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Best For Film is a young, toned and gently gleaming website devoted to bringing you everything you could possibly need to know about the best and worst of cinema. Fancy reading a run-down of the latest big-screen release? Check out Film Reviews – or if you’re after something a bit more dated, we’ll have caught up with it in DVD Reviews. Film News is crammed with the freshest borderline libellous Hollywood gossip, and it’s the perfect place to find hot-off-the-press stories about the Next Big Thing. Last but not least, visit our eclectic Film Blog to sink into a warm bath of opinion as our tame writers let rip about their favourite subjects – you can even find exclusive interviews with some of our favourite actors or directors.

This is all very well, of course, but it’s distinctly two-dimensional – and more importantly, it means we have to do all the work. That’s where our lovely new Join Us section comes in! Mosey on over and find out about all the shiny Web. 2.0-esque business you can get up to, whether you fancy wading into the discussion on one of our comments boards or entering one of our juicy competitions to win fabulous film-based prizes. You can register just for the sake of enjoying our warm and slightly insistent cyber-embrace, if you like – we’re up for anything, so long as it’s happened in a Tarantino film.

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The friendly overlord and editor of Best For Film – you’ll speak when you’re spoken to. Good things include dark British comedy, Derren Brown words and Philadelphia (cheese not place). I fill my time by watching programs executive produced by Tyra Banks and having confusing feelings about Uma Thurman. I wish I was, or had, a Spooky Buddy.

I’m John, and since discovering that a philosophy degree doesn’t actually prepare you to do anything but go “Hmm” I spend my time making silly pictures, refining my collection of excruciating gaffes (celebrity interviews, for the use of) and trying to rehash obscure bits of Nietzsche into reviews of children’s films. When I’m not writing, I enjoy unashamedly inferior wine, unnecessarily elaborate cookery and Ryan Reynolds Gosling.

Roxane has come a long way since she was a small Asian boy who went on wacky adventures with an incredibly handsome archaeologist who for some disturbing reason carried a whip everywhere and kept going into rooms with strange ladies and they would make funny sounds and she’d cover her ears and cry… a long way.

Magda Knight has forgotten more about owls than you could ever hope to learn. When she isn’t weaving her dark magic all over Best For Film she enjoys pretentious coffee, careless whispers, gardening and learning to play the violin (not all at once), and can frequently be found charging round forests with a big rubber sword. If she had to be a character from Trolls 2 she’d be the exploding corn on the cob, which probably tells you all you need to know about her.

David Martin is a 29 year old film critic, screenwriter and web journalist who works and lives in London. Examples of his work can be found polluting various websites including Nerditorial, Sick Chirpse and London Festival Fringe. His writing has been hailed as, amongst other things, “competent” and “legible”. He has a lot of opinions if you’d care to listen.