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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – Ralph Fiennes is phenomenal in best chapter yet of zombie horror

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – Ralph Fiennes is phenomenal in best chapter yet of zombie horror

A murderous Clockwork-Orangey gang take on the zombies in this gruesome and energised fourquel. It’s the finest of the 28 franchise by a blood-curdling mile It’s very rare for a fourquel to be the best film in a franchise, but that’s how things stand with the chequered 28 Days Later series. In this one, which follows immediately on from the previous episode, 28 Years Later , Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell bring pure death-metal craziness. There is real energy and drama in this latest iteration of the post-apocalyptic zombie horror-thriller saga, created by director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland back in 2003, with Nia DaCosta taking over directing duties for this film. Fiennes’s dance to Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast is basically one of the most extraordinary moments of his career. At the screening I attended, we were on our feet, looking for a speaker bin to headbang into. The band surely has to rerelease this track with Fiennes’s performance as a new official video. His Voldemort was never so freaky. It is just so exhilarating to see this intergenerational face-off between such superb actors as Fiennes and O’Connell. That brings us to the point of my agnosticism about this whole franchise; Bone Temple is the best for an interesting reason – because the zombies are almost entirely irrelevant and are at a minimum. The always slightly dull business of zombieism is de-emphasised, and what counts is the conflict between sentient human beings. Even the one important zombie here is interesting because he is being transformed into something else. Continue reading...

There’s a sinister reason women feel the need to butcher their faces… But there’s more to life than fillers and Botox

There’s a sinister reason women feel the need to butcher their faces… But there’s more to life than fillers and Botox

TRIGGER warning: Behold the natural, unadulterated face of a 69-year-old woman and try not to recoil in horror. And yes, that is sarcasm. It’s British actress Rachel Ward — who starred in Eighties TV hit The Thorn Birds — and because she’s had the temerity to supposedly “let herself go” after once being regarded as “beautiful”,...

Striking doctors and health chiefs set for crunch talks in bid to head off another year of NHS misery

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STRIKING doctors and health officials are set for “intense” negotiations this month in a bid to head off another year of NHS misery.  Resident doctors in the British Medical Association cannot strike again until mid-February, pending the result of a members’ ballot on extending the row.  Ministers want to use the period of “enforced peace” to hammer...