 is a documentary of the first, unofficial Women's Football World Cup in Mexico City 1971. Football organisers FIFA did all they could to close it down, and later hush it up. Produced by Venus… Audio
At the Movies for Wednesday 29 May 2024
Simon Morris wonders why prequels are so much rarer than sequels - and reviews three films, all in their way, backstories of later events. Audio
Review: Freud's Last Session
Freud's Last Session is a play about a fictitious meeting between the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the Christian writer, and later creator of the Narnia books, C S Lewis. Starring Sir… Video, Audio
Review: Furiosa
Furiosa follows the 15 year backstory of the co-star of Mad Max Fury Road. Anya Taylor-Joy plays the girl kidnapped from her idyllic home, and out for vengeance. Once again directed by George Miller… Video, Audio
