Train to Busan is a really good Asian zombie apocalypse movie, if you're thinking about picking one to watch.

People on Twitter were saying last night that Irish movies should have done MUCH better than they did, at the Oscars. I can't really comment on the geopolitical significance of why Ireland got short shrift, but... I guess I need to do some catching up, on watching recent Irish movies. People really seemed to think they deserved more recognition.

By the way, Daniel Kwan is a local dude, for jimbred and me. He was half of the team that created Everything Everywhere blah blah blah. He grew up and went to high school in the town where I lived when I was a little kid (Westborough, MA), and then went to Emerson college in Boston, which is very close to me. A lot of people we have all heard of went to Emerson... for us here, Joseph Pilato is probably one of the most famous grads.

An interesting thing about Daniel Kwan, who co-wrote and co-directed EEAAO: he was born and went to high school in Westborough, MA, which is also where Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, was born. I imagine that a lot of kids in that town are going to turn out to be total schizos in the future, as they try to grapple with their town's heritage as being both an extremely important link in the chain of events that made slavery economically attractive, and also being significant in... whatever EEAAO is supposed to be significant for, like diversity, equal ooportunity, racial inclusiveness, yadda yadda yadda.