Tag Archives: Alex Garland

Review: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Posted on January 16, 2026 by philipbrasor

With Danny Boyle taking time out from the 28 Days Later series for the second time, it’s up to original screenwriter Alex Garland to provide thematic continuity with this fourth installment, and thus the third installment, which took place 28 … Continue reading →

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Review: Warfare

Posted on January 14, 2026 by philipbrasor

For all its narrative shortcomings, Platoon remains a hallmark of warfare cinema in that it left little to the imagination. War movies have since become almost rote in their presentation of carnage to the point where if you don’t see … Continue reading →

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Review: 28 Years Later and Sinners

Posted on June 21, 2025 by philipbrasor

Danny Boyle’s 2002 feature 28 Days Later is considered a watershed movie, since it reinvigorated the zombie genre with new ideas, the most potent of which was that the monsters moved fast and struck fast. Technically speaking, it wasn’t a … Continue reading →

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Review: Civil War

Posted on October 4, 2024 by philipbrasor

Alex Garland’s extrapolation of the current U.S. crisis of cultural division to its most extreme ends is very disturbing not just because of the ultra-violence on display but also due to its purposeful vagueness. The second American civil war is … Continue reading →

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