Peter Debruge
Chief film critic for @Variety ... and cinemasochist extraordinaire. Watches bad movies so you don't have to, and good ones so you can, too.
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1 week ago |
variety.com | Peter Debruge
In “28 Days Later,” it took less than four weeks to transform London, one of the world’s busiest and most advanced cities, into an inhospitable ghost town after an outbreak of the ultra-contagious Rage virus struck the human population. Just imagine what another 10,000 or so days might do.
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flipboard.com | Peter Debruge
NowDanny Boyle: Covid pandemic had ‘inevitable’ influence on new film 28 Years LaterDanny Boyle says it was inevitable the Covid-19 pandemic would shape his latest film, 28 Years Later, which premiered in London on Wednesday (18 June). The post-apocalyptic horror, directed by Boyle, is a direct sequel to 28 Days Later (2002), set nearly 30 years after the rage virus outbreak. It stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes.
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variety.com | Peter Debruge
Thirty years ago, Pixar rocketed into the popular imagination with Buzz Lightyear’s much-quoted motto, “To infinity and beyond!” Twenty-eight hit animated movies later, infinity comes for Elio Solís, an emotionally complicated 11-year-old orphan who feels so alone on Earth that he looks to the cosmos for company.
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aol.com | Peter Debruge
Thirty years ago, Pixar rocketed into the popular imagination with Buzz Lightyear’s much-quoted motto, “To infinity and beyond!” Twenty-eight hit animated movies later, infinity comes for Elio Solís, an emotionally complicated 11-year-old orphan who feels so alone on Earth that he looks to the cosmos for company.
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2 weeks ago |
variety.com | Peter Debruge
Next time someone tells you animation is for kids, consider offering “Fixed” as clear evidence to the contrary. Crude in both senses of the term — from its raunchy humor to the deliberately un-slick animation style — Genndy Tartakovsky’s R-rated feature is to “Lady and the Tramp” as “Shaving Ryan’s Privates” is to a respected Spielberg movie.
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I love this line from your piece, which is true (but also the curse of the critic, to whom so many turn for Answers): "I cannot say I understood what exactly happened, but understanding is overrated in cinema."
I've been waiting for someone to make the case for ALPHA. (At Cannes, every film elicits every kind of reaction, but that one seemed to spark only haters.) Look forward to reading, @devikagirgayi
