Ever since an injured Rick Grimes was carried off in a Civic Republic Military helicopter as an unknowing, devastated Michonne bawled her eyes out over his suspected death, The Walking Dead fans have been itching for the apocalypse-surviving lovers to reunite. New spin-off The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live finally sees that happen – and actor Danai Gurira was just as desperate for it as longtime...[Read More]
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who LiveSky Atlantic/NowThe SympathizerSky Atlantic/NowEricNetflixYou think they can’t go on, now all life has left them, but they do. Rotted, degraded, senseless, clawing at us with fingers of yellowing bone. On they come, relentlessly, forever and ever. I refer, of course, to spin-offs from the zombie series The Walking Dead.You know the show? If not, wow, but it’s the...[Read More]
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live9pm, Sky MaxYet another spin-off from the zombie apocalypse franchise (six and counting), this one is set to be an, erm, “epic love story”, picking up five years after the conclusion of the original series. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira reprise their roles as Rick Grimes and Michonne Hawthorne, with Rick trying to escape the Civic Republic Military. Hollie Rich...[Read More]
Just about everything that can be done with the zombie genre has been done. Comedy, rom-com, action movies, drama, and even arthouse cinema have put a spotlight on the returned dead. We’ve even shows such as The Walking Dead place emphasis on the living, and how they cope with a world overrun by zombie hordes. But Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead, while hardly breaking the mold, does somethi...[Read More]
A zombie movie is wrapped in a gentle tale of mourning and love.The yearning to reverse death is baked into human nature, a longing to defeat evil, to set things right, to conquer mortality. In “Handling the Undead,” that desire is the fruit of great love. Who hasn’t, upon losing someone, wished desperately for just one more chance to see them, hold them, tell them how much they mean?“Handling the...[Read More]