Articles Posted in the " Film Blog " Category

  • Disney Star Wars – we debate the movie sell-off of the decade

    We know you’ve turned up eager for your regular serving of OWL, but in light of yesterday’s extraordinary treaty between Skywalker Ranch and the House of Mouse we’ve suspended our usual Wednesday service to bring you red hot opinions from every member of the Best For Film team. You’re going to see Skyfall again tonight anyway. Buckle in for the biggest argument since Han shot first…



  • Cheat Sheet: Daniel Craig

    Winner of Esquire Magazine’s coveted Best Dressed Male award in 2006 and achieving 7th in Elle Magazine’s 15 Sexiest Men poll in 2007, Daniel Craig is known for little else. What’s that? James Bond you say? Never heard of it.


  • TGIM! Film Africa 2012

    Building on last year’s success, Film Africa is back in London with another goldmine of shorts, documentaries and features that showcase the cinematic identity of a continent largely unseen on an international stage. With some 70 films in town, there’s every reason to take a trip to some of the more unlikely destinations of world cinema.


  • On the perils of the unknown

    Tell you what, we’ve only got a new bloody writer! The glorious Janina Matthewson can be found across the Internet writing for everyone from NASA (that might be a lie) to our little-sister site Work in Prowess, and she’s finally scaled the walls of Best For Film Towers to shower us with opinions and that. Ever wanted help justifying your refusal to watch anything but Labyrinth, over and over again? Welcome home.


  • Friday Drinking game #63 – Stanley Kubrick

    In honour of the release of The Shining conspiracy flick Room 237 and next week’s extended US cut of the seminal horror, Stanley Kubrick gets his masterpieces soaked in a flood of warm cut-price plonk. It’s Friday, so give your weekend the box-set treatment and annoy some friends with your best HAL 9000 impression: “I’m afraid I can’t let you drink that.” Classic.


  • Top 10 Time Travel Movies that Feature Assholes

    If time travel is ever made possible (spoiler! It won’t be) we’d like to think that we could overcome our urges to start messing around with the fabric of reality. We certainly wouldn’t be tempted to do anything noble, where you try to avert a tragedy and save gazillions of lives, like killing Baby Hitler. No, no, here at Best For Film it’s likely our motives would be much more base. Winning the lottery comes to mind. Or going back 5 minutes and scratching our backs in juuust the right place.


  • Top 10 Zoos in Movies

    To celebrate the release of Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, which continues the adventures of the escaped zoo animals as they traverse another continent on their journey home, we thought we would delve into the cinematic archives to relive the greatest movies and moments that took place in and around zoos. And it turns out, they’re as varied as they are memorable! So come on in. We won’t even charge you £300 entry (plus an obligatory £50 donation) like a real zoo!


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #90

    Jesus, have we really done this ninety times? With just days to go before Skyfall hits our screens (and another week until payday) you may be saving your pennies for a Bond fix at the weekend, but our ceaseless quest to inform the mid-week cinemagoing of the population at large cannot be slowed by such trivial concerns. Plus, we have NEW writers! Hurrah!