From abandoned astronauts to testosterone-fuelled Wall Street traders, dogged reporters and frontiersmen bent on revenge, it is a man's world in the best picture race at Sunday's Oscars with women again taking supporting roles.

We'll have all the action from the Oscars red carpet and beyond, live on nzherald.co.nz from 11am on Monday.

We'll have all the action from the Oscars red carpet and beyond, live on nzherald.co.nz from 11am on Monday.

The story of the Sonderkommando, the "special units" of Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps forced to assist with the exterminations of the Final Solution, has been little-told in the cinema.

If you liked the arched eyebrow of the dowager countess at Downton Abbey, you just have to get a load of this.

Dominic Corry gives his recommendations of five must see movies from the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival.

It has been more than 20 years since Lee Tamahori put Maori cinema on the world stage with 1994's Once Were Warriors.

Time is of the essence in this new adventure.

We'll have all the action from the Oscars red carpet and beyond, live on nzherald.co.nz from 11am on Monday.

In 2016, after all - unlike a decade ago - few major superheroes get the luxury of standing alone.

Teenage Leo was so nervous around girls that he turned to his Growing Pains co-star Alan Thicke for flirting advice.

Soon a galaxy far, far away will become a lot closer.

Kiwi director Lee Tamahori's first New Zealand film in 20 years has premiered in Auckland.

It's not set to be released in New Zealand until mid-March, but people are already freaking out over the new horror mystery, The Witch.

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Emerging from a second viewing of Deadpool this week, as I aim to deconstruct just what makes this huge hit tick beneath its sex and violence and Adventure Time wrist watch, I began to remember what Steven Spielberg recently predicted.

It has been revealed US actress Dakota Johnson had a butt double for sex scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey.

The first full-length trailer for the Kiwi film Hunt for the Wilderpeople has been unveiled today.

Kate Winslet was so keen to play the most villainous role of her career in Triple 9, she told director John Hillcoat to make her look vile.

The first teaser trailer for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

The new film from the director of Boy, Eagle Vs Shark and What We Do In The Shadows, Taika Waititi unleashes Hunt For The Wilderpeople after rave reviews at Sundance 2016.

Bosses at Paramount Pictures are developing a Transformers spin-off based on autobot Bumblebee.

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke says the movie industry is going backwards in terms of gender diversity with not one female director nominated for an Oscar this year.

The trailer for Kindergarten Cop 2 is out, and the verdict isn't good.

If there is one thing Deadpool's success proves, it's that superhero movies aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

The footage was filmed in September at the same location as scenes for Episode VII, on the island of Skellig Michael, off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland.

Benicio del Toro is among the new cast announced for Star Wars Episode VIII as it begins filming in London.