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  • Friday Drinking Game #62 – Road Trips

    If you don’t already have a drink in your hand you fail at life, there’s never an excuse to be sober on a Friday and we’ve devised this drinking game so you never need one. In honour of last week’s release of Walter Salles’ On The Road we bring you the best drinking game based on Road Trips you’re likely to find this side of happy hour. Put your foot down and chug it!


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #89

    After an all-too-long absence, the weary defenders are once more hauling themselves to the turrets and parapets of Best For Film Towers to boom their cinematic advice across the snowy wastes of Internet. What will you be seeing this week – the whimsical horror-themed animation, or the other whimsical horror-themed animation? Or ParaNorman?




  • WIN: Attack of the Werewolves on Blu-Ray

    The year is 1910, and a curse lies upon the remote village of… actually, this is silly. It isn’t 1910, because if it was DVDs wouldn’t have been invented. And if DVDs hadn’t been invented then you definitely couldn’t WIN one of THREE BLU-RAY COPIES of ATTACK OF THE WEREWOLVES, could you? Because you CAN. How brilliant is that?


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #88

    The UK might be in the midst of taking a severe battering from Mother Nature (after all we do for her?), but in the world of Best For Film, we don’t let that dampen our spirits. What better excuse to take a trip to the cinema than to avoid the pissing rain? And on that note…



  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #87

    Winter is coming, the interns are getting fat (not really, guys) and beneath our protective layers of wool and goosefat we’re seeking the protection of Best For Film Towers’ roaring fires and roasting oxen. But there is no room in the great hall for a writer who won’t serve his turn on the walls, so here we are again to warn you of the cinematic ogres in your path.


  • “Deckard is not a bloody replicant!” Blade Runner 1982 – a defence

    A few days ago, Best For Film’s editor John Underwood said something very, very rash on Twitter: “Deckard was so a replicant.” Just the sort of blasé observation that would usually pass unnoticed amongst the LOLcats and nasty comments about Giles Coren… usually, yes, but not this time. Comedian, musician, musical comedian, comic musician and bard/jester extraordinaire Mitch Benn heroically decided to set the record straight and, over the course of the longest article we have ever published, now presents his defence of the much-maligned 1982 cut of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Blade Runner. Hold on to your synthetic snakes…