April Apocalypse is an attempt to make a high school teen romantic zombie comedy that fails. First off, every actor is clearly 10 years too old for their parts, the writing is just not good, and there’s no surprises, no … Continue reading
Watched the movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead on iTunes Streaming – it’s billed Mad Max meets zombies and I guess it’s that though not as much as they’d like to think. It’s largely a generic zombie movie set in … Continue reading
Saw The World’s End, the new sci-fi pub crawl movie that’s a spiritual successor to Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. With great affection, I have to say I didn’t really love this movie. It’s got a lot going … Continue reading
Late showing of the Brad Pitt vs. zombies movie World War Z – a big spectacle of a zombie apocalypse flick loosely based on a really good novel. It has sparkles of that novels ideas and that’s cool – but … Continue reading
Saw a weird Tuesday showing of the new comedy This is the End starring Seth Rogan, James Franco, academy award nominee Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, and Jay Baruchel with special guest stars Emma Watson, Rihanna, a coked-up Michael Cera, Jason … Continue reading
Went to see the new Tom Cruise sci-fi flick Oblivion and found it to be a reasonably smart, very good looking movie with a fine plot and some nice twists… and plot/logic holes it largely managed to fill in on … Continue reading
Saw Warm Bodies – a rom-zom-com that is pretty amusing bit of fluff that is pretty forgettable but mildly fun. Kind of a send-up of zombie apocalypse movies, kind of a send-up of Twilight, kind of a Romeo & Juliet … Continue reading
Steve Carell and Keira Knightly star in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World… billed as a kind of romantic comedy, it’s really more of a romance with comedy and tragedy. An asteroid will hit Earth in 21 … Continue reading
The Road is one heck of a depressing movie. Turns out that’ll happen in a fairly realistic depiction of the end of the world. The visuals (the grey, dreary visuals) of this mysterious end time was very well done and … Continue reading
If we’re talking borrowing from other post apocalyptic franchises, Book of Eli is more Fallout than Road Warrior – it’s about scrounging out a life, looting, searching, surviving – encounters with waste wanderers and small craphole towns trying to create … Continue reading