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At The Movies

Join Simon Morris in the best seat in the house as he reviews the latest movies. At The Movies also plays at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoons on RNZ National.

tv & film

All Episodes

00:24:06

Uplift

At The Movies ·

2024/11/13

Dan Slevin reviews Music by John Williams, a Disney+ documentary about the legendary film composer; Australian animated tragicomedy, Memoir of a Snail, and Saturday Night, a comedy about the birth of the entertainment juggernaut, Saturday Night Live.

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00:06:12

Review: Memoir of a Snail

At The Movies ·

2024/11/13

Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot’s latest feature is a tragicomedy about twins separated after the death of their father and their eventual recovery. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.

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00:22:15

Transformations

At The Movies ·

2024/11/06

On At the Movies, Dan Slevin reviews three films in which change can be welcome or unwelcome but inevitable all the same. In Head South, a Christchurch teenager discovers New Wave music and a way forward to the rest of his life. Here is a simultaneously experimental and sentimental film about the multiple generations of people who pass through a simple suburban Pennsylvania living room. And in A Different Man, a New York actor with a facial disfigurement is offered a miracle cure – but will it make

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00:05:47

Review: A Different Man

At The Movies ·

2024/11/06

Sebastian Stan stars as a struggling New York actor with a face deformed by rapidly growing tumours caused by neurofibromatosis. He is offered a miracle ‘cure’ but will the transformation make him happy? The film also stars Adam Pearson, an actor who has the same condition. Dan Slevin reviews.

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00:06:08

Review: Here

At The Movies ·

2024/11/06

An experimental and sentimental drama shot from a single point-of-view in a single location but presenting people and events over many decades. The stars, screenwriter and director of Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Eric Roth and Robert Zemeckis) are reunited (and Dan Slevin reviews it).

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00:08:18

Review: Head South

At The Movies ·

2024/11/06

Dan Slevin reviews Jonathan Ogilvie’s autobiographical portrait of the Christchurch New Wave music scene in 1979. Ed Oxenbould plays schoolboy Angus, discovering the underground music scene and a community of his own.

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00:05:39

Review: The Critic

At The Movies ·

2024/10/30

The Critic features Sir Ian McKellen as a much-feared theatre critic who’ll do anything to keep his job, no matter who gets hurt. Also starring Gemma Arterton (Byzantium), Mark Strong (Kingsman) and Lesley Manville (Mrs Harris Goes To Paris).

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00:06:49

Review: Lee

At The Movies ·

2024/10/30

Lee is the story of one of the great World War Two photographers, Lee Miller, and why she slipped into obscurity when the war was over. Starring – and produced by – Kate Winslet, with Marion Cotillard, Andy Samberg and Alexander Skarsgård.

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00:06:18

Review: Woman of the Hour

At The Movies ·

2024/10/30

Woman Of The Hour is a true-crime thriller about an actress who goes on a TV dating show, only to discover that one of the contestants for a date with her is a serial killer. Starring and directed by Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect). Currently showing on Netflix.

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00:23:12

Who's in it?

At The Movies ·

2024/10/30

Simon Morris looks at three films that owe their audiences to attractive casts – Kate Winslet in the Oscar hopeful Lee…. a star-studded comedy drama, The Critic featuring Sir Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton…. And a Netflix true-crime thriller, starring and directed by Anna Kendrick.

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00:05:32

Review: Last Summer

At The Movies ·

2024/10/23

Last summer is the story of forbidden love between a confident teenager and his stepmother. But writer-director Catherine Breillat (2009’s Bluebeard) offers more than one twist in the tale before it finishes. Starring Léa Drucker (Close).

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00:06:20

Review: Kneecap

At The Movies ·

2024/10/23

Kneecap tells the story of the hiphop group of the same name, starring themselves, with assistance from the likes of Michael Fassbender (Hunger) and Simone Kirby (Peaky Blinders). Kneecap’s point of difference is they rap entirely in Irish. Ireland’s submission to the next Academy Awards.

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00:06:31

Review: My Favourite Cake

At The Movies ·

2024/10/23

My Favourite Cake is a bittersweet romance about two lonely 70-year-olds who hook up over cake and wine in modern day Iran. But how will the notorious Morality Police feel about it? It did well at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, despite being essentially cancelled by the Iranian authorities. What’s that line about success being the best revenge?

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00:22:44

Do I Look Like I Want To Read Subtitles?

At The Movies ·

2024/10/23

Simon Morris has a bad day at the office – three films, almost all “not in the English language”. Always a challenge for a radio show! They include festival favourites, Iranian film My Favourite Cake, a French drama called Last summer and a breezy comedy about Northern Ireland hiphop group Kneecap, who only use the Irish language.

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00:07:16

Review: The Apprentice, Super/Man

At The Movies ·

2024/10/16

The Apprentice is the based-on-reality story of Donald Trump’s sinister mentor - notorious lawyer Roy Cohn - while the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is the biopic of the actor who came to fame playing the Man of Steel, then suffered a tragic accident confining him to a wheelchair. But it was what happened then that proved truly heroic.

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00:12:17

The British and Irish Film Festival

At The Movies ·

2024/10/16

Fergus Grady, Director of the British & Irish Film Festival, previews this year’s programme. Among the highlights are Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, We Live In Time, with Florence Pugh, a tribute to the Merchant Ivory team and a documentary on the “lost Rolling Stone”, Brian Jones.

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00:03:44

Review: A Mistake

At The Movies ·

2024/10/16

A Mistake is a New Zealand film about a medical misadventure and its consequences. Directed and written by Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning), based on the best-selling novel by Carl Shuker. It stars Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect), with Rena Owen (Once Were Warriors) and Matthew Sunderland (Out Of The Blue).

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00:06:18

Review: The Outrun

At The Movies ·

2024/10/09

The Outrun is a hit from the recent International Film Festival that’s getting very strong reviews around the world. Starring Irish star Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird, Little Women) it’s based on the best-selling memoir of Orkney writer Amy Liptrot. Also stars Stephen Dillane (Game Of Thrones) and Saskia Reeves (Slow horses).

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00:05:43

Review: Wolfs

At The Movies ·

2024/10/09

Wolfs went straight to streaming service Apple TV Plus, despite stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Has the audience for Hitchcock comedy-thrillers finally dried up?

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00:06:24

Review: Joker, Folie à Deux

At The Movies ·

2024/10/09

The sequel to 2019’s surprise hit Joker, Folie à Deux, tries to aim at lovers of both dark drama and light musicals. What could go wrong? Stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, with Brendan Gleeson, Steve Coogan and Catherine Keenan.

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