Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn is on a roll with his performances in everything from the television series Bloodline to the New Zealand-made Slow West. He talks to Lydia Jenkin.

He was the action hero who was cast into the Hollywood wilderness. Now 50, Keanu Reeves is ready for his comeback — with a whopping eight films underway. Robbie Collin meets him.

A Kiwi stuntman has won a prestigious international award for his work on a Hollywood blockbuster starring Brad Pitt.

Director Taika Waititi has cast Sam Neill in his long-awaited screen adaptation of a book by Barry Crump.

Actor Samuel L Jackson has been cast in the remake of cult classic The Blob.

Scottish director John Maclean talks about why he filmed his awarding winning off-kilter Western in the South Island

Who knows what happened on May 8, 1945 when Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, and sister Princess Margaret went on to the streets of London to celebrate Victory in Europe (VE) Day.

The latest Mad Max movie is an "incredibly feminist action film" according to Charlize Theron who's talking down her chances of an Oscar nomination for her role as Imperator Furiosa.

From the packed line-up in the Documentary Edge festival, Peter Calder picks five of the best he's previewed.

Little known outside her native France, director Emmanuelle Bercot is the first woman to open the famous film festival since 1987.

Actor Michael Fassbender has refused to let screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s criticism sour his experience on the set of his upcoming Steve Jobs biopic.

Hugh Jackman has joined the 1000 pound club, proving that he is incredibly buff and may in fact be Wolverine.

A hiker in Oregon has found the boot Reese Witherspoon tossed into the wilderness while filming Wild.

A post-apocalyptic procession of tricked-out desert vehicles has caused a three-hour shut-down of Sydney’s busy Cahill Expressway.

British star Simon Pegg loves hanging out with Tom Cruise and is adamant his Mission: Impossible co-star doesn’t preach about Scientology.

Reviewers can't get enough of the new Mad Max film, calling the post-apocalyptic action-adventure "a modern classic" and "a "stone-cold action master class".

They sent hearts pulsing in 2012's Magic Mike.

The stars and creator of the new Mad Max reboot talk to Michele Manelis about the extremes they went to for the new movie.

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence is bridging the Hollywood pay gap by earning double what her male co-star Chris Pratt will take in her next movie.

A new film speculates on what happened when Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret snuck out of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the end of World War II. Des Sampson talked to the young actors playing the royal sisters.

Pitch Perfect was hilarious, feel-good fun, and one of the surprise hits of 2012.

The budget is minuscule. There are no big names. Set pieces are delivered infrequently, and on a small scale. And if it's monsters you're after, there are precious few ghouls, goblins, ghosts or gremlins.

Nicholas Hoult says he lied to land a role in the new Mad Max movie.

The original Mad Max has made a surprise appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of the hell-bent film franchise's newest release.

Natalie Portman will appear as a futuristic biologist sent into an abandoned, mysterious forest in the upcoming sci-fi horror Annihilation.

New Zealand's drinking culture is examined in the new local documentary The Ground We In. Dominic Corry examines how other movies and actors handle their alcohol.

Harrison Ford could star in a fifth Indiana Jones film.