herbiehancock

No 454 - 28 Days Later Director - Danny Boyle So, somewhere in the cruel laboratories of Cambridge Sylvester Stuart is Clockwork Orange- ing chimps for some reason (seriously... what is the experiment?) and the activists are not happy. Thusly they release the rage infected monkeys and all the shit goes down. So begins this amazing little apocalypto -drama. For all the visceral introduction, cut editing, strobey lights and salivating primates, the post title moments are wonderfully still and quiet. Cillian Murphy (beautiful face wild wild eyes) plays Jim who wakes up naked in an isolated hospital. Looking at his hair he either had some kind of head surgery or he is a trendy Shoreditch wanker . What appears to have happened is that Jim has woken up in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse (even though they're Rage infected.... and not zombies) - this fact is beautifully portrayed by shots of Jim walking through abandoned London. I know this has been done in America with I Am ...

No 316 - Trainspotting Director - Danny Boyle Ah the 90's and Cool Britannia. We had Blur . We had Oasis (though I prefer Pulp - who have a song in this film - over either of them). We had Lock Stock and we had this . 'Hollywood Come In - Your time is up' rang the critic quote on the poster. The poster which even today adorns roughly a bazillion bedrooms of students and young adults. This is one cool film. From the first seconds of the film with the ' dum dum dum ' of Lust for Life playing under Ewan McGregor's Renton's iconic 'choose life' speech this film is showing itself as incredibly cool. Yet it walks a very intelligent (and very dangerous) tightrope. You see this film is incredibly cool and it shows taking heroin to be a very lovely and somewhat morish thing. But... in NO way does it glamorise heroin use. The characters live in horrible squalid squats. There is a lot of poo throughout this film. There are a lot of robberies and a lo...