Yeah it’s sunny, the birds are singing and the trees are treeing and the cats are dancing – but you know what? You don’t have anyone to barbecue with, icecreams are weepingly expensive and you’re still a terrible person. HURRAH FOR THE CINEMA!

What do you mean, you haven’t meticulously planned your summer around the amazing film events which are going on all over London? You’re not right, mate. Fortunately, we definitely have organised our getting-burnt-in-the-park sessions so they work around the special screenings we just can’t miss – and if you’re nice, you can peek in our diary.

It must be a right pain in the proverbial to be one of those directors who is only known for one project. Sure, that project may be the last four films in the Harry Potter franchise and has made him very rich and very famous – but let’s spare a thought for those nineteen years prior to Hogwarts with this week’s David Yates Cheat Sheet shall we?

As the BBFC rescues us from the horror of / robs us of the chance to see and evaluate The Human Centipede: Full Sequence (delete as appropriate), we’ve taken a moment to look back at some of the other films which have, over the years, been banned from British screens. You may be surprised at what we’ve found…

When it comes to vampire flicks, it seems that all Hollywood has to do is bare its money-spinning neck and audiences around the world will guzzle away. So after almost a century of vampire films, how did the cinematic interpretation move from Nosferatu to the perfectly coiffed Edward Cullen from the Twilight Saga? Will current film releases Stakeland and Priest take us back to a more traditionalist approach? And why are we still even interested?

With less than a month to go until Super 8 bursts onto our screens, we’ve been wondering what sort of monsterLAD could kick through the side of a train. Maybe we haven’t been thinking mechanically enough… See if you can guess all of today’s mash-up components!

As the Harry Potter series draws to a close, it’s definitely time to celebrate the one positive aspect of your childhood finally being over: you can recap the last decade of Pottermania, and – unlike in 1997 – get really, really hammered whilst you do it. Did someone say ‘Ogden’s Old Firewhiskey’?

Have you ever thought, we mean really thought, about Sean Penn? We have. And lo and behold one of us thinks he’s of the Parker fountain Penn of Hollywood, and the other thinks he’s just the biro that the dog has chewed and oh god someone call the vet, it’s choking.

Tired of going to a bland old West End cinema, paying £8 for a popcorn combo and crying salty tears all the way through the latest piece of superhero big budget low quality rubbish, lamenting the state of exhibition practices these days? Do you long for the days of all nighters, of midnight movies, of dirty dive bars that stick a blanket to the wall as a makeshift screen? Well, you’re not the only one, as we pay tribute to the groups that are bringing movies out of the cinema, and re-igniting our love for the big screen.

As we launch into the SEVENTH MONTH of weekly OWLing (dear God, we could have solved cancer in that time), a mix of missing regulars and unexpected newbies has spiced up the chatter at Best For Film. What’re you seeing tonight? Don’t even bother trying for your own idea…