The robot-addicted minds at Weta Workshop helped design the star of Neill Blomkamp's new sci-fi romp. Chappie's makers tells Chris Schulz the five steps essential for building a great big-screen bot.

A trailer gives Nirvana fans a sneak peek at the acclaimed Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck. Here's the story behind the film...

Should more movies get theatre releases? Dominic Corry looks at John Wick and other recent films that went straight to DVD in New Zealand.

Check out the trailer for upcoming Kurt Cobain documentary Montage to Heck.

Kiwi Rose McIver relishes her new lead role as a zombie with a conscience - even the brains for breakfast, writes Leena Tailor.

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are expected to negotiate seven-figure pay rises for the two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels.

Free of the Harry Potter juggernaut, British actor and director Alan Rickman has finally returned to the director's chair, almost two decades after his directing debut with The Winter Guest.

Chameleon character actor Marsan has a long list of supporting-role credits in big films (Sherlock Holmes; Mission Impossible III) and small (X+Y), which releases here next week.

A good kidnapping requires clever design, meticulous planning and a magician's sense of timing; so does a good kidnapping film. This isn't one.

For George Clooney every "second that ticks by the future is running out". At least according to his character in Disney's Tomorrowland, where he plays a former boy-genius on a mission to save the world.

Hollywood legend Robert Redford set tongues wagging after touching down in Auckland en route to his next film set - the central North Island town of Tokoroa.

To celebrate International Women's Day, we look at the important waves that female characters, both fictional and based on real life women, have made in the 21st century so far.

Actress Carrie Fisher has blamed the "curse of Star Wars" for Harrison Ford's dramatic plane crash.

Dominic Corry reflects on Harrison Ford's career and how he's become the last great movie star.

British actress Lily James stuck to a liquid diet while shooting new Disney movie Cinderella because her corset was tied too tight for her to properly digest solid foods.

Epic Games and Weta Digital have unveiled a virtual reality game demo of a scene from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Will Smith and Margot Robbie play con artists in their new movie Focus, out this week. Dominic Corry lists off ten of the best con artist films.

Dev Patel wants to shoot people "in the face" when they ask him to do the dance from Slumdog Millionaire.

NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner selects five great New Zealand arts documentaries, to mark the start of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival.

Thomas Lang is a film director who is offered the chance to adapt a book by American journalist Simone Ford, which recounts the controversial trial of American student Jessica Fuller for the murder of her flatmate Elizabeth Pryce. To help with his research, Simone takes Thomas to Siena, where he is disturbed by the media frenzy that has developed around the case. Starring Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale and Cara Delevingne

In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Academy Award® Winner Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.

Will Smith and Aussie It Girl Margot Robbie team up in a sleek slice of escapism from directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, the co-writers and directors of I Love You Phillip Morris and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

In the past, game adaptations have made for poor movies. But with top directors and casts, that's about to change, says Patrick Grafton-Green.

The third full-length trailer for Avengers: Age Of Ultron has been released.

Even best actress Oscar winners can have a bad day at the office, and this is one of those for Julianne Moore.

The new trailer for Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron.

A film about rugby in heartland New Zealand and a headline-making documentary about sugar are to feature in the Autumn Events mini-film festival in Auckland next month.