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Review: Hugo
This is why we love cinema Starring: Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Jude Law Director: Martin Scorsese Screenplay: John Logan (from the book by Brian Selznick)...
View ArticleTrailer Trash: Battlefield America
As a confirmed, certified and rubber-stamped movie buff, with my membership card, badge and newsletter to prove it, it’s fair to say that I watch a ridiculous amount of movies. However, even for my ilk...
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Cool Stuff – Mondo Back to the Future Posters
Great Scott! Cool, cool and thrice cool, with an extra helping of cool on the side and smothered in cool relish. Mondo, purveyors of exquisite and ever-popular alternative movie posters, have just...
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Thank You, Ralph McQuarrie
1977, and a seven-year-old me, like a multitude of seven-year-old other people, falls under the spell of Sir George of Lucas. Star Wars has arrived and life will never be quite the same again. Suddenly...
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The Celluloid Zombie Guide to Becoming a Movie Snob – Part Two
So, you enjoy movies, watch them regularly and feel ready to take the next step. That’s right, you don’t just want to be a movie buff, you want to be a movie snob. You’ve seen those shiny boys and...
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Top Ten: Found Footage Movies
The last 10 years have seen the rise of a particular style of film-making that has almost become a genre of its own, and certainly a favourite of little old Celluloid Zombie. The ‘found footage’ movie...
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7 x 7 Link Award…Thing
I have been summoned by Scott at Front Room Cinema to attend to the latest Meme working its way across the blogosphere. And because I’m a good, dutiful zombie, I’m going to oblige my friend. The rules...
View ArticleTrailer Trash: I Kissed a Vampire
In Trailer Trash (did you see what I did there?), I’ll be inspecting new trailers and explaining why I, and perhaps I alone, will be respectfully declining any opportunity to see more than the allotted...
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My Movie Year – 1984
Fandango Groovers Movie Blog is running a huge old blogathon which I just had to be a part of. The basis is simple; pick your favourite year for movies and then furnish your selection with five movies...
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My Golden Age of Movie Posters
Note: Click on all the images to see them full size. If you love movies as much as I do, there’s a good chance that you love movie posters too. You probably have them on your walls, use one as your...
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Counting Bullets: The Dirty Harry Movies
The Sixties, with all of its commendable trumpeting of tolerance, restraint and free love was always going to be too good to last. Sooner or later there’s always a rebound and in Hollywood few movies...
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Review: The Beaver
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence Director: Jodie Foster ‘You’re nothing without me, Walter. Nothing. I’m the only part of you that works.‘ After two years of severe...
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Review: Super 8
Starring: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler Director: J.J. Abrams “She used to look at me… this way, like really look… and I just knew I was there… that I existed.” Summer, 1979, in the small...
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Review: Grave Encounters
Starring: Sean Rogerson, Juan Riedinger, Ashleigh Gryzko Directors: The Vicious Brothers ”I don’t know how much longer we can last. We’re not alone in here anymore.” Paranormal investigation show,...
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Review: Drive
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks Director: Nicolas Winding Refn “I drive.” The life and psyche of a solitary, nameless man—stunt driver for the movies by day and...
View ArticleThe Willing Suspension of Disbelief
As those of you who have been returning to Celluloid Zombie over the last few months might have noticed, my site has become something of a barren wasteland, starved of shiny new content and...
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Review: The Woman in Black
Harry Potter and the Stubble of Men Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer Director: James Watkins Screenplay: Jane Goldman (from the novel by Susan Hill) ‘Please don’t go to Eel Marsh...
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