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Electric film-making and charismatic cast

From left, Dan Aykroyd (Dylan O'Brien), Gilda Radner (Ella Hunt), John Belushi (Matt Wood) and...

Electric film-making and charismatic cast

Saturday Night is Jason Reitman’s fabricated reimagining of the turbulent production immediately preceding the first episode of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975.

Friends explore Sri Lankan food in film

Carl Naus and Baghya Janethri Harath. Photo: Phil Vine

Dunedin friends explore Sri Lankan food in film

A Dunedin co-operative café and bakery worker's new film about food suppliers in Sri Lanka is due out next month.

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Oamaru station among film locations for series

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Oamaru station among film locations for series

Excitement is mounting as Oamaru is set to be a Netflix series film location.

The making of a president

The Apprentice depicts the ex-president’s come up, a gamble that’s led to legal threats and Hollywood discourse, writes Adrian Horton.

Star Wars helmet tops list of auction memorabilia

The Sandtrooper helmet from Star Wars has a price guide of between $530,000 and $1 million. Photo...

Star Wars helmet tops list of auction memorabilia

From Yoda's cane to Clint Eastwood's coat in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, hundreds of items will go under the hammer next month in a sale of movie and TV memorabilia.

Friendship on the agenda

Saturday Night Live writer Harper Steele came out as a trans woman in 2022 at the age of 61.

Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89

Dame Maggie Smith, one of the most acclaimed actors of her generation with a career ranging from Shakespeare to Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, has died, aged 89.

Bombastic exercise in metaphor

Adam Driver, left, and Nathalie Emmanuel in Megalopolis. PHOTO: Lionsgate/TNS

Bombastic exercise in metaphor

Megalopolis is a Roman epic transposed into contemporary America, where a tormented visionary architect is at odds with a city’s mayor in the ideological and architectural frontier of the future.

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Movie fundraiser first step towards therapy

The Costers, (from left) David, Mac, 1, Margot, 4, Aoife, 2, Bridget and Cooper, 8, are looking...

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Movie fundraiser first step towards therapy

Aoife Coster is on a journey to learn to walk but needs help to pay for a trip to Australia for intensive therapy.

An argument without substance

It’s ironic that a film titled The Substance would have little of it.

Both a sweeping war epic crossed with a McGuffin-laden political thriller, Milady ultimately ends up slightly confused between the two, trying too hard to pull off both manoeuvres to satisfyingly deliver on either.

McAvoy brings the menace

James McAvoy in Speak No Evil. PHOTO: Jay Maidment/Universal Pictures and Blumhouse/TNS

McAvoy brings the menace

Speak No Evil sets the loaded gun on the table then proceeds to dare you to think it’s going to fire, sewing anxiety, doubt and despair into the tapestry of the text.

A towering presence

Liev Schreiber and Nicole Kidman in The Perfect Couple. Photo: TNS

A towering presence

Mercurial actor Nicole Kidman has just picked up another award, at the Venice Film Festival, as she proves unstoppable, Leila Latif writes.

James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93

James Earl Jones is shown in the file photo. Photo: Reuters

James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93

American actor James Earl Jones, recognised the world over as intergalactic villain Darth Vader, has died at the age of 93.

The soundtrack to their lives

Kinglsey Ben-Adir as Bob Marley in Bob Marley: One Love. Photo: Paramount Pictures/TNS

The soundtrack to their lives

From Britney to Bruce to Bob, music biopics are hotter than ever.

Spat with Crowe highlight of promo

Paul Mescal stars in Gladiator II. Photo: Paramount

Spat with Crowe highlight of promo

Director Ridley Scott seems to be goading one of the most explosive actors in existence about his absence from the sequel of the film that made him, Stuart Heritage finds.

Stellar performances rescue ill-conceived script

Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. PHOTO: Parisa Taghizadeh/Warner Bros./TNS

Stellar performances rescue ill-conceived script

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a gentle return to form for Tim Burton, ditching CGI to reignite that colourful practical flair reminiscent of his earlier work.