
The people have spoken. Tomorrow's film will be Shaun of the Dead, directed by Edgar Wright and released in 2004. It is ostensibly a zombie movie. There are zombies. There is a pub. There are interpersonal complications. There is a rather questionable amount of confidence in one's ability to distinguish the undead from ordinary people at a distance. But beneath the blood and bludgeoning, Shaun of the Dead is also a comedy about stagnation, adulthood, friendship, and the peculiar difficulty of recognizing that your life needs to change until circumstances become sufficiently apocalyptic to make the matter impossible to ignore. It is funny, affectionate, occasionally rather gruesome, and considerably more observant than its premise might suggest. The sort of film that can make you laugh at a joke and then, several minutes later, realize that the joke was actually about you. Please enjoy the apocalypse. And remember: when civilization collapses, the important thing is to remain calm, identify a suitable place of refuge, and maintain access to refreshments. Unquirk for content warnings.



