Articles Posted in the " Highlights " Category

  • Queues, galas and red carpets: dispatches from the TIFF

    Although Best For Film Towers is still rooted in dreary old London (we’re talking to both Howl and Count Duckula about an upgrade), our intrepid scribbler Hannah is overseas soaking up the celluloid glamour of the Toronto International Film Festival. Ever wanted to know how well Canadians queue? Well, your luck’s in…


  • Monday Mash-Up – Drive-In Special!

    To celebrate the release of Drive, this week the Monday Mash-Up’s come over all automotive-y. Can you identify the ten different cinematic cars (and so on) which feature in today’s photo? If you can, you stand to win… some oil! Or something.


  • Top 10 Fashion Lessons Of Cinema

    London Fashion Week just happened. Did you know that? A huge fashionable event JUST HAPPENED in the UK and, if you’re anything like us here at Best For Film, you probably didn’t notice until somebody mentioned it this morning. We felt bad. Well, we didn’t feel THAT bad, but we did decide that we should do something to celebrate; so, without any further ado, here are the top 10 fashion lessons of cinema. BFF style…



  • Friday Face/Off: James Cameron

    James Cameron – a friend or foe to the world of filmmaking? Two of our more sage/energetic crew members don their word armour and prepare for battle. Will Avatar go down in the history books? Is 3D worth any extra penny we pay? Was there really room on that door for both of them? Read on to find out…


  • Five Movies We’d Like to See Re-Made

    We love films. Well, we love most of them. Some of them are only OK, and some of them we’d like to get our greasy paws on and re-cast and re-direct all together. Here are five of them, because ten would have gotten me over-excited and I’d never be able to settle for my nap otherwise.


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #37

    And then there were four… the last remnants of the once proud Best For Film army have dragged together the last remnants of their strength and critical prowess in order to bring you the only opinions you need to read this – or any – Wednesday. So what are you waiting for?


  • The Top 20 Films We Want Back On The Big Screen

    Did you know that The Lion King 3D will be hitting cinemas nationwide on the 7th October. And did you know that Jurassic Park is returning to the silver screen this Friday? Did you get that? JURASSIC PARK is returning to the silver screen on FRIDAY! We here at BFF couldn’t be any more excited and, to celebrate the rekindling of our love affair with dinosaurs (dinosaurs, in this case, meaning OLD movies) we’ve compiled a list of the Top 20 films we want to see back on the big screen…



  • Cheat Sheet: Jesse Eisenberg

    Everybody knows Jesse Eisenberg, oh he of The Social Network fame, but what do we really know about the curly-haired actor? Join us as we check out his filmography, his big break in the acting world and why he thinks Rio is THE best thing since sliced bread…