4 h. ago You'll need a strong stomach for this! BRIAN VINER reviews 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

NIA DaCosta's survivalist horror film 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is not really for the squeamish, in the same way that jobs in abattoirs are not wholly recommended for lifelong vegans.

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57 h. ago 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review: 'fully embraces its bizarro British heritage'

American filmmaker Nia DaCosta brings an outsider’s eye to Danny Boyle’s apocalyptic zombie series while preserving the things that make it special, writes Alistair Harkness

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57 h. ago 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – Nia DaCosta’s sequel goes further than its predecessor dared

Danny Boyle cedes directorial duties to the ‘Candyman’ filmmaker for a bold and deceptively playful post-apocalyptic follow-up

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57 h. ago 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – Ralph Fiennes is phenomenal in best chapter yet of zombie horror

A murderous Clockwork-Orangey gang take on the zombies in this gruesome and energised fourquel. It’s the finest of the 28 franchise by a blood-curdling mileIt’s very rare for a fourquel to be the best film in a franchise, but that’s how things stand with the chequered 28 Days Later series. In this one, which follows immediately on from the previous episode, 28 Years Later, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell bring pure death-metal craziness. There is real energy and drama in this latest iteration of the post-apocalyptic zombie horror-thriller saga, created by director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland back in 2003, with Nia DaCosta taking over directing duties for this film. Fiennes’s dance to Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast is basically one of the most extraordinary moments of his career. At the screening I attended, we were on our feet, looking for a speaker bin to headbang into. The band surely has to rerelease this track with Fiennes’s performance as a new official vi...

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7 d. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Hamnet: Give Jessie an Oscar! Buckley turns in a tour de force as Shakespeare's grieving wife in this deeply soulful weepie...

Buckley plays Agnes Shakespeare, better known to posterity as Anne Hathaway.

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2 w. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Song Sung Blue: This Neil Diamond tribute act fails to hit high notes

BRIAN VINER: Craig Brewer's film is based on a true story about a Mid-western husband-and-wife Neil Diamond 'tribute' act, impressively played by Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.

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2 w. ago Brigitte Bardot was the woman so alluring the term 'sex kitten' was coined just for her... but who turned her back on men, movies and motherhood to become a firebrand animal rights activist

BRIAN VINER: Her death, at 91, was announced on Sunday just weeks after the animal-welfare foundation that carried her name denied reports of her diminishing health after a 'minor' surgical procedure.

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2 w. ago Netflix fans 'need a strong stomach' to watch 'masterpiece' documentary

Netflix's new political documentary is being hailed as the most important film of the year

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3 w. ago MOVIE REVIEW: Does thriller 'Bone Lake' manage to stay afloat?

Couples retreat into web of manipulation occasionally drowns in its own ambition.

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4 w. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Avatar: Fire And Ash: 197 minutes of turgid sci

BRIAN VINER: There comes a point in the careers of most revered movie directors when nobody is brave enough to lay a restraining hand on their arm and remind them that 'less is more'.

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