Tag Archives: apocalyptic

'Game of Thrones' has an element of cultural and political subtext that’s one of the main elements that make the show so great and why it’s such a timely and relevant parable in this era of ours.

'East of West' is a cross-genre epic, a dark and serious work for mature readers. Jonathan Hickman is a master of the art of the slow reveal, giving his readers just enough information to understand what’s going on and leaving them thirsting for more. Vol. 3 has the series building up to an explosive conclusion, and I can’t wait to see how it ends.

'Sheltered' is a taut thriller and a scathing critique of fanatical survivalism and romanticization of the apocalypse.

I have been waiting ten years for Margaret Atwood's "MaddAddam" and it is worth the wait.

'World War Z' has the star, the budget, the scope; all it needs is a smarter script and the will to be better. Done correctly, zombie movies don’t need ripped throats and smashed heads to be good, but they do need guts and brains.

The truth is people really don’t love the idea of a zombie apocalypse. They only think they do, and largely because of the way the Zombie Scenario is presented to us. In this post, I’ll talk about the things that make the Zombie Apocalypse Scenario so attractive and more appealing than other apocalyptic scenarios.

Sure, the effects aren’t that great, and the ethics of the movie are questionable at best, but the Apatow crew has never been accused of particularly high quality, socially uplifting humor. That doesn’t make 'This is the End' any less funny in a thoroughly disgusting way.

Like 'The Road,' another technically non-horror film, there is an underlying sense of dread and foreboding here that's far more sophisticated and true-to-life than most of what passes for horror these days.