Simon Morris

Simon Morris is invited to two more "end of the world" movies - The World's End, appropriately, ends badly, while Pacific Rim is a surprisingly fascinating revival of the old Japanese rubber-monster… Audio

Simon Morris looks at two 'odd couple' films. The Heat is a traditional buddy-cop comedy, but starring women this time - Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. Monsters University goes back to when… Audio

Simon Morris looks at three films that deal with nostalgia - the new Lone Ranger; the sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunet - Before Midnight; and a film set in the world of Soho striptease king… Audio

Simon Morris wonders why the end of the world is so hot this week - including the Seth Rogen comedy This Is The End, and the new Superman origin story Man of Steel. He also looks at the new New… Audio

Simon Morris invites Bill Gosden, Director of the International Film Festival, to preview this year's selection.The range is huge - from the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra and the latest… Audio

Simon Morris finds out if Baz Luhrmann's 3D Great Gatsby is as disappointing as most critics seem to think; Bekas features two runaway Kurd boys, looking for Superman; and Remembrance looks at an… Audio

Simon Morris looks at two contrasting films - from America, The Fast and the Furious 6 and from Raumati, Shopping. And he investigates how films get audiences to like their characters. Audio

Simon Morris checks out the third - and, we're promised - final Hangover. And two films about terrorism - post 9/11 Pakistan in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and disaffected Israeli youth in… Audio

Simon Morris looks at the Norwegian Oscar-nominated Kon Tiki; a better-than-average film with Duane "The Rock" Johnson in Snitch, and pick of the week, Broken - that revives memories of the classic To… Audio

Simon Morris looks at three contrasting movies - the new Star Trek blockbuster - Into Darkness; a "youth runs wild" film, Spring Breakers, that's attracting a lot of media attention; and a nostalgic… Audio

Simon Morris looks at three smaller movies - Song For Marion, which stars two legends of the Swinging Sixties, Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp… War Witch, the Oscar-nominated story of an African… Audio

Simon Morris looks at stars, past present and future. Iron Man 3 stars the currently unstoppable Robert Downey Junior and The Company You Keep is directed by its star, veteran Robert Redford… Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris goes to the latest Disney live action remake of a well-known animated hit, The Jungle Book. He also reviews an independent New Zealand film, Orphans And Empires, and a… Audio

Simon Morris looks at two American movies - Olympus Has Fallen sees terrorists take over the White House, while Warm Bodies offers a new twist on the old zombie movie. And German film Barbara is set… Audio

Simon Morris is bullied into seeing three films by the publicity – the Tom Cruise science-fiction drama 'Oblivion'… the animated Stone Age family comedy, 'The Croods'… and the new film by Woody Allen… Audio

Simon Morris looks at three films with alternate realities - the narrator of Trance is suffering from amnesia… The Perks of Being a Wallflower features a troubled soul with blanks in his memory… Audio

Simon Morris looks at the reality behind our heroes - Hyde Park On Hudson shines a bright light on the private life of President Frankin Roosevelt, and No shows how Chilean dictator Pinochet was… Audio

An extended interview with International Film Festival Director Bill Gosden, in which he previews some of the highlights of this year's Autumn Events. Audio

Simon Morris goes to yet another spectacular based on a fairy-tale - Jack the Giant Killer - and wonders why their performance is so disappointing at the box-office. He also checks out the… Audio

Simon Morris reaches Episode 500 of At The Movies - and looks back to the very first show back in 2002. He finds curious parallels with this week's two films - Broken City, starring Russell Crowe, and… Audio