Friday, December 7, 2007

Two Favorites Get Adapted, One For the First Time, One For the Third, With Mixed Results

Something is fueling the apocalyptic impulse in our popular culture--is it the end of the world, the end of empire, or both?

Frank Darabont has some B-movie fun before finding the existential crisis for us all in a shattering version of King's Mist; new I Am Legend finally captures the essential loneliness of Richard Matheson's classic novel...before failing even more spectacularly than the previous versions.


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