Max Brooks' latest book is amazing! So, here's what the movie version needs to do to do the book justice.
The coronavirus, to put it simply, is scary. Folks are quarantining themselves, the sources of pop culture we use to ease our anxieties are delaying everything left and right, and there's lots of panic-stricken loneliness. In times like these, it's important to recognize those sources of objective light. In this case: It's absolutely father-and-son duo Mel Brooks and Max Brooks making an absolutely wonderful coronavirus PSA on Twitter. [caption id="attachment_762901" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via 20th Century Fox[/caption] Mel Brooks is, of course, a comedy legend responsible for such masterpieces as …
As COVID-19 winds its way through countries and populations, varying countries have had differing responses. South Korea has been able to significantly get ahead of the virus through rigorous testing whereas Italy fell behind and has had to lock down the entire country. Plague is nothing new to humanity, and yet we were seemingly caught off guard by the speed and dispersal of coronavirus. How did this happen? Author Max Brooks, who grounded his zombie plague novel World War Z in reality (which is why the book is so much better than the movie), went on Reddit to explain …