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Capturing the genius of the Beach Boys on screen

The film switches between the Beach Boys’ rise to pop stardom in the 1960s and Wilson’s breakdown and recovery in the 1980s.

We rank every Pixar movie ever made

So many great Pixar movies, but which is best? And where will the studio's latest feature, Inside Out, sit? Dominic Corry ranks all of Pixar's movies.

Cannes movies to feature at film festival

With the New Zealand International Film Festival programme due to hit streets next week, organisers have announced yet more titles to be included in next month’s event including a raft of movies which were contenders at last month’s Cannes Film Festival.

Courtney Love wants Kurt Cobain film buried

True Detective star to play US president

Woody Harrelson has been cast as former US president Lyndon Baines Johnson in director Rob Reiner's new biopic LBJ.

Actress insists on female director for biopic

Actress Natalie Portman reportedly held up development on the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic after insisting on working with a female director.

Star won't film outside the US

Jurassic World star Chris Pratt is single-handedly keeping the US film industry all-American by refusing to leave the country to make movies.

Freeman, Keaton light up film

Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton are well cast as a couple married for 40-plus years agonising over whether to sell their home for a more age-appropriate dwelling.

Peter Jackson pays tribute to Lee

Lord of the Rings star Christopher Lee died today aged 93. Here's how friends and fellow actors have paid tribute to him.

Prince of Darkness to knight of realm

From Dracula to Saruman, Bond villain to Jedi master, Christopher Lee was a master of wickedness.

Ready for Jurassic Kiwi?

Off to see Jurassic World this weekend? Canvas columnist James Griffin pens his own NZ dino-rampage blockbuster.

Movie review: Jurassic World

Hollywood starlets' hilarious spoof

Bryce Dallas Howard has teamed up with her The Help co-star and fellow redhead Jessica Chastain to poke fun at comparisons between the two stars.

Movie review: Behind The Beautiful Forevers

The acclaimed non-fiction book by New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo is the raw material of this energetic and often spellbinding production of an adaptation by David Hare, the first National Theatre show with an entirely Asian cast.

Here's the first footage of Ratchet & Clank on PS4

Insomniac has shown off the first gameplay from upcoming PlayStation 4 platformer Ratchet & Clank.

Movie review: Marshland

It’s the early 80s and the country is emerging uncertainly from the Franco era. Old loyalties are dying hard — the area, we gather, was a fascist stronghold — and widespread industrial unrest lends a simmering sense of disquiet.