I must confess, I've never been much of a Jim Jarmusch fan... which made me a bit of a pariah during my film school days. It's nothing personal, but my tastes swing away from artsy and more toward Joe Six Pack when it comes to movies and filmmaking. However, when Jarmusch decided to make a zombie comedy starring Bill Murray and Kylo Ren, I was sold. And thankfully the Kamloops Film Society and our horror-podcast brother and sister  Drunk In A Graveyard brought The Dead Don't Die to our hometown this weekend. Suffice to say, I went and watched. Glad I did too, as The Dead Don't Die is just the kind of gonzo fun I was looking for. In fact, I may have found my movie of the year! The flick is a riff on moviemaking and society and the zombie genre. Jarmusch has as much to say about people and the world we've created as he does film. And he breaks the fourth wall time and time again, which made me laugh Homer Simpson like on more than one occasion. His cast is...

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.  And it must be pointed out that the screenwriter is an alcoholic. And Irish. I'm half Irish. And have oddball friends, write screenplays and enjoy the sauce. This is like my biopic. Seriously, this is a fun fucking movie. Our 2nd Unit Podcast Network colleague Jon Cross summed it up best: Waits. Bunny rabbit. Walken. Two guns. Graveyard. Nuff said. Awesome. Seven Psychopaths is all this and more. For one, Colin Farrell is brilliant here. The man rocks in ensemble pieces. Too bad he can't carry a movie on his own. Sam Rockwell is the true star though. He owns this. So does the God Who Walks As A Man, Christopher Walken . And Tom Waits . Hell, they're all good. One complaint: the uber sexy Olga Kurylenko only gets about three minutes of screen time. This is bad. Otherwise, Seven Psychopaths ...