Going Viral: Being an Appreciation of Jude Law's Iconic And Very Realistic Portrayal of a Blogger in CONTAGION (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011)
You cannot stop a fear whose time has come. Thus, within the past month — a month that contains many new and un-silly horror movies — the single most popular pastime for people looking to scare themselves is watching the 2011 movie Contagion, a movie about a global virus outbreak.
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No-one seems to have actually watched Contagion in 2011, though I can reca…