Another Take By Zac: TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.2: Guts
“Guts” is the second episode in this first season of The Walking Dead and the intensity and creativity of the series is still in full swing. Again the episode primarily focuses on Rick and his adventures in Atlanta and how the hell he gets out of that tank we left him in. Surprisingly the solution […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Unstoppable
Tony Scott’s latest, Unstoppable, is a straight forward suspense action thriller that fails to ever live up to the intensity it hopes to create. The plot is simple; a runaway, unmanned, train is barreling through Pennsylvania carrying explosive materials. It must be stopped before it hits an elevated turn in the middle of a highly […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Morning Glory
Morning Glory is a funny (if a tad uninspired) tale about the rejuvenating of a morning news show that does fairly well till a perplexing third act almost ruins a potentially very fine piece of entertainment. Now if I was a well versed critic I would probably start by writing this film off as paling […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Megamind
Megamind is a not bad but not great film that takes a very scatter shot approach at lampooning the superhero genre and never steps out with its own message or voice. The premise of the film is familiar as it is basically ripping off every superhero movie before it. Megamind, like Superman, is jettisoned from […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Due Date
Due Date is the latest from Todd Phillips and he smartly lets his leads of Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis make the most of a good but far from great script/story. Peter Highman (Downey Jr.) is a straight shooting architect, with occasional rage issues, that is on his way home to witness the birth […]
Another Take By Zac: TV Review: The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead premiered this Halloween on AMC and is another great step forward for the network and TV in general. The pilot introduces us to the tip of the iceberg of this world and oh what a world it may be. Having never read the graphic novel series I might be inclined to pick […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Conviction
Conviction takes a fairly remarkable true story and makes it incredibly bland and familiar, only shining when Sam Rockwell strolls onto the screen. The story follows Betty Anne Waters, a small town girl who has a strong bond with her brother, Kenny. Kenny has been in trouble with the law time and time again and […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Hereafter
Clint Eastwood’s latest bests his last couple efforts but for every thing I like about Hereafter there is almost always something that really grates me the wrong way. The film follows three thread lines of different people that have had a recent connection with death and/or the “hereafter.” One is a French reporter who has […]
TV Review: Mad Men 4.13: Tomorrowland
What. Just. Happened? A year, a whole fucking year. That is how long we have to wait before we get any sort of answers to the complete 180 we were thrown tonight; as well as any of the many questions left unanswered in this season’s finale. I don’t even remotely know how I feel about […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: jackass 3D
Reviewing jackass 3D is an easy task. You can’t really say anything about it as it will spoil the surprise so you know your review will be short. It’s easy to tell anyone that hasn’t enjoyed the show before that nothing will change here and if you loved it before so will you love this […]