It's really not fair to put 'Zombieland' up against 'Shaun of the Dead' (which is really the 'Citizen Kane' of Zomedies), but you can see the DNA of a worthwhile series in it—especially the idea of the zombie kill of the week or whatever. And Woody Harrelson is a one hell of a comedic actor in it.

Thanks.

Whether the Great American Novel is achievable or not (or already achieved by Herman Melville) is a worthwhile but separate argument. Whether potswar WASP cultural gatekeepers get to decide in any case should be a settled issue by this point (They don't).

Hasbro Factory
Released in some markets as 'Product Placement: the movie'

A whole hour? I feel like I'm reading the Late Edition.

You spell-checked wrong.

Those were both pretty harmless and entertaining blockbusters. Some of Will Smith's best work I think. But It's one of those things (like 'Ghostbusters') where I'm more interested in the day to day work of these characters than the OMG we must save the world and/or New York storylines that they inevitably shoehorn…

remakes
I was thinking about the remake thing a while back, and ya know, there are some movies that could stand to be remade—especially some of the low budget sci-fi thrillers whose (at the time) far-fetched technology is now a little more believable. My main example is 'Looker' a third tier Scifi thriller from the…

Rock is a young'n's game, until you're old.

I've never been much of an Updike fan (since chronicaling the quotidian trials of the postwar WASP has very little chance of ever producing the Great American Novel), but now I see that I just don't adequately appreciate the just fucking straight chillin narrative.

"There's been a lot of talk about this next one…Maybe…maybe too much talk…"

The Fast v. Slow vis-a-vis zombies argument seems a kind of litmus test—and may be a reflection of diminishing attention spans. I don't mean to suggest that one is better than the other per se (it depends on what kind of story you want to tell), only that I know which one I prefer and which I think has a greater…

The Girl Can't Help it—
"The White Queen, an ambitious, snooty telepath of questionable loyalty whose diamond-like skin reflects the cold iciness of her interior"

It is my understanding that 'Breaking Bad' has plans to end after four seasons and 'Mad Men' after five—As much as I will hate to see them end, I do like the idea of limiting runs to ensure freshness.

To further complicate matters, in phrases devoid of context such as the ones above, it isn't clear what the object of the verb is (or indeed if there even is an object—"running" is most often intransitive)—Is Hope known or used for raising something (in which case "raising" is an adjective like "reading glasses" or…

I see the personality parallels—fiery, mercurial Torch, passive unnassertive invisible Girl, Rock hard strong and stable Thing, and ambitious, flexible, stretchy elastic Man—but I'm also a bit confused by the element thing. I'm sure there's something to it (Stan Lee being anything but subtle) but apart from Earth and…

The description of this show just makes me think of 'Futurama's 'Single Female Lawyer'.

I'm with Penguin—the reason why the original 'Dawn of the Dead' is the gold standard is because its premise is both deliberate and sensibly worked out despite the psychic toll.

Is it a Golden Age of Television? I know there a are a bunch of summer cable shows I watch regularly on demand that I like a lot—like 'Leverage', 'Burn Notice', and now 'The Glades'—and I keep up with silly trifles like the extremely derivative but innocuous 'Warehouse 13', along with 'Eureka' and 'Psyche'. But there…

Netflix streaming has a pretty worthwhile documentary about screenwriters that includes Darabont among a host of others from a fairly wide range of films. As for the viability of a Zombie TV series, I fear that the whole zombie thing may by this time be so much beating of an undead horse. On the other hand, I…