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  • Short Film Spotlight: Mike

    We’ve started having conversations and filming them! YES, Best For Film has finally joined the modern age. If you missed out on our latest film club, you can relive all the fun of the fair with this exclusive interview with the cast and crew of zombie ultrashort Mike.



  • Kick-Ass 2

    Thirteen years ago, Bryan Singer brought superheroes back to the Hollywood mainstream with X-Men. Ten years later, Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman reinvented the genre with swearily subversive thrillride Kick-Ass. Can Jeff ‘Cry_Wolf’ Wadlow’s sequel maintain the sheer joy of the original? Alas, Kick-Ass 2 is demoted to, at best, prodding buttock. A predictable disappointment.…




  • Royal Baby Special: Top 10 ways Simba > the Prince of Cambridge

    The as yet unnamed Prince of Cambridge has been born into a media whirlwind that’s evenly split between slack-jawed cackling over the “future King of England” (mostly from Americans, who have to appropriate our history because they don’t have any of their own) and snide ‘Woman Has Baby’ headlines from people who think they’re above it all but aren’t really. We, on the other hand, just like having an excuse to talk about The Lion King. #linkbait


  • The Wolverine

    Four years on from the rightly slated X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Hugh Jackman’s adamantium-clawed mercenary is back for his sixth film and fifth starring role. But can James Mangold undo Gavin Hood’s misdeeds and restore Wolverine’s place as king of the Marvel superheroes? Despite a surfeit of ninjas and pseudo-noir cinematography, it turns out he can’t.…