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Defending the Controversial Last Act of Danny Boyle’s ‘Sunshine’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

June 10, 2024 Joe Lipsett Alex Garland, Benedict Wong, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Danny Boyle, Hiroyuki Sanada, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Michelle Yeoh, Podcasts, Sunshine

Payload. After heavy discussions of Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin (listen) and Lisa Brühlmann’s Blue My Mind (listen) – with a stop-over to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Alien (listen) – we’re headed to space with Danny Boyle‘s 2007 collaboration with Alex Garland: Sunshine. The film features an all-star international cast, including Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle […]

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Sony Chairman Hints at Cillian Murphy’s Return in ’28 Years Later’

May 17, 2024 John Squires 28 Days Later, 28 Years Later, Cillian Murphy, Movies

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are reteaming for the long-awaited 28 Years Later horror sequel trilogy, with Cillian Murphy on board as executive producer. But will Murphy, who of course starred in 28 Days Later, be reprising his role? It sounds like the answer is a big YES. Speaking with Deadline this week, Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman was […]

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Cillian Murphy Reflects on Wes Craven’s ‘Red Eye’; “I Don’t Think It’s a Good Movie”

February 13, 2024 John Squires Cillian Murphy, Movies, red eye, Wes Craven

It’s been just about 20 years since the late Wes Craven directed suspense thriller Red Eye, a taut tale of a woman (Rachel McAdams) who gets kidnapped by a charming stranger (Cillian Murphy) on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father in the 2005 movie, she’s pulled into a plot to […]

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’28 Years Later’ – Sony Officially Boards Danny Boyle’s Sequel With Cillian Murphy Producing

January 31, 2024 John Squires 28 Days Later, 28 Years Later, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, Movies

It was announced earlier this month that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, titled 28 Years Later. The Hollywood Reporter brings us an update this afternoon, announcing that the package has been acquired by Sony, who won a bidding war to land the hotly […]

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From Calm to Carnal: Looking at Cillian Murphy in the Horror Genre

July 20, 2023 Mike Holtz 28 Days Later, A Quiet Place: Part II, Cillian Murphy, Editorials, Movies, red eye, Red Lights, Retreat, Sunshine

Cillian Murphy plays the lead character in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. An amazing actor in a movie that Nolan himself called “kind of a horror movie“? We’ll take it. So, in that spirit we thought we’d take a stroll through the Peaky Blinders actor’s resume in both the thriller and horror genres. Hell, the last time […]

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Revisiting ’28 Days Later’ 20 Years Later: The Best Horror Film of the 21st Century? [Halloweenies Podcast]

June 5, 2023 Michael Roffman 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, Podcasts, Zombie

“Lesson one… You never go anywhere alone, unless you’ve got no choice. And lesson two… only travel during daylight, unless you’ve got no choice.” In June of 2003, Danny Boyle unleashed hell upon Americans with 28 Days Later. Written by then-novelist Alex Garland — in his feature screenwriting debut — the film captured the zeitgeist […]

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Danny Boyle’s ‘Sunshine’ 15 Years Later – A Shining Example of Cosmic Horror Done Right

June 10, 2022 Luiz H. C. 28 Days Later, Cillian Murphy, cosmic horror, Danny Boyle, Editorials, featured, Longform, Movies, Sci-Fi, Sunshine, topnews

While we often take it for granted during the rushed blur of our daily lives, a single glance up at the sky should make it pretty obvious why primitive cultures once worshipped the sun. That’s why it’s no surprise that our nearest star has been a prominent figure in storytelling all the way from Egyptian […]

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’28 Days Later’ – Celebrating Two Decades of Danny Boyle’s Zombie Epic

April 18, 2022 Luiz H. C. 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, Editorials, Movies, romero, Zombies

Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people”, and while it can be easy to sympathize with that statement, I think there’s more than one kind of hell. Despite a certain melancholic beauty in solitude, the fear of being alone is both primal and common enough that most people have nightmares about it at one […]

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The 15 Best Horror Movie Performances of 2021

December 30, 2021 Wesley Lara A Quiet Place: Part II, Agathe Rousselle, Antlers, Army of the Dead, best of 2021, Candyman, Chris Sheffield, Cillian Murphy, Diana Rigg, Editorials, Emily Rudd, Fear Street, featured, Jeremy Thomas, Lamb, Last Night in Soho, Lonnie Chavis, Matthias Schweighöfer, Melanie Laurent, Morfydd Clark, Movies, Noomi Rapace, Oxygen, Roman Griffin Davis, Saint Maud, Silent Night, The Block Island Sound, The Boy Behind the Door, Titane, topnews, Vincent Lindon, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Between a global pandemic that we’re still in the midst of and the increasing library of titles available for streaming, 2021 has been a strange comeback year for the movies. We are blessed once again with the newest films being (somewhat) safe to watch in a movie theater, yet these only make up a fraction […]