Lets face it, everybody loves a bit of zombie, there’s something oddly loveable about the undead as they lumber about feasting on flesh and being generally hungry. So what could possibly be better than a whole night of zombies on the truly massive and awe-inspiring screen that is the BFI IMAX? Absolutely nothing that’s what. The perfect date night in fact! The After Dark Zombie All-Nighter on 19 January features 4 of the best......

Lasers, screens, explosions, giant mutant zombie mummies (hmm, we may have inadvertently made a cruel pun there), apparently the latest gig gizmo is to parade your offspring, as opposed to The Offspring, which in this case might actually have been better. Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz Posh, Baby Beau, Barbabelle, and Scary Phoenix and Angel Scary Murphy all joined their famous Mums onstage at the O2 this week, during the track Mama. Surely these people......

This week – rage causes a lot of trouble in 28 Weeks Later and the memoirs of Nelson Mandela’s prison guard are opened in Goodbye Bafana. In 28 Days Later the Rage virus spread throughout Britain leaving it full of dead people and those that had killed them. Now, in 28 Weeks Later, the US Army has come to restore order, repopulate the city of London and, during the same process, also reunite families. Among......

Well we're not sure we needed it, but we're certainly getting it: 28 Weeks Later is on its way. The sequel to 28 Days Later has got some empty London: Some swan infested London: And some holy-fuck-the-Americans-have-napalmed-London: See the full trailer here. In a day or two we'll give also give you the low down on Danny Boyle's Sunshine. He didn't have much to do with 28 Weeks Later, but his little excursion into space......

Well a bit of it anyway. Londonist can be a tad hard on motorists so here's a little enginehead news for those who like things that go vroom and indeed whoosh: The City of London is to be closed down next month to allow Shell to film a new TV commercial to promote its long-standing sponsorship of the Ferrari F1 team. The advertisement, which is reputed to be the world's most expensive, with a......

If the London movie map created by FilmLondon and VisitLondon is to be believed, there are few places in this city that haven't been filmed. So next time you have a 'this could be in a film' moment when you're out, that's probably because it was. London's most often depicted as a jolly place full of Routemaster buses, rather than afloat with porridgey puddles of pavement sick and confused tourists. And yes, there's a......

Faithful to its abundant exclamation points, new play iAy Carmela! opens tonight, at the Shaw Theatre in Kings Cross, with a gala event. As we like to grab all opportunities by the balls, we catch director Tom Wright (above right, being grabbed by the balls) for a quick chat about the Spanish Civil War, vaudeville, fart jokes and 1930 fuel economics. Tell us a bit about the play... iAy Carmela! was written by a......

The world of literary/artistic criticism can be wonderfully/infuriatingly obscure. Trying to read books that demand an hour per page (hello, The Order Of Mimesis!) can get a bit wearisome at times; trying to read books dedicated to ”werewolves, shamen, witches, demons and murderers” (hello, Nick Land on Bataille!) can be a real mindfuck. It’s a good thing that we have people like Slavoj Žižek around to make crits, if not a walk in the......

A quick fly through some of next week's gigs starting with our our friends The Colonies, who are supporting The Big Strides and The Furies tonight at the 100 Club. The Colonies will be on at 8.40 Friday: If the name Tim Staffell means anything to you then you're probably a bit of a Queen fan. Once upon a time Tim was the singer and bass player in a band called Smile, alongside a......

It's been a good year for guitar pop bands and a good year for the folk and anti-folk scenes. So how did the Londonist music dungeon find itself rediscovering the joys of good heavy thrashing noise somewhere between Maximo Park and Sufjan Stevens? No idea, but it's been fun being pumelled by the likes of TODD, Part Chimp, Motorhead and Dinosaur Jr this year. One band we haven't managed to catch up with yet......

We mentioned Danny Boyle's new Sci Fi movie a while back after chatting to him at Raindance East, but we now have a press release stating that principle photography on the now Untitled Sunshine Project has just begun. It also reveals some pretty interesting casting choices: DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that principal photography has begun in London on THE UNTITLED SUNSHINE PROJECT. The film once again pairs helmer Danny Boyle with......

The BIG draw for this year's FrightFest is unsurprisingly George Romero's Land of The Dead. It's the kind of event film that horror fans have been waiting a long time for and unfortunately UK fans have had to wait even longer as the movie opened in the States back in June. Well worth the delay though... Romero has always been played a bad hand by the people holding the purse strings on his movies......

Did you see the Top 20 Film Locations list that was put together by Film London last week? It was pretty rubbish. We know these kind of things are designed to provoke dicussion and argument, but one company counting up which of the locations on their books have been used the most over the past year really isn't that great a read. Potters Field Park (as used in Little Britain)? Bethnal Green Town Hall......

The Raindance East Film Festival continues today with a series of short films, an acclaimed animated feature from South Korea, a new British movie set and filmed on London housing estates and a chance for aspiring film makers and writers to pitch their ideas live and in person direct to the film industry. Saturday and Sunday bring workshops, a masterclass, Hong Kong action, more shorts, a gay dentist, kung fu kebabs, US indie weirdness......