Like most kids in Australia in the 1980s Chris loved dressing up as Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

First-night ticket sales in the United States of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story put the prequel on track to top the box office and post one of the biggest opening weekends of the year, validating Disney's strategy of spinning new stories and characters off of the sci-fi classic.

Oh, so that's what this film is about? That's horrible. SPOILERS.

"Horrifyingly yucky" probably aren't the words you want to see in a review of your prestige awards season release.

While the film isn't out until next year, Harry Style's rabid fanbase are already calling for the Academy to give him an Oscar.

Why Him? sees Bryan Cranston as a father horrified to meet his daughter's foul-mouthed and colourful new beau, played by James Franco.

A lot happened before we first took off into a galaxy far, far away in the original Star Wars from 1977.

Star Wars has moved a long way from the cartoonish vitality of George Lucas's original vision.

Amber Heard will return to the Gold Coast after she and Johnny Depp were found guilty of smuggling their dogs into Australia.

Nicole Kidman's Oscar campaign continues to roar with the Australian actress adding a Screen Actors Guild nomination for her feted Lion role.

Only four years ago the canine star of Red Dog: True Blue was found starving and left for dead.

Get ready for biopics galore from Hollywood in the next few years.

As the review embargo lifts, so do the sighs of relief from Star Wars fans the galaxy over.

The #Oscarsowhite backlash might not have solved much.

The young director thought he would never get to make the film of his dreams, a musical set in LA. Then he won several Oscars for Whiplash.

Revered as one of the fathers of modern, independent American film Jim Jarmusch has never shied from whimsy, but does not quite pull Paterson off.

According to boycotters the ending of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was reshot to undermine President-elect Donald Trump.

If you were in a Marvel movie, you probably ended up on this list.

Our pick of what's showing on the big screen this week

It takes more than just one well-trained kelpie to make the prequel to the hit film Red Dog.

He is the director who did Forrest Gump and Back to the Future, now Robert Zemeckis is applying his ground-breaking approach to a new genre, the romantic thriller.

Despite having a great cast, Office Christmas Party fails to spark

The past year in cinema brought us finely wrought characters, plenty of laughs, unmissable performances and plenty of intrigue.

Reynolds has revealed his secret desire to unite X-Men's Deadpool with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine for a new film.