A couple's plans to build a 'hobbit hole' for visitors to stay in has seen them embroiled in a battle against powerful forces.

The woman on America's silver screen is young. She is white. She is straight. And she is vastly outnumbered by men.

Kiwi actress Stefania LaVie Owen has landed her first major Hollywood role at the age of 17.

Colin Farrell will co-star alongside Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

With a string of commercial hits including Jurassic World, Universal Pictures has broken the record for highest annual gross at the global box office.

A decade after filming Mr and Mrs Smith, Brangelina are back on screen as another troubled married couple.

Former Shortland Street star KJ Apa is being hailed as "the next Tom Cruise" by Hollywood execs. He joins an elite set of former Short St stars to crack Hollywood.

Hollywood has been shining the light on mental-illness. At least half a dozen recent releases reflect characters, both real and fictional, whose experience with mood disorders is central to the story.

He couldn't get a job pushing supermarket trolleys, but he's now managed to land a lead role in a Hollywood movie.

British star Jamie Bell has spoken about filming the SAS thriller 6 Days in New Zealand.

Amongst the dozens of teams Marvel has put out over the decades, there are plenty that don't have any cinematic selling power. In honour of the latest team to hit the big screen, here are four not-so-fantastic teams.

They wrote a string of hits that most Kiwis, and many Australians could sing along to word-perfect - April Sun in Cuba, Are You Old Enough, and Rain.

A love letter to a life-changing experience, this portrait of a sextet of walkers on the famous Camino Frances that finishes at Santiago de Compostela tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the undertaking.

If the plays of George Bernard Shaw are more admired than staged these days, this one may explain why.

The official version of Ryan Reynold's superhero flick Deadpool has been released - and it's not safe for work.

Robert Downey Jr has topped the Forbes list of highest-paid actors in the world with a cool US$80 million (NZ$137.79 million) in earnings.

Rube Goldberg machines are named for the American cartoonist who thought up contraptions that accomplish the simplest task by the most complicated means imaginable, writes Peter Calder.

Having starred in Star Trek and Mission Impossible, Simon Pegg's got plenty of nerd cred - with more on the way thanks to a small part in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Actress Jane Seymour has revealed she fell asleep during her romantic bedroom scene with Sir Roger Moore for the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

The latest Hollywood trend of turning random brands into movies is proving unstoppable, with possible the strangest entry yet joining a growing list of films no one asked for.

"If God exists, why did he make ugly people?" Derek Zoolander returns, asking the big questions.

A genius with too much time on their hands has flawlessly mashed together 280 movie scenes to create a cover of Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk.

US comedienne Tina Fey is reportedly working on a film about card counting.

The most talked-about movie at the film festival, Amy hits cinemas this week. Kathryn Bromwich talks to the manager who tried to 'make her go to rehab', and others whose lives were touched by the doomed soul singer.

Hollywood seems to have set out to make remakes and reboots of everything from Greg Dixon's youth, and he isn't happy.

A Finland artist has reimagined what he thinks well-known Disney princes would look like if they were real humans. Swoon.

Amy Schumer and co-star Bill Hader talk to Leena Tailor about getting paid, sex scenes and making Trainwreck, a romantic comedy with a difference.

Dominic Corry's pick of gravity-defying Tom Cruise stunts.

Cara Delevingne says the American talk show hosts who told her to "take a nap" don't understand her British sense of humour.