Lian amongst the Walking Dead.

Just caught SAKI star Lawrence Kao get gutted by a katana blade on the TV series "The Walking Dead."

Lawrence Kao

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Lawrence Kao is a male actor who will be playing an Tim in Season 3 of The Walking Dead TV...

Centurian ho... hum

I finished watching CENTURIAN with Michael Fastbender. Thought the dialog was too contemporary. Story just seemed like a bunch of Roman fails - kind of a downer.

Write and Wrong

This script must've been optioned on its premise alone - admittedly it is a catchy one. But while the actual feature script seems to understand when and where to hit a story beat, it's so poorly executed - full of cliches and random situations with no sense of theme or character development. This rewrite is going to be harder than I thought.

Oldies are still the best

I actually have a fondness for Joe Dante's original PIRANHA movie - more so than JAWS. I remember seeing it on TV as a kid just thinking how the truth about such a carnivorous fish could be scarier than fiction. Of course piranhas are now Discovery Channel cliches.

Piranha (1978) trailer

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Trailer for the film "Piranha" (1978).

Double the disappointment

I really wanted to like PIRANHA 3DD but it seemed to flop between the ridiculously stupid and the paces of logistics, backstory, drama - I would've preferred either or. I wish the whole movie was as entertaining as the end credits.

Piranha 3DD (2012)

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Directed by John Gulager. With Danielle Panabaker, David Hasselhoff, Matt Bush, Katrina Bowden. After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of 

Word Monster

Suddenly I have a handful of feature scripts that I need to read...

3's a charm

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 is the better of the series - in fact, it's the only one I actually like. 1 and 2 are just too excruciatingly slow with not enough payoff. 3 is still a slow burn but there are enough false scares and the centerpiece and end gags are intriguing enough.

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

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Directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman. With Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Lauren Bittner. In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in 

Pandemic Pandering

Season 2 of "The Walking Dead" kind of wore thin on me. So I re-watched Soderbergh's film CONTAGION and still really appreciated the craft that went into it. Now I'm reading APOCALYPSE Z - trying to narrow down what exactly my interest is in global pandemic plots.

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

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The dead rise… A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it's the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates 

A Miss

You know there are distinct moments within the film BATTLESHIP where I thought the concept would work. But by the end of it all I was completely appalled by its pretensions. It should've just stuck with big ships with big guns engaged in bombastic war games.

Battleship (2012)

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Directed by Peter Berg. With Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna. A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of