Simon Morris

Simon Morris checks out three films that set out to convince us of something hard to believe - one true, one "based on real events" and one not remotely true. Audio

Whenever we welcome someone new to the top job in the New Zealand film industry, it's always hard not to be reminded of that old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times!" Certainly Annie… Audio

Guy Ritchie's The covenant is set in the recent Afghan War, where Jake Gyllenhaal plays an American soldier looking for the Afghan interpreter who saved his life. Audio

Simon Morris checks out three little movies that may mean more than meets the eye. Anatomy of a fall is the opening movie for the International Film Festival, a French drama that picked up the prized… Audio

If there's one film in the Film Festival that draws a line in the sand in the Culture Wars, it's the Incredibly Strange Hello Dankness, by a duo calling themselves Soda Jerk. Seriously funny, it… Audio

At a time when the answer to virtually any question about music is either "The Internet" or "AI", there's something incredibly reassuring about the increasing popularity of traditional acoustic music… Audio

Simon Morris looks at the most famous double feature of the year - the guys who invented the atom bomb in Oppenheimer and the doll that caused the almost as huge upheaval in the toy box - Barbie. Audio