It’s THE WEEK BEFORE LOADS OF EXCITING FILMS COME OUT – that’s the best kind of week. But fear not, we’re here to get you laid, and dammit, that’s what we’ll do. Sorry, did we say “laid?” We meant to say “to a cinema at a reasonable discount.” HURRAH FOR ORANGE WEDNESDAYS!

There was all kinds of debate about what to call this blog. In the end we decided to keep the name Money shots, if you were expecting something else from a film website then perhaps we could satisfy you (urgh) with this blog on the top 15 visually stunning moments in film from 2000 – 2009.

Have you seen Attack the Block yet? You certainly ought to have done, because it’s phenomenally good. It follows, therefore, that at least some of the people involved in it are within a micron of the same degree of good, and – lucky us! – we got to meet pretty much all of them for a lovely chat. Hurrah!

To celebrate the brief few days between the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and its inevitable box office flop, we thought we’d channel the very muckiest of Captain Jack Sparrow’s rum-guzzling habits and settle you down for an evening of alcoholism on the high seas. Avast, where be that Babycham?

Oh look, it’s the Friday Face/off! Before we high-tail it out of here and into the closest drinking establishment we’ve slapped together a little piece on the legitimacy of trailers. They are part of the cinema-going experience; but are they no longer necessary? Do they give too much away or is that part of the allure? It’s an argument that has raged for centuries (well definitely for hours) and it continues here!

The release of 13 Assassins has brought with it the most petrifying and believable villain that has graced our cinema screens in a long time. Now that we have returned to creating characters that will keep you awake at night it is time to lament the passing of some of the most reprehensible humans ever brought to life.

Which comics should be made into movies that will work both commercially and critically? We take a look at some of the best comics out there for the job. Funny how so many of them are from DC Vertigo…

High School. It’s all cringing in gym class, avoiding detention, chastely kissing the school jock and going to prom. Sod that for a game of British Bulldog, we all know school is really about sex, drugs and er, demonic possession. Roll up, roll up for the ten greatest alternative High School Movies ever made…

If every one of our OWLingly good Wednesday blogs turned into 14.95 Spartans, we’d have 299 Spartans! Which is nearly enough for a party. Unfortunately, what we’d actually have is 280 proper Spartans and 19 that were missing some toes, which isn’t ideal. If only there was another number we could multiply 20 by… Anyway, what’re you watching this week? We know, and we’re TELLING YOU IN WORDS, LIKE.

For the longest time animation was simply perceived as something for kids, and wasn’t taken seriously by adults. If an animated film did in anyway achieve the hallowed ground of ‘appealing to kids and grownups alike’ it was considered a pretty rare thing. Today, animated films about toys are getting Oscar nominations and reviewers like to deal out their opinions based on one neat bit of criteria: is it any good?