28 Days Later (movie)

"Sunshine" pulls a stern, gripping variation on the old David Letterman joke, the one about President Bush responding to a heat wave by ordering an attack on the sun. Director Danny Boyle, whose feature film career got off to a zippy start with "Shallow...

Brightness has never seemed as menacing as it does in "Sunshine," the nail-bitingly tense science-fiction thriller that emphasizes both the fearsome power of our friend the sun and how bereft we earthlings would be without its warming rays. "Sunshine" is...

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...

Swift, vicious and grimly imaginative, the zombie film "28 Weeks Later" exceeds its predecessor, "28 Days Later," in every way. This does not mean it is for everyone, or even every type of horror enthusiast. It's really rough, although the ultra-...

Cillian Murphy may have played The Scarecrow in "Batman Begins," but he's going to trade in his burlap mask for canvases and paints. The Irish actor has signed on to star opposite Al Pacino for the indie film "Dali & I: The Surreal Story," reports...

In between meals the vampires in "30 Days of Night" converse in a language scrambling together a little Dutch, a little Hebrew and a little Arabic, so that a subtitle reading "We should've come here ages ago" accompanies dialogue that sounds like "Ak-...

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...

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...

The wonderfully, horribly scary movie "28 Days Later" induces the sort of physical reactions that these days are more often incited by the nightly news than the latest monster flick. You know the feeling — the moist-slicked palms, the fast-...

After earning a seriously bad reputation in the popular press, the alpha girl now finds an unlikely patron saint in the pretty-in-pink figure of Elle Woods. Chihuahua fancier and consummate fashionista, Woods is the former Miss Hawaiian Tropic runner-up...

A zombie date movie? That's just one way of looking at "Shaun of the Dead," which has been described as a romantic zombie comedy. To build awareness and good word of mouth about their odd blend of horror and humor, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the...

1½ stars (out of 4) A movie of dazzling natural scenery and mind-numbing melodrama, James Slocum's "The Last Place on Earth" draws heavily from the soap opera playbook. Midwestern writer/director/producer Slocum, who graduated from Northwestern...