Reviews
Friday, October 29 2010
'The Walking Dead': Series Premiere
Whether a basic, human-seeming decency can withstand catastrophe is an animating question in The Walking Dead.
Wednesday, November 21 2007
Stephen King's The Mist
The Mist indicts blind belief, but doesn't escape the weight of its clichés.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Green Mile (1999)
It's not news to anyone that Steven King screen adaptations get tossed into two categories: absolute crap (Maximum Overdrive, Cujo, Pet Cemetery, et. al.) and important American cinema (Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Frank Darabont's previous King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption).
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Green Mile (1999)
ound dogs baying, wildflowers bending to the wind, angry white men in shirt-sleeves carrying shotguns, a swatch of cloth clinging to a tree branch. The details are all a little too familiar. You know you're looking at yet another recreation of the scary Old American South, specifically, you're looking at the set up for a lynching. This first scene of Frank Darabont's The Green Mile...
Blogs
Thursday, December 9 2010
'The Walking Dead' As Long Form Zombie Tale
'The Walking Dead' has capitalized on a great strength of the television medium, as well as expanded significantly on the corpus of the zombie tale (pun intended).
