[Movie Review] The Crazies (2010)

The Crazies is a remake of a 1973 George A. Romero film by the same name. Directed by Breck Eisner, this film takes place in a small Iowa town where, after Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) and his Deputy, Russell Clank (Joe Anderson) find themselves with a handful of dead bodies, things seem to go straight to Hell. In one of the earlier scenes a man locks his wife and son inside of their country home and sets it ablaze.

Shortly after this scene I set my hopes high for a frightening, heartless celebration of gore and violence. What The Crazies delivers instead is a tale of survival against a disease cause by government corruption and dishonesty. It turns out the entire epidemic was caused by the crash of a plane carrying some chemical weapon into the town’s drinking water. When David and Russell stumble across this problem, things in the story finally start to progress. Continue reading

[TV News] Fox Considering Recasting Futurama If and When it Returns

futuramaI’ve been hearing about a possible “Family Guy” style relaunching of “Futurama,” arguably the most criminally underrated television program of the past decade, pretty much everyday since the show went off the air in 2003. I was a bit skeptical to be excited about this, because while “Family Guy” has been successful since its return, it’s also, in my admitted minority opinion, become one of the most painfully unfunny shows on television. I’d hate to see “Futurama,” which was considerably funnier than “Family Guy” in the first place, go through such a substantial quality dip. Continue reading