In the new version of the Kray twins story, the notorious gangsters spring to life fully formed.

Haunting photos of abandoned Kiwi set from Disney's 1988 teen war drama The Rescue.

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.

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.

Director says he wants 73-year-old Harrison Ford to return as whip-cracking archaeologist.

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

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

A Kiwi-made film has hit the big time - but for all the wrong reasons.

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

Each of her memorable characters contains a little bit of irrepressible Aussie. Toni Collette talks to Helen Barlow.

Towering film franchises are more than seasonal tentpoles. So often planned in multiple instalments, of course, they can function like big tops unto themselves.

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

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

Break-up made me focus on my job, says actress, but admits winning an Oscar did not heal her loneliness.

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

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.

After hundreds of try-outs across the Pacific the voice of Moana has been found.

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'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.

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

US federal officials are investigating Hollywood movie studios over allegations of widespread gender discrimination.

Featuring Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore

The sobbing and sniffing in the theatre would indicate this emotionally manipulative story about lifelong friends dealing with one of them having cancer hits the mark - but it's a close-run thing.

Mark Wahlberg is set to return to the Transformers film franchise for at least one more movie as studio bosses plan the next four instalments in the blockbuster series.

Tom Hard stars in the crime thriller, Legend.

Auckland University's Professor Richard Easther, one of the world's leading cosmologists, gives his scientific verdict on the movie of the moment.

James Bond actor Daniel Craig can't understand his selfie-hunters.

If you saw The Martian over the weekend, which opened No. 1 at the box office with $55 million, you probably didn't expect to leave the theater with I Will Survive stuck in your head.