Donnie Darko (2002)
Teenage years can be frightening enough without a jet engine crashing into your bedroom or a 6ft skull-faced bunny telling you that the world will end in 28 days. This melancholy time-travel fable with Jake Gyllenhaal as a smalltown visionary really is as good as the hype, somehow interweaving John Hughes high-school comedy with Kieslowski arthouse meditation, and even making Tears For Fears sound heartbreaking. Extras Cast and crew audio commentaries, interviews, 20 deleted/extended scenes, artwork, trailers, The Philosophy Of Time Travel featurette.
Leigh Singer
watch richard kelly on donnie darko
watch they made me do it feature
28 Days Later (2002)
Yo, Alex Garland, Beach bitch, this is Danny Boyle. My last two films were shite - I need credibility again NOW, and FAST. Write me a zombie film please. But, like, intelligent. And make the zombies run. So everybody will say, yes it’s a zombie film, but wait for it, they RUN. Give me a good hour or so of some sort of post-apocalyptic terror, then finish it up with a half-hour of Christopher Eccleston. Think you can do that? I wish I was dead. Extras Who cares.
Alex Godfrey
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Smile, darn you, smile, for one of those rare Hollywood bull’s eyes, an 80s landmark live-action / animation merger that still holds up in the post-Pixar digital age. Expert cartoon slapstick for kids, sly gags and a Chinatown-esque thriller for adults, plus the impossibly pneumatic Jessica Rabbit for every male viewer aged six to 60 - truly something to puh-puh-pleeease everyone. Extras Toontown Confidential and Who Made Roger Rabbit? featurettes, deleted Pighead scene, game and the excellent additional Roger Rabbit shorts.
Leigh Singer 23 May 03
useful links
www.donniedarko.com
www.28dayslaterthemovie.co.uk
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