DEADLY MOVIES

The Expendables: The Boys Are Back In Town (Most of Them)

5th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

 Sylvester Stallone's 'The Expendables' is a celebration of two things; the action movie genre (specifically the films made famous in the 1980s) and extreme masculinity. And you won't get an apology for either. Stallone is of course famous for two such iconic Hollywood man-heroes, Rocky Balboa and John Rambo. '

The Expendables' is less an attempt to invent (or reinvent) a new icon, but rather to bring together an ensemble cast...

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Manchester Short Puts Bite into the British Indie Scene

1st July 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

Deadly Movies Takes a Look at Indie Horror Short 'Mark Macready and The Archangel Murders' and Interviews producer and star Ryan McDermott

'Mark Macready and The Archangel Murders' is a 30 minute short made by a group of Manchester based Indie filmmakers. The short has developed a sizable online following and has been gaining momentum and buzz on the UK and International festival scene (Including the Horror UK Film Festival and...

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Zombie Home-Movies, Test-Tube Babies, 3D Fish, and Alien Game Hunters.

1st June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

The summer cinema season always arrives with noise, spectacle, box-office records, and enough star power to sink any Cannes yacht party. Most blockbuster detractors like to spend their summer dodging the bright glow of Hollywood by cowering in the shade of their local art-house theatre wallowing amongst Eastern European nouveau reality films. But there is another way, a third option, the option your gran wouldn't like. Why not spend your summer...

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Whisky, Astronauts, and Silver Bean Bags: Jameson’s ‘Moon’ Screening

22nd March 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

Event review from The Royal Institution, London March 17th 2010

Jameson Cult Film Club (JCFC) sure know how to match film with venue. One of the world's most famous science institutions and one of the best sci-fi movies of the past decade proved apt bed-buddies. But before Duncan Jones' 'Moon' started the vast queue outside were admitted and treated to the splendor of the Royal Institution , lovingly dressed in silver...

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The Game Comes Full Circle (well at least six sevenths)

1st March 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this

The Movie

The biggest, most successful sequential horror franchise of the past 20 years roles on to entry number six. Sequential is an apt term indeed for the SAW franchise. The franchise bares a passing resemblance to slick, high budget, episodical US TV shows like CSI, except of course for the vivid violence and lovingly gratuitous scenes of torture. The SAW franchise's episodical quality is certainly an aesthetic quality that distinguishes...

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Romance can be Deadly

11th February 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

This week the cinema will be full to the brim with those 'nice' Valentines movies, the ones that will come out in white DVD boxes with red titles called something like 'Love is Nice'. Of course there is another way. If you prefer your dates atop the Empire State Building while biplanes whistle through your hair firing machine guns indiscriminately in your general direction, then take a look at Deadly Movies...

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Rob Zombie, Horror Auteur or Hillbilly Skank?

25th January 2010 | 7 comments | 1 person likes this

February 1st sees the release of Rob Zombie's 'Halloween 2' on DVD and Blu-ray, and it's safe to say that even for horror's most divisive director this latest  film splits opinion as brutally as the violence it portrays. Auteur fetishism is a rather modern symptom of Hollywood, it's always existed to varying degrees but only in the past 30 years or so has the director become such a focal point...

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Remembering Horror’s Super Bowl

18th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Back in 2002 horror fans around the world were preparing themselves for a wet dream of Vesuvius proportions. Best of all this euphoric event was going to be a real motion picture, not some fan made Youtube effort. Two of horror's biggest and most fetishised icons were to appear in the same film at the same time for a slasher first. Freddy Krueger of The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise...

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