Spy movie Kingsman: The Secret Service inspired Dominic Corry to take a look at some of his favourite Bond-inspired films.

How to bring a legend to life? That was the challenge for film-maker Ava DuVernay when she was given the opportunity to direct - what is remarkably - the first major motion picture about Martin Luther King.

A gospel singer from Hawaii has received the call-back thousands of aspiring Polynesian princesses have been hoping for for more than a month.

Unless you're a Kardashian sibling, there are some things you just don't share with your parents.

Jedi master Yoda has been recreated at Madame Tussauds for a new exhibition.

The creator of Game of Thrones says he once wrote a TV pilot with a plot focused on an alien landing at the Super Bowl.

Fifty Shades of Grey is set to feature more sex on screen than the 100 raunchiest films released in 2014 put together, making it the most erotic mainstream movie in a decade.

New movies will put women in the spotlight when they premiere at the 65th Berlin film festival, the Berlinale.

This year Sundance has impressed moviegoers, critics and industry buyers alike with a 118-feature selection that suggests a new surge of confidence in American independent cinema.

Michele Manelis talks with the star of Selma about the civil rights struggle in the US and racism today.

Great drama speaks to any day in which it is performed. The second-most famous play by the great Arthur Miller deals with the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, in the late 17th century.

In light of Johnny Depp's disastrous new movie Mortdecai, Dominic Corry cites seven other instances of movie stars taking on roles they shouldn't have.

Seth MacFarlane's 2012 film Ted was the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time.

Bureaucracy at the struggling video store was the final straw, writes Karl Puschmann.

The New Zealand movie box office for 2014 bucked international trends by increasing its annual gross and breaking its previous yearly record.

Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time. Joined once again by star Mark Wahlberg and fellow Ted writers Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane produces the live action/CG-animated comedy alongside Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, as well as John Jacobs and Jason Clark.

While there's nothing wrong with being a Bond girl, Sophie Cookson was thrilled to be in a spy movie in which she wasn't just "the girlfriend".

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.

The Fantastic Four reboot shows a vastly different film to the 2005 flick.

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.

Before she was cast in the movie Wild, Laura Dern had not read the best-selling book that inspired it - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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.