Well, there’s only so much staring with unrestrained delight at new socks you can do, isn’t there? Christmas is over, new year’s eve brought with it the unsavoury pox that was New Year’s Eve and frankly, it’s time to stop talking to your loved ones and start staring at a screen in the dark. ORANGE WEDNESDAY, hurrah!

This is it – the final window on the Best For Film Advent calendar is about to swing open. Have you been naughty this year, or nice?

In a week full of explodingly good trailers, it seems a bit like there’s not much point in these actual full length film things in cinemas, is there? Especially when there’s the ever-present possibility that you might end up mere inches away from someone who’s paying, actually paying to see Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. WELL YOU’RE WRONG ON THAT SCORE! Why? Because this feature is weekly, that’s why. Line up your two-for-one, and let’s talk…

The first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is here, and we’ve gone all super-sleuth on it to find you as many titbits of Middle-earth info as we can. Need some opinions? We’re literally giving them away:

For some reason, the marvellous Jason Lee is currently appearing in the inevitably-crap Alvin and the Chipmunks threequel. We’re not going to talk about that. In fact, in an attempt to actively avoid talking about it we’re going to talk about all the other super stuff he’s done – that way, if someone brings up Alvin and his hellish brood you can just go LA LA LA SKATEBOARDS!

Picking up speed now, aren’t we? A week after prologue screenings began, team Nolan has decided that it’s time to unleash the full length trailer for The Dark Knight Rises . Now that we’ve had a chance to change our trousers, all that’s left to do is study it in intense, totally-not-obsessive-probably detail. Brethren: prepare thine eyes. The ending has begun.

‘Twas the Sunday before Christmas, and at Best For Film we’ve rustled up something special for your Advent calendar treat: a whole blooming film! Check it out, but don’t get ahead of yourself and peel any carrot sticks for tea – you might not want them later…

Today marks the release of the third – the actual third – film in the Chipmunks series (whywhywhywhywhywhywhoisresponsibleforthis). Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked (we don’t see what you did there. Can someone explain the joke?) follows the Chipmunks and their girlfriends (?) the Chipettes as they go on a cruise (why?). They fall overboard and get shipwrecked (ohhhh we get it now! This film needs to die). In honour of this film’s arrival, we bring you this week’s drinking game. So hollow out a coconut, fill it with Malibu, pop in a DVD and settle down with your favourite anthropomorphised ball.

Christmas. It’s a time of unbridled joy. Ecstasy, even. But lest we all forget ourselves, strip naked and begin cavorting around the tree, driven mad with pure bliss, BFF has taken the time to compile a list of the top ten film moments that will make you remember the truth: that life is actually a sad, lonely, painful dredge. And that Christmas sucks. Just ask James Van Der Beek. He’ll give it to you straight.

Ten days until Christmas – what could be more festive than the tale of some homeless kids who live in a department store? If you don’t know what we’re talking about, whip yourself with a holly bough.