Video games are big business and they’re raking in the A-list movie actors. Have you spotted Vin Diesel, Bill Murray, Christopher Walken or Martin Sheen in a video game near you? We have. Best For Film saves you the hard work by pimping the top 10 movie actors in video games today.
In the wake of critical and commercial successes such as The Queen and The Young Victoria, director Tom Hooper has taken on one of the most obscure dramas in recent British royal history – the titanic struggle which King George VI faced whenever he was called upon to speak in public. In doing so, he has categorically made the best film of both his own and Colin Firth’s career. The King’s Speech is perfect.
How would you define ‘guilty pleasure’? Listening to ABBA? Stealing Pick’n’Mix? Cutting up orphans and dissolving them in an acid bath? Those are all valid examples of guilty pleasures, but now that Burlesque exists they only qualify thanks to the same sort of linguistic technicality which allows us to simultaneously describe both Ann Widdecombe and Natalie Portman as ‘people’. More addictive than crack and less than half as nutritious, Burlesque is a whole new filthy world of awesome.
Is it a documentary? Is it a spoof? Nobody’s really sure. All we know is that for some reason or other, this film records the attempts of five lacklustre professional mascots and five ‘Little People’ to win $10m. Actually, make that four Little People – one of them is actually Gary Coleman. Remember Gary Coleman? He’s dead now, and this is about as odd an epitaph as you’re likely to find.
To celebrate the 29th November release of Sex and the City 2, we are giving one lucky reader the chance to win a goody bag filled with fabulous goods. Two runners up will also receive a copy of Sex and the City 2 on Blu-ray™ or DVD and a copy of Sex and the City 2: The Official Companion Book. Competition ends 09 January 2011
“Hello, I’m unpredictable French actor, director and general firebrand Xavier Beauvois; you may remember me from angsty 90s films overflowing with AIDS such as Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die. Oh, you don’t? No matter. Anyway, what I’d like to do now is make a film based on the true story of a momentous encounter between fundamentalist Islamists and the Trappist community of a small monastery in Algeria. I’m confident that it will be serene and nearly perfect.” He wasn’t wrong, you know.
Aslan is back and working in yet more mysterious ways as the younger Pevensies return to Narnia with their unsuspecting cousin. Tasked with delivering the Seven Swords of the Seven Lords to Aslan’s Table (lions don’t have opposable thumbs, you see), the threesome are individually tested as they continue their Narnian adventures. After the disappointing Prince Caspian, can Michael Apted bring magic and wonder back to the world beyond the wardrobe?
Winner of the Palmes d’Or at the 2009 Cannes film festival, this slice of asian cinema has divided the opinion of the critics and public. Surrealism and nature combine to transcend cultural differences and suffuse you with imagination and emotion.
Social satire clashes with extreme violence in this vicious slasher film from Hong Kong. A strong sense of black humour runs throughout, but the fact that 3 people out of an audience of 10 left before halfway through the screening tells you all you need to know about the killings on offer in this asian horror.
When you consider that Primer and A Scanner Darkly DIDN’T make it onto our list of top 10 movies that mess with your mind, doesn’t your brain hurt a little when you consider what actually did?
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