Films 10th / 11th August
9 August 2012 / Events / Film
To continue our August Danny Boyle season, we have two films showing on our big 3.5m screen this weekend:
Friday – 28 Days Later… (2002) – 18,
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Saturday – Slumdog Millionaire (2008)- 15, A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
Two Danny Boyle Films this week:
Friday 10th August: 28 Days Later… (2002) – 18, 113 min
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and Christopher Eccleston
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind’s savage nature.
More information here – 28 Days Later… (2002) IMDb
Saturday 11th August: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)- 15, 120 min
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Saurabh Shukla
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s Kaun Banega Crorepati? (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But…
More information here – Slumdog Millionaire (2008)IMDb
