Simon Morris

Life returns to Alien territory, when a crew of a space-station find themselves hosting an ever-growing, hostile creature from Mars. Stars Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal. Video, Audio

Simon Morris reviews the sci-fi thriller Life and Brazilian award-winner Aquarius and talks to Hayden Frost and LJ Ritchie about their plans to review every NZ film ever in their podcast Never… Video, Audio

A hundred years on, World War One has been on our minds for the past few years. Mostly it's been from the point of view of the men who fought and died - or survived.

Recovery - Women's Overseas… Audio

While cats are the undisputed kings of the internet, they don't actually feature very prominently in TV shows and films - no doubt largely because of their notorious difficulty in being wrangled… Video, Audio

Simon Morris is joined by Kathy Cunningham, the CEO of the Whanganui Events trust and glass artist Phil Stokes to talk about the Home Artists Open Studios event in Wanganui. Artists from the area are… Audio, Gallery

We like Irish performers here in New Zealand.

Partly it's because they're terrific - a line of genius from Oscar Wilde, Dave Allen, Father Ted and Dylan Moran.

Case in point: writer-actor-comedienne… Audio

2016 was by any definition a pretty good one for NZ films – big hits, the continuing rise and rise of Taika Waititi, climaxing in another Oscar for the hugely successful editor John Gilbert for… Audio

Trespass against us - about a family of traveller criminals - stars the dream team of Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. Audio

New Zealand comedy Gary of the Pacific is about a real-estate agent who becomes chief of an island Paradise. Stars Josh Thomson. Audio

Loving is the true story of the 1960s couple that defied segregated Virginia and ended up changing the law. Starring Oscar-nominee Ruth Negga, Joel Egerton and Kiwi Marton Csokas. Audio

Simon Morris looks at three films that all, in different ways, fail to excite: Loving, Gary of the Pacific and Trespass Against Us. Video, Audio

Kong: Skull Island revives the old Japanese monster movie version of the story. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larsen, John Goodman and Samuel L Jackson. Audio

A street cat named Bob is based on James Bowen's best-selling memoir of life on the London streets. Starring Luke Treadaway, Joanne Froggatt and Bob the Cat. Audio

This critically-acclaimed French film tells the story of a group of Polish nuns who were raped by the "liberating army" at the end of World War II. Audio

Simon Morris looks at three rather different films - Kong: Skull Island, A Street Cat Named Bob and The Innocents. Video, Audio

Simon Morris discovers the old western isn't as dead as you'd think and three new films owe more than a little to its influence, Video, Audio

There are the famous A-List Festivals of Europe - Cannes, Berlin and Venice. There's the equally prestigious Sundance Festival of Utah, the champion of smaller, independent films. Now there's growing… Audio