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Movie review: Back to Black
This new biopic of British singer Amy Winehouse is everything you were expecting and less, says Simon Morris. Video, Audio
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Movie review: The Moon is Upside Down
8 May 2024The Moon Is Upside Down is a New Zealand film following three stories of love gone wrong - a mail-order bride, a long-distance Skype affair and a woman… Video, Audio
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Movie review: The Idea of You
8 May 2024The Idea of You imagines what would happen if a 40-year-old gallery owner (Anne Hathaway) fell in love with a 24-year-old singer in a boy band. Video, Audio
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Review: The Beautiful Game, The Greatest Hits, The Idea of You
6 May 2024Series TV is increasingly sucking up our streaming attention, but Dan Slevin has found three recent feature films that also deserve consideration. Video
Two new Lord of The Rings films announced
More than 20 years after the original trilogy was released, it's been announced two more Lord of the Rings films will be made and filmed here in New Zealand. Former head of South Pacific Pictures John… Audio
At The Movies for Wednesday 8 May 2024
Simon Morris regrets the dearth of the sophisticated blend of romance and comedy - and looks at three films all based, more or less, on love. Audio
Movie review: Back to Black
This new biopic of British singer Amy Winehouse is everything you were expecting and less, says Simon Morris. Video, Audio
Movie review: The Moon is Upside Down
The Moon Is Upside Down is a New Zealand film following three stories of love gone wrong - a mail-order bride, a long-distance Skype affair and a woman wrestling with death. Video, Audio
Movie review: The Idea of You
The Idea of You imagines what would happen if a 40-year-old gallery owner (Anne Hathaway) fell in love with a 24-year-old singer in a boy band. Video, Audio
Review: The Beautiful Game, The Greatest Hits, The Idea of You
Series TV is increasingly sucking up our streaming attention, but Dan Slevin has found three recent feature films that also deserve consideration. Video
May the 4th be with you: How NZ is celebrating Star Wars Day
Whether they are baking Wookie cookies, dressing up as their favourite character or attending a movie marathon, Star Wars fans are having a big weekend.
Seeking screen time: Impacts of Covid-19 pandemic still being felt at movie theatres
A New Zealand cinema chain says the industry is yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, with not enough consistent revenue coming through its doors.
Review: The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy is a reboot of an old TV series about stunt men which benefits from three suddenly very hot stars - Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Hannah Waddingham (TV's Ted Lasso) and particularly Ryan… Video, Audio
At The Movies for Wednesday May 1 2024
Simon Morris wonders if the star system is over, and audiences are now only interested in the movie itself, not who's in it. Audio
At The Movies - Before Dawn
Before Dawn is an ambitious, low-budget World War I film made in Western Australia. Video, Audio
At The Movies - Golda
Dame Helen Mirren stars as 1970s Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in Golda. Video, Audio
Review: Challengers
Challengers sees top star Zendaya (Dune) playing a top tennis star, torn between two competing suitors, Mike Faist (West Side Story) and Josh O'Connor (The Crown). Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me… Video, Audio
Roseanne Liang on her huge new Hollywood project and why she's obsessed with Terminator 2.
Film director Roseanne Liang tells Guyon about her huge new Hollywood project, why she's obsessed with Terminator 2, and what movies tell us about humanity. Video, Audio
Preview: 2024 Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival
Dan Slevin previews three documentaries in this always intriguing interrogation of our built and manufactured environment. Video
Choreographing intimacy in a post-#MeToo era
There's a "huge power imbalance" in the screen industry. Newly created roles are helping to keep actors safe. Audio
Origin: Ava Duvernay’s thought-provoking new film on caste systems
Oscar-nominated US filmmaker Ava Duvernay’s new thought-provoking film Origin is based on the New York Times bestselling book Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. Video, Audio
Screentime: Civil War, One Question, The Royal Hotel, Eileen
Film and TV correspondent James Croot joins Kathryn to talk about Civil War (cinema), which follows a group of journalists through an America at war with itself, in a race to reach the White House… Audio
Review: Civil War
Civil War imagines a future America torn apart by another civil war, and the people who have to cover the story. Written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina), it stars Kirsten Dunst (Power of the… Video, Audio
At the Movies - Origin
Origin is a semi-fictionalised adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about racism. It's a serious film with a strong cast and some fresh and intriguing ideas, says Simon Morris. Video, Audio
