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.

At The Movies for 26 July 2023

Barbie is a combination colourful romp - so long as it's pink! - and feminist fable. Stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and written and directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird).

Movie Review : Barbie

Oppenheimer is the story of the man behind the atom bomb, who ended the World War II and started the Cold War. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), it stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Junior and Matt Damon.

Review: Oppenheimer

A bank manager discovers his fiancée's parents may not be who they say they are in The Out-Laws. (Streaming on Netflix)

Movie review: The Out-Laws

In the hilarious French film A Good Doctor, an unwell emergency doctor recruits a totally unqualified courier to perform his rounds.

Movie review: A Good Doctor

Simon Morris looks at three small-scale comedies - two American on Prime Video and Netflix, one French - and discovers that the secret is to take it seriously.

At The Movies for 19 July 2023

Robots imagines a world where your robot can do all the boring parts of your work and play. Starring Jack Whitehall (Bad Education) and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies).

Movie review: Robots

Sugar and stars is the based-on-real-life story about a French-Arab orphan who decides to become one of the world's great pastry chefs. Another hit from the recent French Film Festival.

Review : Sugar and Stars

Joy ride sees four Chinese-American women have an eventful holiday in China. An R-rated comedy directed by Adele Lim (Crazy rich Asians), produced by Seth Rogen (Knocked up) and starring Stephanie Hsu (Everything everywhere all at once).

Review : Joy Ride

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One - is Tom Cruise finally winding up the Impossible Missions crew? Co-starring Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), Rebecca Ferguson (Dune) and Hayley Atwell (Captain America).

Movie review - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Pt One

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Simon Morris notices an increasing number of franchise blockbusters reaching the end of the road - including the latest Mission Impossible. He also checks out a French foodie movie, and the latest from the producers of Crazy Rich Asians.

At The Movies for 12 July 2023

The last rider is a documentary about the first American to win the Tour de France cycle race, and Greg LeMond did it without drugs! Directed by Alex Holmes (Maiden).

Movie review - The Last Rider

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny sees Harrison Ford don the hat and crack the whip one last time. Co-starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and Toby Jones (The Detectorists).

Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Simon Morris is philosophic about the built in let-downs in so many movies - whether it's an over-extended franchise, a once-reliable studio or simply a film that fails to match expectations. But there's still the possibility of being pleasantly surprised. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny sees Harrison Ford don the hat and crack the whip one last time. Co-starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and Toby Jones (The Detectorists). Country Cabaret is a French - a very French! - feelgood movie about a real-life farmer who decided to raise money by creating a cabaret, complete with dancers, jugglers, burlesque artists and conjurors - in his barn. A hit at the French Film Festival. And The last rider is a documentary about the first American to win the Tour de France cycle race, and Greg LeMond did it without drugs! Directed by Alex Holmes (Maiden).

At the Movies for 5 July 2023

Country Cabaret is a French - a very French! - feelgood movie about a real-life farmer who decided to raise money by creating a cabaret, complete with dancers, jugglers, burlesque artists and conjurors - in his barn. A hit at the French Film Festival.

Movie review - Country Cabaret

Over 100 of the most engaging, perplexing, confronting and comforting movies of the year are coming to Aotearoa for this year's NZ International Film Festival. General Manager Sally Woodfield talks Simon Morris through this year's lineup.

At The Movies - The 2023 NZ International Film Festival

Simon Morris looks at three contrasting stories - from a comic-book time traveller and a grumpy retired sailor finding love late in life to an author shocked to discover what her husband actually thinks of her book.

At The Movies for 21 June 2023

The Flash sees a super-hero go back in time to save his mother, and runs into the usual time-travel, alternate realities problem. Starring Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck as two conflicting Batmen.

Review: The Flash

You Hurt My Feelings asks what do people want to hear: the truth or a comforting white lie? Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said, The Last Duel), it stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) and Tobias Menzies (The Crown).

Review: You Hurt My Feelings

My sailor my love sees James Cosmo (Game of Thrones) as an unlikely romantic lead in an Irish tear jerker about love finding two people late in life.

Review: My Sailor My Love

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