One of the later sequences in this heavily armed action flick takes place in a bullfighting ring. Yes, we're now in Spain. No kidding.

There are a lot of big movies coming to NZ cinema screens soon. Dominic Corry lists off the films we should be geting excited about.

Amy Winehouse's fiance Reg Traviss is furious after being cut from the biopic of her life.

With the release date of the sequel to Fifty Shades Of Grey confirmed, fans have been given a sneak peek at what's in store in the next installment.

Kristen Stewart agonised over her sex scene with former boyfriend Robert Pattinson in the Twilight franchise because she wanted it to be “so good”.

Kiah Roache-Turner shot his gruesome zombie thriller Wyrmwood over weekends, taking his inspiration from Peter Jackson's first film Bad Taste.

The wonderful choristers of the American Boychoir School (is "boychoir" even a word?) in Princeton, New Jersey, are the heart and soul of this production. But all the star power at the top of the bill cannot save a sentimental paint-by-numbers film.

Sean Penn makes a rare foray into action movies in The Gunman. He tells Russell Baillie why.

Moviemaker James Cameron is busy with the hard task of turning four Avatar screenplays into three movies.

Sir Peter Jackson has paid a touching personal tribute to Andrew Lesnie, the Oscar-winning cinematographer who was behind the camera on eight of his films.

Marvel’s film adaptations of comic book action adventures are expanding into a cosmos of their own.

Andrey Zvyagintsev's latest film has stirred considerable controversy in its mother country, writes Peter Calder.

Toni Collette is fabulous and utterly convincing in this low-key drama about a magazine music writer whose latest assignment is to go in search of her ex-boyfriend, cult rock hero Matthew Smith, who mysteriously disappeared 10 years ago.

Sam Claflin is being considered for a starring role in the highly anticipated film Star Wars: Rogue One.

He has taken on the lead role in film franchise Mad Max.

Scriptwriter and director of first film have quit after creative differences with the novelist - It might not be the greatest recipe for domestic bliss.

Now that The Hobbit has come to a close, what should be the next project that director Peter Jackson sinks his teeth into? Dominic Corry investigates.

The new Southpaw trailer last month featured Jake Gyllenhaal showing off an extremely toned torso.

Director Joss Whedon says a scene leaked on the internet purporting to be from his upcoming movie Avengers: Age Of Ultron is a fake.

Who's better: Batman, or Superman? Karl Puschmann and Dominic Corry go into battle over the age-old argument.

For Russian writer-director Zvyagintsev, whose 2003 debut The Return deeply impressed, this is feature number four, though only his second to be seen here outside festivals.

Toa Fraser has thanked local film fans for "having my back" after forcing a website that ran an "offensive" one-star review of his film The Dead Lands to apologise.

Age of Ultron feels less of an event than the first film, just a reasonably exciting instalment in Marvel's ongoing mega-franchise.

In an email discussing Emily Blunt's possible role as in a Spider-Man spin-off, Sony Pictures chairwoman Amy Pascal wrote she was "worried" about Blunt.

The wild adventures of small plastic toys will be returning to the big screen starting in 2017.