At The Movies RNZ Radio

Simon Morris regrets the dearth of the sophisticated blend of romance and comedy - and looks at three films all based, more or less, on love.

This new biopic of British singer Amy Winehouse is everything you were expecting and less, says Simon Morris.

The Idea of You imagines what would happen if a 40-year-old gallery owner (Anne Hathaway) fell in love with a 24-year-old singer in a boy band.

The Moon Is Upside Down is a New Zealand film following three stories of love gone wrong - a mail-order bride, a long-distance Skype affair and a woman wrestling with death.

Before Dawn is an ambitious, low-budget World War I film made in Western Australia.

Dame Helen Mirren stars as 1970s Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in Golda.