Simon Morris

At The Movies returns, and this week Simon Morris looks at three very English films, including multi Bafta-winner The Theory of Everything. James Bond spoof Kingsmen stars Colin Firth, while… Audio

The Movies returns, and this week Simon Morris looks at the many Oscar hopefuls that came out over the summer holidays. Titles include Birdman, American Sniper, and The Imitation Game and Wild. Audio

Radio New Zealand's film reviewer and presenter of At the Movies, Simon Morris, talks to Wallace about star power and poses the critical question - do you have to be good-looking to be a superstar? Audio

On the final At The Movies of the year, Simon Morris looks back over a year of film: from Oscar winner 12 Years A Slave to the big trends of 2014. It was a year of big, if shaky, franchises, a lot of… Audio

Simon Grigg from the website Audio Culture dips into New Zealand's rock and roll archives. The focus this time is Upper Hutt - home of The Fourmyula, the Bitter End, Frankie and Jon Stevens - and of… Audio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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