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When done well, zombies entertain us cinemagoers and TV viewers alike to no end, and sometimes for very different reasons. In Shaun of the Dead, we got a brilliant horror-comedy from the likes of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright, that was by far the best film of its kind I’ve ever seen, before [...]
As far back as 2008 we were hearing that the final film in The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (also called the Blood and Ice-Cream trilogy) was moving forward. Following on from the success of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz the team of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright hinted that the [...]
Writer/director Nicolás Goldbart’s Phase 7 tells the story of a young couple – Coco (Daniel Hendler) and Pipi (Jazmín Stuart) – who discover their apartment building is to be immediately quarantined due to the appearance of a deadly virus. Their ensuing seclusion brings about a series of monstrous events, alliances and double-crossings amongst the neighbours. [...]
Perhaps in the interests of trying to build up a bit more momentum for the US release, we have had the pleasure of Joe Cornish’s feature debut, Attack the Block, here in the good old UK for a little while now. Further anticipation was fanned by a series of special advance screenings in the US [...]
Ain’t It Cool News had an interview with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and in it, the subject of their final film in the Blood and Ice Cream / Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, provisionally titled The World’s End, came up. According to Pegg, he and Wright will be starting work on writing the final film [...]
Halloween is becoming one of my favourite times of the year as I get to put myself through some extreme movie watching experiences as well as seeing some of the best/worst horror films and characters ever created. Last Halloween I watched all the films featuring the horror legends of Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, I recorded [...]
In the first of a series of three articles, we will take a brief look at the hot properties of Hollywood – the director, leading man and leading lady respectively – who I believe are on the cusp of becoming the “next big thing”, the future Spielbergs, Pitts and Jolies. The contenders to become the [...]
I’m loving this project more and more with each film, there is something truly magical about watching some of these amazing films for the first time ever like 12 Angry Men, The Apartment, Rope and Double Indemnity and in this weeks round up I’ve added another incredible film to my collection with the German stunner Der [...]
With HeyUGuys recently posting the Top films of the Decade as voted by you the reader, I thought I would look back into noughties myself and do my own top 10 films of the last decade as I was a bit disappointed with a majority of the top 10 choices like Kill Bill, There will [...]
What better way to celebrate the end of a decade than with a room full of zombies and three of the men who made them the monster of choice for the 21st century. TotalFilm did the honours and reunited Nick Frost and Simon Pegg with SotD director Edgar Wright and let a horde of the [...]
The fantastic friend of quality films that is the Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel has brought to our attention that they are again showing some classic films and hosting some brilliant sounding events in the coming month due to the success of their excellent 80′s film series back in October and it’s all starting off with [...]
To celebrate the US release of Zombieland, on Wednesday i began with A Brief History of the Hollywood Zombie Part One, and yesterday looked at the film that changed the genre, Night of the Living Dead. Today i conclude my piece with Part Two, beginning with the 1970′s. 1970′s Romero’s follow up to Night of [...]
