Posts Tagged ‘reviews’

‘Survival of the Dead’ more humorous than rest of the series

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

Editor’s Note: We haven’t published anything in a long time, and you have our greatest apologies for that. It’s been a busty few months, but we’re hoping to bring you more fresh zombie fiction in the future.

survival of the dead

It took me a long time to get around to finally seeing George Romero’s new zombie offering, Survival of the Dead. There wasn’t any real reason for it. Yes, some bad reviews gave me pause – but Romero’s films are always subject to the critical eye of people who I feel “just don’t get it” (sorry if that’s a cop-out). But as a writer who occasionally works as a critic, I can’t just shake off the reasoned opinions of my contemporaries. Even if they’re wrong.

“Zombieland” struggles to find funny in apocalypse

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

zombieland The trailers for “Zombieland” excited me, but I was wary because of the fact that more often than not, zombie movies are funny inadvertently. A purposely funny zombie movie is almost unheard of and I generally despise them because of their penchant for mocking the genre rather than commenting or expounding on it.

What we get in “Zombieland” isn’t a mockery, luckily, but the film isn’t exactly ground-breaking. I got the impression that the film would be a lot like “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” but with zombies, and I was pretty much dead on in that regard.