Full disclosure: I took a break from writing about The Walking Dead last week entirely due to Cherokee Rose being so utterly boring. When TV critics raise eyebrows at the progression of the series, it’s precisely due to the sloppy writing and pacing running rampant through 2.4; very literally, nothing happens throughout the entire forty minute block that … Continue reading
Last year, Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass posed the question, “What would happen if a regular, everyday person put on a costume and fought crime?” rather succinctly– they’d get beaten half to death– before going off the rails of reality and into full-blown superhero movie mode, as though to underscore the impossibility of the film’s own … Continue reading
In which the show spins its wheels and winds up black flagged at the last lap. The last half of The Walking Dead‘s premiere season isn’t a total dud in the slightest, but it stumbles and falters along the way toward a truly clunky finale that shows just how uneven the show’s writing can be. … Continue reading
Occasionally, we here at Andrew at the Cinema like to watch television. Zombies have long constituted their own trusted and heavily explored sub-genre of horror, and in the last decade or so our favorite subtext-rich movie monster has seen something of a resurgence as filmmakers have gone back to the well to produce their own … Continue reading
