Simon Morris
Review - The Electrical World of Louis Wain
The Electrical World of Louis Wain is an Amazon Prime feature about a Victorian English illustrator whose whimsical pictures of cats entranced the nation. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy…
Video, AudioReview - Dune
Dune has defeated the best efforts of Hollywood in the past. Can Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) and an all-star cast triumph where others have failed. Stars Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya and…
Video, AudioAt the Movies for 1 December 2021
Simon Morris looks at three films that play with fantasy in contrasting ways. French film Titane was a sensation when it won the Palme D'Or at Cannes this year. An erotic dancer moonlights as a serial… Audio
Review - Titane
French film Titane was a sensation when it won the Palme D'Or at Cannes this year. An erotic dancer moonlights as a serial killer, and has closer than normal feelings for American muscle cars -… Video, Audio
Movie review - Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom: Let There Be Carnage sees Eddie (Tom Hardy) still hosting alien being Venom, but this time he confronts a bad guy in the same predicament. Features Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games) and… Video, Audio
Movie review - Petite Maman
Petite Maman is a French "what if?" story about how an 8-year-old girl makes a new friend, who may be her mother at the same age. Written and directed by Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). Video, Audio
Movie review - Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom: Let There Be Carnage sees Eddie (Tom Hardy) still hosting alien being Venom, but this time he confronts a bad guy in the same predicament. Features Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games) and…
Video, AudioMovie review - Petite Maman
Petite Maman is a French "what if?" story about how an 8-year-old girl makes a new friend, who may be her mother at the same age. Written and directed by Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).
Video, AudioReview - Titane
French film Titane was a sensation when it won the Palme D'Or at Cannes this year. An erotic dancer moonlights as a serial killer, and has closer than normal feelings for American muscle cars -…
Video, AudioAt the Movies for 3 November 2021
Simon Morris looks at three films about stories - one based on an early tale of chivalry, one that smuggles adult concerns into a children's animated movie, and a horror film that taps into indigenous… Audio
Movie Review - A Boy Called Christmas
A boy called Christmas is based on a popular children's book, and stars Dame Maggie Smith, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent and Toby Jones. Audio
At The Movies for 24 November
Simon Morris goes to a couple of improving documentaries and finds them rather more entertaining than their fictional rivals. Audio
Review -The Rescue
The Rescue is the story of the rescue mission that gripped the world in 2018, when a young Thai football team found themselves trapped at the end of an underground river. Directed by Jimmy Chin and… Video, Audio
Review - Breaking Bread
Breaking Bread covers an Arabic Food Festival in Israel, where pairs of chefs - one Jewish, one Arabic - set out to show that food can bring people together. It was the brainchild of Nof… Video, Audio
Review -The Rescue
The Rescue is the story of the rescue mission that gripped the world in 2018, when a young Thai football team found themselves trapped at the end of an underground river. Directed by Jimmy Chin and…
Video, AudioReview - Breaking Bread
Breaking Bread covers an Arabic Food Festival in Israel, where pairs of chefs - one Jewish, one Arabic - set out to show that food can bring people together. It was the brainchild of Nof…
Video, AudioNZ Screen History: RTR Countdown
Simon Morris and Robert Rakete revisit the mid-1970s pop show. Audio
At The Movies for 17 November
Simon Morris is inspired by the Swinging Sixties, and looks at half a dozen potential Next Big Things in three often nostalgic movies. Audio
Movie Review - Passing
And from Netflix, Passing, directed by actor Rebecca Hall (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women). Set in 1929, it tells of a Black woman passing for white in racist New York. Staring Tessa Thomson… Audio
Review- Last Night in Soho
Last Night In Soho is director Edgar Wright's tribute to swinging London, starring New Zealander Thomasin McKenzie, with Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit), Matt Smith (Dr Who) and the late Dame… Video, Audio
