We love watching films on the BBC. They’re almost always well-chosen and intelligent, they stay on iPlayer for ages, and there are no commercial breaks. Bliss. With this in mind, you can well imagine our excitement when BBC Films scheduled a weekend triple bill of recent British features to celebrate its official move to BBC 2 – free cinema in the comfort of our own squalid bedsits? Yes please! Here are our thoughts on three cracking new films: The Damned United, Eastern Promises and Is Anybody There?
The chairman of Pinewood Studios, Michael Grade, has come under attack from investor Crystal Amber regarding its plummeting profits.
Halle Berry has unfortunately signed up for chick-lit comedy Shoe Addicts Anonymous
As the cinematic world waits breathlessly for the release of ‘mockbuster’ Mega Piranha, we at Best For Film have been bemoaning the trend towards making deliberately dreadful monster films (here’s looking at you, Sharktopus). With that in mind, we’re trying to reverse the trend by harking back to some of the most disastrous monsters of yesteryear, when filmmakers understood that all you needed was a leaky reactor and a comparison to the Russians to make your superbeast a dead cert. We’ve scoured YouTube for the best of the worst, and here they are: our top ten best worst monster movies!
Andrei Filipov was once the greatest conductor the Bolshoi Orchestra had ever seen. Thirty years later, deposed and disgraced, he cleans the theatre where he once strove for musical perfection. His ambitions seem forever lost, until one day he stumbles across a message which promise him a last shot at giving the performance of a lifetime…
Kenneth Branagh may be playing Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn, a film based on the diaries of Colin Clark.
After months of speculation as to who will pay iconic bisexual hacker Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s Americanized adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Swedish novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been revealed.
Two London film makers who made £500,000 from a film that cost only £900 to produce are being beckoned by Hollywood.
You know what we didn’t hear enough about? That Pocahontus film about the blue people, what was it called again? The director made quite a famous film about some boat back in the day, erm… oh dear… Avatar! That’s it! Such a shame that slipped so low under the international radar, eh? Fortunately for us though, it’s getting re-released! No, really.
Disgraced former child star Lindsay Lohan has once again been sentenced to a jail term as a result of her persistent problems with alcohol and drugs.
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