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How the immunes survived Stephen King’s “The Stand” I’m finally writing about my favorite fictional pandemic – and one of my favorite books of all time – Stephen King’s The Stand. If you haven’t read it…go. Go now. Read it and come back. The 1990 The Stand:
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**Mild spoilers for Project Hail Mary** With the release of Project Hail Mary in theaters this past weekend, I feel a little obligated to write about it. This is partially because it’s a sci-fi story about microbial life draining away the sun’s energy, but also because I
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Four months later and I’m finally wrapping up my thoughts on zombies. To recap, I hate zombies because they are gross and scary. But I love horror movies and outbreak scenarios. So, I decided to do some exposure therapy by watching zombie movies for Halloween. If you haven’t
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**Spoilers below** This will be the last zombie movie review I post (at least for now). This movie was my personal Everest. I first saw Zombieland in 2010 at a friend’s house and I hated it. I didn’t even watch the whole thing, just the first 45 minutes
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**Spoilers below** I know Halloween is over, but I have a backlog of zombie movies I watched that I haven’t posted about. So, the parade of undead continues with Shaun of the Dead. This 2004 movie is widely regarded as a staple of the subgenre as it riffs on
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**Spoilers below** After taking a quick detour with Warm Bodies, I returned to the George Romero zombie-verse with Dawn of the Dead. Online reviews tell me all of the movies in the Dead series are bangers and so far I have to agree. Dawn of the Dead is a
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**Spoilers below** I’ve successfully watched my second zombie movie, 2013’s Warm Bodies based on a book of the same name by Isaac Marion. I’m still keeping things relatively lowkey as I ease myself into the genre and Warm Bodies definitely fits that bill. The movie follows R,
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**This movie is 57 years old, but just in case, spoilers below** It seemed fitting to start my zombie desensitization with the genesis of the subgenre as we know it: George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Not only is this movie the progenitor of modern zombie lore,
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Futurama “Cold Warriors” Review Part II In my last post I reviewed season 6 episode 24 of Futurama, “Cold Warriors”, in which the cold virus is transported to the year 3000 via the main character who was cryogenically frozen in 2000. Because the cold has been eradicated from the future
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Why we haven’t cured the common cold Futurama “Cold Warriors” Review Part I After watching The Last of Us for nine weeks I’ve decided I could use a palate cleanser. Something lighthearted that gives my psyche a break before I return to zombie and zombie-adjacent media, and
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A dissection of Ellie’s immunity in the season one finale of The Last of Us ***Spoilers for the season one finale of HBO’s The Last of Us*** I had planned for “There is No Cure” to be my last post about The Last of Us, but after watching
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Why fungal infections are so difficult to treat ***Spoilers for The Last of Us on HBO Max*** “And there are no treatments for this. No preventatives, no cures. They don’t even exist. It’s not possible to make them.” This statement, made by Dr. Neumann at the beginning of