Matt Damon has apologised for comments regarding diversity in filmmaking that sparked widespread backlash online.

By all accounts he's a strange guy. You might pick up on this by his movie roles or his talk show appearances or that time he crashed a random kickball game.

Since his breakthrough in The Usual Suspects (1995), Puerto Rico-born Benicio Del Toro has established his career playing characters in drug-drenched stories.

Matt Damon talks to Dominic Corry about why playing yet another stranded astronaut isn't giving him complex - just a chance to put some science back into sci-fi.

As slight in scope as it is modest in subject matter, the second-to-last film by Albert Maysles, who died in March, is a charming if occasionally too-reverential portrait of New York identity and self-described "geriatric starlet" Iris Apfel.

If you see only one film this year shot on an iPhone 5s and focusing on transgender hookers in LA, make it this one.

The first trailer for Disney's The Jungle Book is jam-packed with action and adventure. Rachel Bache finds five key scenes that will give you shivers and put a nostalgic smile on your face.

Matt Damon gives a black, female film producer a lesson in diversity, and the internet isn't happy about it.

The teen novel Into The River may become a Hollywood movie as news of its banning in New Zealand sparks worldwide debate.

Manu Bennett, who played orc Azog in the Hobbit trilogy, allegedly punched man in the face while in Texas for Comic Con.

Pop star Miley Cyrus and music superproducer Linda Perry have teamed up to create a track for new gay rights drama Freeheld.

An Auckland University lecturer has won a major international film award with his film Free in Deed.

New Zealand hip-hop film Born to Dance got at its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Mark Hamill saved from falling down treacherous mountainside by a quick-thinking guide during filming for the new Star Wars trilogy.

Actor Ben Foster stars as cyclist Lance Armstrong in the trailer for the new film The Program.

Production has started on a new film about the life of legendary race car driver Bruce McLaren.

Pop superstar Janet Jackson has been one of the first to see New Zealand hip-hop film Born to Dance.

Saville recently spent time in the Californian desert filming a music video for another song with fellow Kiwis the Sami sisters and Keisha Castle-Hughes.

Stan Walker and dancer-turned-actor Tia Maipi talk to Lydia Jenkin about their roles in a local flick putting its own spin on on the dance movie genre.

You read that right: this movie is happening and the two are going to fight.

Rooney Mara co-stars in the drama about a shopkeeper who has an affair with an older, married woman.

Actress Kate Mara refuses to watch her superhero movie Fantastic Four because it received a slew of scathing reviews.

You'd think the US would be worse when it comes to censorship, writes Michael Putlack. You're wrong.

The actors playing the roles of New Zealand mountaineers Rob Hall and Andy Harris in the movie Everest talk about their experiences on the acclaimed film that dramatises the 1996 tragedy on the world's highest peak.