Articles Posted in the " Gremlins " Category

  • Top 10 (Easter) eggs in film

    Easter is, as we’re all well aware, all about the eggs. Whether you favour your yolk-encasing wonders painted, boiled, scrambled or made from chocolate, it’s definitely a time for eggs to shine. So we’ve trawled through our film library to bring you the VERY BEST EGGS of cinema. These little prolate spheroids are going to rock your world…



  • Frankenweenie

    Frankenweenie sees Tim Burton return not only to his 1984 short-film of the same name – and not only to the stop-motion animation style he utilised on Corpse Bride – but also to the sort of smart, Gothic quasi-horror that made his name. And the results are, pleasingly, very much the Tim Burton of old.


  • Top 10 Worst Film Trailers

    It’s a sad fact in life that, sometimes, bad trailers happen to good films. Look at 21 Jump Street for instance; a clever satire of the buddy-cop drama made to look just like… well, just like an actual buddy-cop drama. We’ve decided to hold these trailer crimes accountable and have selected the top 10 worst offenders to be sent before the Best For Film judge…


  • BFF Advent Calendar – 9th of December

    Children go absolutely crazy at Christmas; they get hyped up on sugar, overtired from waiting up for Santa and consumed with an all-encompassing desire to own EVERYTHING! In fact, they become very similar to the monstrous creatures lurking behind today’s window of the BFF Advent Calendar…


  • Top 10 Apocalyptic Films

    Take Shelter is destroying cinema screens up and down the country with a combination of tornadoes, earthquakes and Michael Shannon, and if we somehow live through that there’s always another film waiting to wipe out humanity. Still, you’ve got to laugh, eh? Rather than get depressed about the inevitable extinguishing of our world, we’ve decided to look at Hollywood’s top 10 most baffling apocalyptic films…


  • The Top 20 Films We Want Back On The Big Screen

    Did you know that The Lion King 3D will be hitting cinemas nationwide on the 7th October. And did you know that Jurassic Park is returning to the silver screen this Friday? Did you get that? JURASSIC PARK is returning to the silver screen on FRIDAY! We here at BFF couldn’t be any more excited and, to celebrate the rekindling of our love affair with dinosaurs (dinosaurs, in this case, meaning OLD movies) we’ve compiled a list of the Top 20 films we want to see back on the big screen…


  • Top 10 Best and Worst Cross-Species Pairings

    The recent release of Super 8, in which [SPOILER] Joe Lamb and his little girlfriend Alice form a psychic connection with a magnetic extra-terrestrial, got me thinking about the film industry’s love of bizarre inter-species pairings. So here are some unexpectedly harmonious affinities, and some that should have banished multi-species experimentation to the top shelf.


  • Top 5 London Summer Film Events

    What do you mean, you haven’t meticulously planned your summer around the amazing film events which are going on all over London? You’re not right, mate. Fortunately, we definitely have organised our getting-burnt-in-the-park sessions so they work around the special screenings we just can’t miss – and if you’re nice, you can peek in our diary.


  • Invasion of the Not Quite Dead Indie Film Makers

    So it appears that Twitter possesses more than just the magical power to make narcissists imagine their universal relevance; apparently, the cyber cesspool of social networking can make you a film producer, too, whilst enabling indie-wunderkind Anthony Lane realise his pubescent dream of making a film that could prove as riveting as his live cam-feed – all for the smashing price of £10.