Bart Simpson might have summed it up best in 1995 when he said: "Want results? You have to go to the Schwarzeneggers, the Stallones, and to a lesser extent, the Van Dammes."

As moviegoers, we can't seem to get enough of the action flick. Good or bad, it's usually two hours when viewers can escape from reality. There have been plenty of actors who have made a living taking on action roles, so we figured we would look at 40 of the best action movie stars ever. We didn't include the folks at Marvel and DC, because this is not about putting on a superhero costume to get the job done.

James Bond is sacred to an overly vocal minority of mostly white men. If they could paint the ceilings of their man caves with his holy image they would.

In a society such as ours, with high levels of gender-based violence and public performances of misogyny, it is important to reflect on the impact that representations of hyper-masculinity in the media has on society, as it has the power to shape values, norms and perceptions.

HOW often in your adolescent youth have you looked at James Bond and just thought, “Man, I wanna be that guy!”?

Plenty of us surely still think that now, be it Daniel Craig’s smouldering characterisation of the spy or Sean Connery’s dapper personification of 007.

But along with the tuxedos, the Aston Martins, and the smoking hot Bond girls, every James Bond has the yin to his yang: the crafty villain bent on destroying him, MI6, and sometimes the world.

Raoul Silva, born Tiago Rodriguez, is a fictional cyber-terrorist and former Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) operative who appeared in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, portrayed by famous Spanish actor Javier Bardem.

Shawn tells us the answer to many of the problems that arise as we plan, draft, and revise our stories can be solved by asking and answering the question, what’s the genre? The global genre is like a utility belt with lots of tools because it’s shorthand for the collection of characteristics readers expect to see in your story, the ones they’ll miss if they aren’t there.

Narrative led films with tightly woven story arcs, where the dialogue drives the plot rather than builds character.