Alex Garland
Movie Review: 28 Years Later — Bone Temple
4 stars out of 5We had to wait 18 years for a sequel to 28 Weeks Later, so they’re really spoiling us with another installment just 7 months later. From 28 Years Later, the unstoppable Alex Garland returns as screenwriter, while director Danny Boyle sits this one out, handing the reins to Nia DaCosta. The […]
Movie Review: 28 Years Later
4.5 stars out of 5 28 Days Later came out 23 years ago and all I remember is that it was scary and very good, and also that a couple of years earlier, Sandra Bullock had starred in a movie called 28 Days so that was kind of funny. When I recently learned that director […]
Movie Review: Warfare
4.5 stars out of 5 I really don’t go to see many war movies. Platoon, Casualties of War, Heartbreak Ridge, Three Kings, maybe a few others, I don’t remember, all that dust and guns. But when I noticed that my boy Alex Garland (Civil War, Annihilation, Ex Machina) was the co-writer and co-director here, I […]
Movie Review: Civil War
4 stars out of 5 This film rattled me so much, I fully expected to exit the multiplex and find that civil war had broken out in the Harmon Plaza parking lot. As soon as I had seen the trailer, I knew I wanted to see this movie: U.S. states seceding, government cracking down on […]
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