It’s nearly Bank Holiday weekend, and thunder is shaking the turrets of Best For Film Towers. Perfect. As you prepare for your thoroughly underwhelming trips to Margate, Skegness or possibly Croydon, spare a thought for the grammatical gladiators assigned to fight it out in the unseasonably empty arena of the Friday Face/Off! All together now: a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…

Prepare yourselves for a quaint little tale about love, life, death and the cutest Jack Russell in the world (second to maybe Eddie in Frasier) in Beginners; a rather lovely comedy-drama written and directed by Mike Mills.

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…

Having won Best UK Feature at Edinburgh International Film Festival, David MacKenzie’s Perfect Sense is an exciting mix of romantic drama and sci-fi thriller that excels in originality. Providing a fresh look on apocalyptic catastrophe, it explores an unfolding romance it the most unlikely of circumstances.

Wow. That’s… stupid.

Spider is a creepy-crawly urban tale from the talented director/stuntman Nash Edgerton (Star Wars, Matrix) who helped found the Oz film collective that brought you Animal Kingdom. Watch 9 minutes of needles, spiders and childish behaviour from grown-ups now…

“Shut it!”

Who are the most baked, caned, hopped-up or tripped-out characters in movie history? Here, in the sort of order which can only really be dreamt up through a haze of quaaludes, mescaline and Night Nurse, are our top ten.

Blackbeard trades his tricorn for a crown.

She’s fresh-faced and ready to be kidnapped.