BFF: defenders of the weak, trumpeters of the down-trodden, makers of wild, unsubstantiated claims and lovers of Ben Affleck. That’s right. It’s a heady mix.

We like to teach you things; after all, as Ralph Wiggum once said, “learning helps us play!” That it does, Ralph. That it does. This week, we endow you with all you need to know about queen of comedy, Tina Fey.

It’s Monday. You clearly want a mash-up – and why shouldn’t you? Mondays are made for mash-ups, we believe that’s a well-established axiom at this point. So with no further ado, here’s your mash-up this Monday.

TGIF!!! In celebration of the week’s natural end, we’ve decided to make this day all about the alcohol. We’ve got the drunken, ill-informed Friday Face/Off, and now we’ve got our Friday drinking game. Grab some friends (or do it on your own, if you feel so inclined), get the Lambrini lined up, and consider yourself sozzled.

Everyone loves to hate the sports movie. Oh it’s so predictable, oh it’s so dull, oh it’s so boyish. But now that the Oscars are routinely rewarding boxing films for being rather good, and Sandra Bullock walked away with a Best Actress nod for her part in a film about American Football, we decided it was high time to celebrate the great and good of sports movies. Because they do exist. Honest.

Yes, it’s our short film of the week! This short sci-fi spoof is set in a post-apocalyptic landscape where smoking is outlawed. Pop fact: The Extinguisher was shot at the now-gone old Beckton gasworks in East London where Kubrick shot Full Metal Jacket!

Stop motion animation is by far one of the most painstaking pursuits a film maker can employ to tell a story. Yet the industry maintains many big fans, none more famous than Tim Burton, who’s currently directing a stop motion remake of his second short film; a half-hour live action about a boy and his dog titled Frankenweenie. Best for Film got to chat to Steven Warne, one of the budding animators of Burton’s project, about his love of animation.

The horror.

We engage martial arts action legend Donnie Yen (Hero, Blade 2) in a fair fight (no biting, no gouging). Donnie spills the beans on injuries, wirework and more on Ip Man 2, the biopic about the Wu Xia master who taught Bruce Lee…

Bestforfilm exclusive! The correspondence Cage’s (new) people did not want you to see!