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“‘Peninsula’: ‘Train To Busan’ Sequel Expands The Scale & Emotional Stakes Of The Zombie Franchise”
Y’know, a zombie invasion at this point in the year would just be par for the course, and also maybe preferable to reality. Continue reading
Review: One Cut of the Dead, 2019, dir. Shinichiro Ueda
Remember when Amazon kinda sorta almost ruined this film by putting a pirated version up for sale on their site? And no, I am not bringing this up for any specific reason, no sir. Continue reading
“What ‘The Cured’ Has to Say About the Zombie Genre”
I like a good zombie movie, but of late, “good zombie movie” has a pretty strict Andy Crump Approved™ definition: Basically, I’m not at all interested in workaday zombie invasion movies where the goal is for people to off zombies, get eaten by zombies, and also have conflict with other humans because other humans can’t … Continue reading
Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 2016, dir. Burr Steers
“Your enjoyment of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies will hinge on whether you find the joke it and the novel from which Burr Steers adapted it funny. If yes, this movie is your jam. If no, it is your neurotoxin. Some movies are critic-proof for sheer incomprehensibility.” (Via Paste Magazine.)
Intervew: Jeff McComsey, Ultimate Night of the Living Dead
Zombies, man: They just keep coming, no matter what you do. The hordes of shambling dead are as popular today as they’ve ever been, largely thanks to the massive popularity and cultural ubiquity of AMC’s adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s longstanding comic book series The Walking Dead. Granted, the zombie genre tends to cycle through peaks and valleys of … Continue reading
Review: REC 4: Apocalypse, 2015, dir. Jaume Balagueró
“Zombies on a boat. We’ve reached the second apex of undead lore (Lucio Fulci’s zombie fighting a shark being the first—obviously). REC 4: Apocalypse is, after all, the fourth installment in the REC franchise, a series that’s defined largely by surprise zombie bites and graphically rent flesh (often in that order). None of these films are … Continue reading
TV Review: The Walking Dead Season 2 Wrap-Up
Well, it was only a matter of time before we got here, wasn’t it? Strange enough, the end of season 2 of The Walking Dead feels like it came upon us faster than the finale of the first season; in part, I attribute this to the fact that watching the second half of S2 wasn’t half … Continue reading
TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.10 & 2.11: 18 Miles Out/Judge, Jury, Executioner
I’m not sure what’s going on with the writing staff of The Walking Dead in the second half of season 2, but I’m not going to complain. After a stiff, uneven, and progression-free first half, the series has really taken off with four high quality episodes– probably none better than 18 Miles Out, though none … Continue reading
TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.8 & 2.9: Nebraska/Triggerfinger
Two weeks ago, AMC’s The Walking Dead made its mid-season return to the air after a brief hiatus. I’m not at all worried about spoilers at this point– if you like the show, you saw what happened in the cliffhanger ending of 2.7, and if you haven’t watched the show then you shouldn’t be … Continue reading
TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.7: Pretty Much Dead Already
And so the first half of The Walking Dead‘s second season ends with a bang, and not some pathetic whimper. (Note: If you haven’t seen this episode, don’t bother reading past this point; the episode’s climax is central to this article.) If the writing staff puts their heads together and does nothing but produce episodes … Continue reading
TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.6: Secrets
If Sunday’s installment of The Walking Dead says anything, it’s that even Lori deserves some sympathy and maybe even redemption. Lori, for a boatload of reasons, has been saddled with the honor of being the show’s most well-despised character through and through; she’s duplicitous, she’s “bitchy”, and she’s just plain old hard to like. I … Continue reading
TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.3: Save the Last One
Save the Last One suffers from one major problem: telegraphing. I rather liked the episode overall, and feel that it keeps up the narrative push and character development which made Bloodletting so good, but 2.3 gives away a pretty shattering end-of-episode reveal in its opening scrawl. I don’t know that that particular misstep ruins the episode, but Phil Abraham’s … Continue reading
TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.1 & 2.2: What Lies Ahead/Bloodletting
Last year, AMC’s runaway success story The Walking Dead hit the ground running with a promising first half that petered out and turned into something muddled and disappointing yet still brimming with potential. I admit that for a show like this, I’m an easy sell; I’m a zombie connoisseur, an aficionado of all things shambling, groaning, … Continue reading
Groovers and Mobsters Presents: The Buddy Flick
Shaun of the Dead, 2004 “Take car. Go to Mum’s. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How’s that for a slice of fried gold?” Here’s to buddies, chums, best pals, amigos, companeros, and hetero lifemates, and what duo so … Continue reading
From the Cinema to the Sofa: The Walking Dead, episodes 4-6
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
From the Cinema to the Sofa: The Walking Dead, Episodes 1-3
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
Review: Zombieland, 2009, dir. Ruben Fleischer
How do filmmakers today keep the decaying body of the zombie invasion genre fresh and– so to speak– alive? Decades of offerings focused on the shambling hordes of the undead, many of which exist solely to ape their oft-superior predecessors, have rendered this cornerstone of low-budget indie horror filmmaking inert, arid, and utterly boring. But … Continue reading
The Cinematic Decade: My Top 25 of the 2000s (pt. 4)
I think there is a handful of people who hate this list. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today. Entries 10-6: 10. Shaun of the Dead: How do you a tell when a movie’s truly great? Forty years ago, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 