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

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

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

Review: Little Room to move
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.

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

Review: Chris Pine's sea rescue story 'lacks urgency'
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.

Kiwi actress' Sundance success
Sundance prize winner Melanie Lynskey talks to Helen Barlow about her latest moves.

Ryan Reynolds: Better red than dead
Ryan Reynolds talks to Russell Baillie about bringing comic character Deadpool to life on screen.

Screenwriter talks new stop-motion movie
Acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman tells Dominic Corry why he's turned to animation for this latest film.

Three more Fast & Furious films have been confirmed
If you haven't yet had enough of the Fast & Furious franchise, you're in luck.

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

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

Avatar sequel about to begin shooting
The follow-up to the blockbuster hit will start production in New Zealand this April.

Best lookalike Oscar goes too...
Do stars create dopplegangers in this year's nominated movies?

Kiwis triumph at Sundance Film Festival
Melanie Lynskey gets top acting honour while David Farrier's doco Tickled sells to US heavyweights.

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

50 Shades' 'Mrs Robinson' revealed
Kim Basinger is set to star in the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel.

Obama love story warm and sweet
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.

Can Disney owned Marvel, Star Wars go on 'forever'?
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?

When fictional couples break up, why does it hurt so much?
2016 is young, but already, the year in pop culture is full of epic relationship drama.

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

Young Kiwi star talks working with Taika
The young star of Taika Waititi's latest is ready for his close-up.

Waititi's Wilderpeople gets US cinematic release
Taking his latest film to Sundance Film Festival has proved fruitful for writer-director Taika Waititi.

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

ScarJo's five best films - and one of her worst
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.

Raybon Kan: Evil empire of white Hollywood
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.

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

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