Simon Morris
Review: Jos
Jos is an affectionate film about a half-forgotten West Coast photographer, Czech-born Joseph Divis. Video, Audio
Review: Cairo Conspiracy
Cairo Conspiracy is a thriller set in Al-Azhar university, the centre of Sunni Islam. An innocent young student finds himself being used as a spy to manipulate the election of a new leader. Directed… Video, Audio
Booktown
Nestled at the foot of the Remutakas, north of Wellington, sits Featherston - population just over 2000. But it's also the home of one of the most enthusiastic book events in the country. Simon Morris… Audio
Review: Polite Society
Polite society is the first feature from writer/director Nida Manzoor (We are Lady Parts). Budding teenage stunt-woman Ria sets out to save her sister from an unsatisfactory marriage, but can she… Video, Audio
At The Movies : 80 For Brady
80 for Brady sees four octogenarian football fans - Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno - take off on a road trip to the Super Bowl to see their idol, superstar quarterback Tom Brady.
…At The Movies for Wednesday 3 May 2023
Simon Morris looks at three films depending on audiences sharing their enthusiasms - the crime novels of Raymond Chandler, teen comedies blended with action stunts and elderly female football fans. Audio
Review: Marlowe
Marlowe sees the Irish team of director Neil Jordan and star Liam Neeson attempt to revive the film noir world of private eye Philip Marlowe. Also starring Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange. Video, Audio
Italian Film Festival preview - Paolo Rotondo
As autumn turns to winter, our thoughts turn to... well, to the Italian Film Festival. It's the next best thing to an actual Mediterranean holiday, and by all reports, the 8th annual Festival promises… Audio
How NZ On Air plans to reach the TikTok generation
NZ on Air seems to be one of the winners, with the scrapping of the Government's public media entity plan. They get their 42 million dollars of contestable funding back, with an extra 10 million… Audio
At the Movies: Paper Spiders
Indie queen Lili Taylor and up-and-coming American-Kiwi actor Stephania LaVie Owen play mother and daughter in the American art film Paper Spiders. Video, Audio
At the Movies: Huda's Salon
A Palestinian hairdresser blackmails her clients into spying for the Israeli Secret Service in this fraught thriller. Video, Audio
At the Movies: Evil Dead Rise
A popular horror-comedy franchise returns with this gory new film shot in Auckland. Video, Audio
At The Movies for Wednesday 26 April 2023
Simon Morris looks at what's on offer during the downtime between Awards Season and the Winter Blockbusters. They may be small, but there are plenty of them! Audio
Fiona Farrell
The wave of post-Covid literature continues with a new book by one of our leading writers, Fiona Farrell. Award-winning poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, Fiona's novel Deck starts out as a modern… Audio
Scott Blanks
The New Zealand International Comedy Festival returns next month, but for the first time in four years it's a truly International one again. After Covid struck in 2020, the Festival carried on, but… Audio
Movie review - Mafia Mamma
Toni Collette and Monica Belucci pair up for a comedic tale about a suburban housewife who inherits an Italian crime family. Video, Audio
Movie review - Allelujah
Allelujah is a star-studded adaptation of Alan Bennett's play about a Yorkshire hospital in danger of being closed down by market forces. Video, Audio
Movie review - Shackleton
Australian adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces English explorer Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 attempt to cross Antarctica in Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival. Video, Audio
At the Movies for 19 April 2023
Simon Morris looks at an assortment of films that all, one way or another, depend heavily on who wrote or produced them. They include a crime comedy, a documentary of a well-known tale of survival… Audio
Film Panel
Two years ago, the New Zealand international film industry seemed bigger than it had ever been. Despite - or maybe even because of - a global pandemic, we hosted two of the biggest shows on Earth -… Audio