Author: Dan Helmy

This is a serious movie.In surreal dream sequences and the drug-addled misadventures of a bar mitzvah boy, audiences can escape the painful uncertainties that A Serious Man provokes. But to describe the Cohen brothers’ new film as a “black comedy” is to ignore how successfully it addresses the problem of

Zombieland , directed by Hollywood upstart Ruben Fleicher, premiered in theaters Oct. 2. The film depicts the last survivors of a “zombie apocalypse.” These unlikely heroes take a road trip across the country, hoping to find sanctuary from the undead hordes.John: If you can get past the gratuitous images of