Popcorn Zombies

Graham Craycraft Lamb is the directorial debut by director and writer Valdimar Jóhannsson released through the arthouse production company A24. Lamb joins the list of A24 thriller/horror films with others such as Midsommar , The Witch , Ex Machina &c. Lamb is an Icelandic foreign language film, but the viewer barely notices during the first half of the movie because there are probably less than 100 words said. It is quiet and contemplative with a nod back to the silent movie era. Jóhannsson circles around human loneliness that spirals into despair and eventually desperation. Where does this desperation lead them? Where does it lead any of us? Extended dream sequences tell the audience more about the characters’ emotions than perhaps their dialogue could. The movie, a pastoral-set thriller, begins with an ambiguous, ominous tone and beautiful shots of dark, snowy, nothingness. Cut to a couple, only a couple, sitting down to Christmas dinner in their home alone in Iceland’s vast cou...

  By Michael Momper " Let me tell you something Tony... or you can watch the f**king news.... everything comes to an end." -Carmela Soprano      Carmela may have uttered these words only about halfway through the American television masterpiece The Sopranos  but they are just as applicable to the mythos of the show itself as they are to the characters within and our own lives in general. All things good and bad come to an end eventually. Sometimes, life is radiant and full of crescendos. Sometimes life is anticlimactic and bleak. Sometimes it just ain't cinematic.     You can imagine my surprise when I found out that my favorite show, which had its final episode in June of 2007, planned to deliver a prequel movie in 2021. Written by David Chase, the creator and showrunner, and also co-written by Lawrence Konner (who wrote numerous episodes of the show), I knew it literally couldn't be in better hands. Additionally, it stars familiar incredible actors l...