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.

A petition has been created calling for Scarlett Johansson to be replaced by an Asian actress for the big-screen adaptation of Japanese comic series Ghost in the Shell.

A lost documentary Alfred Hitchcock made about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has finally reached screens thanks to movie mogul Brett Ratner.

Moviemaker George Lucas has blasted the Academy Awards as a political campaign which does not recognise real artistic talent after Selma star David Oyelowo and director Ava Duvernay were shut out of the Oscars nominations.

Music, not the movies, will always be Johnny Depp's first love.

No child was hurt in the making of this mini-series. But Zachary Quinto has admitted that repeatedly filming the critical scene for NBC's new drama, The Slap, in which he hits a child who is behaving badly at a BBQ, turned into a bonding moment.

I've been trying hard to resist the feel-bad urges of outrage, particularly when they come from a predicable source.

Outspoken newsman Piers Morgan and actor Alec Baldwin have clashed on Twitter over Oscar nominated movie Birdman.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon inserted a spoof gay sex scene into the script for their breakthrough movie Good Will Hunting to test whether Hollywood producers had read it.

Film and television incentives have lifted the screen production industry out of the doldrums, prompting the Auckland Council to back new studios in West Auckland.

It's been a while since Kiwis have been up for Oscars for something other than technical or musical work.

As Michael Keaton becomes the toast of the town for his comeback turn in Birdman, Dominic Corry looks back at the best Hollywood comebacks.

Eddie Redmayne speaks in commas. The response to a question will start, be amended by a clarification, never an aside, and then another.

An Auckland toymaker has produced the ultimate plaything for young Jedi knights. Steve Coupe of Steve's Wooden Toys has hand-crafted a wooden X-wing starfighter rocker.

The story of Chris Kyle - the "Most Lethal Sniper in US Military History" as his autobiography described him - might have been another kind of movie.

Given the backstory of the main character in this film, it's hard to avoid thinking of Icarus, who, became the epitome of ambition thwarted by hubris.

The nominations for the 2015 Academy Awards will be announced in the wee small hours tomorrow, New Zealand time. Here's 10 points to look out for ...

A film project dramatising the "Black Widow" murder case of Helen Milner, who poisoned her husband, has received taxpayer funding.

Film director James Cameron has revealed that the first of his NZ-made Avatar sequels is running a year behind schedule because of delays in completing the scripts.

The silver screen is set to sizzle with reports Hollywood hunks Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling have signed-on for a new flick.