Articles Posted in the " Film Blog " Category

  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #33

    The weather’s on the turn, you’re looking more haggard by the day and your most cherished family pet is still dead. What else is there to do but TWO FOR ONE CINEMA? We discuss this week’s releases, get our freebies on and feel a bit guilty about the pet thing we said earlier.


  • Cheat Sheet: Mads Mikkelsen

    Though he may have kind of a funny name if you’re an idiot, Mads Mikkelsen is actually a VERY SERIOUS, VERY GOOD actor who’s been in lots of CLEVER and COMPELLING films. If you’d like to know about some of these films, have a read.



  • Friday Face/Off: Book Adaptations

    It’s the end of the week, we’re sick of looking at each other and according to recent developments it looks like violence gets you on TV. What else is there to do but Face/Off? Today it’s a twisty little topic; the art of the adaptation.


  • Interview! We talk to The Salt of Life star Gianni Di Gregorio

    Over the last three years, Gianni Di Gregorio has shot to international prominence with the release of two successive films which he directed and wrote as well as starring in. 2008’s Mid-August Lunch won universal acclaim and his new film The Salt of Life is, we suspect, about to do the same. We caught up with Gianni to talk Woody Allen, Monsieur Hulot and Silvio Berlusconi…


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #32

    It’s that time of the regular internship cycle again, and John and Tash are once more holed up alone in the crumbling remnants of Best For Film Towers. Were it not for a few brave volunteers, they’d be facing the arcane might of Orange and its Wednesdays alone. Join them and bring Kevin James to his massive knees!


  • Top 10 Jim Carrey Films

    Everyone loves Jim Carrey, and what better time to do a shambolic career appraisal than with Mr. Popper’s Penguins coming out next week? Obviously that film will render this list null and void, and all other “Best Film” lists, as it promises to be ruddy brilliant, but until it that day here are our Top 10 Jim Carrey films. Somebody stop us!


  • The war against ‘sizeist’ Hollywood. Are you in, or out?

    There’s no denying that the ‘size zero’ culture has taken over the entertainment industry, and there is now an increasingly huge amount of pressure on film and TV stars to conform to Hollywood’s idea of perfection. But that idea is changing all the time – skinny was in, then curvy was in and now they just can’t make up their minds.


  • Monday Mash-Up – Superherorgy #1!

    With the release of Super 8 finally in the past, we felt we needed to revamp the Monday Mash-Up once more. So for your delectation, we present the first in a series of at least one attempt(s) at mashing up some of your favourite superheroes (and villains) – it’s the SUPERHERORGY!


  • Friday Face/Off: Adam Sandler

    This week, Adam Sandler emerged as the third highest-paid actor in the world for 2010/11. One of our faithful team of word-wranglers rejoiced at this news, whilst the other bit a copy of You Don’t Mess with the Zohan in half. Guess which was which? It’s time to Face/Off…