Top 10 Movie & TV Badasses You Want With You When the Zombies Attack


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Whether they’re fast or slow, moaning or shrieking, chewing on their own guts for fun or just shambling after you, zombies work best in huge, overwhelming numbers. One zombie is easy pickings. Three or four present a small challenge. Fifty plus undead clawing at your stomach? GAME OVER, MAN. ARRIVEDERCI. That’s why you need help [...]

At Long Last, Friday the 13th Is Good For Something besides Slasher Movies (It’s Now Also Good for Television)


There’s a legend that says that if you die on Friday the 13th, four-leafed clovers will sprout from your grave, and anyone who picks one will find true love by the next full moon.  The legend also says that anyone who digs up your bones and wears your skull as a hat will get arrested [...]

Palinode’s Top Television of 2008


I love television.  Plenty of people like to pretend that television is not their best friend, but I’m not one of them.  Even the worst of its many offerings gives me something to enjoy, whether it’s looking at women in tight clothing (CSI Miami), cursing at David Caruso (CSI Miami) or pitying the sad lot [...]

She may be The Terminator, but he’s a Bigger Robot


Terminator Primer*: In the future robots will revolt against humans and thoroughly kick our asses. Or will they? Not if John Connor has anything to say about it. For he will travel back in time to when he was a cute 16-year-old boy-genius and try to stop the robots from ever being built. But he [...]