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  • Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

    The latest fairy tale movie-on-the-block is Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters; a gory, mindless re-telling and continuation of the Grimm brothers’ original folk tale. Strangely, it can never quite work out if it’s written for adults or children, incorporating a dull and simplistic script with a random splattering of heavy cursing and limbs being ripped apart from bodies. It’s an odd one, Hansel and Gretel may be at its best during the action but it’s still all thoughtless and long-winded.


  • The Boy Who Kicked Pigs set to be best play of all time

    The dramatic establishment is set to be rocked to its core next week, as Kill The Beast Theatre’s monumental debut production The Boy Who Kicked Pigs arrives in London like a well-timed adrenaline syringe to the heart of the Uma Thurman that is traditional theatre, or something. And you can watch it happen! This is the best Friday EVER.






  • Best for Film’s Favourite Flicks #13 – Amores Perros

    After trying and failing every week for the last two months, our very own Carlotta Eden has finally managed to stop fantasising about Eli Roth and write her long-awaited Best For Film’s Favourite Flicks blog. But will her love for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Oscar-nominated drama Amores Perros win you over? There’s only one way to find out… and before you ask, it isn’t ‘make our dogs fight to the death over it whilst listening to gnarly Mexican rap’.


  • Broken

    Broken is the feature film debut of British director Rufus Norris. Adapted from a Daniel Clay novel, the picture is the story of three families living in a North London cul-de-sac as seen through the eyes of young girl Skunk (Eloise Laurence). Affecting and current, Broken blends gritty realism with just a hint of melodrama to create a state-of-the-nation piece that works on many levels.