Simon Morris

AudioCulture - a website that started because rock historian Simon Grigg found a lot of holes in our musical history. Audio

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, the director of the new horror/comedy Kiwi feature film Housebound. Audio

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

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

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

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

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

On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at a wide range of films this week. Guardians of the Galaxy is a comic-book blockbuster, funnier than most, and So It Goes, starring Michael Douglas and Diane… Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the hottest New Zealand film for years, The Dark Horse, starring Cliff Curtis. He also reviews French doomed romance, Just a Sigh, and the "cop movie meets… Audio

At the end of World War Two, there was much celebration of war heroes, and a rather less attractive rooting out of people who'd "let the side down" - spies and traitors like broadcasters Lord Haw Haw… Audio

A few weeks ago we introduced a process that's increasingly familiar in the film industry around the world, but hadn't been tried here - until now. The Writers Lab offers the chance for six new… Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the latest movie Hercules, starring the Rock and a feelgood Australian movie about caged men and eagles - Healing. He also goes to a new New Zealand film… Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews the self-descriptive comedy Sex Tape, starring Cameron Diaz, and the more old-fashioned French costume drama A Promise, with an all-English cast led by Alan… Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews the eagerly-anticipated next in the Apes series - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes… He also looks at that rare thing here, a French political satire - The French… Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at three contrasting mid-winter movies - from America, Clint Eastwood's story of the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys… from France, children's animation Ernest &amp… Audio

Lyttelton singer-songwriter Adam McGrath talks about songwriting, free concerts after the Christchurch earthquakes, and lending his song - and its title - to TV mini-series Hope and Wire. Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at Taika Waititi's much-anticipated vampire comedy, What We Do In The Shadows, as well as France's most successful comedy in years, The Volcano. Two rather smaller… Audio

New Zealand's first screenwriters Writers Laboratory, in which six local screenwriters go to boot camp with top mentors, including Oscar-winner David Seidler (The King's Speech). Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris and International Film Festival Director Bill Gosden launch this year's programme: 140 movies that cover the usual astonishing range of subjects - from Jimi Hendrix to… Audio