About Kody

Kody Zimmermann grew up on a steady diet of comic books, genre novels, and sci-fi/horror films. He has established himself as a writer and director of short films. His film The Familiar screened worldwide in over 50 festivals and has won numerous awards including Best Short Film at the Sitges Film Festival, the oldest and most prestigious genre festival in the world. The Familiar was also been nominated by the Director’s Guild of Canada for Best Short Film and airs regularly on the Sundance Channel and Movie Central.

TAKEN 3 Review

By |2018-05-13T12:46:25+00:00May 13th, 2018|Tales of Me|

I just finished watching TAKEN 3, or TA3EN as the DVD cover states. It is as memorable as a tuna sandwich I may or may not have eaten a decade ago.

CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR REVIEW

By |2018-05-13T12:47:44+00:00May 12th, 2018|Tales of Me|

CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR Review At two-and-a-half hours, Civil War packs in a lot. At this point, the Marvel films feel like the most expensive TV series of all time, with each movie written as [...]

50 Greatest Fictional Badasses #47

By |2018-06-07T13:46:01+00:00May 12th, 2018|Tales of Me|

50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #47 - MARV from Sin City. He's 7" with a flattop buzzcut, a falcon-like nose, and a heavily scarred face. "I've been having so much fun I forgot to take my [...]

50 Greatest Fictional Badasses #48

By |2018-06-07T13:45:06+00:00May 11th, 2018|Tales of Me|

50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #48 - LISBETH SALENDAR from Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Favorite quote: "He's had a long-standing sexual relationship with his co-editor of the magazine. Sometimes he performs cunnilingus. Not often enough. In [...]

50 Greatest Fictional Badasses #50

By |2018-06-07T13:44:12+00:00May 9th, 2018|Tales of Me|

50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES 50 of my favorite fictional bad-asses. First up, the Daywalker BLADE.  "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill."  Hope we see more of him now that Marvel has the rights [...]

EXCALIBUR

By |2018-03-30T17:00:08+00:00March 30th, 2018|Tales of Me|

EXCALIBUR EXCALIBUR became my official Easter movie years ago.  It symbolizes the way things inevitably change. Pagan rituals roll into Christian rituals, which will someday roll into something else. "It's the way of things," Merlin [...]

ROOM 237

By |2018-03-30T16:57:05+00:00March 30th, 2018|Tales of Me|

ROOM 237 Can't say I was really impressed with ROOM 237, a documentary that focuses on different interpretations of Kubrick's THE SHINING. I have been known to fall into the trap of over-interpretation of this [...]

FENCES review

By |2018-06-06T23:24:35+00:00March 27th, 2018|Tales of Me|

FENCES review I keep reading that cinema belongs to just remakes, Disney owned franchises and cartoons. I think it’s true to a certain degree but goddamn, I’ve been watching a ton of films that don’t [...]

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