28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Archives

After escaping a tumultuous coming‑of‑age under his father’s forceful hand and delivering his ailing mother to her final resting place, Spike (Alfie Williams) has now taken up with a band of satanists. In 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Nia DaCosta’s sequel to last year’s reinvention of the franchise, a movie that picks up right where the last one left off and carries on its meditative yet unabashedly goofy vibe, Spike finds himself in a new kind of “kill or be killed” situation. Under his eye, Spike is forced to duel a member of Lord Jimmy Crystal’s (Jack O’Connell) death cult that has just taken him in, where survival means becoming part of the tribe. Or, as they put it, one of the fist’s many fingers. As Spike soon discovers, though, being a member of a death cult isn’t much better than just being dead. After all, what’s worse: dying, or losing a piece of your soul in order to survive? Read More

With 2025 just about in the rearview window, tis the moment to take stock of what worked in 2025 before turning ahead to the most anticipated movies of 2026. As usual, the films I responded to most last year weren’t those trying to be agreeable or broad or endlessly franchisable. They were specific, abrasive, messy, and always driven by a strong sense of autership. Horror continued to be the most reliable space for ambition and risk, but plenty of dramas and genre hybrids landed too, largely when they championed mood, performance, and uncomfortable ideas over traditional polish. Even in a year where the industry still felt unsettled, some genuinely great films cut through. And though 2025 on a whole was a bit of a letdown here holistically, it featured some of the very best movies of the entire decade. Let us hope too that 2026 manages to deliver some true uncut gems.

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‘28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE’ A Funky Continuation of the Infection