While the London Film Festival is getting under-way elsewhere in the capital, there’s a much more intimate celebration of film occurring elsewhere. Hidden away in the depths of East London is the 3 Mills film studio, which has become something of a home-from-home for stop-motion animation, and has attracted its share of big live action film-makers too, in recent years. They’re hosting a four-day event to celebrate their output.

“They finally made a monkey out of hiiiiiim!”

Throughout their cinematic careers, zombies have been variously utilised as brain-munching bogeymen, rage-addled viral threats and social-political analogies. Don’t let ParaNorman‘s PG-rating fool you, this is a movie with a subversive streak that George A. Romero himself would be proud of.

A few days ago, Best For Film’s editor John Underwood said something very, very rash on Twitter: “Deckard was so a replicant.” Just the sort of blasé observation that would usually pass unnoticed amongst the LOLcats and nasty comments about Giles Coren… usually, yes, but not this time. Comedian, musician, musical comedian, comic musician and bard/jester extraordinaire Mitch Benn heroically decided to set the record straight and, over the course of the longest article we have ever published, now presents his defence of the much-maligned 1982 cut of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Blade Runner. Hold on to your synthetic snakes…

“Do you leave a light on after bedtime? Because I get a little scared in the dark sometimes. If it’s a strange place…”

Nothing quite says festivities like a dead dog, after all…

In life we all go through battles. Battles ranging from the epic to the fairly mundane. If you stop and think about it though everyday there is some kind of..

Where were you at 6am this morning? Queuing up to be one of the first people in the UK to see The Dark Knight Rises at the IMAX? Sounds like that level of commitment to the caped crusader deserves a drink. Or two. Or three. Or a whole liverful of drinks dedicated to Batman in this week’s Friday Drinking Game…

Name: William J. Dafoe Date of Birth: 22nd July 1955 Place of birth: Appleton, Wisconsin Special moves: Acting, mad staring eyes, watching Charlotte Gainsbourg perform an autoclitoridectomy. Films include: Platoon,..

Good makeup negates the need for acting, everyone knows that!