question of the day: What is your most anticipated movie of 2012?
I gotta go with The Hobbit. I think I might well be happy to have no other movie but The Hobbit to watch this year.
World War Z
question of the day: Why are zombies so popular?
Apocalyptic tales are always popular, for many reasons, but is there something so particularly appealing about zombie apocalypses that now we’re starting to see not only zombie comedies and zombie action horror but zombie dramas?
FX overload is killing next season’s TV; Sammy Hagar comes out as alien infiltree and crazy person; Brad Pitt’s ‘World War Z’ probably dead; more: leftover links
Plus: You will not be able to avoid having Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding soundtrack downloaded into your brain…
Joss Whedon will direct ‘Avengers’; much ado about ‘Inception’ and ‘Mad Men’; celebrity stalkers; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: Why are undead corpses dominating at the box office?
Today’s QOTD comes via David Sirota at AlterNet, who poses the idea not as a question — because he believes the knows the answer — but as a declarative: he knows why undead corpses dominating at the box office. Not surprisingly — since politics is Sirota’s purview — he thinks it has to do with … more…
