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.

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.

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.

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.

Bringing you all the action from the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

Foxcatcher's director Bennett Miller tells Tim Robey what drove the unusual choice of actors in his film of wrestling and murder.

Courage under fire based on reality Director familiar with ravages of war, writes Dominic Corry.

As the film of their life is released, Jane Hawking recalls how she fell in love with the legendary physicist against the haunting backdrop of his developing motor neurone disease.

The recent movies that have looked at the impact of dementia - Away From Her, The Savages, Aurora Borealis, A Song For Martin, Lovely, Still - have tended to focus on the effect on those left behind as the light dies.

Anthony Mackie has been raving about Captain America 3.

He's one of Hollywood's highest paid stars but Johnny Depp's box office appeal has taken another critical hit as the comedy Mordecai opens in America and Britain.

Dominic Corry takes a look at the movies snubbed by the Oscars this year.

British singer Adele is rumoured to be returning to the James Bond franchise to record a second theme tune after scoring a smash hit with Skyfall.

A wooden X-wing starfighter baby rocker has sold at auction today, with hundreds of dollars being donated to Starship Children's Hospital.

When the 2015 Oscar nominations were announced last week, I put "the parade of accolades for American Sniper" at the top of my list of poor decisions the Academy voters made this year.

Two movies in and Angelina Jolie the director seems to have already developed a speciality. Her debut In the Land of Blood and Honey was about a Bosnian prisoner of war.

How many Oscar nominations did The Lego Movie get? One, for Best Original Song. That's a joke. Academy Awards voters, sort this mess out, writes Chris Schulz.

The influential Sundance Film Festival opens in the US tomorrow (New Zealand time) with a sizeable Kiwi contingent in attendance and international movies made here featuring in its competitions.

A patient watchfulness and an often exquisite visual sensibility distinguish the first film outside his native Norway by writer director Poppe.

A searching examination of middle-class complacency and gender roles in an age of us-or-them individualism, this assured Swedish drama is the kind of film that's hard to watch and harder still to tear your eyes away from.

There are not too many people defending Bruce Jenner these days as his appearance morphs into a more feminine one.

The actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films has been taken to hospital suffering from pneumonia.

As writers, actors and directors jostle for favour following the Oscar and Bafta award nominations, scientists have discovered the true measure of a film's worth is not how many gongs it wins, but how many times later film-makers reference it.

It is just another grim, terrifying day for US troops in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, and Chris Kyle, a rookie sniper perched on an empty building, has the unenviable task of watching his comrades' backs.

Everyone's favourite besties - Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen - won't reprise their mutant roles in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse.