I’m continuing my Halloween season with a focus on zombie films. Zombies have become something of a cultural icon in a way that few movie monsters have, but a lot of the contemporary depictions of the zombie are rooted in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), which conveniently ignores the folklore roots of the zombie, and […]
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5 Classic Horror Movies to watch this Halloween
It’s October so we’re now officially into the Halloween Build-up! Each Monday I’m going to post horror related content, and this week we’re looking at classic horror movies! There are various arguments about what year ‘modern horror’ begins, which will be another post for another time, but for this post I’m going with the 1968 cut off point. […]
A hand drawn Disney film? It can’t be!
I just posted the first instalment of my new web serial over at my new blog, Tales from Vertigo City. Go follow the blog, or subscribe, and you’ll get a new instalment every week! In other news, I went to see The Princess and the Frog today. I bet you didn’t guess that I’m a Disney fan, […]
To CGI, or not CGI…don’t make the Phantom Menace mistake
Celebrated sci-fi author China Mieville has written this post for The Wall Street Journal to explain just why CGI is rotting sci fi cinema from the inside. For the most part, I’m only too happy to agree with him. If you ever read my post about Pixar, you’ll know that I like CGI only if […]
Icy’s Top Ten Films of 2009
It’s been a funny old year for cinema, and I’ve seen an awful lot of films. Still, a lot of them were absolute guff, so it was relatively easy to choose at least five that I’d happily put in a list of good films of 2009. I doubt I’m likely to see any more films […]
Music or Movies?
The ridiculous Internet campaign to get an outdated Rage Against The Machine track to the Christmas no.1 spot in the UK ahead of limp offering from the winner of a TV talent show has made me really stop and think about how little music means to me these days. There used to be a time […]
