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AMC's 'Walking Dead' has brains, heart and guts
Zap2ItOn a sweltering Saturday morning in early June, downtown Atlanta is looking much the worse for wear. Trash and ruined vehicles partially block the streets. Atop an abandoned military tank, some crows peck at a corpse. And then, of course, there are the...Tags: Romance (genre), Keira Knightley, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Entertainment, George Romero
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George A. Romero loves those zombies: 'It's the gift that keeps on giving'
The Hero ComplexFIVE QUESTIONS: GEORGE A. ROMERO With "Survival of the Dead," horror auteur George A. Romero, now 70, resurrects the series that began more than 40 years ago with the game-changing zombie film "Night of the Living Dead." The Toronto-based writer/director.... -
'The Crazies': George Romero remake amps up the anxiety, but loses the social conscience of the original.
Brand XThe latest entry in the open-ended remake sweepstakes is "The Crazies," based on an early George A. Romero project. Released under different titles in different areas -- I originally saw it as "Code Name: Trixie" -- it garnered nowhere near the same level... -
Things at Sundance get weird at midnight
While many film festivals have midnight sections that screen outré and impolite genre films, there is something about Sundance's "Park City at Midnight" that defies expectations. Frequently brimming with frenzied horror, outrageous mayhem and dark comedy,...Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Genres, Movies, Hell Ride (movie), Grateful Dead (music group)
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'Grindhouse' sparks a creepy stroll down memory lane
Special to The Times"Grindhouse." The very name conjures up all kinds of memories of the gloriously lurid exploitation films of the '60s and '70s and fond nostalgia for the fading South Broadway movie palaces that booked them as double features. Although it was not really a...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Broadway Theater, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (movie), Dawn of the Dead (movie, 1978), Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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Romero Is 'Dead' Again
Zap2It.comYou can't keep a "Dead" man down. Only a year after "Land of the Dead" stirred up strong reviews, but sub-par box office, George A. Romero is moving back into the zombie business with "George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead." Romero will writer, direct...Tags: George Romero, Entertainment, Movies, Day of the Dead (movie, 1985), The Hollywood Reporter
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'George Romero's Land of the Dead'
Times Staff WriterBack in 1968, fledgling Pittsburgh filmmaker George A. Romero unleashed upon an unsuspecting public a low-budget zombie horror picture called "Night of the Living Dead," which remains one of the scariest movies ever made — in 1999 it was even listed...Tags: Asia Argento, Movies, Genres, Grateful Dead (music group), Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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Movie review: 'Land of the Dead'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of four) Warning: Though this is a laudatory review, it describes a movie that may give audience members unwelcome nightmares. "George A. Romero's Land of the Dead" gives us another great shock to the system. The fourth blood-spattered...Tags: Asia Argento, 28 Days Later (movie), Shaun of the Dead (movie), Movies, Genres
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Movie review: 'Mysterious Skin'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of 4) In "Mysterious Skin," Gregg Araki, director of "The Living End" and "The Doom Generation," plunges us into a world of homoerotic ecstasy and danger, wrecked lives and possible redemption. Araki's often-moving film is based on Scott...Tags: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Mulkey, Movies, Clint Eastwood, Gays and Lesbians
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'Dawn of the Dead'
Times Staff WriterGood zombie fun, the remake of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" is the best proof in ages that cannibalizing old material sometimes works fiendishly well. The story opens with a hush in a Milwaukee hospital as an emergency-room nurse (Sarah Polley)...Tags: 28 Days Later (movie), Dawn of the Dead (movie, 1978), Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Jake Weber, Wisconsin
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Movie review: 'House of the Dead'
Special to the Tribune1 star (out of 4) Here is yet another video game transferred to film with little enhancement or development. Director Uwe Boll even jump-cuts to images from the actual game, making "House of the Dead" even less of a film than similar efforts such as...Tags: Clint Howard, Movies, Defense, Sega Corporation, Grateful Dead (music group)
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Invaders From The Past
Courant Film CriticIt's back to the '50s in "Signs," M. Night Shyamalan's odd, semi-comic science-fiction tale centering on a weirdly sculptured cornfield in Bucks County, Pa., and a lapsed reverend played in shifting moods by Mel Gibson. Recalling "The War of the Worlds"...Tags: Movies, Bucks County, Mel Gibson, Abigail Breslin, Joaquin Phoenix
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