Articles Posted in the " Film Blog " Category

  • Orange(Wednesday)s And Lemons #30

    Now that Potter-Paralysis has passed, it’s time to unfold our shaking limbs, drop our hand-made snitches and get back to cinematic reality. And what better way to celebrate than with TWO FOR ONE TICKETS, eh? Grab that one friend who isn’t sick of you going on about that wizard, relish the Wednesday goodness and survey the possibilities…


  • Cheat Sheet: Diablo Cody

    Yeah yeah yeah, she wrote Juno. But what about her stripper years, eh? We present you with this Tuesday’s nutritional info-nugget: a cheat sheet dedicated to blogger-turned-award-winning-screen-writer, Diablo Cody. And it turns out Diablo isn’t her actual name. TIP OF THE ICEBERG, MY IGNORANT FRIENDS.


  • Uwe Boll – is he the worst director ever?

    Uwe Boll, the mastermind behind such spectacles as BloodRayne: The Third Reich and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, is frequently cited as the worst director of all time. But in the light of his extraordinary workrate and evident quest for self-improvement, does his canon deserve a reassessment? Tell you what, we’ll decide that.


  • Monday Mash-Up – Super 8 Edition #8!

    With less than a fortnight to go until the release of Super 8, we’re taking our monsters old school and looking to the enormous repertoire of national treasure Roald Dahl for inspiration. Our latest creation is running riot in Dahl’s hometown of Cardiff – see how many of its parents you can guess…


  • Top 10 Films With Good Soundtracks

    We’ve all had that moment when we’re watching a good film, and all of a sudden a song starts playing that you’ve never heard before, but almost immediately it’s become your favourite song of the moment, and you can’t stop whistling it on your way home. A good soundtrack can be the buttery icing on an already deliciously cakey film, and here’s our handy Top 10, just for you.


  • Friday Face/Off: Harry Potter

    It’s that time of the week again where we try and think of something to bicker about late this Friday afternoon. What is it this week? Well, you have to accept it though you might not believe it – Harry Potter! It appears that SOME people don’t think it’s worth the time of day, while others (ok, most) think it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Ready, steady, DUEL!


  • Top 10 Worst Bosses in film

    Everybody at some point in their life has had a boss so dreadful that, if given the chance, you really would consider subjecting them to some kind of Saw or Final Destination-esque torture. But in movie land we all know that things are always ten times worse. So to mark the release of Horrible Bosses, we are going to count down the absolute WORST bosses in film.


  • Top 3 Indie Directors Gone to Hollywood!

    This week saw the first teaser trailer for the last instalment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, and we here at Best For Film were…well, there was a feeling that we’d seen it all before. The gloomy Gotham-scape, mumbled dialogue, lots of shadows and buildings and shiny digital compositions. It’s slick, and it’ll probably turn out to be a good end to a so-far great trilogy, but a tiny part of us was thinking: “It’s not as good as Memento, is it?”. Still, Nolan isn’t the first indie director to be lured in by the lights and financial muscle of Hollywood, as this handy list will attest to.


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #29

    With the Hollywood monster that is Harry Potter finally at our gates, tis that rarest of all rare occasions: a Wednesday when quite a lot of people will actually go to the cinema. In light of this revelation an awed hush has fallen over BFF, but the question is: what will you be watching?