I may have just possibly watched the worst zombie movie of all time.  Of All Time!  The acting, the directing, the writing, the special effects, the make-up, did I mention the acting?  It's all so horribly bad it's all so awesomely good!

I bring to you, as a Public Service, Zombie Lake, available at Netflix streaming for your viewing pleasure ( Read more... )

A surprisingly substantive (for TVGuide, especially) and worthwhile article:

Downton Abbey and the Insensitive Portrayal of Rape on TV

For the record, I don't watch Downton Abbey, but which of us hasn't seen this on TV, or in the movies... or in fanfic?

I am a big fan of Saul Bass and Google's thingie celebrating his birthday is awesome!  Go see it before it's gone!  Also awesome?  This book:


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Today, as I was eating lunch, I flipped around the TV dial and landed on the movie Anatomy of a Murder.  I've seen it a bazillion times, but finally just twigged to the possibility that John Grisham was more than a little influenced by it when he wrote A Time to Kill.  Or, I could just be seeing things.    Either way, and books aside as I've not ( Read more... )

Hope you folks are all enjoying a happy holiday season, whatever you celebrate, or a happy end of 2010 if you've no holiday to celebrate.  Me, I have to again thank nakeisha , allaire , and gemspegasus for the lovely birthday greetings, and pe1804 for the adorable virtual puppy gift.  You guys all made my day brighter.

As did a fic!  The Great Escape is one of my favorite movies ( Read more... )

So I'm not sure I get how this whole zombie thing works.  For instance, a person dies, in whatever way, then comes back as the undead - A zombie! - but, in all the movies and such, they can be dispatched - Yay! - again in whatever way the movies and such have chosen.  Okay, but what keeps the zombie from rising as the undead again?  And if the ( Read more... )

Things that make you go... Well, you pick the verb, adjective, what have you.

1 - Three Came Home, a very good movie starring Claudette Colbert and Patric Knowles as a married couple, with a young son, living in the Pacific region at the advent of WWII, who are subsequently taken prisoner by the Japanese.  The husband is sent off to parts unknown ( Read more... )

Noooo, AMC!  I thought you were classing yourself back up again, after earning back some cred with Mad Men and Breaking Bad.  So why why why is that homicidal, serial killing pinata movie back in your rotation?!