10 h. ago BRIAN VINER 28 Years Later review: This gory, terrifying vision of zombie Britain is the best the horror genre has to offer with world class performances

With the terrifying and electrifying 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have delivered the best post-apocalyptic survivalist horror-thriller film I have ever seen.

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3 d. ago My unexpected Pride icon: as a bullied teenager, I found safety in slasher films

Watching mild-mannered schoolgirls overcome serial killers such as Freddy Krueger and emerge as survivors spoke to my younger self in a way no other films couldI have always been morbidly obsessed with the horror film genre. As a small child, I’d gaze up at the posters of Freddy Krueger or Pinhead in our local video rental shop with a curious mix of fear and desire. I wanted to be scared, and I also did not. I was 11 when Channel 4 screened A Nightmare on Elm Street. My poor mum, assuming it couldn’t be that bad if it was on TV, let me record it. I watched through my fingers, drunk on anxiety, the anticipation of the kills almost unbearable. There is, I would argue, something quite queer about this complicated urge. Horror is titillating.The golden age of the slasher movie was the 1970s and 80s. I’m sure film-makers were inspired by the cultural austerity of the Reagan era, the Moral Majority and the unfolding Aids crisis. But, as a child, I was blissfully unaware of those things or...

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8 d. ago The best boutique hotels in Cornwall for a chic stay by the sea

From Panzance to Padstow, Cornwall is home to a wealth of boutique hotels that offer picturesque beach views from cosy rooms, top-class restaurants and sensational spas

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2 w. ago Ana de Armas' Ballerina keeps you on your toes in this action

BRIAN VINER: Nobody should be misled by the title of Ballerina into trying to take their eight-year-old daughter to see it. It's marketed as 'from the world of John Wick'.

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3 w. ago Unsung British comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island is a modern day Local Hero, writes BRIAN VINER

BRIAN VINER: A pair of films open in cinemas today, each as British as a cream tea and both set way out west, yet strikingly different in tone. One is a hoot and the other anything but.

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4 w. ago BRIAN VINER in Cannes: Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme: These superstars are having a riot... But it's no fun for us

The Cannes Film Festival closes this weekend and, unusually, two of the films that had the glitziest premieres there have already reached UK cinema screens.

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