As ever, some spectacular performances were overlooked in last year’s rush of movie releases.

Here’s Mark’s pick of the most underrated…

Surprisingly, it was DreamWorks Animation who really captured the best Cage performance of the year.

More than that, its not purely the Ridic-olas Cage that launched a thousand memes and YouTube montages.

This guy seemed curiously gentle and introverted in a way, even though he was a DJ.

As sons and daughters, we dont care Nighy is a perfect screen dad.

Gary is a manipulative, alcoholic arsehole, who ultimately leads his friends down the path to armageddon.

Given the more integral and understated role, she brings a real sadness to the role of Eleanor.

Ronan makes that raw and fragile, but theres a steely resolve beneath that.

Verdu plays the role magnificently.

Okay, so this is definitely cheating.

One villainous monologue from the movie turned out to be oddly prophetic of the movies reception.

Theres a natural order, and those who give a shot to upend it do not fare well.

Like us onFacebookand follow us onTwitterfor all news updates related to the world of geek.

AndGoogle+, if thats your thing.