Starring Emily Browning and Dominic Cooper, Summer in February is a countercultural love story set in the romantic surroundings of Cornwall. For your chance to win one of 3 DVD copies, step this way!

Best of the Year is back, and this time we’re looking back almost a decade (Christ, can you believe Mean Girls is nine years old?) to the bright comedy lights of 2004, a golden age for charmingly stupid films with Ben Stiller in. Although we haven’t included Meet the Fockers, because it’s awful.

In our newest blog series, Best For FIlm’s bravest and least discerning writers plumb the depths of Netflix’s films on demand to find the flicks you definitely never thought you’d read a massive freeform blog about. This week, a film so bad that the critic we sent to see it back in 2011 literally never wrote for us again. It’s real film with real heart. It’s Love’s Kitchen.

October 30th will see the beginning of the 17th UK Jewish Film Festival, an event which has become one of the mainstays of the British cultural calendar. Yesterday we attended the star-studded press launch of this year’s screening schedule, and today we’re pleased to present our Top 10 festival picks. Mazel tov!

We hate it when you wander into a movie expecting one thing from the title and being delivered something else entirely. Remember how disappointed everyone was to discover The Godfather wasn’t a sweet, wholesome family drama? Exactly. Here’s five movies that should have stuck to their literal plots…

Terry Gilliam’s classic film Time Bandits has been beautifully restored and re-released by Arrow Videos. Check our our newest competition for your chance to win a copy!

Look, I know this is contentious. Bear with me here. I mean, yes, true, there you go with your Schindler’s List and your Shawshank. I see you there, holding up your Psycho and your It’s A Wonderful Life. I see you. I see you, brandishing shiny shiny Oscars like a kid on Sports Day. I see you, and I say unto you: you’re wrong. Chicken Run is the best film ever; here’s why.

Ok, ok, after we’ve all managed to catch our breath after the collective ARRGGHHHing, whether of excitement or despair, caused by the news that JK Rowling’s writing a new wizard thing, and after certain editors have got their rocks sufficiently off by blasting her for having the audacity to further explore her own intellectual property, let’s look at the situation with a little perspective, a phrase which here means “let’s give the girl some credit.” Here are the top ten reasons some of us are, let’s say “cautiously optimistic” about the Newt Scamander Saga.

Thanks to the Prince Charles Cinema, Nipponophile and Studio Ghibli expert Vincent was recently given the chance to watch Kiki’s Delivery Service on the big screen – a full twenty-four years after it first appeared in cinemas. But how does the tale of one tiny witch and her chatty cat stand up to a repeat viewing? Pretty bloody well, as it turns out.

Eagle-eyed readers of Best For Film may recall that earlier in the week I broke down my ten best reasons for loving Gone with the Wind. Like men and Scarlett O’Hara, however, GWTW and I have a tempestuous relationship: i.e. I love her, but she is a proper bitch. She makes me feel things I don’t want to feel! She’s super racist! She’s incredibly manipulative! She’s horrible to women! She’s really generally unpleasant! Anyway, because of this, it seemed sort of a lie to give you my ten reasons to love it, without my ten reasons to hate it. HERE WE GO.