A trippy, beautiful and wild film that serves as a timeless ode to Jim Henson's boundless imagination, Labyrinth is my favourite kids' film of all time.

Quentin Tarantino has a new movie The Hateful Eight. As usual it doesn't adopt half measures.

The movies Gremlins is a cuddly horror flick sure to scare the kids - and also delight them

I could easily list a platoon of family films that I loved as a kid, but I'd struggle to call most of them "timeless".

The life and times of a persecuted Hollywood writer.

Bringing you our favourite features from 2015. If you missed them the first time around, now's the perfect time to catch up.

We're looking back at our columnists' most popular pieces from 2015. Today, the highly anticipated film Fifty Shades of Grey has been unleashed on New Zealand. Dominic Corry takes a peek at some of the cringiest sex scenes shown on the big screen.

Star Wars creator takes swipe at studio over their treatment of his space opera.

The Herald and Flicks.co.nz are on the hunt to discover New Zealand's favourite family film. Today Leonie Hayden tells us why she chooses The Neverending Story.

The Herald and Flicks.co.nz are on the hunt to discover New Zealand's favourite family film. Today TV presenter Matt Gibb tells us why he loves Wall-E.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more enduring distillation of the master film-maker's family-friendly cinematic identity than The Goonies.

Blockbuster revivals featured women being empowered, at last.

Warning: This article contains major plot spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Apart from famously loud-shirted chief executive John Lasseter, the Pixar bunch remains mostly unseen, staying behind the scenes and letting their work do their talking.

Schulz died in 2000 aged 77 and Jim a year later at a very youthful 92, both leaving a fabulous legacy for the next generation of scribblers.

Is there a film appropriate for your parents, siblings and grandpa?

The latest episode of Star Wars is now upon us and has unleashed a new era of science fantasy robots, or "droids" as they are known.

Kurt Russell has no idea what Guardians of the Galaxy is about, despite receiving an offer to portray Chris Pratt's father in a planned sequel.

TimeOut takes a look back at the year that was, here are the entertainment highlights from 2015.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were hilarious together when they teamed up in 2010 for cop movie spoof The Other Guys. While the set-up in Daddy's Home is different, their roles are similar.

The Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell show rolls back into town with family drama Joy, an offbeat and quietly entertaining yarn about the rags-to-riches true story of Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and her crazy family.

James Cameron has given fans of his hit movie Avatar a boost by confirming plans to start filming in January.

If Episode VII of the Star Wars saga points toward anything about the episodes to follow, it is that Kylo Ren is becoming the new Darth Vader.

The Critics' Choice Awards have added Star Wars: The Force Awakens as an 11th best-picture nominee.

Whether or not Bryan Cranston wins the Best Actor Oscar in February, this biopic will surely prompt a stream of sanctimonious recollection in Tinseltown about Dalton Trumbo.

The hero of The Good Dinosaur, the latest offering from Pixar animations, isn't the adorable apatosaurus, Arlo, his unlikely human companion, Spot, or the red neck T-Rex cowboy voiced by Western film actor Sam Elliott.

Surmounting the not considerable obstacle that French pop music makes John Denver sound like AC/DC, this Christmas crowdpleaser breathes new life into the girl-becomes-woman genre.

Charlie brown's return to the big screen, 25 years after the last Peanuts feature, is sure to charm and delight both newcomers and fans of Charles M. Schulz's iconic comic strip.

Family First has started its own streaming TV and movie site, akin to Netflix or Lightbox.