In his latest comedy caper Mortdecai, Johnny Depp has delivered yet another ham that only forgiving fans could love. What has brought him to this, asks Stephine Merry.

Channing Tatum has gone from beefcake to credible A-list star. But he still doesn't know how to act, he tells James Mottram.

The cast for Danny Boyle's stalled Steve Jobs biopic has been confirmed, with Michael Fassbender portraying the late boffin and Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, the former marketing chief of Macintosh.

Jemaine Clement is standing on the Sundance red carpet awaiting the premiere of his latest movie People, Places, Things, the first American movie in which he has a starring role. It is a very big deal.

There are times in this brilliantly acted and understated psychological drama when it seems very little happens at all, but when the lights go up you're left reeling by the culmination of events that have quietly unfolded.

Unassuming and amiable, this road-trip buddy comedy, which played in the festival last year, belongs squarely in the sub-genre of very-low-budget American indies with untrained actors and improvised dialogue that has been dubbed mumblecore.

Fed up with a lack of stimulating female leads in Hollywood, Reese Witherspoon formed a production company and started making her own work. She's created herself a doozy (and a deserved Oscar nomination) playing Cheryl Strayed in Wild.

Who you gonna call? Well, apparently Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy.

Chris Pratt has quickly become an A-list star after making Guardians Of The Galaxy a massive hit last year - the adventure spoof film brought in $800m internationally.

Fantastic Four, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Ryan Reynolds says money isn't everything when it comes to superhero flick Deadpool.

So, if we go by the theory that the SAG Awards and the Golden Globes predict the Oscars, looks like the Academy Award acting categories are pretty much a lock.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has opened big in China, grossing US$49.5 million ($66.6 million) in its first weekend.

Bringing you all the action from the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

Foxcatcher's director Bennett Miller tells Tim Robey what drove the unusual choice of actors in his film of wrestling and murder.

Courage under fire based on reality Director familiar with ravages of war, writes Dominic Corry.

As the film of their life is released, Jane Hawking recalls how she fell in love with the legendary physicist against the haunting backdrop of his developing motor neurone disease.

The recent movies that have looked at the impact of dementia - Away From Her, The Savages, Aurora Borealis, A Song For Martin, Lovely, Still - have tended to focus on the effect on those left behind as the light dies.

Dominic Corry takes a look at the movies snubbed by the Oscars this year.

British singer Adele is rumoured to be returning to the James Bond franchise to record a second theme tune after scoring a smash hit with Skyfall.

A Kiwi film that was lucky to be completed at all has been heralded as one of the must-see films at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

Leaving Fifty Shades of Grey's infamous tampon scene out of the film was a no brainer for producers.

A wooden X-wing starfighter baby rocker has sold at auction today, with hundreds of dollars being donated to Starship Children's Hospital.

When the 2015 Oscar nominations were announced last week, I put "the parade of accolades for American Sniper" at the top of my list of poor decisions the Academy voters made this year.

Two movies in and Angelina Jolie the director seems to have already developed a speciality. Her debut In the Land of Blood and Honey was about a Bosnian prisoner of war.

How many Oscar nominations did The Lego Movie get? One, for Best Original Song. That's a joke. Academy Awards voters, sort this mess out, writes Chris Schulz.

The influential Sundance Film Festival opens in the US tomorrow (New Zealand time) with a sizeable Kiwi contingent in attendance and international movies made here featuring in its competitions.

A patient watchfulness and an often exquisite visual sensibility distinguish the first film outside his native Norway by writer director Poppe.

A searching examination of middle-class complacency and gender roles in an age of us-or-them individualism, this assured Swedish drama is the kind of film that's hard to watch and harder still to tear your eyes away from.

There are not too many people defending Bruce Jenner these days as his appearance morphs into a more feminine one.