Simon Morris
At The Movies for 11 December 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks back on 14 years of Sir Peter Jackson's Middle Earth films - and takes the opportunity to detail a remarkable year for New Zealand films - features, shorts… Audio
At The Movies for 4 December 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the Oscar-tipped Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and the final film from The Sopranos' James Gandolfini, The drop. Also an American remake of a Spanish… Audio
New Zealand Film Awards
On December the 12th, the New Zealand Film Awards celebrate one of the best ever years for cinema features, documentaries, TV movies and short films - not to mention the Hobbit finale. Simon Morris… Audio
At The Movies for 27 November 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at three minor films in a week of epic spectaculars. Jimmy's Hall is a film by Ken Loach about a battle between a community hall and the Church… The Good Lie is… Audio
Simon Grigg: Audio Culture
In a new regular feature, Audio Culture's Simon Grigg dips into New Zealand rock and roll's fascinating, and occasionally dubious history. This week he looks at rock venues - from the 1960s to the… Audio
At The Movies for 6 November 2014
Simon Morris looks at four strong dramas - Fury, starring Brad Pitt, is a World War Two story about a tank crew… Whiplash looks at the torture that goes into making a great jazz musician… John Le… Audio
At The Movies for 30 October 2014
Simon Morris talks to Oscar-winning sound mixer Mike Hedges about the advances of sound in Lord of the Rings, District Nine, Once Were Warriors, The Orator - and of course the upcoming final film in… Audio
At the Movies for 23 October 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews three films with a unique view of the past - the Sixties in the James Brown story, Get On Up… the Eighties in Pride, when Lesbians, Gays and coalminers took on… Audio
At The Movies for 16 October 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews The Judge, starring Robert Downey Junior and Robert Duvall as father and son… Siddharth, in which a boy goes missing in modern day India… and the frankly… Audio
At The Movies for 9 October 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews the highly-regarded Gone Girl, David Fincher's adaptation of the best-selling novel… yet another Dracula - the origin story Dracula Untold… and a German film… Audio
At The Movies for 2 October 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the Denzel Washington version of the old Edward Woodward TV series, The Equalizer… There's a new Young Adult franchise on the scene, The Maze Runner… and Rock… Audio
At The Movies for 25 September 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the second Sin City "comic book on the screen". Smaller, and rather better are an Indian charmer called The Lunchbox, and the stripped-down, man-in-a-car… Audio
AudioCulture
AudioCulture - a website that started because rock historian Simon Grigg found a lot of holes in our musical history. Audio
At The Movies for 18 September 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at two hits from the recent Film Festival - ecological thriller Night Movies and comedy drama The Skeleton Twins. And a new science fiction film - Predestination -… Audio
Gerard Johnstone
Gerard Johnstone, the director of the new horror/comedy Kiwi feature film Housebound. Audio
At The Movies for 11 September 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at three thrillers - from England, Before I Go To Sleep, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman… from Sweden, the cold-case police drama The Keeper Of Lost Causes…… Audio
At The Movies for 4 September 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the award-winning American film Boyhood, filmed with the same actors over a 12-year period… The new Inbetweeners film is as funny - and foul-mouthed - as its… Audio
At The Movies for 28 August 2014
Simon Morris looks at three non-Hollywood films - from France, sci-fi thriller Lucy, starring Scarlett Johanssen, from Australia, musician Nick Cave celebrates 20,000 Days On Earth and from Sweden, a… Audio
Directors
Television's Platinum Fund for high-end, one-off TV dramas may have been an expensive gamble, but it seems to have paid off. Audio
At the Movies for 21 August 2014
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at three films defined by their makers - Sylvester Stallone's Eighties flashback The Expendables 3… the Oprah Winfrey-produced foodie, feelgood movie The 100 Foot… Audio