I am delighted to tell you that a New Chilling Tale, THE DAMNED THING is finished and has been accepted into the Sun Vally Film Festival as an Official entry! I am thrilled, it is a wonderful story, written by the great Civil War writer Ambrose Bierce. At the moment the first…
Not so much a recent project, more a new one for this site….I want to help you to find some of my friends, who are doing interesting work at the moment and, if I can, help promote their work. Here is Charlotte Durie, artist, whose work I like and whom, I have know for a…
Waiting is a large part of Acting…you are either waiting for an audition, news of an audition, news of getting a job, a job to start, a call to start, waiting on set and my favourite saying “Hurry up and wait”. You’re making a movie/TV whatever and your call to make-up is at 6am…6am at…
I’ve been doing a lot of writing, of late. To make things easier to remember, I’ve changed my Facebook page to https://www.facebook.com/JaneMerrowActs
The Oscar race is on and the finish line approaches, Sunday March 2nd. It’s all good and exciting. One of my favourite parts is here viewing all those nominated in Best Foreign , Best Animated, Best Short, Best Documentary Best Short Documentary. I get to see such great films from all over the place…
Last time I wrote about the Nominated Films, I included AUGUST, OSAGE COUNTY, which was not nominated. I wonder why. There are usually ten nominations for Best Picture, this year there only nine. My mistake.. So to the remaining four…from an Actors viewpoint. 1. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET directed by the incomparable Martin Scorsese…
Philip Seymour Hoffman. Dead. So sad, such a loss, a great talent gone and in such a wasteful way. When I was a child, my grandmother, who had worked in theatre, had a picture of a famous actress of her day, with whom my grandmother had worked…Meggie Albanesi. I asked about her and Nan said…
In no particular order, let’s look at the ten nominated films for Best Picture and the performances that help achieve their nominations. 1. Saw AMERICAN HUSTLE for the second time this week. Great movie, great performances, I am really impressed. However, for me, one of the most riveting performance came from the uncredited Robert De…
So now we come to Oscars Best Actor nominees for 2014. Again I will list them in alphabetical order, Leading and Supporting: and a lusty, lustrous list it is, with a couple of surprising omissions.
As I watched the Golden Globes on Sunday, I mused about the two ceremonies I had attended, the first when I was nominated for THE LION IN WINTER and second time when friend, Anthony Hopkins was nominated for SILENCE OF THE LAMBS….. I went along as his pal, because Jenni, his wife was stuck in…
