One of those “Isn’t he the one from…” actors, Brendan Gleeson has been consistently delivering great performances for nearly twenty years, without ever really getting major recognition outside of industry circles. Perhaps with his current release The Guard getting glowing reviews, and with his directorial debut At Swim-Two-Birds in pre-production, he’ll finally be rooted in the public consciousness. Lord knows he deserves it.

Hobo with a Shotgun (UK cinema release July 15) is a grindhouse tour de force starring Rutger Hauer as a hobo cleaning up the streets of Grimetown with a shotgun. Director Jason Eisener talks to us about bears, sharks, Rutger Hauer, exploitation movies and remarkably fresh socks.

There’s always a time when you could do with a zombie; they’re useful for everything from keeping your place in queues to warning the neighbours not to do their DIY when you’re asleep (“Or Ralph here will just push the fecking wall down, geddit?”). But how the devil do you go about getting one? Luckily for you, we’ve collated some of the best zombie recipes in cinema history…

With Larry Crowne released last week, it got us thinking. Thinking about how despite his occasional flaws, we blummin’ love Tom Hanks. With over sixty acting roles under his belt, we pick our top ten Tom Hanks movies.

It’s week five of our Super 8 Mash-Up challenge, and we’re worried that we’re making things a bit too easy for you. So brace yourselves, mother-fluffers – this week there are TWO monsters, each more mashed up than ever before. Didn’t expect that, did you? No, you didn’t. ZING!

We’re getting that Friday feeling once more, and the gloves are off! Fuelling the fires of incoherent webRAGE this week, it’s none other than Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise. Two of our lady writers will be getting their claws out and putting their bitchy faces on as they battle it out! Who will you be rooting for?

40 years have passed since Gene Wilder made possibly the best entrance in any film ever, limping out of those factory doors to stunned silence before roly-polying his way into cinematic history. So what if Roald Dahl didn’t like it? So what if Tim Burton’s version was more faithful to the original text? Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is still an unrivalled masterpiece, and a glorious example of the musical genre. I’ll drink to that…

When the last trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 landed online the other week, I was temporarily lost in face-devouring wow. While I’m sure the finished film will live up to my own TOWERING expectations, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time I was enchanted by a trailer only to be left disappointingly underwhelmed by the finished film itself.

We all know that movie cliché where the girl bumps into her ex at the supermarket and is totally embarrassed and falls over and makes a damn fool out of herself. But what about when you are offered a part in a film only to find out that acting right opposite is your old “racket buddy”?

The heavy, unsuitably saucy banners of BFF are once again flying: a new troupe of pen-humpers have joined the mighty battlements and celebrations MUST be had. But how does one express such unadulterated joy? With a two for one trip down the local Vue? RAISE THY GOBLETS, lowly missionaries, and TEXT THY ORANGE WEDNESDAY PROVIDER