As Warner Brothers prepares to move Middle Earth from New Zealand to Great Britain, thousands of Kiwis have shown their support for the film series which has, to be fair, made them a spectacular amount of money.

Replete with guns, gore and grisly black humour, Ian Vernon’s Rebels Without A Clue was the toast of this year’s Raindance Film Festival. We caught up with the man himself to find out how he went from professional photographer to writer-director, how best to frame a shot whilst hanging out of a helicopter, and the time he met Michelle Pfeiffer in a BlockBuster…

After bloody years of speculation, Martin Freeman has finally been confirmed in the role of Bilbo for Peter Jackson’s much-delayed Hobbit project.

Rumour has it that Mark Wahlberg has been approached to play the role made famous by Brandon Lee in the forthcoming remake of The Crow.

In 1999, the award-winning East is East provided an extraordinary snapshot into the trials and tribulations of growing up as a mixed race teenager in the 1970s. Eleven years on, and time has only moved on by five years for George Khan and his brood; now cheeky ten-year-old Sajid is a truculent teenager. George takes Sajid to Pakistan in an attempt to recover his roots, but finds far more there than he expected.

The directorial debut from Ivorian film-maker Katell Quillévéré, Un Poison Violent (Love Like Poison) is a classic coming-of-age tale which shows the conflict between human nature at its freest and most rigidly controlled extents. As its teenage protagonist struggles to make choices which will define the course of her life, the audience is forced to make its own decision between the extremes of passion and piety.

Another Year, the latest devised-piece-cum-film from Vera Drake director Mike Leigh, has been widely acclaimed at Cannes and the London Film Festival. At the risk of turning Best For Film into some sort of underground band of critical mavericks, I really don’t see why. It may be a far cry from Leigh’s best work, but its extraordinarily realised characters do a reasonable job of balancing out a plot which ends up being more hollow than touching.

The Hobbit will begin filming in February 2011, unless a giant eagle comes and crushes Peter Jackson’s head on behalf of underpaid Kiwi extras. What? Only a wizard could delay one project for SO BLOODY LONG.

Two major adult entertainment studios have had to cancel orders for eight thousand gallons of baby oil after an HIV scare forced them to suspend production on all their nasty little films.

We know, we know. You loved Let The Right One In, and you’re sick of Hollywood rehashing every good Swedish film ever made, so you’re not going to bother seeing Let Me In even though you liked Chloe Moretz in Kick-Ass. STOP RIGHT THERE. A faithful remake enlivened by sensitive direction and some truly extraordinary performances, this is a film which stands squarely on its own two blood-spattered feet.