Articles Posted in the " Film Blog " Category

  • Interview! We talk to Missing Pieces director Kenton Bartlett

    At the age of 23, Kenton Bartlett has written, filmed, directed and produced a feature length film. Whilst taking some time out from making the rest of us feel inadequate, Bartlett has kindly agreed to give us the inside scoop on the making of Missing Pieces. This is one for all you budding directors out there – but be warned, making a film isn’t as easy as it looks…


  • Top 10 Classic Novels (That Filmmakers Won’t Leave Alone)

    This Friday heralds the release of Andrea Arnold’s new film version of Emily Brontë’s beloved novel, Wuthering Heights. In honour of this occasion, which marks the FIRST TIME anyone has made a film of this book, BFF have compiled a list of…wait, what? What’s that you say? You mean, there’s been a film of Wuthering Heights before?! Seriously, though, here’s a list of the Top 10 classic novels that KEEP GETTING FILMED.


  • Orange(Wednesday)s And Lemons #44

    History will probably remember this week as ‘that week just after We Need To Talk About Kevin came out’. Or else, ‘that week just Before Arthur Christmas came out’. Well, we’re stuck here. And frankly, they are both better names than ‘that week where we had to watch some people poo into the mouths of some other people.’ HURRAH FOR WEDNESDAY!


  • Top 10 Films to See at Christmas 2011

    Forget Love Actually and The Muppet’s Christmas Carol, our list of Top 10 Films to see at Christmas 2011 is (mostly) full of serial killers, AIDs activists and sci-fi romances, with the occassional uplifting Christmas animation thrown in for good measure. Here is the definitive list of what to watch this festive season.


  • Cheat Sheet: Gerard Butler

    Hot on the heels of the really rather good Coriolanus, Gerard Butler is once again disappointing his public with the startlingly dull Machine Gun Preacher. But is there really a talented actor behind the gun-toting beardy meathead? We think so, and if you gather round closer we’ll tell you why…


  • Top 10 British Icons Played by Non-Brits

    In honour of the news that Jessica Chastain (a dirty American) may be taking the lead role in a biopic of Princess Diana, BFF have compiled a list of the Top 10 iconic British roles which have been snatched away by actors of other nationalities. This is one for all you xenophobes out there.


  • Monday Mash-Up – Centipede Special

    Since none of us have been able to do anything about the release of The Human Centipede: Full Sequence, we thought we might as well try to take the edge off its horrible messy arrival by putting some more conventional insects through their A2M paces. It’s the most gruesome Mash-Up yet…


  • Seven Film Franchises You Won’t Believe Are Still Going

    If asked to name successful film franchises, you could more than likely rattle off a few that have held audience interests long enough to exceed the standard trilogy. James Bond. Harry Potter. Star Wars. Heck, even Resident Evil is still putting bums on seats after four instalments. But not all film franchises continue to pull in the crowds, instead defaulting to DVD as they continue to explore their characters, story and that crack in the floor in HMV. We’ve found seven of the saddest…



  • Friday Face/off: Censorship

    With The Human Centipede 2 oozing its way onto cinema screens today, our thoughts can’t help but turn to that tricky devil: censorship. Is there room for it in the information age, or is it as antiquated as the desire to leave mouth and anus unattached? Two of our mouthiest writers fight it out with *REMOVED DUE TO CONTENT* results…