Harrelson versus Zombies

Created on August 26th, 2008 by Mikey B

Guess what? Guess what? You’ll never guess in a million years what we have coming up in the crap-shoot that is the Hollywood film machine. Give up? Another zombie movie? That’s right. Just as the mainstream flavor of 28 Weeks Later wore off like 5 minute old gum, and we haven’t had any particularly entertaining indie zombie film in a long time(well, ‘Zombie Strippers was pretty good, but that’s because it was so bad it was really funny, and before that I was shocked by how much I loved ‘Dead and Breakfast’), we get another pack of gum. So, toss those wrappers away, because the streets will be littered with the buggers in the upcoming, ‘Zombieland’. Read on for more info about this generically-titled ‘Shaun of the Dead’-sounding entry into one of my favorite genres.

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Transsiberian (2008) - KamuiX

Created on August 16th, 2008 by KamuiX

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Remember the good old days of thrillers that took place on a train? It’s such a ripe setting to create suspense, as films like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express have proven. It seems like in modern times though, with so many people opting to travel by their personal cars or planes, the genre has suffered. In recent memory, films that mainly take place on a train have been quite scarce, if not altogether absent. Director Brad Anderson looks to change that however with his latest film, Transsiberian, which travels through some of the seedier locales of Russia, picking up some trouble along the way.

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