Actress Emma Thompson will not reprise her role in the romantic comedy after the death last year of co-star Alan Rickman.

For more than a decade Brad Pitt has been carefully building a plan B, as a producer. It looks to be paying off big time.

Just like TV, it seems the future of cinema is streaming.

The original, unaltered Star Wars trilogy is rumoured to be re-released this year to mark the 40th anniversary of A New Hope.

Our job is becoming other people, taking on another life, says the 76-year-old star of Star Trek and The X-Men.

An average cast, heavy-handed symbolism and "bewilderingly disjointed" editing make poor work of this dark period in Soviet history.

I know you are, but what am I?

The ''boy from Oz'' was having dinner with Jerry Seinfeld when he decided his next lupine outing would be the last.

Revisiting this much loved classic was always a risky proposition but Danny Boyle has delivered on expectations.

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The favourite to win a batch of Oscars doesn't deserve the slamming it's been getting from disappointed viewers.

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It has been widely reported that the Australian's ninth outing in the role will be his last. It really should be but not for the reason that you think.

The country's reviewers have named Ivan Sen's outback western last year's best film ahead of Mel Gibson's Oscar-nominated war hero drama.

For the director of Slumdog Millionaire and Steve Jobs, it has taken more than two decades to return to the seedy adventures of four Scottish addicts.

I must have caught sight of the images of the children who were rescued and taken into care: docile victims in matching smocks and bleached-blonde fringes.

If you didn't know that Emma Stone could sing and dance before La La Land, you clearly had not seen her knockout turn as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, her Broadway debut in 2014.

She performed Dusty Springfield's You Don't Own Me and Adele's Hello.

Our pick of the best of the big screen this week.

There are good news stories all over the place and the chance of two or three wins at the Academy Awards.

What do a handsome smuggler, a rapper, the mother of dragons and a giant Finnish basketball player all have in common? The new standalone Star Wars film, of course.

What do you do when a fellow performer insults your political hero? Jump on stage and steal their clothing, of course.

Aussie actress Natasha Bassett starred as the pop star.

Feminist actress Emma Watson has refuted claims the Disney classic is about an abusive relationship.

Is the Wolverine a political animal? For Hugh Jackman, he has certainly become one in Logan, his latest and last outing as the clawed mutant who gets hairy when he gets mad.

"According to the boss, we are looking to start in August."