Review: The Dead Don’t Die, 2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch

A movie about zombies by one of the coolest filmmakers out there, starring a ton of people I like, should be a slam dunk, but then…what if it isn’t? Continue reading →

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 →

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, 2.4 & 2.5: Cherokee Rose/Chupacabra

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 →

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 →

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 →