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2 May 2012 2:58 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

It’s surprising just how many actors have tried their hands at directing. Most make one or two pet projects and than slink back to the day job (Ahem, Tom Hanks’ Larry Crowne… I say no more!), whilst others carve out an interesting second career behind the camera.

Below is what I feel are the top 10 actors turned directors….

10. Paddy Considine

Films: Tyrannosaur.

It might be risky starting this list with a director with only one feature film under his belt, but when that film is 2011’s Tyrannosaur, it is entirely justified. Building on his superb Bafta award winning short film Dog Altogether, Tyrannosaur is an incredibly emotional watch. Considine lets his camera stand back and devotes the film to his cast, which includes Peter Mullen in a career best turn and revelation Olivia Coleman.

What’s next: Nothing on the radar just yet, but hopefully we wont have to wait to long! »

- Will Pond

5 March 2012 5:18 PM, PST | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »

When Prisoner began in 1979, no one could have predicted it would go on to air 692 episodes and become a cult classic. In light of Foxtel’s commissioning of Prisoner re-imagining Wentworth, Bob Ellis looks back at the original.

Watching the first episodes of Prisoner today, when Helen Travers (Kerry Armstrong) and Lynn Warner (Pieta Toppano) are ‘settling in’ (one is innocent of burying a baby alive, the other guilty of stabbing an adulterous husband who bullied her into an abortion, his death a scene reminiscent of Psycho) and Bea (Val Lehman) and Mum are released from what Scott Morrison would call ‘luxury accommodation’, we are less drawn into the unfolding stories and characters than we were in 1979.

We are less keen now to accept the bullying, the furniture-smashing violence, the unremarked corruption, the Governor’s piss-elegant Toorak accent, the male doctor’s bad acting, and the, well, imprecise morality at »

- Brooke Hemphill

12 February 2012 3:01 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Peter Bradshaw: Michel Hazanavicius's comedy continued to shout down other worthy contenders, including Bafta's best British film winner - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The awards season has become so rammed with prize-giving jamborees in the run-up to the Academy Awards, and the annual, consensus-bandwagon in favour of certain films so overwhelming, that you find yourself hoping that the Baftas will be a last chance for something unexpected to happen. Or at least, that they will be a last chance to spread the awards love around more generally before the Oscar-landslide.

So, however much I love The Artist, I have to confess that even I found myself a little restive at its all-around triumph this evening. For it to get best film and best director is pretty fair in my book, and Jean Dujardin – tonight's best actor winner – does a wonderful job. But I would have preferred to see »

- Peter Bradshaw

3 items from 2012