Simon Morris

The Changeover is a New Zealand film with lots of promise based a book by Margaret Mahy. Its stars include Melanie Lynskey, Timothy Spall and Lucy Lawless and it's directed by Miranda Harcourt and… Video, Audio

Simon Morris checks out the new New Zealand film The Changeover, starring Timothy Spall and based on a Margaret Mahy book. He also looks at the remake of the '90s hit Flatliners and another NZIFF… Video, Audio

A Ghost Story features a traditional sheet-clad ghost, but the end result is touching rather than comedic. Stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck. Video, Audio

Kingsman: The Golden Circle takes newly dapper spy Eggsy to America. Co-starring Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges and Halle Berry. Video, Audio

The Lego Ninjago Movie is more from the plastic brick company - though "more" doesn't necessarily mean better. Video, Audio

Simon Morris goes to two holiday films - The Lego Ninjago Movie and the second Kingsman comedy-actioner The Golden Circle. By contrast, he also reviews one of the favourites at the recent film… Video, Audio

Victoria and Abdul reunites English director Stephen Frears with his Philomena star Dame Judi Dench, who plays Queen Victoria again - 20 years after Mrs Brown. Video, Audio

Is Darren Aronofsky's drama/allegory mother! a breath of fresh air - or one of the worst films ever? Video, Audio

American Assassin revives the old-fashioned action thriller. Starring Michael Keaton and Dylan (Maze Runner) O'Brien. Video, Audio

Simon Morris notes the lack of independent film 'auteurs' at the moment, but welcomes one in the shape of American Darren Aronofsky. He also welcomes a less elevated thriller, and one from a reliable… Video, Audio

6 Days is a NZ-UK co-production telling the story of the capture of the Iranian embassy in 1980, as seen by three people involved. It stars Mark Strong, Jamie Bell and Abbie Cornish and is directed by… Audio

The hugely successful Captain Underpants books have been adapted into a raucous, funny movie about two kids who make up a fictitious super-hero. Audio

 Simon Morris reviews the New Zealand-UK co-production 6 Days, directed by Toa Fraser, and kids' favourite Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie. He also talks to Jason Connery about the golf film… Video, Audio

The Beguiled - Sofia Coppola's Cannes favourite that re-imagines an old Clint Eastwood Civil War thriller. Stars Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell. Audio

Wind River sees a rookie FBI agent and a trapper join forces to solve a murder on a Wyoming reservation. Stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. Audio

Simon Morris looks at a northern summer blockbuster-season, described as the "worst summer in 17 years" and three successful movies from the recent International Film Festival. Video, Audio

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power is how global-warming activist Al Gore tried to achieve consensus at the Paris climate change conference in 2016. Audio

In Between shows the life of three Palestinian women in Israel, torn between modern club-life and the values of their parents. Audio

American Made stars Tom Cruise as the real-life pilot Barry Seal, who worked for both the CIA and the drug barons in the Eighties. Audio