“Always try to see the best in people.” It may be the mantra that The Great Gatsby’s narrator tries to live by, but it is a luxury that not all of the novel’s fans will have granted Baz Luhrmann when this latest adaptation was announced. Known for his highly stylised visuals and a penchant for aligning period specific plotlines with present day flourish overt enough to rival Quentin Tarantino’s, some feared that in Luhrmann’s hands the story would lose not only its context, but also its subtlety. Thankfully, they were wrong. Well, at least about the first part.

With decadence like this, WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?

Jane Got No Friends

It’s delicious! Grab a slice! etc.

Put the Champagne back on ice, we’ve got to wait til summer 2013

Get cape. Wear cape. Vomit. That is the heroic mission of this week’s Friday Drinking Game – with Marvel churning out so many bloody brilliant superhero films lately, we at BFF Towers are all feeling pretty super ourselves for getting through it all. So super, in fact, that we would like to make like Tony Stark and have a bloody drink or five. As well as a leggy blonde of our choice.

THEY’RE HAVING A WHALE OF A TIME

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, steals your balls, makes you cry.

Don’t you think it could have used a few more sequins, Baz?

SO SHINY