‘Daybreakers’: somewhat broken

I saw Daybreakers yesterday. Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, the Australian film-making duo who brought us the entertaining zombie/alien film Undead a few years ago, Daybreakers was a movie I have been quite looking forward to seeing. The Spierig Brothers have been given a decent budget and some actual production values and [...]

Beyond Post-Apocalypse: ‘The Road’

I’ve been fairly disappointed by most of the movies I’ve gone to the trouble to see on the big screen lately. Avatar, Holmes, The Lovely Bones, among others … all big budget productions with effects up the whazoo but all falling down, to greater and lesser extent, in terms of plot and execution. (You remember [...]

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