Kate Beckinsale is having a genre renaissance, and I'm here for it. The actress has signed on for two projects that perfectly capture her career sweet spot: White, a survival thriller about an actress stranded on a plane wing surrounded by sharks, and Twilight of the Living Dead, based on the late George Romero's final screenplay.

Let's start with White, because that premise is gloriously absurd. A struggling actress trying to catch her big break is traveling overseas when her private jet crashes into the Pacific. She's the sole survivor, stranded on a fractured wing with nothing but ocean and sharks around her. It's The Shallows meets Flight, and it sounds like pure B-movie fun.

Beckinsale knows how to commit to genre material without winking at the camera. She did it for five Underworld movies, playing a vampire in a leather catsuit with total seriousness. She'll sell the hell out of being stuck on a plane wing fighting sharks, and honestly, sometimes that's all you need.

But Twilight of the Living Dead is the real story here. George Romero's final zombie film could either be a fitting coda to his legacy or feel like a posthumous cash-grab. My money's on the former - Romero knew what he was doing until the end, and his zombie films were always about more than just gore and survival.

Romero used zombies to explore race, consumerism, class warfare, and social collapse. Night of the Living Dead was about civil rights. Dawn of the Dead skewered consumer culture. Land of the Dead tackled economic inequality. Whatever Twilight of the Living Dead addresses, it won't just be shambling corpses for the sake of it.

The question is whether the filmmakers honoring his script will understand what made Romero's work special. Plenty of zombie movies copy his surface aesthetics without grasping his social commentary. needs to feel like a film in spirit, not just branding.