Star Wars: The Force Awakens poised to obliterate the domestic record of reigning box-office champ Avatar. Can it get the all-time worldwide record?

US actor Sylvester Stallone says a Creed sequel could reunite Stallone's character Rocky Balboa with his rival Apollo Creed.

Star Wars fans are disturbed by a decision to omit lead character Rey from the new The Force Awakens themed Monopoly game.

A trippy, beautiful and wild film that serves as a timeless ode to Jim Henson's boundless imagination, Labyrinth is my favourite kids' film of all time.

Quentin Tarantino has a new movie The Hateful Eight. As usual it doesn't adopt half measures.

The movies Gremlins is a cuddly horror flick sure to scare the kids - and also delight them

I could easily list a platoon of family films that I loved as a kid, but I'd struggle to call most of them "timeless".

The life and times of a persecuted Hollywood writer.

Bringing you our favourite features from 2015. If you missed them the first time around, now's the perfect time to catch up.

We all mess up sometimes, that's life, what's important is to learn from our mistakes. Looking back on 2015, Hollywood could do the same.

The Herald and Flicks.co.nz are on the hunt to discover New Zealand's favourite family film. Today Leonie Hayden tells us why she chooses The Neverending Story.

The Herald and Flicks.co.nz are on the hunt to discover New Zealand's favourite family film. Today TV presenter Matt Gibb tells us why he loves Wall-E.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more enduring distillation of the master film-maker's family-friendly cinematic identity than The Goonies.

Blockbuster revivals featured women being empowered, at last.

Warning: This article contains major plot spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Apart from famously loud-shirted chief executive John Lasseter, the Pixar bunch remains mostly unseen, staying behind the scenes and letting their work do their talking.

The latest episode of Star Wars is now upon us and has unleashed a new era of science fantasy robots, or "droids" as they are known.

With everybody talking about The Force Awakens, here are eight signs these star-crossed lovers were never right for each other.

Bringing you our favourite features from 2015. If you missed them the first time around, now's the perfect time to catch up.

Kurt Russell has no idea what Guardians of the Galaxy is about, despite receiving an offer to portray Chris Pratt's father in a planned sequel.

TimeOut takes a look back at the year that was, here are the entertainment highlights from 2015.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were hilarious together when they teamed up in 2010 for cop movie spoof The Other Guys. While the set-up in Daddy's Home is different, their roles are similar.

The Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell show rolls back into town with family drama Joy, an offbeat and quietly entertaining yarn about the rags-to-riches true story of Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and her crazy family.

James Cameron has given fans of his hit movie Avatar a boost by confirming plans to start filming in January.

If Episode VII of the Star Wars saga points toward anything about the episodes to follow, it is that Kylo Ren is becoming the new Darth Vader.

The Critics' Choice Awards have added Star Wars: The Force Awakens as an 11th best-picture nominee.

Whether or not Bryan Cranston wins the Best Actor Oscar in February, this biopic will surely prompt a stream of sanctimonious recollection in Tinseltown about Dalton Trumbo.

The hero of The Good Dinosaur, the latest offering from Pixar animations, isn't the adorable apatosaurus, Arlo, his unlikely human companion, Spot, or the red neck T-Rex cowboy voiced by Western film actor Sam Elliott.