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The United States is currently going through a turbulent period in its history and politics. This political climate serves as the inspiration for Alex Garland’s near-future war film, Civil War. The United States is in the middle of a civil war with several factions rebelling against a dictatorial President (Nick Offerman). Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) […]
In the previous Britflix retrospective, I looked at one of my favourite British horror films, 28 Days Later. So, it seemed fair to look at the sequel that’s celebrating its 15th anniversary. 28 weeks after the rage virus outbreak the American military declare Britain is safe for repatriation and the Isle of Dogs is declared a […]
In the first two decades of the 21st century we saw the resurrection of the zombie genre. One of the key films responsible for this revival was 28 Days Later, a film that is now 20 years old. Jim (Cillian Murphy) is a bike courier who awakes from a 28-day long coma and finds that Central London has been […]
Men sees the cult genre filmmaker Alex Garland move into the elevated horror genre. What he delivers is one of the most divisive horror films in a long while. Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley) is a recently widowed woman who goes on a two-week vacation in the English Countryside. However, she must deal with the aftermath of […]
2010’s Never Let Me Go was an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel of the same name. The adaptation was able to attract some amazing talent in front of and behind the camera. In 1952 there has been a medical breakthrough that allows people to live up to 100 years old. But this health revolution came at a […]
The 2015 version of Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth cinematic adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s famous novel. Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) is a free-spirited woman in 1870s Dorset. She inherits her uncle’s farm upon his death. Bathsheba also becomes the object of desire for three men, the rugged shepherd Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), mature bachelor […]
When people think of British cinema a film like Dredd probably doesn’t come to mind. Despite its American setting and international cast Dredd is a British film and worthy of a Britflix retrospective. In the future, the world has gone to hell. Most of America has turned into an eradicated wasteland and Mega City One is a lawless […]