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00:05:57

Review: The Last Showgirl

At The Movies ·

2025/03/26

The Last Showgirl tells the story of a 50-plus Las Vegas dancer suddenly forced to confront her life and her future when her show Le Razzle Dazzle finishes after 30 years. Featuring a Golden Globes-nominated performance by Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) with Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Dave Bautista (Dune).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:29

Review: Hard Truths

At The Movies ·

2025/03/19

Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s Bafta nominated study of a woman consumed by anger at the world, despite the best efforts of her family. Featuring a multi-award-winning performance by the brilliant Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies). Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:31

Review: Black Bag

At The Movies ·

2025/03/19

Black Bag sees American director Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) get into John Le Carre territory – a spy drama where two married agents suspect each other of leaking valuable information. What’s more important, their marriage or their country? Stars Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Cate Blanchett (Borderlands) and Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:23:16

FULL SHOW: Character Studies

At The Movies ·

2025/03/19

Simon Morris accepts that, for all the hard work of everyone on a movie, most people are just looking at the actors. Three character studies this week, including Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, based on weeks of actors’ improvisations… Black Bag, in which a spy investigates six possible traitors, including his own wife... and the last – and some say the best – of the Six Wives of Henry the Eighth, Catherine Parr in Firebrand.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:28

Review: Firebrand

At The Movies ·

2025/03/19

Firebrand tells the story of Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of the brutal Henry the Eighth. Can she keep her head while staying true to her faith? Stars Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) as Catherine, Jude Law (The Talented Mr Ripley) as Henry, with Erin Doherty (TV’s Adolescence) as the “firebrand heretic”, Anne Askew.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:45

Review: Mickey 17

At The Movies ·

2025/03/12

Mickey 17 is Bong Joon Ho’s (Parasite) unique take on science fiction, in which a lowly worker is regularly killed doing dangerous jobs, only to be revived to die another day. Stars Robert Pattinson (Twilight), Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things), Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice) and Steven Yeun (Minari). Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:01

Review: White Bird

At The Movies ·

2025/03/12

White Bird is a spin-off from the movie Wonder, in which young Auggie’s tormentor learns a lesson from his grandmother, a survivor from the Nazi occupation of France. Stars Dame Helen Mirren and directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:42

FULL SHOW: After the Goldrush

At The Movies ·

2025/03/12

Simon Morris looks at life after the glitter of the recent Oscars, in particular three more modest films, all coincidentally connected to earlier hits. Sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 is the belated followup to Korean hit Parasite. Spit follows a character from Australian crime spoof Gettin’ Square. And the villain from tear-jerker Wonder learns a lesson from Grandma in White Bird.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:05:20

Review: Spit

At The Movies ·

2025/03/12

Spit sees low-life criminal John Spitieri (Gettin’ Square) return after 20 years for his own movie. Can Spit conquer the bad guys, bond with his young nephew, get his new Syrian mate safely employed, all the time staying out of jail? As he says, everyone deserves a seventh chance. Stars David Wenham (Lord of the Rings).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:50

FULL SHOW: Any Surprises?

At The Movies ·

2025/03/05

Simon Morris glances at the recent Oscars, and finally gets to see the last nominee for Best Picture, Amazon Prime’s Nickel Boys. Also on this, the Millenial At The Movies, Swedish mockumentary The Last Journey, and a new take on legendary Swiss hero William Tell.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:04:47

Review: The Last Journey

At The Movies ·

2025/03/05

The Last Journey is a Swedish The Trip-style blend of fact and fiction by popular TV documentary stars Filip and Fredrik (Hasselhoff – A Swedish Talkshow). Filip wants to retrieve his father’s lust for life, and comes up with a novel way of doing it.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:07:30

Review: Nickel Boys

At The Movies ·

2025/03/05

Nickel Boys may have been overshadowed at the Oscars, but it was already a critical favourite before it finally dropped on Amazon Prime this week. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad), it’s directed by RaMell Ross and stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (King Richard).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:24

Review: William Tell

At The Movies ·

2025/03/05

William Tell rounds up some big theatre names (Jonathan Pryce, Rafe Spall, Sir Ben Kingsley) to back up Danish star Claes Bang (TV’s Bad Sisters) as the famous Swiss archer and rebel. Directed by former resident director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Nick Hamm, it surprisingly does without Rossini’s well-known Overture. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:12

Time's up. Sort of

At The Movies ·

2025/02/26

Simon Morris checks out another week entirely devoted to women-driven movies, and wonders if, finally, it’s no longer an issue. They include Mozart’s Sister, Neneh Superstar, New Zealand-Samoan feelgood tale Tinā, and Oscar-nominee I’m still here.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:16

Review: Tinā

At The Movies ·

2025/02/26

Tinā is another crowd-pleasing Kiwi Samoan film, like Three Wise Cousins, Sione’s Wedding and The Orator. Directed by Miki Magasiva (TV’s The Panthers), it stars the great Anapela Polataivao as a grieving Mum who forms a choir at an exclusive – and very white – school in Christchurch.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:03:30

Review: Neneh Superstar

At The Movies ·

2025/02/26

Neneh Superstar is a French film about a little, second-generation African girl who aspires to dance at the world-famous Paris Opera Ballet. It seems all the odds are against her – particularly her hostile teacher, ballet superstar Marianne, played by French superstar Maïwenn (Jeanne du Barry). Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:05:06

Review: Mozart's Sister

At The Movies ·

2025/02/26

Mozart’s Sister is a documentary of the other Mozart, Wolfgang’s sister Maria Anna. Like her famous brother, she was a child prodigy musician, by all accounts she was a very talented composer, so why is she all but forgotten? Until now, that is.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:04:41

Review: I'm Still Here

At The Movies ·

2025/02/26

I’m Still Here is a multi-award winning film from Brazilian director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries). It stars Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres as a mother whose husband has been “disappeared” by the military dictatorship, and what she has to go through to find the truth.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:35

Review: Bird

At The Movies ·

2025/02/19

Bird is the latest from critically acclaimed British film-maker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, Big Little Lies.). It was a nominee at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Baftas, and tells the story of a 12 year old girl with an unexpected new friend. Also stars Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Innisherin).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:23:00

FULL SHOW: Saving the Industry

At The Movies ·

2025/02/19

Simon Morris looks at two films with a lot riding on them – the new Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, and the introduction of a new Captain America: Brave New World. But he wonders if Andrea Arnold’s miniscule Bafta nominee, Bird, might be a more helpful way to go.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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