Simon Morris
Public Service Announcements
In a world of endless spin, alternative facts, post-truth influencers and conspiracy theorists, it's getting so you don't know who to believe any more. Usually that doesn't matter much. "Don't believe… Audio
Solving the World's Problems with Simon Wilson
Today NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson joins Jesse to solve the world's problems. Today he's looking at the specific issue on when 'a bit of fun' is really a cover for someone being offensive and… Audio
Movie review - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Pt One
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One - is Tom Cruise finally winding up the Impossible Missions crew? Co-starring Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), Rebecca Ferguson (Dune) and Hayley Atwell (Captain… Video, Audio
Review : Joy Ride
Joy ride sees four Chinese-American women have an eventful holiday in China. An R-rated comedy directed by Adele Lim (Crazy rich Asians), produced by Seth Rogen (Knocked up) and starring Stephanie Hsu… Audio
Review : Sugar and Stars
Sugar and stars is the based-on-real-life story about a French-Arab orphan who decides to become one of the world's great pastry chefs. Another hit from the recent French Film Festival. Audio
At The Movies for 12 July 2023
Simon Morris notices an increasing number of franchise blockbusters reaching the end of the road - including the latest Mission Impossible. He also checks out a French foodie movie, and the latest… Audio
Brittany and Natasha Kohler
What do these people have in common? Elvis Presley and Scarlett Johansson? The Bee Gees and the Proclaimers? Liberace and Kiefer Sutherland? They're all twins. Twins wrote the classic movie… Audio
Movie review - The Last Rider
The last rider is a documentary about the first American to win the Tour de France cycle race, and Greg LeMond did it without drugs! Directed by Alex Holmes (Maiden). Video, Audio
Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny sees Harrison Ford don the hat and crack the whip one last time. Co-starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and Toby Jones (The Detectorists). Video, Audio
Movie review - Country Cabaret
Country Cabaret is a French - a very French! - feelgood movie about a real-life farmer who decided to raise money by creating a cabaret, complete with dancers, jugglers, burlesque artists and… Audio
At the Movies for 5 July 2023
Simon Morris is philosophic about the built in let-downs in so many movies - whether it's an over-extended franchise, a once-reliable studio or simply a film that fails to match expectations. But… Audio
VFX Panel
Simon Morris talking to a panel of visual effects veterans - Tim Capper from Cause & FX, Rhys Dippie of Fathom VFX, and former rocket scientist Lance Lones, chair of the Visual Effects Professionals… Audio
At The Movies - The 2023 NZ International Film Festival
Over 100 of the most engaging, perplexing, confronting and comforting movies of the year are coming to Aotearoa for this year's NZ International Film Festival. General Manager Sally Woodfield talks… Audio
Giancarlo Guerrero
Everyone knows Nashville Tennessee - Music City, the home of country music from before there was any such thing as country music. But it's also the home of one of the United States' great orchestras… Audio
Review: My Sailor My Love
My sailor my love sees James Cosmo (Game of Thrones) as an unlikely romantic lead in an Irish tear jerker about love finding two people late in life. Audio
At The Movies for 21 June 2023
Simon Morris looks at three contrasting stories - from a comic-book time traveller and a grumpy retired sailor finding love late in life to an author shocked to discover what her husband actually… Audio
Review: You Hurt My Feelings
You Hurt My Feelings asks what do people want to hear: the truth or a comforting white lie? Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said, The Last Duel), it stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)… Video, Audio
Review: The Flash
The Flash sees a super-hero go back in time to save his mother, and runs into the usual time-travel, alternate realities problem. Starring Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and both Michael… Video, Audio
Actor Acushla-Tara Kupe
Last week Kim Hill interviewed playwright Suzie Miller about her smash hit play Prima Facie that followed a triumphant season on London's West End with a Tony Award in New York. The play is about to… Audio
Hollywood: The Oral History
Simon Morris talks to Sam Wasson, one of the authors of the massive Hollywood: The Oral History, in which the story of the movie capital of the world is told by the people who made them. Audio