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Echoes of Emmett Till’s murder in Jim Crow Mississippi in 1955 grew increasingly harder to ignore when 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman was acquitted back in 2013. Since then, Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, has channeled her grief and disappointment into fighting social injustice. It’s a role Emmett’s mother Mamie Till Mobley also played until her death at age 81 in 2003. “Till,” premiering at the New York Film Festival, tells the story of how she got there.

While the ABC limited series “Women of the Movement” — starring Tony winner Adrienne Warren as Mamie Till Mobley — recently covered some of this ground, “Till” places unparalleled focus on Emmett’s mother. In the process, we learn so much about him, prompting us to feel his loss even more intensely.

Jalyn Hall (“All American”) strikes the right chord as Emmett; through his mother’s eyes, we see the boy, the human,...

by Uptin Saiidi, with reporting by Brittany Breen

Thousands of walkers claimed the Jersey Shore boardwalk over the weekend in Asbury Park during the 2011 Zombie Walk. The event, in its fourth year, was started by Jason Meehan, 30, who admits it started out of pure jealousy.

“A friend went to a Zombie Walk in Atlanta and I really wanted to find an event like that around where I lived in NJ," he said. "I realized there wasn't anything like it… [and] the rest is sort of history!”

Last October, the event took the record of the world’s largest gathering of zombies with 4,093 participants. While Guinness wasn’t present this year, the event organizers say more than 12,500 attendees were present.

Creator Meehan believes zombies are gaining popularity because they have a mass appeal. “Zombies sort of have that ‘every man’ feel to them, and with video games like Plants vs. Zombies and...

The producers of last year’s Guinness World Record breaking New Jersey Zombie Walk present the 2011 Undead Festival ... because one day of zombie fun just isn’t enough! Alongside the world famous Zombie Walk, this year’s three-day event includes live entertainment, brand new movies to chill your bones, rows of vendors with spooky goodies, celebrities from your favorite horror films, and lots of free swag to take home! Here are some of the highlights...

• Take in the New Jersey premieres of films Chillerama and The Dead on Friday night, October 21, free to all convention attendees!

• The NJ Zombie Walk 2011, Saturday, October 22nd: A team of professional make-up artists will be on hand to give demonstrations and assist in giving complete zombie makeovers for a nominal fee to cover the artist’s expenses. The day starts at 10am, but the walk itself begins at 5pm so don’t be late!

It’s a big month for the many fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead, as the second season gears up for its October 16 premiere (with a knockout 90-minute episode, to be fully reviewed here soon), and the first reissued today in new, bonus-packed special-edition DVD and Blu-ray sets by Anchor Bay Entertainment. To mark the latter occasion, we spoke to two of the most noteworthy ghouls from the premiere episode “Days Gone Bye”: Addy Miller (the little-girl zombie) and Keisha Tillis (Morgan Jones’ undead wife).

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It’s a big month for the many fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead, as the second season gears up for its October 16 premiere (with a knockout 90-minute episode, to be fully reviewed here soon), and the first reissued today in new, bonus-packed special-edition DVD and Blu-ray sets by Anchor Bay Entertainment. To mark the latter occasion, we spoke to two of the most noteworthy ghouls from the premiere episode “Days Gone Bye”: Addy Miller (the little-girl zombie) and Keisha Tillis (Morgan Jones’ undead wife).

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Join guest of honor John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York) all weekend at Fright Night Film Fest/Fandom Fest. Carpenter’s latest movie “The Ward” is making its way to horror fans all around the world this year. The Walking Dead will be representing all weekend with the zombies from the hit show appearing. Melissa Cowan, Addy Miller, Keisha Tillis and Brittany Murphy will all be appearing.

Any Star Wars fans out there? Of course there is! Both boba Fett’s will be at Fandome Fest, meet Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back) and Daniel Logan (Attack of the Clones, Star Wars:Clone Wars)

Other awesome guests for the weekend include Henry Winkler (Happy Days, The WaterBoy, Scream), Edward Furlong (The Crow Wicked Prayer, Terminator 2, Pet Semetary 2) Michael Biehn (Aliens, Tombstone, Terminator) and Jennifer Blanc (Dark Angel, The Crow) will be screening their new movie and Biehn’s directorial debut,...