54 h. ago Liverpool black history researchers discover slaver ship advert from 1805

Ad, which states vessel can hold ‘about 185 slaves’, comes to light as city dock is being turned into ‘contemplation space’An advert for a 19th-century British slaver’s ship has been discovered in Liverpool, where a site formerly at the centre of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people is being transformed into a “contemplation space”, highlighting a long-hidden history.Liverpool Black History Research Group (LBHRG) found the advert for the Metis, dated 25 July 1805, while looking into the history of the River Mersey’s Canning Dock, in work commissioned by National Museums Liverpool. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We see if zombies are still all the rage in horror sequel '28 Years Later'

Helmer Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland take things in fresh, wild directions.

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2 w. ago 28 Years Later: political parallels, pregnant zombies and a peculiar ending – discuss with spoilers

Danny Boyle’s much-anticipated sequel kicks off a new trilogy filled with surprises but what does it all mean and what can we expect next?This article contains spoilers for 28 Years LaterDanny Boyle and Alex Garland have done it again. In the early 2000s, 28 Days Later became the most popular and influential zombie movie in decades, with its fast-moving, virally infected, not-quite-undead marauders rampaging through a post-apocalyptic England. Now Boyle and Garland have reunited with 28 Years Later, easily the most talked-about horror movie since Sinners, and the biggest zombie movie since the PG-13 dilutions of World War Z back in 2013. Compared with the countless familiar zombie movies and TV shows that have popped up since the original movie, 28 Years Later is a thorny, challenging, unpredictable work, which means there’s plenty to discuss now that it’s spent a well-attended weekend in wide release. Here are some major spoiler-heavy topics related to the film’s style, themes, soc...

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2 w. ago 28 Years Later: From Danny Boyle to Young Fathers, all of the franchise's Scottish connections

Danny Boyle hand-picked the Scottish group to score 28 Years Later, despite them never having written music for a film before.

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2 w. ago Danny Boyle highlights ‘hidden’ detail about ‘wild’ 28 Years Later ending

Final scene takes horror movie in a very bizarre direction

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3 w. ago ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ tops the US box office as ‘Elio’ marks a new low for Pixar

“How to Train Your Dragon" is maintaining its top ranking in movie theaters

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3 w. ago Danny Boyle reveals his ‘one regret’ after quitting James Bond movie

Boyle dropped out of making the film due to ‘creative differences’

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3 w. ago An underrated Danny Boyle film is airing on TV tonight as 28 Years Later hits cinemas

The director's new film is set to be one of the biggest of the year

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3 w. ago Danny Boyle: ‘Some days I think I’m a great filmmaker. Other days I think I’m terrible’

The visionary director of ‘Trainspotting’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has returned to horror with the sensational sequel ‘28 Years Later’. He talks to Adam White about its shocking ending, the lessons he learnt from the failure of ‘The Beach’, and what his ‘Olympics thing’ taught him about Britain

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3 w. ago 28 Years Later director Danny Boyle reveals unexpected 'nightmare' of filming NAKED zombie scenes for the horror movie starring Aaron Taylor

Director Danny Boyle has admitted that it was a 'nightmare' filming naked zombie scenes for the highly acclaimed movie 28 Years Later. 

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3 w. ago Danny Boyle shares intriguing detail about ‘wild’ 28 Years Later ending

Final scene takes horror movie in a very bizarre direction

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3 w. ago ‘You’d never make Slumdog today’: Danny Boyle on risks, regrets and returning to the undead

In 28 Years Later, zombies maraud over a Britain broken by more than Brexit. Its director discusses cultural baggage, catastrophising – and why his kids’ generation is an ‘upgrade’The UK is a wasteland in Danny Boyle’s new film. Towns lie in ruins, trains rot on the rails and the EU has severed all ties with the place. Some residents are stuck in the past and congregate under the tattered flag of St George. The others flail shirtless through the open countryside, raging about nothing, occasionally stopping to eat worms. You wouldn’t want to live in the land that Boyle and the writer Alex Garland show us. Teasingly, on some level, the film suggests that we do.Boyle and Garland first prowled zombie Britain with their 2002 hit 28 Days Later. It was an electrifying piece of speculative fiction, a guerilla-style thriller about an unimaginable world. Since then we’ve had Brexit and Covid, and the looming threat of martial law in the US The story’s extravagant flights of fancy don’t feel s...

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3 w. ago Danny Boyle reveals unusual filming technique used for 28 Years Later

Watch as Danny Boyle discusses why he chose to shoot his latest film 28 Years Later on iPhones at the London premiere on Wednesday (18 June).

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3 w. 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 w. ago 28 Years Later prequels get new UK streaming service home ahead of cinema debut

Ahead of the release of Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later, starring Aaron Taylor Johnson and Jodie Comer, here's where you can watch the epic prequels to refresh your memory

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3 w. ago 28 Years Later star Alfie Williams: 'You start to feel the fear when you're getting chased'

The 14 year old boy from Newcastle more than holds his own in Danny Boyle’s star-studded horror blockbuster

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3 w. ago 28 Years Later plot and ending explained — and will there be another film?

Alphas, Slow-lows and a final twist, here’s the jumpscare-free guide to Danny Boyle’s new horror film

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3 w. ago Danny Boyle: 28 Years Later Covid pandemic parallels were inevitable

Danny Boyle says it was inevitable the Covid-19 pandemic would shape his latest film, 28 Years Later, which premiered in London on Wednesday (18 June).

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3 w. ago 28 Years Later feels like being repeatedly bonked on the head by the metaphor hammer

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to the zombie-infested world of ‘28 Days Later’ with interesting, if mixed, results

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3 w. ago 28 Years Later review – sprinting zombies take evolutionary leap forward in badass threequel

This tonally uncertain revival mixes folk horror and little-England satire as an island lad seeks help for his sick mum on the undead-infested mainlandHere they are again, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s zombies – though unlike the usual stumbling slow-movers, of course, these things can sprint like Tom Cruise on steroids. Back in 2002, screenwriter Garland and director Boyle had a monster hit with their post-apocalyptic horror thriller 28 Days Later, about a “rage” virus that leaks from a lab and, turning people into aggressive zombies, causes a complete law-and-order breakdown in 28 days; Boyle famously made smart use of then-new lightweight digital tech which let him bring off miracles of unlicensed guerrilla shooting at dawn in the deserted London streets.That was fierce, muscular film-making, though I have never been a fan of zombies whose massed presence (then as now) requires silly, gurning, ketchup-strewn extras who can’t be clearly looked at for any length of time without la...

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