Tag: 28 Days Later

  • ‘The End We Start From’ Review — Jodie Comer Is Sensational

    ‘The End We Start From’ Review — Jodie Comer Is Sensational

    This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.The apocalypse is kind of boring. It wasn’t always that way as films like The Road, 28 Days Later, and Mad Max: Fury Road have been able…

  • Every Alex Garland Movie and TV Show, Ranked

    Every Alex Garland Movie and TV Show, Ranked

    Alex Garland is one of the most successful science fiction writers working today, and has significantly changed the way that modern films look and feel. Garland’s work writing for director Danny Boyle resulted in 28 Days Later and Sunshine, both of which became highly influential. The development of fast-moving zombies and the interest in existentialist…

  • New Life Review: A Blistering Horror Mystery Packed With Tension [Fantasia Fest 2023]

    New Life Review: A Blistering Horror Mystery Packed With Tension [Fantasia Fest 2023]

    John Rosman’s “New Life” is a blistering multidimensional thriller that hits from all directions — the kind of debut filmmakers dream about. It messes with you psychologically, stokes existential dread, and drips with bodily liquids worth repulsive physical effects. Where some first features hinge on a sole signature that pulls audiences through less accomplished elements,…

  • Cillian Murphy’s Best Performances: ‘Batman Begins,’ ‘Red Eye,’ ‘Oppenheimer,’ and More

    Cillian Murphy’s Best Performances: ‘Batman Begins,’ ‘Red Eye,’ ‘Oppenheimer,’ and More

    Cillian Murphy first cut his teeth at the Corcadorca Theatre Company in his hometown of Cork, Ireland at the age of 20, where he nailed the audition for his first acting role in Enda Walsh’s “Disco Pigs” play. Murphy made enough of an impression to not only land the role for the theater part, but…

  • 12 Best Cillian Murphy Movies, Ranked According to Rotten Tomatoes

    12 Best Cillian Murphy Movies, Ranked According to Rotten Tomatoes

    Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor known for his captivating and brilliant performance in various film and television projects. Starring in several critically acclaimed films such as Inception, 28 Days Later, and A Quiet Place Part II Furthermore, his role as the London-based gang leader Thomas Shelby in the British TV series Peaky Blinders has…

  • How ’28 Days Later’ Forever Changed Zombie Movies

    How ’28 Days Later’ Forever Changed Zombie Movies

    Riffing on John Wyndham’s 1951 horror novel Day of the Triffids and blending pandemic paranoia with Romero-lore was Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Days Later. Until the early aughts, the stereotypical ghouls residing in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead series had distinguishing characteristics, familiar to anyone with an acquaintance with the…

  • The Last Of Us Finally Shows Us How Evil Fedra Can Be

    The Last Of Us Finally Shows Us How Evil Fedra Can Be

    “The Last of Us” is a bit of a deceiving game. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be any immediate thing that separates this from, well, any of the other dozens of zombie shows and movies from the past few decades. This is no groundbreaking mix of genres like “Juan of the Dead,” or…

  • Caitlin Stasey and Lou Taylor Pucci Join Ryan Kwanten in ‘Devil Inside’

    Caitlin Stasey and Lou Taylor Pucci Join Ryan Kwanten in ‘Devil Inside’

    “Smile” star Caitlin Stasey and Lou Taylor Pucci have joined the cast of Jonathan auf Der Heide’s upcoming horror-thriller film “Devil Inside.” They join the previously announced Ryan Kwanten.Pitched as an elevated genre film in the vein of “28 Days Later” and “It Comes at Night,” the picture explores the ‘what if’ question of a…

  • 28 Months Later: Why It Still Hasn’t Happened Yet

    28 Months Later: Why It Still Hasn’t Happened Yet

    Two decades have now gone by since Danny Boyle brought newfound intensity to the zombie horror genre with 28 Days Later. Similarly, fifteen years have passed since Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s underrated follow-up, 28 Weeks Later, ended with an emphatic cliffhanger depicting the infected entering Paris to wreak havoc on the European continent. This shocking ending…

  • Alex Garland Knows He’s Made the Most Inscrutable Movie of His Career with ‘Men’

    Alex Garland Knows He’s Made the Most Inscrutable Movie of His Career with ‘Men’

    Alex Garland’s latest mind-spinner is a movie called “Men,” about a woman being terrorized by one man who appears to represent all men, and it’s, of course, written and directed by a man.Garland, ever the boldly-going screenwriter of films like “The Beach” and “28 Days Later” and director of decidedly uncommercial visions like “Annihilation” and…