Articles Posted in the " Film Blog " Category

  • Friday Face/Off: Angelina Jolie

    Trout face or divine beauty? Angelina Jolie divides the office. So come on then if you think you’re hard enough, let’s face/off and settle it once and for all. Read on to see the fall-out, insults, dirt-slinging madness that this debate created. Best For Film will never be the same again…


  • Friday Drinking Game #14 – X-Men

    To celebrate the triumphant release of X-Men: First Class, we’ve decided to get extravagantly trolleyed and pretend we can manipulate magnetic fields. What? Don’t tell us you’ve never tied a fork to your wrist with thread and then pretended to fling it across the room using your mind! Or is that genuinely just us? Whoops…


  • 10 best things about Movie Weddings

    With Bridesmaids soon upon us and the furore over the long-awaited wedding scenes in Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 about to reach fever pitch, we can’t avoid the thorny subject of movie marriage. So instead of beating brides and grooms (with a large stick), let’s join them and celebrate the 10 best things about movie weddings. All together now ahhhhh (puke).


  • Ten Contemporary Incarnations of the Grindhouse Genre

    The grindhouse genre seems to be going through a bit of resurgence recently. The new releases are different from the originals in many aspects, but all manage to capture the gruesome, gritty hilarity that makes the original players so damn addictive. We look at 10 recent films showcasing the future of grindhouse -dragging boobs, guns and gore along with them.


  • Interview! We talk to the star and director of Donor Unknown

    Donor Unknown is a fascinating documentary which follows one girl’s journey to meet her sperm donor father, and delves into the unknown world of sperm donations and the incredible new kind of family it can create. JoEllen Marsh was that girl and we got to talk to her alongside director Jerry Rothwell about filming that amazing story.


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #23

    You don’t need a reason to read Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons, obviously – unless it’s that you’re a human being – but even if you did we’d still be ready. ZING! It’s the last time our lovely intern type folks will be scribbling their citrus wisdom onto your hearts, and you don’t want to miss that, do you? Of course not. In you come.


  • Top 10 inanimate objects in film

    You never see a hard-working chair in the Hollywood credits, do you? Never doffed your cap to a really brilliant curtain, or a staggeringly talented knife? We celebrate the unsung heroes of the cinematic world: the inanimate objects that made their films iconic.


  • Cheat Sheet: Bradley Cooper

    This week our faithful cheat sheet looks at the ever rising star that is Bradley Cooper. Between his love of cooking, helping inner-city children, being fluent in French, his adorable pet dogs and his general talent at ACTING we cannot say a bad word about him. Disgusting, isn’t it?


  • What is Super 8 about?

    Ah J J Abrams how we love you, with your geek-chic glasses, brilliant mind and ability to confuse the hell out of us with your clever sci-fi films. Here is the Best for Film guide to the soon to be released Super 8. Prepare to be more confounded than ever before. What is Super 8 about?


  • Top 10 video games that should become movies

    Why aren’t films of video games ever good? Because the boys in the back room are adapting the wrong goshdarned games, that’s why! We’ve consumed eighty-six thousand Doritos and worn out nine pairs of tracksuit bottoms doing the research for this list: the definitive top 10 games that must be brought to the silver screen.