As cautious as we are about recommending trailers these days, OnlyForKoolKids advises you to take a look at the teaser for forthcoming apocalyptic-esque horror Grim Night. We say ‘forthcoming’ as the film hasn’t actually been made yet –  the (rather excellent) promo footage was put together to entice a studio to buy the full length feature, and on the back of it Universal has duly obliged.

Presenting a similar vérité style to that seen in director Gareth Edwards’ Monsters, Grim Night appears to be the tale of an annual event where, for one night only, creatures known as ‘Grims’ appear and kill anyone who isn’t safely behind closed doors. Whether the Grims are supernatural spectres or alien invaders is not clear yet, but presumably all will be revealed once the cameras start to roll proper.

A word of warning: don’t watch the trailer too many times, or it starts to look like a film about a gaggle of itinerant crack addicts who forgot to take their witches costumes off after a particularly intoxicated Halloween night. With that in mind, check it out:

Last year OnlyForKoolKids dropped the ball when we failed to tell you about one of the most beautiful ambient/dubstep hybrids we have ever heard: Unquote’s remix of Bop’s Enjoy The Moment. Employing the same deep bass, somber synths and clipped vocal samples as much of Burial’s work, it is the perfect antidote to the frenzy of urban existence – we really cannot stress how utterly gorgeous this track is, so please do listen by clicking here.

Determined not to balls up again, let us swiftly bring to your attention the magnificence that is Unquote‘s Cold Tenderness. Taken from new album Reverberation Box, released last week on Hospital Records’ sister label Med School, Cold Tenderness is another evocative work; simultaneously contemplative, mournful and sublime. Music to calm the soul, indeed – and you can quote us on that!

Have you ever looked back over your life and wished there was something you could go back and change, only to remember that scientists still haven’t done what everyone wants them to do and actually invent a time machine? Well we do, and although we don’t have our own Doc Brown-modified DeLorean DMC-12, we do have this blog.

So without further ado, let us put right what once went wrong (10 points if you spotted the Quantum Leap reference) and draw your attention to a film we spotted a couple of months ago but were just too busy/goddamn lazy to post about at the time.

We Need To Talk About Kevin is Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s Orange Prize-winning novel, and her first film for nine years. Although the book, told in the first person through a series of letters written by the mother of a child that has committed an act of horrific violence, was described as unfilmable, Ramsay appears to have scotched that theory, with Shriver herself describing the film as “stunning”.

Out in UK cinemas tomorrow (October 21), We Need To Talk About Kevin has drawn five-star reviews from The Guardian, The Telegraph and Time Out, so if you can find it amongst the dross of Johnny English Still-born, Paranormal Craptivity 3 and Real Steal at your local picture house, go see it.

Last Sunday the undead scored a major victory over the living, when US cable TV channel AMC aired the second season première of OnlyForKoolKids’ favourite, The Walking Dead. Including figures from two subsequent encore presentations, over the course of the night the show got its rotten chops into 11 million viewers, making it the most watched drama ever on cable television.

For those of you who missed the first season, The Walking Dead  is an adaptation of the eponymous zombie apocalypse comic book series, brought to the small screen by Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption and (we’ve said it before but we’ll say it again) the marvellous but underrated The Mist.

Starring Andrew Lincoln, who older readers may remember from 90s lawyers-on-heat drama This Life, it combines elements of George Romero’s classic zombie movies, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road to add a pretty distinguished work to the by now heaving zombie pantheon.

Worringly, Darrabont left in mysterious circumstances during the summer, with some reports suggesting AMC had fired him after he became critical of its decision to cut budgets and demand a quicker turnaround per episode. Obviously we have yet to see if this will have any impact on quality, but it is something to be wary of and, for such a smart but entertaining show, a bit disappointing.

The  Walking Dead‘s second season opener can be seen by UK viewers on FXUK this Friday (October 21), but if you can’t wait until then, head over to AMC’s website, where it can be viewed online…if you have the Mozilla Firefox browser and follow the instructions here. (The Legal Bit: of course, we wouldn’t recommend you actually do that…would we?).

Back in July we brought you a sneak peak at the latest Gervais/Merchant production (no, we no longer need to print their Christian names), Life’s Too Short. As Gervais (see, definitely no need for a Christian name) explained, the new show is “another naturalist observational comedy, dealing with everyday problems, human foibles and social faux pas… but with a dwarf”.

The dwarf in question is Warwick Davis, who you may remember from films such as Return of the Jedi, Willow or Leprechaun 2: Back 2 Da Hood, playing a pompous, puffed-up version of himself. As is form for the writers behind Extras, there are plenty of celebrity cameos forthcoming, with Davis being joined by, amongst others, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Carrell, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson and Right Said Fred. And yes, Les Dennis and Barry from Eastenders are set to return too.

Will it stand up to comparisons with The Office and Extras? Well, a little bird tells us that you can find out on November 10, when the first episode goes out on BBC2…

In 2008, former installation artist and Turner Prize-winner Steve McQueen (OBE, CBE no less) caused both walkouts and standing ovations at Cannes with Hunger, his first feature feature film. A depiction of the final six weeks of the life of Irish Republican Bobby Sands, whose 1981 hunger strike whilst serving time in Northern Ireland’s notorious Maze Prison captured global media coverage, went on to secure the Caméra d’Or and numerous other awards for its searing imagery and actor Michael Fassbinder’s breakthrough performance as Sands.

Fassbender and McQueen have now reunited for McQueen’s second feature, Shame, which has already claimed the latter the Best Actor award and the former the Critic’s Choice award at this year’s Venice Film Festival, and has garnered considerable critical acclaim. From the trailer it is easy to see why: Fassbinder, now a certified star, looks reliably superb as Brandon, a sex-addicted corporate automaton whose fractured existence is disrupted by the arrival of his equally desperate sister (played by fellow A-lister Carey Mulligan).

Co-written by Abi Morgan, who last brought us BBC’s The Hour, Shame does not arrive in the UK until January 13, but OnlyForKoolKids will get to whet its considerable appetite for this film when it opens Brighton’s Cinecity festival on November 17. We’ll bring you a full review shortly afterwards, along with first looks at Nick Broomfield’s Sarah Palin documentary, Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, Coriolanus, and Roman Polanski’s latest, Carnage, so watch this space…