Rnz: At The Movies

King of Thieves is a senior heist movie based on a real-life story and starring Sir Michael Caine, Sir Tom Courtenay and Jim Broadbent.

Simon Morris returns in time to review pensioner-heist movie King of Thieves, a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's famous play The Seagull, and a New Zealand documentary with a title that tells it all - She shears.

Doug Dillaman and Sarah Watt consider Halloween, Westwood and the latest take on A Star is Born.

On At The Movies this week, while Simon Morris is on leave, husband and wife reviewers Doug Dillaman and Sarah Watt review the latest superhero blockbuster Venom, the hard to define Bad Times at the El Royale and the biopic about astronaut Neil Armstrong, First Man.

Film reviewers Sarah Watt and Doug Dillaman host At the Movies while Simon Morris is on leave. This week, they look at: 'House with a Clock In Its Walls', 'RBG' - a documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and 'Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot'

Dan Slevin reviews a new Japanese anime told from the point of view of a four-year-old boy forced to confront the arrival of a new baby sister.

John Cho plays a widowed father whose daughter goes missing, reviewed by Dan Slevin.

Britain alone is worthy of a whole chapter in the 2018 Planet Earth Joke Book - but this film seems blissfully unaware of it all, going through the motions as if repeating the same old tired clichés is enough, Dan Slevin writes.

In this live-action Winnie the Pooh spinoff, the story boffins at Disney wonder what would happen if the adult Christopher was ever to meet up again with his adorable beloved stuffed animal friends.

Dan Slevin is filling in for Simon Morris and this week he reviews Christopher Robin, Johnny English Strikes Again, Searching, and Mirai.

The Australian director Bruce Beresford talks to Simon Morris about his new comedy-drama film Ladies in Black, which is set in a Sydney department store in the late 1950s.

Review - Despite the star power of Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick and the smart, women-led comedy director Paul Feig, A Simple Favour packs in too many tonal switches for its own good, says Simon Morris.

Maverick film-maker Shane Black attempts to breathe new life into the '80s monster movie in The Predator, but the twists and turns lose the simplicity that made the original a true action hit. 

Simon Morris tries not to be disappointed by three promising films - from a talented film-maker, from a talented cast, and from a book that inspired a hit Australian musical.

In this year's off-peak release schedule are two comedies from either side of the Tasman – a safe, Australian romantic comedy called The Flip Side for no discernable reason, and a rickety, unsafe Kiwi romp called Mega Time Squad.