You'd be hard-pressed to find a more enduring distillation of the master film-maker's family-friendly cinematic identity than The Goonies.

Blockbuster revivals featured women being empowered, at last.

Warning: This article contains major plot spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Apart from famously loud-shirted chief executive John Lasseter, the Pixar bunch remains mostly unseen, staying behind the scenes and letting their work do their talking.

Schulz died in 2000 aged 77 and Jim a year later at a very youthful 92, both leaving a fabulous legacy for the next generation of scribblers.

Is there a film appropriate for your parents, siblings and grandpa?

The latest episode of Star Wars is now upon us and has unleashed a new era of science fantasy robots, or "droids" as they are known.

With everybody talking about The Force Awakens, here are eight signs these star-crossed lovers were never right for each other.

Bringing you our favourite features from 2015. If you missed them the first time around, now's the perfect time to catch up.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were hilarious together when they teamed up in 2010 for cop movie spoof The Other Guys. While the set-up in Daddy's Home is different, their roles are similar.

The Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell show rolls back into town with family drama Joy, an offbeat and quietly entertaining yarn about the rags-to-riches true story of Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and her crazy family.

James Cameron has given fans of his hit movie Avatar a boost by confirming plans to start filming in January.

If Episode VII of the Star Wars saga points toward anything about the episodes to follow, it is that Kylo Ren is becoming the new Darth Vader.

The Critics' Choice Awards have added Star Wars: The Force Awakens as an 11th best-picture nominee.

Whether or not Bryan Cranston wins the Best Actor Oscar in February, this biopic will surely prompt a stream of sanctimonious recollection in Tinseltown about Dalton Trumbo.

The hero of The Good Dinosaur, the latest offering from Pixar animations, isn't the adorable apatosaurus, Arlo, his unlikely human companion, Spot, or the red neck T-Rex cowboy voiced by Western film actor Sam Elliott.

Surmounting the not considerable obstacle that French pop music makes John Denver sound like AC/DC, this Christmas crowdpleaser breathes new life into the girl-becomes-woman genre.

Charlie brown's return to the big screen, 25 years after the last Peanuts feature, is sure to charm and delight both newcomers and fans of Charles M. Schulz's iconic comic strip.

It's been a big year for movies, one of the biggest ever. Here are some of the movies, moments and performances we found to be the most memorable.

Warning: This article contains major plot spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

These are Hollywood's most overrated actors, according to Herald readers.

Boutique theatre company's opening Kiwi musical Daffodils is to be made into a movie

J.K. Rowling has said she "loves" the fact that Hermione Granger will be played by a black actress in the highly anticipated new Harry Potter play.

Filming on Star Wars: Episode VIII will start within weeks in London, The Force Awakens actor John Boyega told fans as he surprised them after a screening of the latest film in the capital.

South African stuntwoman who appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens suffers horrific injury on set of new zombie film.

Everything we want know about Star Wars Episode VIII. WARNING: Spoilers.

The star may be staying at one of Peter Jackson's many homes on Seatoun's Worser Bay

Warning this article contains Star Wars: The Force Awakens SPOILERS. Do not read this article if you have not seen the movie. Seriously, just don't.

Ever wondered what a year in the life of Richie McCaw is like? Bio pic hopes to answer that question, and more.

For the perfect Christmas you will need; a massive tree, a dangerous amount of lights, cheese-ball movies and songs so bad you wouldn't listen to them any other time, writes Matt Heath.