As with Tom Hanks, my last Actor of the Week choice, I have chosen someone who starred in a sequence of films I watched recently. Those films being the Jason Bourne films, and that actor therefore being the one and only Matt Damon. Personally, I was a latecomer to the Bourne films - I simply never got round to seeing them upon release, and have had plenty of films in the queue since! In similar fashion, I was a little late to the sheer quality of Matt Damon’s ability. He is a

Very few films lasting 3 or more hours can successfully hold the viewer's undivided attention without ever tempting them to check their watches. The Wolf of Wall Street is one of the best examples. Based on a true story, the film follows Long Island stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he rises up through the shady, corrupt world of Wall Street with the creation of the corrupt brokerage firm Stratton-Oakmont, raking in big, BIG bucks through scamming clients into

Actor of the Week time! This week’s honour goes to Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey. I feel I write this from a well-grounded point of view, because once upon a time, I considered McConaughey a bit of a cheeseball. He went through a period in the early-to-mid 2000s of doing tacky rom-coms and I just associated him with these and never paid him much more attention. It wasn't until 2008’s Tropic Thunder that I took a shine to him. In Tropic Thunder, I by no means feel his actin