“I mean, this is our culture?” Danny Boyle asks, rhetorically. “Right?” Or maybe he’s not being rhetorical — the British director has a tendency to pose as many questions as he does provide answers during an interview, and seems genuinely interested in having a conversation rather than simply being the …
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A lot can happen in 20-plus years: careers can rise and fall, empires can crumble under their own weight, cult fan favorites can give birth to money-minting franchises, a minor horror subgenre can suddenly become ubiquitous. When director Danny Boyle and screenwriter (and future director) Alex Garland dreamed up 28 …
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At the midpoint between Bram Stoker turning a Transylvanian folk tale into a literary touchstone and Bela Lugosi inspiring a million I-vant-to-suck-your-blooood imitations, there was Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent “symphony of horror” about an eccentric Eastern European named Count Orlok with a taste for Type O. The fact that …
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A PSA for folks who don’t have 60-plus years of Spider-Man comic-book history at their immediate beck and call: Kraven the Hunter was one of the webslinger’s earliest supervillains, having made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #15. Created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he’s a big-game …
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The zombies are still on the prowl in 28 Years Later, a long-awaited sequel to 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. In the first trailer for the film, directed by Danny Boyle, a group of survivors come up against those rage virus-infected zombies, as well as some …
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Lily-Rose Depp‘s Ellen Hutter shrieks as an undead hand clutches her neck in the new Nosferatu trailer, setting the creepy tone for the Robert Eggers’ horror film, which arrives on Christmas Day. “Does evil come from within us or from beyond?” she asks. The film from The Lighthouse and The …
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They take the punches, they jump through windows, they get set on fire, they ride the motorcycles through narrow alleyways and down steep staircases at death-defying speeds. They are the stunt men and women who make it seem as if the folks whose names are above the title are risking …
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A shirtless Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Russell Crowe doing a questionable Russian accent. And a CGI lion attack that seems to result in superpowers. Judging by the official red band trailer for Kraven the Hunter, this could be a standalone Spider-Man villain origin story that brings home the bounty for Sony Pictures …
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