Film Review: Meet The Parents - Little Fockers

Early in the latest entry of this cash-cow franchise, Robert De Niro defibrillates himself with a lie detector machine. It’s soon clear that unlike his retired spymaster character, Jack Byrnes, no amount of voltage (that of the mostly talented megastar variety) can revitalise the series in this limp effort.

Don’t be deceived by the title. Sure, the cutesy, smart-aleck Focker offspring play their part but Little Fockers as ever, revolves around the cat and mouse games played by Jack and his hapless son-in-law Greg (aka Gaylord Focker, Ben Stiller).

The List: Hot Actors Under 30

We profile these talented young up-and-comers of the acting world. 

Mia Wasikowska

For many, Mia Wasikowska arrived overnight with a bang as the lead in Tim Burton’s hallucinogenic Alice in Wonderland.

But this talented twenty year old Australian native was already making quite a name for herself in Australian films like Paul Goldman’s Suburban Mayhem and most notably in the acclaimed HBO drama series In Treatment as Sophie, a troubled patient of Gabriel Byrne’s psychiatrist.

The List: Scariest Characters on Screen

These cinematic scarers are sure to send a tingle down your spine.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Anthony Hopkins mesmerises as one the most hauntingly iconic monsters in cinematic history in this classic 1991 chiller (he reprised the role a decade later in Hannibal and the following year in Red Dragon).