Articles Posted in the " Highlights " Category

  • Opening Up A Lead And Coming Home Free: The Big Sleep at 65

    To celebrate the utterly incomparable Big Sleep’s 65th birthday, we have a little look at why its still just as resonant today as it was back in 1946. Femme fatales, intertwining murders, media-cover ups and Humphrey bloomin Bogart – it’s time to dole out the whiskey, light up your finest cuban and sink into the epitome of Noir cool.



  • Friday Face/Off: George Lucas

    It’s nearly Bank Holiday weekend, and thunder is shaking the turrets of Best For Film Towers. Perfect. As you prepare for your thoroughly underwhelming trips to Margate, Skegness or possibly Croydon, spare a thought for the grammatical gladiators assigned to fight it out in the unseasonably empty arena of the Friday Face/Off! All together now: a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…


  • Friday Drinking Game #19 – Conan the Barbarian

    Ah, Friday. After a long slog of a week you’re ready to sink into a bubble-filled bath, trim that bonsai tree, or give the local nudist colony a visit. Whatever you feel necessary to help you relax. Not this Friday. For it is THE TIME OF MEN. AND ALSO woMEN. Are you Conan enough for BFF’s most hardcore drinking game of all?



  • Top 10 Movies That Play With Time

    You watch a film where it goes from beginning to end, with no flashbacks at all, and you call yourself a hardened movie fan? Shame on you! It’s all about jumping through the plot, a little like dropping a needle at random on an old vinyl to see what plays next. It’s sudden, it’s fractured, it’s completely confusing… it’s sometimes a bit gimmicky. But, oh my, how we love a clock that tock ticks rather than tick tocks!


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #34

    Hurrah snakes and relief cats – Best For Film towers is no longer a sad, lonely and worryingly stained place. To celebrate the new blood keeping John and Tash animated until the thirst must be slaked again we say to you: TIS WEDNESDAY. TIS TIME FOR DISCOUNT CINEMA.


  • The Top 10 Teen Movies We Actually Love

    So, The Inbetweeners Movie is finally upon us, relishing in the antics of four teenage boys on holiday. And, what with the success of Twilight and High School Musical lingering in the air like a bad smell, it seems the world has gone crazy for teen flicks. Crazy, obviously, because these new-fangled teen movies can’t ever hold a candle to the likes of Ferris Bueller and The Lost Boys. Join us as we count down our fave ever pubescent movies of all time…


  • Cheat Sheet: Rachel Weisz

    Hugely talented, enviably beautiful and married to Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz is the thinking man’s crumpet and the thinking woman’s object of bitter, bitter envy. But what does she get up to when she’s not fighting mummies and winning Oscars? It’s a Tuesday; this must be the Cheat Sheet…