Movie review: The Lion King has stunning visuals but lacks soul

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Movie review: The Lion King has stunning visuals but lacks soul
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The original 1994 The Lion King was a groundbreaking spectacle, mixing hand-drawn visuals with 3D animation. The box-office hit also won Oscars for its stirring songs by Elton John and Tim Rice. Jon Favreau's version also breaks new ground. Calling it a visual spectacle is...

And this atypical zombie comedy has Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Sevigny, Iggy Pop, Selena Gomez and many more.It feels like they show up for work, do what they need and/or feel like doing and have fun.

Here, a trio of cops attempt to put a stop to the reanimation of their rural town's dead due to"polar fracking", which tilted the Earth's axis.The undead here are also not that hungry for humans. Instead, they gravitate towards what they were hungry for before they died, such as coffee, Wi-Fi, YouTube, chardonnay and fashion.Message aside, The Dead Don't Die is one strange, self- indulgent yet somewhat entertaining film.

The photogenic pair make a convincing couple - especially in the scene where they flirt over the meaning of the words"cellar door". Tolkien's friends do not get the same attention though, which is unfortunate, given they play a big part in his formative yearsNow showingThis contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic follows a single mother who gifts her son a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature.When a massive hurricane hits her Florida hometown, a woman ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father . Both become trapped in the crawl space of their family home.

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