Everybody knows Jesse Eisenberg, oh he of The Social Network fame, but what do we really know about the curly-haired actor? Join us as we check out his filmography, his big break in the acting world and why he thinks Rio is THE best thing since sliced bread…

Take a deep breath and prepare yourself for an exhaustive year of EPIC action films. 2012 is the official year of explosive sequels, daring superheroes and hardcore fairy tales. Just make sure you have an oxygen tank nearby.

What the French Revolution always needed was Jean Valjean having a phone thrown at him.

Yeah. But really?

You’ve all heard the rumours; Emma Watson, Anne Hathaway, Hayden Panettiere… It seems that anyone with some semblance for acting has been rumoured for a role in Tom Hooper’s re-imagining of Les Miserables. But why? Why all the actresses with little or no talent for singing, especially when the movie in question is a MUSICAL? God only knows. So we’ve taken it upon ourselves to craft our dream cast…

Actor lets the Mask slip

Or Helena Bonham Carter? Or Emma Watson? OR THE ENTIRE WORLD OF HOLLYWOOD?

One Day, the bestselling novel by David Nicholls, is a wonderful piece of work. Utterly romantic, it has drawn both male and female readers to it like flies to a honeypot. Did you get that? Both genders loved it. That’s worth a literary award in itself. But what of the movie adaptation? Well, in a very rare state of affairs, I’m completely torn between loving it and loathing it…

You watch a film where it goes from beginning to end, with no flashbacks at all, and you call yourself a hardened movie fan? Shame on you! It’s all about jumping through the plot, a little like dropping a needle at random on an old vinyl to see what plays next. It’s sudden, it’s fractured, it’s completely confusing… it’s sometimes a bit gimmicky. But, oh my, how we love a clock that tock ticks rather than tick tocks!

There’s no denying that the ‘size zero’ culture has taken over the entertainment industry, and there is now an increasingly huge amount of pressure on film and TV stars to conform to Hollywood’s idea of perfection. But that idea is changing all the time – skinny was in, then curvy was in and now they just can’t make up their minds.