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Les Diaboliques

Train to Busan vs World War Z

If thou openest not that I may enter I will smash the doorpost and unhinge the gate. I will lead up the dead, that they may eat the living.”    (Enheduanna). Excerpt from “Descent of Ishtar/Inanna to the Underworld.” Written somewhere between 3000 B.C. to 1900 B.C. Train to Busan and World War Z: A Comparative Approach Call them what you want: the undead, revenant (French word meaning come back or one who has returned), Zombi or Zombii in Haitian, or as many Western viewers know them, zombies. There are fast zombies (both of these movies) , slow zombies (George A. Romero’s classic 1968 film Night of the Living Dead), zombies who are under mind control through nefarious black magic or sorcery, and many more. Zombies are a very important concept in pop culture and society. Specifically, lots of movies have been made about them.   Two interesting films about zombies are World War Z (2013) and Train to Busan (2016). Even though World War Z is has more jump scares and fits into the

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Tagline- The Courage To Do The Impossible Lies In The Hearts of Men. Hello friends! I love nautical movies and mostly every project Russell Crowe has been in so combining the two definitely works in my opinion!  Master and Commander is a 2003 film based on the 1969 book of the same name by author Patrick O'Brian. This book was the start of a series of 20 books in all. O'Brian kept working on the series until his death in 2000. But i am not here to talk about the books, this is a movie review blog. So here we go. Beware of massive spoilers of course. And also for Star Wars Episode IV- A New Hope!  You will see why in a minute. The cast includes Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, James D'Arcy as 1st Lt. Tom Pullings, Max Pirkis plays Blakeney, a midshipman and Lee Ingleby plays Hollom, also a midshipman. Now a brief introduction to the plot. In April 1805, around the beginning stages of the Napoleonic Wars,  Captain John "Lucky Jack"