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What should you make of a film called Diary of the Dead, which follows Night of The Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead? If the director was George Romero who reinvented the zombie, you pay attention. It would certainly be a relief from the tired cannibalizations of old horror titles into what George Romero calls 'torture porn films' or the army of wronged restless Asian females determined to crawl out of dark crevices with bad hair.
"They are lacking metaphor," George Romero says. Ooh metaphor, wasn't that popular in 1994 in a film called Il Postino? I still remember my English Literature teacher talking about it. It's like suddenly people realize what she's been doing her whole life.
Well, looks like the most critically acclaimed film to open this week is Juno. The trailer is somewhat tweeny, at least to me: it's gritty because the girl's pregnant and got problems, except she's all Hannah Montana about it. Harsher critics call it a stealth anti-abortion film. Hmm, it opens on Valentine's Day...