by Cookie N Screen

Peter Jackson is affiliated with everything Middle Earth. You think Jackson and you are immediately going to think of hairy feet, wizard fights and a massive eye in the middle of a volcano. The Lord of the Rings and the subsequent Hobbit trilogy is coming to a close today. Unless Warner Bros. feels to need to lift the Silmarillion out of its dusty cupboard so we can have another 23,905,720,502 hour long series, we wont step our foot in a Tolkien based novel again. As some breathe a sigh of relief and others sob into their elven robes, let’s take a moment to look at Jackson’s body of work because he wasn’t always the master of Hobbitses.

Here are some essential movies for you to plunder.

by Jennifer Drewett 

There are some actors who are incredibly talented and very much overlooked. Many reasons can dictate this: someone else is more outrageous; another person may be more appealing to the tabloids that generate celebrity or simply because the actor has just not been properly noticed. Some eventually get recognition and manage to attract enough attention to receive endless offers of lucrative roles only to find that money isn’t always enough to satisfy wanting to perform in well-scripted stories. They may turn away from film in favour of other platforms such as television or theatre.

Christopher Eccleston is an actor many people will immediately know as the 9th incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who, but he is far more than that. As much as he is known for being picky about the roles he takes on, he is a talented dramatic actor who has tackled a variety of different roles and films. He is known for having a preference for drama, but his film performances deserve recognition. Here are some films he’s been in you definitely need to see.

by Cookie N Screen 

Jude Law. For a while, he was an actor who skimmed a lot of great roles and fell head first into bad ones. There are those out there who do not like him, whether that’s because his personal life affected our perception of him or because they didn’t like his acting. Either way, there are many naysayers. However, when you look at the collection of movies under his belt – ranging from great blockbusters to brilliant independents – you’ll find that Law is actually brilliant. His acting can really get to the heart of a character and translate that onto screen.

For the release of Black Sea today, let’s have a look at some of Law’s best work.

Honourable Mention: Dom Hemmingway. Because whilst the film is lacklustre, Law’s performance is pure gold. And Contagion, it’s the scariest virus movie of later years but I wanted to be a bit diverse.