Latest from Movies

Blanchett's latest accolade
Actress Cate Blanchett honoured with British Film Institute fellowship.

Fifty Shades 'fun' ends in court
James Austin claimed she hit him so hard with a bamboo cane that it snapped. But Elvira Blakemore insisted the caning was consensual.

Craig on Bond: He's got 'serious f***ing problems'
'He's a misogynist. That's clear. He's got problems.' Has playing the world's best-known spy messed up Daniel Craig's own life? Jonathan Dean meets our most famous and loved spy.

Oscar hopes for new Netflix movie
The film generating Oscar buzz for Netflix, Beasts Of No Nation, will debut on the streaming service on Friday in New Zealand, at the exact same time as the rest of the world.

Taika Waititi to bring the humour, Hulk to Thor
New reports suggest Taika Waititi has been hired to lighten up superhero movie Thor: Ragnarok

Hollywood stars back sex pay-gap swipe
Emma Watson and Mark Ruffalo are among stars backing Jennifer Lawrence for addressing the Hollywood gender pay gap in a hard-hitting article.

Why The Walk director hopes to make you sick
Director Robert Zemeckis made Forrest Gump run and sent Marty McFly back to the future. Why does he hope his new film will make you sick? Robbie Collin reports.

Review: Haunting western from North Africa
French writer-director Oelhoffen parlays a 1957 short story by Albert Camus into a quietly riveting quasi-Western, set in the sere rocky uplands of Algeria in the 1954, at the start of the bloody war against the French colonisers.

Review: Family drama with human heart
The presence of Sharma (from Ang Lee's The Life of Pi) and Revolori, the bellboy stuck on fast-forward in Wes Anderson's mystifyingly popular The Grand Budapest Hotel, may improve the fortunes of this straightforward family drama.

Spielberg: I'll probably do Indiana Jones 5
Director says he wants 73-year-old Harrison Ford to return as whip-cracking archaeologist.

Twilight star in Queenstown
An actor from the hit teen movie series The Twilight Saga was spotted in Queenstown this week.

Trailer: Trumbo
In this fascinating true story, Emmy Award winning actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) portrays Donald Trumbo, the successful Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist. Also starring Diane Lane, Dean O’Gorman, Louis C.K., Helen Mirren and Elle Fanning

Turbo Kid a top hit with pirates
A Kiwi-made film has hit the big time - but for all the wrong reasons.

Kiwi film tops piracy websites
Kiwi producer Ant Timpson says Turbo Kid's makers would be rich if they made just $1 from every illegal download.

Why Pan could be this year's biggest flop
The Hugh Jackman vehicle had a budget of $224 million but brought in under $30m in its opening weekend after suffering poor reviews.

A film that's so bad it's good
Karl Puschmann paid good money to see a bad film. And he's happy about it.

Has Johnny Depp finally returned to form?
Depp's intense, quietly disturbing portrayal of cold-blooded killer Jimmy "Whitey" Bulger proves the actor is back on form.

'Divorce was the best thing for my career'
Break-up made me focus on my job, says actress, but admits winning an Oscar did not heal her loneliness.

Spider-Man delights with mid-air stunt
Spider-Man, caught scaling Auckland's Sky Tower in the middle of the day and perform superhero tricks 220m up in the air.

People think Matt Damon's space movie is real
The Martian is a movie about a botanist stranded when his crew accidentally leave him behind on Mars. Sadly, some people think it's real.

Disney's newest princess revealed
After hundreds of try-outs across the Pacific the voice of Moana has been found.

Film so scary it's making grown men flee
My heart is racing, I am starting to feel breathless, and light-headedness is threatening to overwhelm me.

Double trouble for hardman Tom Hardy
The director of a new film starring Tom Hardy as notorious Brit gangsters the Krays talks to Russell Baillie about his double vision.

Kirsten Dunst not so innocent in new Fargo
Kirsten Dunst's guilelessness has set her apart from the A-list - and won her work in everything from superhero franchises to the new second season of Fargo. She talks to Elizabeth Day.

Depp talks taking on gangster
Johnny Depp talks to Helen Barlow about taking on the role of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in the movie Black Mass.