We are dropped into this out-of-control world with more characters and more story lines to follow. The architect of the bone yard, Dr Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), returns and has actually become friends with an infected alpha male by the name of Sampson (Chi Lewis-Parry). His medical curiosity is engaged by his connection with this monster of a man through getting him addicted to opioids.

Elsewhere, Spike (Alfie Williams) returns and he has become a member of a marauding gang led by the Satanist Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell). Nicknaming all his fellow thugs Jimmy, the gang gets up to some very horrible things. This repulses Spike, but he stays in the gang out of a sense of self-preservation. He is befriended by Jimmy Ink / Kelly (Erin Kellyman), who helps him hold on to the last parts of his humanity.

When the Jimmys and Dr Kelson finally come together, it leads to one of the greatest utilizations of a rock song in film history. While Iron Maiden’s track The Number of the Beast blasts away, through impressive theatrics, the Doc convinces the Jimmys that he is actually Satan. This scene alone is worth the price of admission. Elsewhere, the story is given extra gravitas by the underlying hint of redemption in a world that is in the throes of absolute chaos. This all happens amid the rampant escalation of the infected and the barbarism that lies at the heart of survival.
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We start this time on a small Scottish island that has largely endured the Rage virus due to its isolation from the mainland. Times have become much simpler with that remoteness. There is however a waterway that links to the mainland during low tide and it becomes a rite of passage to cross it and kill a zombie with a bow and arrow. That of course makes no sense.

This foolishness leads Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) to take his young son Jimmy (Rocco Haynes) on just such a quest. But the boy is too sensitive and only has concern for his ill mother played by Jodie Comer. During this folly, the two are lucky to escape with their lives and the celebration afterwards has a marked effect on Jimmy. When he hears rumours of a rogue doctor on the mainland he hatches a plan to take his mother to seek treatment.

The doctor played by Ralph Fiennes is a revelation for Jimmy and changes his outlook on life and his future forever. The expertise shown in the storytelling gives the film such emotional resonance and since it is a Danny Boyle work you are also guaranteed some fantastic crazy at some point and in this instance it happens at the film’s end. This is a work where the end result becomes more than the sum of its parts.
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Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later.

It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected.

One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

28 Years Later will be released in Aussie cinemas June 19!
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It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected.

One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway.

When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
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It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected.

One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

28 Years Later will be released in Aussie cinemas June 19!
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Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later – only in cinemas June 19, 2025, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later.

It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected.

One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
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The film takes those real-world situations and lets them run to what some believe is a natural conclusion, Civil War. Through force, California and Texas have succeeded from the Union and become the dominant military power and have sent troops East to Washington DC to capture and execute the President. Into the fracas, we catch up with famous war photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and Journalist Joel (Wagner Moura). The horrors Lee has witnessed are starting to catch up with her.

Their travels bring them into contact with budding photographer Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) and the developing story of the three gives the story its heart and soul. The presentation of war-torn America is shocking in its blandness and the unceremonious occupation by different factions of the battling military. There is not the usual presentation of a good side or a bad side and both sides are committing outrageous wartime atrocities.

As the self-proclaimed greatest country in the world seems to be teetering on the verge of demonstrative civil unrest and potential social collapse, the circumstances that make up Civil War seem less and less far-fetched. It’s this possible reality that gives the film such an uncomfortable edge. That it plays things straight and unvarnished only adds to the movie’s impact and appeal. This is buttressed by the believable human story at its core.

The film is currently screening at the Dendy Cinemas.
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Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Jesse Plemons, and Nick Offerman, Civil War will be coming to cinemas in 2024!
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What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina, Annihilation) feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.

Men is directed by Alex Garland and stars Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear and Paapa Essiedu.

Men is coming to Australian cinemas on June 16 2022.

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A biologist’s husband disappears. She puts her name forward for an expedition into an environmental disaster zone, but does not quite find what she’s expecting.

Written & directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later) and based on Jeff VanderMeer’s best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, ANNIHILATION stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac.

ANNIHILATION IN CINEMAS FEBRUARY 22, 2018.
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