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28 Days Later (2002)

28 Days Later (2002)
Rating: ★★½
Oct 9, 2003The Downfall of Civilisation/Infected Zombies
Danny Boyle's sleeper hit presaged a big return for the zombie film during the 2000s/2010s. Not a bad film even if Boyle is conducting major borrowings from other works like The Day of the Triffids and Day of the Dead
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Red Lights (2012)

Red Lights (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 9, 2012Psychic Debunkers
Strong, well-written film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes about investigators of psychic frauds encountering a possibly real example. This takes a welcomely sceptical, rationalist perspective, has a great cast and fine build-up but alas falls apart in a lame twist ending
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Transcendence (2014)

Transcendence (2014)
Rating: ★★
Apr 19, 2014Scientist's Mind Uploaded Into a Machine
A film that bites off some Big Ideas from the transhumanist movement – A.I., nanotechnology, and especially Mind Upload – and fails to do anything with them except for reach for hoary cliches of Frankenstein science. A film that, despite its self-importance, ends up as only a better budgeted version of The Lawnmower Man
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Rating: ★★½
Jul 10, 2021Survivors Unable to Make a Sound in the Aftermath of an Invasion
The first A Quiet Place was No 1 on this site’s Best of 2018 list. John Krasinski still pulls off great set-pieces a second time but reveals the pitfalls of trying to extrude a premise to make a sequel
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28 Years Later … The Bone Temple (2026)

28 Years Later … The Bone Temple (2026)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 28, 2026Post-Holocaust/The Zombie Apocalypse
A follow-up to 28 Years Later …, made even before the first film was released. This gives a deeper exploration of the character of Dr Kelson and proves a surprisingly good complement to its predecessor
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