28 Days Later (movie)

NEW YORK -- Tony Danza made a late appearance after a night at the theater. Shosh and Jessa (OK, Zosia Mamet and Jemima Kirke) breezed through the penthouse after-party with their male dates. Patrick Stewart and Kathleen Turner dropped in, sans mention of...

While most of us have Christmas on our minds, Universal Studios Hollywood is already planning for next Halloween. > Halloween Horror Nights 2011: Review | Photos | Celebrities  Universal has been conducting an online survey to gauge fan interest in 50...

Zone One A Novel Colson Whitehead Doubleday: 260 pp., $25.95 Colson Whitehead really couldn't have picked a better time to write a zombie novel. Even looking past its Halloween-adjacent release date, "Zone One" comes at a time when such horrors are...

Once a fringe genre, zombie fiction and movies have certainly been on the rise. From the classic slow-moving, shambling horror of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" to the fast-paced, rage-filled terror of Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later," the theme...

Danny Boyle could barely be heard over the low-flying helicopter. "It's like 'Apocalypse Now,'" he yelled as he fastened his helmet and tightened a climbing harness around his waist, preparing to descend into a narrow canyon. The British director had...

In the months after the zombie apocalypse, brought on by a virulent mutation of Mad Cow Disease, America has ceased to be. The few survivors don't use names but hometowns as their monikers. They travel the Interstates in sturdy GM SUVs, loaded with...

Anthony Dod Mantle "Slumdog Millionaire" Arguably among the true mad wizards of modern world cinema, Mantle mixed conventional film cameras with small and light digital technology for "Slumdog Millionaire," creating an essential ingredient to the film's...

Some movies can generate a spellbinding silence: a collective hush of audience anticipation, proof that the film has captured the attention of everyone in the theater. The deadly quiet that Danny Boyle heard in " Slumdog Millionaire's" first Hollywood...

Directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener)   Written by Don McKeller (The Red Violin, Blue)   Starring: JULIANNE MOORE (Boogie Nights, Far From Heaven) MARK RUFFALO (You Can Count on Me, Zodiac) GAEL GARCIA...

"How long have you got, and how can I best guide you in?" So begins a phone call with Anthony Dod Mantle, the British-born cinematographer of "Slumdog Millionaire" on the line from his longtime home in Copenhagen. This blend of adventuresome attitude with...

In Fernando Meirelles' land of the blind, the one-eyed man isn't king -- the morally degenerate opportunist is. After a mysterious plague of sightlessness strikes an anonymous city, a shadowy Orwellian government quarantines the afflicted in a...

A year ago, the Telluride Film Festival set off the early fireworks for eventual Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood") and screenwriter Diablo Cody ("Juno"). Can this weekend's festival do the same for "The Curious Case of Benjamin...