The trick to enjoying recent Hollywood comedies lies in managing your expectations, but they'd have to be low indeed for you to get much satisfaction from The House.

Australians Rebel Wilson and Chris Hemsworth have been inducted into the Oscars voting collegiate, along with 774 other entertainment industry leaders.

A Hollywood casting announcement we can all get behind.

William Oldroyd​'s Lady Macbeth is no riff on Shakespeare. Set in England in the middle of the 19th century, it's an adaptation of Nikolai Leskov​'s 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Move over, Kevin Spacey.

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, who starred in the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo films alongside Noomi Rapace, has died from lung cancer. He was 56.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul sees writers Bowers and Kinney pick up where they left off.

There is nothing our assassin heroine can't do, it seems, except have a happy life.

''Right place, right time,'' says Lady Macbeth star Florence Pugh about her fledgling career.

There's a wise-cracking, fun-loving guy inside the modern Spider-Man, says Tom Holland.

The veteran director of A Beautiful Mind and Frost/Nixon takes the helm of the troubled Star Wars Han Solo spin-off film today.

This story of one of the first black stars in France bears only a passing resemblance to history, but it's still huge fun.

The Indigenous playwright behind the critically acclaimed musical Bran Nue Dae had died in Broome at the age of 69.

Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has hinted he might reinvestigate Johnny Depp illegally bringing his two dogs into Australia while filming the latest instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Johnny Depp's former business managers are claiming that the actor pressured one of his staff to "take the fall" for illegally bringing his two dogs into Australia while filming the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Not even Johnny Depp is trying to defend Johnny Depp's comments to a laughing crowd at a festival last week: "When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? . . . It's been a while, and maybe it's time."

Johnny Depp says he was 'only trying to amuse' with his Trump assassination gag.

Twenty years on, wizards and witches of all ages are preparing to head back to Hogwarts.

How different the future or past could've been if veteran actor Christopher Lloyd didn't play the iconic mad scientist Emmett "Doc" Brown in the 1980s Back to the Future time-travelling trilogy?

Ron Howard is stepping in to direct the coming stand-alone Han Solo film, two days after Philip Lord and Christopher Miller were ousted from the job. They had spent 4 1/2 months on the as-yet-untitled space western.

Rebel Wilson's special damages claim is "extraordinarily large" according to the publisher found guilty of defaming her by branding her a serial liar who faked her way into Hollywood.

The men that brought you The Lego Movie will no longer call the shots for the next standalone Star Wars film.

Rebel Wilson has promised to give away any money she receives from her successful lawsuit against magazine publisher Bauer Media.

• Review

Benedict Andrews' film adaptation of David Harrower's play Blackbird is a highly charged piece of drama, but also a limited one.