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NZIFF NZ Short Film review
A survey of the six finalists in the International Film Festival short film competition. Audio
Suicide Squad review
A new kind of superhero team - a gang of super-villains - runs into problems with the comics crowd it was meant to be aimed at. Audio
Poi E review
The crowd-pleasing documentary about "New Zealand's unofficial national anthem", the Patea Maori Club's 1984 smash hit. Audio
At The Movies for 10 August 2016
On At The Movies, Simon Morris finds out why the New Zealand music documentary Poi E is so popular - and why Suicide Squad seems to be so unpopular. He also looks at the finalists - and two winners -… Audio
Film Reviewer, Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin reviews Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) - Post-apocalyptic rescue drama with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron; Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks) revisits the acapella group and Slow West… Audio
Film review with Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin reviews That Sugar Film (Damon Gameau); Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen) and Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev). Audio
At The Movies: Avengers Age Of Ultron, Testament of Youth, Leviathan
Simon Morris welcomes the blockbuster season - or at least big films. Avengers Age Of Ultron tackles trendy Artificial Intelligence… Testament of Youth is a film version of a famous First World War… Audio
At The Movies: The Longest Ride, Woman in Gold, Samba
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the come-back of the female-friendly film, including Samba, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Woman In Gold, starring Dame Helen Mirren, and Nicholas Sparks'… Audio
At The Movies: Insurgent, X plus Y, Run All Night.
On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at two Young Adult films, Insurgent, the sequel to last year's popular Divergent… and X plus Y, a heart-warming story of an autistic young maths genius. He also… Audio
At The Movies 636
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
Death and Venice - Part 3 - Nostalgia and Decay, Jazz and Jets
The events of 1797 which inspired Wordsworth's famous sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian Republic also triggered the Romantic imagination for next century and a half. The nostalgia for the shade… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 2 - From Birth to Glory
Little music survives from the first eight hundred years of Venice's glorious history. Much of the great output of its decadence, the product of the last two centuries of the Republic, the… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 1 - Power, Pleasure and Mortality
The name Venezia triggers a whole series of images and sound-bites of memory or anticipation. Canals, gondolas, towering marble and intricate windows, pigeons and cafes, lapping waters and sonorous… Audio
