What We're Watching

REVIEW
Aargh! Zombies! Run! "Nah, man," I hear you say. "We're all done with zombies. There have been, like, three zillion films about zombies in the last 10 minutes and we're spent. Plus, we're all about broody, celibate vampires now."

Well, suit yourselves, but this one is actually good. It won't make you leap out of your chair and run down the street screaming, but it will make you laugh for the right reasons.

Woody Harrelson makes this movie. Well, him and another guy, but we can't talk about him right now. It'll ruin the surprise.

Anyway, Woody is a zombie plague survivor, a crazy loner that finds himself in an odd group of four.

There's him, a paranoid rule-maker played by Jesse Eisenberg, plus Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin as sisters who survive by being con-artists.

Their job is to survive, which in film-speak means "squabble, moon at each other, share dark secrets and learn valuable lessons".

Only it's better than all that. Woody plays a badass with a clownish streak and Eisenberg neatly fills the sort of geeky outsider role that no modern film can do without.

It's a light caper, but genuinely likeable and funny. You won't get that sort of buzz from two hours of sulking with high school bloodsuckers.