What is an actor and what do they do? A lot of people seem to think that an actor is a puppet, comes swanning onto sets, kicks up a massive fuss and leaves to enjoy red carpet goodness and gala luncheons. Some people see them, believing that they do little work and laud themselves over us labourers (although, I’m not.) Actually, I’ve always believed that actors don’t get as much credit for the hours they have to spend, in character, in costume and they are belligerently badgered with actions or...

I am not the biggest action flick buff. I’m really not. If you’d asked me several years ago when I was fiercely defensive over not liking anything “mainstream,” I’d have shot the genre down faster than you can saying Die Hard. Of course, with that in mind, there were some classics that roundhouse kicked me in the face with a douse of epic (such as the aforementioned Die Hard.) But lately, they’ve all been bangs with no sparks, muscles with no brains and action with no heart. That is until 2011...

If you have been with me from the beginning, you’ll know that I am largely in contention about the 84th Annual Academy Awards because they negated one film; Drive. Choosing to titillate over novelty film and its star Jean DuJardin (who, by the way, I am sure is great but come on) instead of celebrating this visceral violent drama from Danish actor Nicolas Winding Refn. The poignant and shocking Drive was dismissed, heavily, and it aches my head like I am being pounded with the unnamed leads...

Preconceptions of film have often lent themselves to people missing out on treats such as this one. After all, apart from those who openly know that it is a book, who seriously goes into the cinema to watch a film title as long as the movie itself? Chalk it up to either clever or bad marketing, but The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared doesn’t excite, let alone ensnare. Even I dismissed it first hand, a long list of movies that I had to watch, rather than...

Greek Myth have and will always be the source of great and complex stories in cinema. Their tragedies and comedies have transcended time, giving us a powerful source of emotion and beauty. One of the best stories is Orpheus as he navigates the world presents us with the moral implications of sacrifice and lost love. He represents artists and their fleeting relationship with death, the power of entertainment and entwining with the underworld. It showcases the poetry of the underworld and how...