I Am Link

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--- When The Dead Talk - AICN has some theories about last night's season premiere of The Walking Dead being the death knell for Frank Darabont's tenure of the show. I have to say, save Greg Nicotero's always spectacular make-up and Andrew Lincoln and Jon Berthal being hot pieces, I thought the episode was a total mess. If it was cobbled together like AICN says it was from a pair of episodes directed by different people that makes sense, but it was sloppy and mostly unengaging. The one good scene with the horde of zombies coming upon them on the road was apparently leftover work of Darabont's.

--- In This Twilight - Cloverfield and Let Me In director Matt Reeves has won the chair for the new Twilight Zone movie, and unlike what we thought last week it will be a single story, not an anthology, which makes me kind of sad. I like anthology movies, and we don't get them often enough. Twilight Zone is perfect for that.

--- Hard Nosed - Are we going to have competing Pinocchio projects on the horizon? Fox has announced plans to make a Gepetto-centric prequel with Real Steel director Shawn Levy (groan), and while it's been awhile since we've heard anything on it Warner Bros. was also working on their own wooden-boy movie with Pushing Daisies' Bryan Fuller writing the script. In today's news about Levy's version Deadline does say "Warner Bros last year set up a live action Pinocchio film that has the interest of Tim Burton," so presumably that's the same project...? Anyway we'd much rather see Bryan Fuller's take, of course!

--- Block Heads - I would be all over an American remake or something of the sort for Joe Cornish's movie Attack the Block, because I had a lot of issues with that movie but love love love the monsters in it. They deserve iconic status on their lonesome.

--- Cotton Picking - Oh happy day, Glenn has begun dissecting Scream 3 in his "Scream to Scream, Scene By Scene" series. We're all just holding our breath for Parker Posey at this point, right? Her scenes with Courtney Cox are the movie's bread n' butter. Bye Cotton!

--- Ghost Gals - I only heard about The Awakening a couple of weeks ago, but I was certainly up for a ghost story starring Imelda Staunton and Rebecca Hall, both actress I like a lot. I guess it screening in London this week and The Film Experience got differing takes on it from Craig and David.

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