Jason: I'm pretty much done with zombies. Hollywood has taken yet another craze and beaten it to death with a severed limb. Zombies are popular. It's time to move on. But, and this is a heavy but, Hollywood did right by me with World War Z. We've done the small-band-of-survivors thing to death. Time to go big and go global. Give us a spectacle. That's what Hollywood does well, and they nailed it with World War Z. This is more of a virus movie where the virus happens to be zombies. I'm cool with that. We get to see swarms -- literally swarms -- of the living dead assault apartment buildings, cities and even unleashed on an airplane in flight. I loved that. Then shit gets toned down for the final act. Nice! No real blood or gore? Fine. I've got my indie flicks for that, and few indie flicks could go as epic as World War Z does. Every once in a while, I need that. As for casting Brad Pitt? He does his thing here, and he does it well. Mike S likes to poi...

Steven Soderbergh's new film Contagion looks to be the scariest kind of horror film -- the kind that can happen. The movie, which hits theatres in September, is about a worldwide viral outbreak told from the POV of a variety of characters. It looks to be pretty heavy stuff played out by a first-rate director and talented cast, which includes Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet (left) and Jude Law. I know we've pretty much had it with Hollywood films here in The Basement, but this looks pretty solid. It's an original story based on timely events and that scene where Damon learns his wife has died really packs a punch. I don't know if I will rush out to see Contagion, but I will watch it eventually. Give the preview a gander, and sound off if yah please.