research complete, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Well, okay, I’m not Dr Brochu just yet. There’s a list of minor revisions and some paperwork ahead of me. But on Friday, November 26, 2010, I successfully defended my thesis and passed my doctoral exam, so the days of gut-churning anxiety are finally over. It’s disturbing…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
Your Guide to Zombie (and related) Movie History
Your Guide to Zombie (and related) Movie History, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. AKA “How Eric Spent His Halloween”. Not clear about the connection between Return of the Living Dead Part II and Dawn of the Dead? And still wondering where Day of the Dead 2: Contagium fits into all this? Then you’re probably…
Underwater Nazi Zombie Movie Showdown!
The last few weeks have been a bit eventful, to be sure. Since my return from Australia, I’ve gotten engaged, finished writing and editing my PhD thesis, and started developing iPhone applications. But my real accomplishment is this: I’ve managed to catch up to what are, to my knowledge, the only two Underwater Nazi Zombie…
Animal Kingdom (2010)
I really wanted to like the Aussie crime flick Animal Kingdom, and I almost succeeded. In the end, though, I found the movie more admirable than actually likeable. Centred around a family of bank robbers and sociopaths in a Melbourne suburb, it paints a thoroughly bleak and unromantic picture of the criminal life, full of…
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
I don’t really approve of criticizing movie adaptations for how they failed to live up to one’s personal connection to the source material. Having said that, Scott Pilgrim really failed to live up to my connection to the source material. I love the books, published as a series of six manga-sized graphic novels. The books…