The Academy Awards 2016 were dogged by controversy surrounding the predominantly white and male dominance, and that's set to change.

Through her acting and production work, Susan Sarandon is happy to help challenge the Hollywood patriarchy, writes Helen Barlow

If you missed Spy last year do yourself a favour and check it out on home video. It's a properly funny comedy from Paul Feig, the director of Bridesmaids and featuring Melissa McCarthy.

It's time to find out what happens 20 years later, as the aliens return to get a little revenge in Independence Day 2. And some other stuff is happening too.

Ok so Bad Neighbours 2 is actually a bit of a riot - with some fun characters, gags that work and a focus on female subject matter which is pretty unusual for the genre.

The X-Men series continues with its latest entry, and it's supposed to see in big changes for the squad. Plus there are some dramas if you're into something alternative and no other big movies looking to compete with Professor X and his crew.

The summer movie season is almost upon us, with blockbusters galore, and some of them don't even have superheroes in them. Not many we'll admit... here's looking at you Independence Day!

X-Men Apocalypse is coming, and the first trailer is absolutely epic.

If you missed it in cinemas, Spy was freaking hilarious - setting up Melissa McCarthy as an undercover agent dealing with all manner of deadly folks including villainess Rose Byrne.

Helen Mirren is fabulous. She and Jane Fonda are living proof that the cocktail hour of your life is no time to give up on fashion. 

The suave but lethal Bradley Fine (Jude Law) is the CIA’s most successful Spy (12A), but when Bradley is killed by Balkan villain Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), Bradley’s deskbound analyst Susan ‘Coop’ Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is sent into the field to track down the ‘mini-nuke’ Bradley was pursuing.

A CIA analyst is forced to go undercover to stop a major arms deal.

A CIA analyst is forced to go undercover to stop a major arms deal.

A CIA analyst is forced to go undercover to stop a major arms deal.

The pick of the programmes from tonight's TV.

Judy Greer chose a vibrantly coloured maxi-dress from Stella MacCartney’s Resort 2015 collection for the premier of Fresno at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. 

Little orphan Annie gets a new lease on life when she meets a businessman running for political office.

Frank *****

'American Hustle' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' lead the 2014 MTV Movie Awards nominations.

'American Hustle' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' lead the 2014 MTV Movie Awards nominations.

Who was the fairest of them all? Amy Adams styled herself, Kate Hudson channelled Faye Dunaway, Cate Blanchett wore a nude Armani, and Jennifer Lawrence let it slip, says Rachel Marie Walsh

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

If you weren’t spooked by James Wan’s 2011 supernatural horror ‘Insidious’, you stand little chance of making sense of the self-referential sequel.

Product placement in Hollywood films dates back to the 1920s and nowadays it’s commonplace for blockbusters to offset some of their astronomical budgets with shameless plugs.

Zac Efron and Amber Heard will star in 'Autobahn'.

The sins of fathers are revisited upon the sons in Derek Cianfrance’s doom-laden triptych, which reunites the award-winning writer-director with his ‘Blue Valentine’ star, Ryan Gosling.

“A nice, clean, nasty piece of work — that’s what I’m looking for,” declares our eponymous anti-hero at the beginning of Hitchcock (12A).

Parting is such bittersweet sorrow in Dan Mazer’s London-set anti-romcom.

SATURDAY

John Goodman has joined the cast of 'The Internship'.

All Katy Perry is short is a music box to stand in at the European premiere of her movie, All of Me, in London. She’s prima ballerina in a tulle Marchesa dress, complete with pulled-back bun.

Michael Douglas will be a presenter at the Oscars on Sunday.

Melissa McCarthy has revealed she “wouldn’t want to” appear in a 'Bridesmaids' sequel without Kristen Wiig.

IT HAS been hailed as The Hangover for women, but Bridesmaids (16s) deserves to be judged on its own merits.

THIS is shaping up to be the year of the bridesmaid.

Russell Brand is completely "eccentric".

For those of you who have in recent years come to regard "chick flick" as a purely pejorative term, 'Bridesmaids', directed by Paul Feig ('Unaccompanied Minors') and starring Kristen Wiig ('MacGruber'), is nothing less than miraculous.

THERE is an inherent problem with origin stories.

THOR (12A) has all the hallmarks of a movie made not for its own sake but for the purpose of establishing a franchise.

A horror film that doesn’t stray from the conventional backcloth of the perfect family moving into a new, darkly spooky home, the young son who suddenly starts speaking in tongues and things that go bump in the night.

You either like Brand or you don’t, surprisingly if you don’t thenyou may well like him in this clever swipe at the lifestyle of rock singers … truly sex, drugs and rock n'roll.

A film that considers the problems of the title character, suffering from Aspergers Syndrome (Dancy) and how a growing relationship with Beth (Buchwald), who has her own troubled background, promises future happiness.

'Star Wars' creator George Lucas is casting actors for a live action TV series based on the legendary sci-fi franchise.