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Join Simon Morris in the best seat in the house as he reviews the latest movies.

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00:09:09

Review: Superman

At The Movies ·

2025/07/16

Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn reboots the Man of Steel legend, reviewed by Dan Slevin.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:23:09

A Festival of Hope

At The Movies ·

2025/07/09

Simon Morris talks to NZ International Film Festival Director Paolo Bersolin about the programme for 2025. After a rocky few years, Bersolin promises this year’s selection accentuates the positive. Featuring award winners from around the world, a New Zealand selection saluting Jacinda Ardern, Don McGlashan and Fred Dagg, two Beatle-adjacent movies and a famous chainsaw massacre!Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:45

Review - F1

At The Movies ·

2025/07/02

F1 – Formula One racing, and movie star’s movie star, Brad Pitt... What more could anyone want? Producer Jerry Bruckheimer returns to the scene of his Nineties Tom Cruise hit Days Of Thunder with more of the same. Featuring Javier Bardem (Dune), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) and newcomer Damson Idris (TV’s Snowfall).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:04:40

Review - The Great Lillian Hall

At The Movies ·

2025/07/02

The Great Lillian Hall sees multi award winning Jessica Lange play a legendary Broadway star suddenly confronted with a possible life and career-changing disability. Features Kathy Bates and Pierce Brosnan, it's directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael Cristofer.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:53

Prestige Pictures

At The Movies ·

2025/07/02

Simon Morris looks at three films that reflect a little more effort on the part of their makers – the star-studded Formula One spectacle, F1, a well-scripted tale from Broadway’s theatre district, The Great Lillian Hall starring Jessica Lange, and France’s hugely successful film version of the classic The Count Of Monte Cristo. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:22

Review - The Count Of Monte Cristo

At The Movies ·

2025/07/02

The Count Of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man wrongfully convicted, determined to take revenge on those who wronged him. The first French film version of Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale for 50 years, it’s produced by the same team who made the recent Three Musketeers films.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:54

Review - 28 Years Later

At The Movies ·

2025/06/25

28 Years Later sees the return of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland to the zombie apocalypse they created 23 years ago. Now survivors settle on a small island, leaving the mainland to the rapidly mutating infected. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and newcomer Alfie Williams as the 12-year-old hero Spike.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:16

Review - Elio

At The Movies ·

2025/06/25

Elio is the latest from Pixar Films – the story of a lonely, space-obsessed boy who dreams of being abducted by aliens. With an original story by Adrian Molina (Coco), Elio features the voices of Zoe Saldaña (Avatar), Brad Garrett (Ratatouille) and Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:05:33

Review - Merchant Ivory

At The Movies ·

2025/06/25

Merchant Ivory tells the story of one of the longest ever movie-making partnerships, between Indian producer Ismail Merchant, American director James Ivory – and German-Jewish born writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Featuring interviews with Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and many others.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:21

What do men want?

At The Movies ·

2025/06/25

Simon Morris takes a look at an unusually blokey collection of movies this week, including the return of the “infected” in Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, a documentary about the films of long-time partners, producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, and Pixar’s Elio, about a boy who gets his wish – to be abducted by aliens!Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:07:01

Review - How To Train Your Dragon

At The Movies ·

2025/06/18

How To Train Your Dragon is a remake of the popular animated feature with a difference. The live-action version is written and directed by the maker of the original Dean DeBlois (Lilo and Stitch). Once again starring Gerard Butler as Viking chief Stoick.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:04:55

Review - K O

At The Movies ·

2025/06/18

K O is a French Netflix thriller, that sees an MMA fighter accidentally kill an opponent in the ring, then feels obliged to protect his family from dangerous gangsters. Starring actual former MMA star Ciryl Gane.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:06:21

Review - Materialists

At The Movies ·

2025/06/18

Materialists sees a successful matchmaker (Dakota Johnson) find herself torn between her heart and her head – between Mr Perfect and the far-from-perfect One That Got Away. Also starring Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, it’s written and directed by Celine Song, who made the Oscar nominated Past Lives.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:34

FULL SHOW: Festival Blues

At The Movies ·

2025/06/18

Simon Morris looks enviously at the French Film Festival highlights that he can’t see until their general release. While he waits he checks out the “re-imagining” of the recent How To Train Your Dragon, the French John Wick, K O on Netflix, and a superior romance from the director of Past Lives. It’s called Materialists. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:47

Wishing On A Star

At The Movies ·

2025/06/11

Simon Morris regrets the passing of the old-fashioned film star, and reviews two movies featuring one-time “stars of tomorrow” – Ana de Armas in Ballerina, and Prime Video’s The Assessment, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander. And from Wales, an indie film with no stars to speak of, Chuck Chuck Baby.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:07:00

Review - Ballerina

At The Movies ·

2025/06/11

Ballerina – now prefaced "From the world of John Wick" – sees a new face at the Continental Hotel for assassins. A young dancer seeks revenge for the death of her father. Joining John Wick regulars Keanu Reeves and Ian McShane is Ana de Armas (Knives out), Anjelica Huston (The Witches) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:04:49

Review - Chuck Chuck Baby

At The Movies ·

2025/06/11

Chuck Chuck Baby sees a woman in the production line of a chicken farm of the same name, suddenly confronted by her school crush. A winner at last year’s Welsh Baftas, it features a string of director Janis Pugh’s favourite songs.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:05:30

Review - The Assessment

At The Movies ·

2025/06/11

The Assessment finds a couple in a dystopian future trying to get permission to have a baby. But first they need to pass an assessment. Stars Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision), Himesh Patel (Yesterday) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina). Streaming on Prime Video.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:05:33

Review - Bring Her Back

At The Movies ·

2025/06/04

Bring Her Back is a stylish Australian horror, in which two teen siblings are fostered by a woman who turns out to have her own issues. Can partially-sighted Piper get through an unexpected ordeal? Starring Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water), it’s directed by brothers Danny and Michael Philippu (Talk To Me).Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

00:22:48

Full SHOW: Where Are We?

At The Movies ·

2025/06/04

Simon Morris finds himself confused by flashbacks, dream sequences – and Wes Anderson’s convoluted story structures. He sets out through the thickets of The Phoenician Scheme, Bring Her Back and New Zealand road-movie Kōkā. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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