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![Star tapped to play John Lennon](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Star tapped to play John Lennon
Unbroken star Jack O'Connell has emerged as a frontrunner to portray John Lennon opposite Nicholas Hoult as Brian Epstein in a new biopic about the Beatles manager.
![Blanchett's latest accolade](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Blanchett's latest accolade
Actress Cate Blanchett honoured with British Film Institute fellowship.
![Fifty Shades 'fun' ends in court](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Fifty Shades 'fun' ends in court
James Austin claimed she hit him so hard with a bamboo cane that it snapped. But Elvira Blakemore insisted the caning was consensual.
![Craig on Bond: He's got 'serious f***ing problems'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Craig on Bond: He's got 'serious f***ing problems'
'He's a misogynist. That's clear. He's got problems.' Has playing the world's best-known spy messed up Daniel Craig's own life? Jonathan Dean meets our most famous and loved spy.
![Oscar hopes for new Netflix movie](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Oscar hopes for new Netflix movie
The film generating Oscar buzz for Netflix, Beasts Of No Nation, will debut on the streaming service on Friday in New Zealand, at the exact same time as the rest of the world.
![Taika Waititi to bring the humour, Hulk to Thor](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Taika Waititi to bring the humour, Hulk to Thor
New reports suggest Taika Waititi has been hired to lighten up superhero movie Thor: Ragnarok
![Legend's Hardy performance](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Legend's Hardy performance
In the new version of the Kray twins story, the notorious gangsters spring to life fully formed.
![Ghostly pics of Disney's NZ film](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Ghostly pics of Disney's NZ film
Haunting photos of abandoned Kiwi set from Disney's 1988 teen war drama The Rescue.
![Review: Haunting western from North Africa](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Review: Haunting western from North Africa
French writer-director Oelhoffen parlays a 1957 short story by Albert Camus into a quietly riveting quasi-Western, set in the sere rocky uplands of Algeria in the 1954, at the start of the bloody war against the French colonisers.
![Review: Family drama with human heart](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Review: Family drama with human heart
The presence of Sharma (from Ang Lee's The Life of Pi) and Revolori, the bellboy stuck on fast-forward in Wes Anderson's mystifyingly popular The Grand Budapest Hotel, may improve the fortunes of this straightforward family drama.
![Spielberg: I'll probably do Indiana Jones 5](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Spielberg: I'll probably do Indiana Jones 5
Director says he wants 73-year-old Harrison Ford to return as whip-cracking archaeologist.
![Twilight star in Queenstown](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Twilight star in Queenstown
An actor from the hit teen movie series The Twilight Saga was spotted in Queenstown this week.
![Trailer: Trumbo](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Trailer: Trumbo
In this fascinating true story, Emmy Award winning actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) portrays Donald Trumbo, the successful Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist. Also starring Diane Lane, Dean O’Gorman, Louis C.K., Helen Mirren and Elle Fanning
![Turbo Kid a top hit with pirates](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Turbo Kid a top hit with pirates
A Kiwi-made film has hit the big time - but for all the wrong reasons.
![Kiwi film tops piracy websites](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Kiwi film tops piracy websites
Kiwi producer Ant Timpson says Turbo Kid's makers would be rich if they made just $1 from every illegal download.
![The many faces of Toni Collette](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
The many faces of Toni Collette
Each of her memorable characters contains a little bit of irrepressible Aussie. Toni Collette talks to Helen Barlow.
![Which film franchises have the most box office upside?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Which film franchises have the most box office upside?
Towering film franchises are more than seasonal tentpoles. So often planned in multiple instalments, of course, they can function like big tops unto themselves.
![A film that's so bad it's good](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
A film that's so bad it's good
Karl Puschmann paid good money to see a bad film. And he's happy about it.
![Has Johnny Depp finally returned to form?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Has Johnny Depp finally returned to form?
Depp's intense, quietly disturbing portrayal of cold-blooded killer Jimmy "Whitey" Bulger proves the actor is back on form.
!['Divorce was the best thing for my career'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
'Divorce was the best thing for my career'
Break-up made me focus on my job, says actress, but admits winning an Oscar did not heal her loneliness.
![Spider-Man delights with mid-air stunt](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Spider-Man delights with mid-air stunt
Spider-Man, caught scaling Auckland's Sky Tower in the middle of the day and perform superhero tricks 220m up in the air.
![People think Matt Damon's space movie is real](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
People think Matt Damon's space movie is real
The Martian is a movie about a botanist stranded when his crew accidentally leave him behind on Mars. Sadly, some people think it's real.
![Disney's newest princess revealed](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Disney's newest princess revealed
After hundreds of try-outs across the Pacific the voice of Moana has been found.
![Film so scary it's making grown men flee](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Film so scary it's making grown men flee
My heart is racing, I am starting to feel breathless, and light-headedness is threatening to overwhelm me.
![Double trouble for hardman Tom Hardy](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Double trouble for hardman Tom Hardy
The director of a new film starring Tom Hardy as notorious Brit gangsters the Krays talks to Russell Baillie about his double vision.