John Sears | March 6, 2012
Ok, I have to admit, if you must watch ‘The Walking Dead’ season finale (we don’t recommend it) this would be the way to go: THE WALKING DEAD season finale On the big screen admission – FREE! March 18, 2012 Muvico Theaters Rosemont 18 & Bogart’s 7:00PM Location: Muvico Theaters Rosemont 18 9701 Bryn Mawr [...]
John Sears | February 26, 2012
Every time I think, ‘That’s it, there’s no way The Walking Dead can get worse’, AMC finds a way to innovate. Gotta give those devils credit (no offense to actual devils): CHARLESTON, W.Va. — When AMC’s “The Walking Dead” returned for the second half of its season on Feb. 12, viewers were greeted with an [...]
John Sears | February 24, 2012
The ZRC is on Facebook, so we’ve, ahem, noticed the constant, frequent, and to many users maddening aesthetic tinkering that goes on with that particular social networking site. It doesn’t really bother me, because I went into Facebook assuming it was evil, but many users hate it. So it might be a PR misstep for [...]
John Sears | February 14, 2012
A lengthy, disturbing, and at times quite interesting interview with Walking Dead creator (or alleged co-creator, according to recent lawsuit) Robert Kirkman is up at Salon. Some highlights, and our responses: So what is it about zombies in general that people are so interested in them these days? First of all, they’re awesome. They look [...]
John Sears | February 14, 2012
We’ve mentioned before on the blog, but the ZRC is going to be in attendance at Horrorhound Columbus this March, and it’s a good thing, too! There’s a veritable bonanza of Anti-Zombie film stars (and a few Zombie Friendly ones) at the convention, particularly actors from the infamous 1985 Living Supremacist film ‘Day of the [...]
John Sears | February 4, 2012
I can’t say I’ve kept up on Transformers as much as my kid-self would’ve liked. (Man I loved that Sky Lynx toy. A part of me always will) Still, via reading the webcomic Shortpacked! I still get a dose of Transformers from time to time, and indirectly, that’s how I discovered that the latest Transformers [...]
John Sears | January 7, 2012
The ZRC was pleasantly surprised by ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?’, and ultimately regarded the first season as uneven but Zombie Friendly. News of a second season therefore made us happy as well. More details on the second season are becoming available now, along with a surprisingly tawdry little promo video: The Japanese publisher Kadokawa [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2011
Musician and comedian Tim Minchin recently ran into a bit of censorship over a not-terribly-edgy comedy song about Jesus he composed for a Pre-Christmas special on British tv network ITV: So I got to writing. Being Christmas, I thought it would be fun to do a song about Jesus, but being TV, I knew it [...]
John Sears | December 20, 2011
Is there anything more soul-crushing than ‘Reality TV’? I mean, aside from the train-wreck-worthy shows where people compete at belting out showtunes in front of millions upon millions of viewers who really could get much better free music by just going to Pandora, you have shows that feature people eating live bugs or swapping spouses [...]
John Sears | December 9, 2011
The Sci-Fi Channel, sorry, SyFy (like syphillis) Channel has gotten a reputation as a purveyor of b-movie direct to cable schlock in recent years, and it’s earned them a lot of fame and, let’s face it, some ratings gold too. Now they’re releasing what has to be the least imaginatively titled Anti-Zombie film of all [...]