Mavis Mullins is looking forward to seeing Lee Tamahori's new film, Mahana, inspired by Witi Ihimaera's novel about shearers, Bulibasha.

Zoolander No 2 screenwriter Justin Theroux has defended Benedict Cumberbatch's cameo as non-gender-binary supermodel All.

The first trailer of Me Before You, offers a sneak peek of a romantic tear-jerker, which could rival The Notebook.

Warning: If you missed the book and don't know what the room is in Room, what follows may contain more spoilers than you need.

As his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Steve Jobs arrives at the cinema, Michael Fassbender talks to Des Sampson about the biopic.

Chris Pine and Casey Affleck play two real-life US Coast Guard sailors who saved 32 men from a sinking oil tanker off Cape Cod in the winter of 1952.

Sundance prize winner Melanie Lynskey talks to Helen Barlow about her latest moves.

Ryan Reynolds talks to Russell Baillie about bringing comic character Deadpool to life on screen.

Acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman tells Dominic Corry why he's turned to animation for this latest film.

If you haven't yet had enough of the Fast & Furious franchise, you're in luck.

A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she's taking care of.

A new teaser for the second Alice In Wonderland movie has been released and features a voice over by the late Alan Rickman.

The follow-up to the blockbuster hit will start production in New Zealand this April.

Do stars create dopplegangers in this year's nominated movies?

Melanie Lynskey gets top acting honour while David Farrier's doco Tickled sells to US heavyweights.

Made famous on TV show Sex and the City, shoe designer Manolo Blahnik is now the subject of a new documentary.

Kim Basinger is set to star in the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel.

Mr Darcy. Heathcliff. Rhett Butler. Edward Rochester. They're all swoon-worthy male characters, and now there's a new name to add to the list: Barack Obama.

n 2009, when Disney struck a $4-billion deal to buy Marvel, I asked the company's mastermind editor and co-creator Stan Lee to size up the meaning behind the moolah. Just what was the Mouse House getting, exactly?

2016 is young, but already, the year in pop culture is full of epic relationship drama.

An 89-year-old film, which could take cinema-goers more than eight hours to watch, is returning to the big screen.

The young star of Taika Waititi's latest is ready for his close-up.

Taking his latest film to Sundance Film Festival has proved fruitful for writer-director Taika Waititi.

Long before the internet helped celebrity death rumors spread like rapid fire, there was the Abe Vigoda hoax.

Scarlett Johansson is in Wellington filming Ghost in the Shell, so what better time to take a looked at her checkered film history? Here are her five best films, and - shh! - one of her worst.

COMMENT: The white face is default. Anything else is jarring and needs to be justified, writes Raybon Kan. So for two years in a row, all 20 of the Oscar nominees for acting are white.

With Scarlett Johannson in Wellington to film the live-action feature, we take a look at Masamune Shirow's 'Ghost in the Shell'.

A British filmmaker made censors sit through a 10-hour movie about a painted wall just to prove a point.