Zaki Hasan
- Location
- Newark, California, USA
- Birthday
- September 25
- Title
- Founder
- Company
- zakiscorner.com
- Bio
- Co-author of GEEK WISDOM, Writer, Professor of Communication & Media, Co-founder of MrBoyProductions.com
You can e-mail him at zaki@zakiscorner.com
MY RECENT POSTS
- About That NRA Ad...
January 19, 2013 11:10AM - Zombieland Comes To TV
January 18, 2013 01:00PM - Willis & Co. Return For RED 2
January 18, 2013 12:36PM - New Terminator Sets New
Writers
January 18, 2013 12:21PM - "False Flag Operation Run By
Michael Moore"
January 17, 2013 01:19PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Well, DREDD was written
and greenlit before THE RAID,
so I'd
say it's just a
happ…”
June 24, 2012 01:50AM - “Thanks for the kind
words! I agree completely. You
either buy
it or you
don't.”
March 09, 2012 08:20PM - “You and me both!”
February 07, 2012 02:18AM - “Frank started to lose me
around The Dark Knight struck
again,
and once we got
to…”
November 13, 2011 05:48PM - “That it was.”
October 15, 2011 03:03PM
Zaki Hasan's Links
JUNE 1, 2012 3:35PM
Zaki's Retro Review: Alien (1979)
Note: After last year's very
successful run of retro reviews looking back at Twentieth Century
Fox's Planet of the Apes franchise, I thought I'd give
it a go with another iconic Fox brand, Alien, as we
start the clock counting down to the much-anticipated release of
Prometheus, director Ridley S/… Read full post »
JUNE 1, 2012 1:48PM
Nostalgia Theater: My Kind of Zoo
Here's a slice of nostalgia that's a bit more targeted than some of
the other topics I tend to cover here. This spot first aired
in Chicago's local markets in 1987 to promote the then-new
renovation of the Lincoln Park Zoo near downtown. While I never did
end up actually going, the…
MAY 30, 2012 6:14PM
G.I. Joe Déjà Vu?
"I'm still alive, y'alls! I'm all around
you!" Last week I evinced some (okay, a lot of)
frustration at Paramount's decision to jettison its
highly-anticipated (by me) G.I. Joe: Retaliation from its
summer perch and swap it out for a lower-profile late-March
release. The stated reason offered up/…
MAY 30, 2012 5:56PM
Zombie Apocalypse Now!
This past weekend,
a story hit the web and quickly went viral about a guy going
nuts in Florida and getting shot multiple times by cops after they
found him naked and eating another guy's face. Perfectly normal,
perfectly healthy. I, being the forward-thinking type that I am,
immediately
pegged this… Read full post »
MAY 30, 2012 1:08PM
Pegg on Cumberbatch: Not Khan
MAY 29, 2012 3:30PM
Bookmark Brian's Blog!
*sigh*
It's always sad when they leave the nest. After many years of nudging, prodding, and pleading from me, my longtime chum Brian Hall, whose musings on various bits of pop culture arcana (usually Simpsons-related) have been a semi-regular feature on this site for awhile now, has set up a slic…
It's always sad when they leave the nest. After many years of nudging, prodding, and pleading from me, my longtime chum Brian Hall, whose musings on various bits of pop culture arcana (usually Simpsons-related) have been a semi-regular feature on this site for awhile now, has set up a slic…
MAY 26, 2012 1:37PM
Mass Hysteria!
It seems that, even after becoming a national punchline and
getting soundly schooled
by President Obama himself at last year's White House
Correspondents' Dinner, Donald Trump has yet to give up on the
right wing fever dream that the President wasn't born in this
country. Of course, Trump b…
MAY 25, 2012 1:53PM
Nostalgia Theater: De-Neuralizing Men in Black: The Series
MAY 25, 2012 1:19PM
Zaki's Review: Men in Black III
"Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody kne… Read full post »
MAY 23, 2012 2:18PM
Talking TRON With Sean
MAY 22, 2012 5:29PM
Writing About Writing
Every once in awhile I'm approached at some event or another by a
total stranger who knows me, or knows of me,
because of this blog, or because of a piece I've written that was
cross-posted at Huffington Post. "You're Zaki Hasan...the
writer?" Blows my mind every time. I guess I am&nbs…
MAY 22, 2012 11:48AM
From The Onion...
Ah, our world in microcosm...
Couple Has Nest Egg Of Debt To Make Sure They've Got Some Money To Owe Down The Road
BRIMLEY, MI—Local couple Matt and Wendy Ratliff told reporters Tuesday that they have been steadily building up a nest egg of debt to make sure that they always had something… Read full post »
MAY 21, 2012 2:39PM
007 Returns! First Look at Skyfall
MAY 20, 2012 11:57AM
Nicholas Hammond: Spider-Man
MAY 19, 2012 10:58AM
Recommended Reading
Sara
Robinson details how the current wave of conservative dogmatism
is putting our country's education system at risk . I
usually don't like getting into conservative vs. liberal shouting
matches here, but I think a lot of what Robinsons says on the
differences between the two worldviews,/…
MAY 18, 2012 3:47PM
Nostalgia Theater: Alien Action Figures -- "They're Unstoppable!"
MAY 17, 2012 11:49AM
Avenging Insights
MAY 17, 2012 11:17AM
Recommended Reading
Anyone who's bothered paying attention to the gridlock in
Washington the last three years already knows how the filibuster,
once held in reserve as a last resort option to protect the
minority, has turned into business-as-usual this congressional
session, with its 60-vote requirement to end debate be…
MAY 16, 2012 2:14PM
On Time Passing
I had a bit of an epiphany a few weeks ago when I
saw that a student I had in the very first class I ever taught, lo
those many years ago at San Jose State, was celebrating a birthday
that put them at exactly the same age I was when I taught… Read full post »
MAY 15, 2012 11:38AM
Bad "My Bads"
One of my biggest societal pet peeves of late is the non-apology
apology. You know the one, where the aggrieved party is given a
"Sorry if you were offended" brush-off as recompense for some past
slight. Just a cursory look at the taxonomy of that sentence tells
us that it's not…
MAY 12, 2012 11:18AM
Nostalgia Theater: Forever Knight -- Fangs for the Memories!
MAY 10, 2012 2:51PM
The End of Superhero Comics?
In Media
Res, a website devoted to scholarly discussions and dissections
of media and media trends, has an Avengers themed week
currently running, with various, interesting pieces on the aspects
and implications of the Marvel mega-franchise. Today, they're
featuring a
piece by me that picks up o/…
MAY 9, 2012 1:36PM
All Hulks Unite
MAY 9, 2012 1:01PM
Cognitive Dissonance
Jon Stewart on the brain aerobics the GOP and its mouthpieces must
dance through practically ever day in this election year as they
try to square their competing narratives: "Republicans, like all
Americans, wanted very much to see Osama bin Laden dead. At the
same, time they believed Barack Obama is…
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com