Danny Boyle

28 Days Later

Trainspotting

Why Not Spend Three Hours of Your Day Watching Documentaries about Brit Pop and Pulp's Class Anxiety Anthem "Common People"?

Yesterday, I fell down one of those wonderful Internet rabbit holes that ends up eating your entire day, and now I'd like to share the time suck with the fine readers of Reverb. It started, as these things do, with a blog post, this keen lyrical analysis of Pulp's "Common People" by the Gaurdian U ... More >>

The Ten Best Movie Trailer Songs of All Time (No, Not "Kung Fu Fighting")

We were awed last week when we heard the music in the trailer for the American release of Stieg Larsson's blockbuster franchise The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--yes, that's Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails covering Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." As Caleb Hannan, ... More >>

Rammbock: Berlin Undead: When Zombies Come Knocking

We were awed last week when we heard the music in the trailer for the American release of Stieg Larsson's blockbuster franchise The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--yes, that's Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails covering Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." As Caleb Hannan, ... More >>

Psycho

We were awed last week when we heard the music in the trailer for the American release of Stieg Larsson's blockbuster franchise The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--yes, that's Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails covering Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." As Caleb Hannan, ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

We were awed last week when we heard the music in the trailer for the American release of Stieg Larsson's blockbuster franchise The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--yes, that's Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails covering Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." As Caleb Hannan, ... More >>

Works of Danny Boyle

We were awed last week when we heard the music in the trailer for the American release of Stieg Larsson's blockbuster franchise The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--yes, that's Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails covering Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." As Caleb Hannan, ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

We were awed last week when we heard the music in the trailer for the American release of Stieg Larsson's blockbuster franchise The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--yes, that's Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails covering Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." As Caleb Hannan, ... More >>

James Franco Wants to Sit at Your Table, or Any Table

Chuck Zlotnick/Fox SearchlightThe loner (Franco) meets hikers Kate Mara (center) and Amber Tamblyn.​The Dinner: spinach salad and garlic bread at Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House (516 15th Ave.). The Movie: 127 Hours at Guild 45 (2115 N. 45th St.). The Screenplate: While drinking alone at a b ... More >>

127 Hours: The Agony and the Ecstasy of James Franco

Chuck Zlotnick/Fox SearchlightThe loner (Franco) meets hikers Kate Mara (center) and Amber Tamblyn.​The Dinner: spinach salad and garlic bread at Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House (516 15th Ave.). The Movie: 127 Hours at Guild 45 (2115 N. 45th St.). The Screenplate: While drinking alone at a b ... More >>

Danny Boyle Talks About 127 Hours

Chuck Zlotnick/Fox SearchlightThe loner (Franco) meets hikers Kate Mara (center) and Amber Tamblyn.​The Dinner: spinach salad and garlic bread at Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House (516 15th Ave.). The Movie: 127 Hours at Guild 45 (2115 N. 45th St.). The Screenplate: While drinking alone at a b ... More >>

Psycho

Chuck Zlotnick/Fox SearchlightThe loner (Franco) meets hikers Kate Mara (center) and Amber Tamblyn.​The Dinner: spinach salad and garlic bread at Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House (516 15th Ave.). The Movie: 127 Hours at Guild 45 (2115 N. 45th St.). The Screenplate: While drinking alone at a b ... More >>

Trainspotting

Chuck Zlotnick/Fox SearchlightThe loner (Franco) meets hikers Kate Mara (center) and Amber Tamblyn.​The Dinner: spinach salad and garlic bread at Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House (516 15th Ave.). The Movie: 127 Hours at Guild 45 (2115 N. 45th St.). The Screenplate: While drinking alone at a b ... More >>

Your Arts & Watts Weekend Planner

​Friday: Margaret Friedman says you should see the stage and video comedy of Reggie Watts at On the Boards (8 p.m.). Adriana Grant recommends you drive up to Bothell to see TV chef Alton Brown at Third Place Books (6:30 p.m.). Saturday: SAAM is hosting the free, one-act operetta Love's Fool, ... More >>

Shallow Grave

​Friday: Margaret Friedman says you should see the stage and video comedy of Reggie Watts at On the Boards (8 p.m.). Adriana Grant recommends you drive up to Bothell to see TV chef Alton Brown at Third Place Books (6:30 p.m.). Saturday: SAAM is hosting the free, one-act operetta Love's Fool, ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events

​Friday: Margaret Friedman says you should see the stage and video comedy of Reggie Watts at On the Boards (8 p.m.). Adriana Grant recommends you drive up to Bothell to see TV chef Alton Brown at Third Place Books (6:30 p.m.). Saturday: SAAM is hosting the free, one-act operetta Love's Fool, ... More >>

28 Days Later

​Friday: Margaret Friedman says you should see the stage and video comedy of Reggie Watts at On the Boards (8 p.m.). Adriana Grant recommends you drive up to Bothell to see TV chef Alton Brown at Third Place Books (6:30 p.m.). Saturday: SAAM is hosting the free, one-act operetta Love's Fool, ... More >>

Just to Remind You of Our Slumdog Love

The big weekend winner at the Oscars is playing in these theaters. Here's our original review. And an interview with director Danny Boyle (pictured). Jai Ho, indeed. But here's a bit of perspective. While we art-house movie lovers were gathered around our TV sets on Sunday, the weekend's biggest ne ... More >>

Oscar Predictions: A Cautionary Tale

As you dope your ballots for your Oscar office pool, online contest or Sunday night viewing party, I offer this tawdry tale of woe: The year is 2006. The annual Oscar party is at my apartment. And the movie to beat that year was Brokeback Mountain. As we filled out our ballots for the prediction ... More >>

Still More Top 10 Lists

You can read our critics' alphabetical list of the 12 best films of 2008 here. Me, I'm a traditionalist, a 10 best man who prefers numbers and rankings. Happily, several of our top-line writers have complied (after the jump). First, however, is the Village Voice Media critics' poll (with my votes a ... More >>

The 12 Best Films of 2008: Now in Alphabetical Order!

You can read our critics' alphabetical list of the 12 best films of 2008 here. Me, I'm a traditionalist, a 10 best man who prefers numbers and rankings. Happily, several of our top-line writers have complied (after the jump). First, however, is the Village Voice Media critics' poll (with my votes a ... More >>

Danny Boyle

The Slumdog Millionaire director on Mumbai before the terror.

An Interview With Slumdog Director Danny Boyle

Photo: Ishika Mohan/Fox Searchlight English director Danny Boyle is on the phone, long distance, when I enter his downtown hotel suite. I shouldn’t eavesdrop and report what he’s saying, but it’s clearly a business call to someone who’s considering casting his Trainspotting leading man, Ew ... More >>

Slumdog Millionaire: Like Charles Dickens in Mumbai

Photo: Ishika Mohan/Fox Searchlight English director Danny Boyle is on the phone, long distance, when I enter his downtown hotel suite. I shouldn’t eavesdrop and report what he’s saying, but it’s clearly a business call to someone who’s considering casting his Trainspotting leading man, Ew ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival Report

Photo: Ishika Mohan/Fox Searchlight English director Danny Boyle is on the phone, long distance, when I enter his downtown hotel suite. I shouldn’t eavesdrop and report what he’s saying, but it’s clearly a business call to someone who’s considering casting his Trainspotting leading man, Ew ... More >>

Sunshine: Not Quite Trainspotting in Space

Photo: Ishika Mohan/Fox Searchlight English director Danny Boyle is on the phone, long distance, when I enter his downtown hotel suite. I shouldn’t eavesdrop and report what he’s saying, but it’s clearly a business call to someone who’s considering casting his Trainspotting leading man, Ew ... More >>

28 Weeks Later: Zombies Run Amok Inside the Green Zone!

Photo: Ishika Mohan/Fox Searchlight English director Danny Boyle is on the phone, long distance, when I enter his downtown hotel suite. I shouldn’t eavesdrop and report what he’s saying, but it’s clearly a business call to someone who’s considering casting his Trainspotting leading man, Ew ... More >>

L'Enfant

Opens at Harvard Exit, Fri., April 7. Rated R. 95 minutes.

The Living Dead

Every day is Halloween for Chicago horror-soundtrack specialists Zombi.

Not-So-Foreign Exchange

Millions, an English import, makes charming use of a child's universal perspective.

Danny Boyle

The Millions director is a child of the suburbs himself.

Broadway: The Golden Age

Also: Bush's Brain, A Dirty Shame, Faster, Gozu, The Last Shot, Shaun of the Dead, and When Will I Be Loved.

28 DAYS LATER

Fox Home Video, $27.98

Day of the Dead

Anchor Bay Ent., $29.98

28 Days Later: The Undead Are Quicker

And the stakes are higher in this savvy British horror flick.

Pulp training

Guy Ritchie's newest romps gaily through the '90s.

Modest Mouse, Goodie Mob, and more.

Guy Ritchie's newest romps gaily through the '90s.

Acid casualties

The latest Irvine Welsh adaptation makes a virtue out of ugliness.