Articles Posted in the " Highlights " Category

  • Friday Face/Off: Singers On Film

    Week two of John and Tash battling through alone, and tensions are running high. They barely need an excuse for an argument, so thank goodness it’s Friday. This week the hot topic is singers taking the spotlight – a good idea for film at large or no?



  • Master and Commander, and other seafaring films to watch drunk

    Last weekend, we ventured to the Isle of Wight to attend the world’s first ever Sail-In Cinema event. Imagine it – not only is Russell Crowe on a boat in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, but YOU ARE TOO! Aromascope ain’t got nuffin on this. Join us as we attempt to shake a whisky and fresh air-induced hangover and track down the other nautical films best watched whilst three sheets to the wind…


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #33

    The weather’s on the turn, you’re looking more haggard by the day and your most cherished family pet is still dead. What else is there to do but TWO FOR ONE CINEMA? We discuss this week’s releases, get our freebies on and feel a bit guilty about the pet thing we said earlier.


  • Cheat Sheet: Mads Mikkelsen

    Though he may have kind of a funny name if you’re an idiot, Mads Mikkelsen is actually a VERY SERIOUS, VERY GOOD actor who’s been in lots of CLEVER and COMPELLING films. If you’d like to know about some of these films, have a read.



  • Friday Face/Off: Book Adaptations

    It’s the end of the week, we’re sick of looking at each other and according to recent developments it looks like violence gets you on TV. What else is there to do but Face/Off? Today it’s a twisty little topic; the art of the adaptation.


  • Interview! We talk to The Salt of Life star Gianni Di Gregorio

    Over the last three years, Gianni Di Gregorio has shot to international prominence with the release of two successive films which he directed and wrote as well as starring in. 2008’s Mid-August Lunch won universal acclaim and his new film The Salt of Life is, we suspect, about to do the same. We caught up with Gianni to talk Woody Allen, Monsieur Hulot and Silvio Berlusconi…


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #32

    It’s that time of the regular internship cycle again, and John and Tash are once more holed up alone in the crumbling remnants of Best For Film Towers. Were it not for a few brave volunteers, they’d be facing the arcane might of Orange and its Wednesdays alone. Join them and bring Kevin James to his massive knees!


  • Top 10 Jim Carrey Films

    Everyone loves Jim Carrey, and what better time to do a shambolic career appraisal than with Mr. Popper’s Penguins coming out next week? Obviously that film will render this list null and void, and all other “Best Film” lists, as it promises to be ruddy brilliant, but until it that day here are our Top 10 Jim Carrey films. Somebody stop us!