With the toss of a wild mane of bleached blonde hair, the Australian actress Natasha Bassett has transformed into the pop star diva Britney Spears in an upcoming biopic which chronicles Spear's troubled rise to fame and her sudden flame-out.

The success of Rogue One ensures many more stand-alone movies as well as new episodes of the sci-fi saga.

While director Peter Berg may not have a great deal of insight into the mindset of those behind the bombings, he avoids turning them into simple demons.

A lack of gender and racial diversity in Hollywood is not merely limited to front-of-camera acting roles.

In Gold, Matthew McConaughey strikes an unattractive note as a businessman dreamer.

There's more high-spirited whimsy than laugh-out-loud humour in this film than its predecessor.

Director Han Jae-rim pulls a neat trick in his crime epic The King, a major hit in its native Korea.

The actor is stepping down as director on 'The Batman' but will remain as both the film's producer and titular star.

Manchester by the Sea is vying for Best Picture against the more cheerful La La Land and the more transporting Moonlight, but so it should be, because it is the kind of movie you don't forget easily.

The movie about the smuggler and scoundrel's early days is underway.

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

His roles as an action hero were great fun, the actor says, but now, with Martin Scorsese in charge, Liam Neeson's career is taking a serious turn.

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Her fourth Oscar nomination shows one of our most widely criticised actresses deserves more respect.

Cultural figures and institutions are calculating how Donald Trump's executive order seeking to keep many foreigners from entering the United States will harm their art and missions.

The Mad Max director says that filmmakers being forced to protest against visa bans is "madness".

Plus Netflix's The Crown scoops the TV categories at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild awards.

Actor Dev Patel has branded US President Donald Trump's travel ban "horrible" and "divisive" as he arrived at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

Too demanding or just a wrong call? The Harry Potter star is watching Emma Stone win plaudits for a role originally marked for her.

Rogue One star Ben Mendelsohn, Moulin Rouge designer Catherine Martin and TV executive David Hill honoured.

Three separate presenters/winners referred to the trouble they've experienced being detained at US borders.

An Oscar-nominated Iranian director may be barred from the Academy Awards ceremony next month after President Donald Trump's order banning some Muslims from entering the US.

Respected British actor John Hurt has died aged 77, after battles with cancer and other health issues. His most recent role was a priest in the Oscar-nomnated film Jackie, about the widow of President John F. Kennedy. 

He has gone from heroin to Hollywood.

"I tried to warn folks," the film's director wrote on Twitter.