How to stop The Lord of the Rings prequels (aka The Hobbit parts One and Two) ending up as vastly mind numbingly awful as the Star Wars prequels, with a little help from George Lucas. Peter Jackson be warned- dwarfs, spaceships and politics just do not mix!

We can all think of a video game that somehow, beyond all sense and rationality, made it from the little screen to the big, and we usually wince when we recall them. The list of films based on video games is arguably one of the most excruciating compilations of film fails. So why do people keep on trying? And why do they always suck?

This week sees the release of respected actor Diego Luna’s directorial fiction debut, Abel. It has been attracting some great reviews, and when the opportunity came along to meet the man behind the film we jumped at the chance. Here the director discusses his artistic influences, twisted realities and making children cry…

What do you mean, you never learnt the days of the week? You’d better start now with indisputably the most important of them all – Wednesday. Wednesdays stand for Norse god Odin, Rosie the Magic Roundabout on PlayDays and, most importantly of all, Orange Wednesdays! We know what we’ll be seeing this week; do you?

Regular as a clockwork digestive system full of Branflakes, it’s our weekly cheat sheet! This week, we thought we’d give you a leg up for all those inevitable discussions about Black Swan with some insider info on our absolute favourite Queen of Naboo: it’s Natalie Portman.

This week’s short film The Calligrapher by the Brothers Quay is one of their early stop-motion pieces. Terry Gilliam adores them and rated their venture The Crocodile as one of the top ten animated films of all time…

Hello you lovely things. With Valentine’s day creeping ever closer like a cursed ninja cat, we’ve decided to conduct a super-short survey about the fickle mistress that is the Rom-Com. Care to help?

From get-rich-quick schemes to impossible dresses, superheroes, supergeeks, new worlds and flying cars, Best For Film romps through cinema history to look at what we run away from and how lovely filmy-films help us do it…

As the stage is set for another bloody awful year of Nicolas Cage releasing eight thousand crappy films, we thought we’d take you on a whistle-stop tour back through his entire demented oeuvre since the Millennium. Not suitable for readers who are sensitive to unpleasant hairstyles.

We’ve all got those films. The films we know we should have seen, but never quite got round to bothering with. And who needs yet another party ruined by crippling trivia ignorance? Certainly not you. Not after last time. That’s why we’re helpfully putting together Mini Movies – all the key points of a must-see trimmed down to its beautiful, nude essentials.