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Film Review: 28 Years Later

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28 Years Later is the third zombie film set in the UK by Director Danny Boyle. His first film was 28 Days Later and his second film was 28 Weeks Later.

I watched this film at the cinema, this past weekend. I’d enjoyed Boyle’s other two films, as I tend to love any zombie story. It started with clips that felt like they’d been forced together and it took a while to get into the film’s story, but when it did, it was thoroughly enjoyable.

The zombies weren’t as scary as they are in most films and I never felt that any of the characters were in serious danger, which was a disappointment. Boyle had tried to add more fear by having a massive ‘alpha’ zombie, but without explanation, it just felt out of place.

The warmth between the boy Spike and his mother was touching, but none of the characters really developed, despite what was happening to them.

The twist ending was equally unexpected and disturbing and will likely lead to another film to show what happens next to Spike.

If you like zombie stories, you may enjoy my Z-Virus book series, which currently two books:

The Z-VIRUS mutates people’s DNA. The majority of infected people become zombies, but a minority seem immune but the virus causes them to develop powers.

At first these powers like invisibility, telepathy and telekinesis aided survival. But as the Z-Virus continues to mutate, the powers become more and more destructive.

Forced with no other choice, one group goes in search of a cure. But will they survive the roaming zombie hordes long enough to make an epic journey across the country to find the cure?

Join Alexis, Vis, Chan, Luke, Natalie, Grace, Chloe, Kyle, David and Goliath on this journey in Z-VIRUS Powers, the first instalment of this three part story.

he Z-Virus is mutating, now affecting plants and animals.

A group of people, most with supernatural powers, are in desperate hunt for a cure.

Their powers which once helped their survival, are now becoming destructive.

Can they survive for long enough to find the cure? And if so, what will happen when they take it?

Join Alexis, Goliath, Luke, Lucy, Kyle, Natalie, Erin, Sophie, Kevin, George, Zoha, Harry and Ryan on this epic, entertaining and thrilling adventure.

Z-Virus Monsters is the second instalment of The Z-Virus Series. The first book in the series is Z-Virus Powers.

Blog soon,

Antony

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Themes from Doctor Who (Season 1)

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The time travelling two-hearted alien is back! Doctor Who returned to our screens at Christmas and has been fantastic.

Christmas Special: The Church on Ruby Road

  • The Doctor likes to dance.
  • A ‘Foundling’ is an abandoned baby.
  • Repeated accidents are a sign of Goblins.
  • Golbins are real, sing and have a King.

Episode 1 – Space Babies

  • The Doctor lives for days of adventure.
  • The law doesn’t always make sense.
  • Every person or creature is unique in the universe.
  • Nobody grows up wrong.
  • Sometimes technology takes things literally.
  • Good people sometimes do bad things whilst trying to protect others.

Episode 2 – The Devil’s Chord

  • Life without music would be awefully dull.
  • The impact The Beatles had was global and transformative.
  • Music can be wonderful or terrible.
  • According to The Doctor: “Music is the highest form of thought.”

Episode 3 – Boom

  • Dad’s should never let their children down.
  • The Doctor is enough annumition to destroy only half a planet. To be honest, I expected him to take out at least half a solar sytem.
  • War, business and an Artifical Intelligence make a bad combination.
  • The Doctor has excellent control of his adrenealine and other human involuntary processes.
  • Churches can become armies.

Episode 4 – 73 Yards

  • Saving the world can be done through fear, fright and flight.
  • The Doctor can disappear without a trace.
  • Sometimes it takes a lifetime to work out what’s going on.
  • Rejection is emotionally harmful and can be a devastating and heartbreaking experience.

Episode 5 – Dot and Bubble

  • Spending too much time in social media can lead you to missing what’s happening in the real world – including human eating monsters.
  • Sometimes The Doctor saves people who are not nice. Think when Lindy said to The Doctor: “You’re not like us, are you?”
  • Some people will do anything to save their selves. Including sacrificing others.
  • Some human eating monsters like to work through their list of prey alphabetically.

Episode 6 – Rogue

  • The Doctor could fall in love with a man. This makes The Doctor not only wonderfully complex, but gay, lesbian and bisexual depending on his/her current gender.
  • Some aliens come to Earth for entertainment.
  • Some aliens have faces inspired by birds.
  • Rogue gets lost in another dimension forever. This is emotionally painful for The Doctor, showing that he can experience love-like feelings.

Episode 7 – The Legend of Ruby Sunday

  • Susan is the name of The Doctor’s granddaughter.
  • Everyone loves Davina McCall.
  • An old enemy returns with the power to kill.
  • Kate Commander in Chief of UNIT cares about the lives of her staff.

Episode 8 – Empire of Death

  • Kate puts her hope in The Doctor.
  • The mysterious old white-haired woman (photo in episode 7) “had such plans.” But what where or are they? And who is she?
  • The Doctor is the one that brings death.
  • Sometimes a happy for now ending is more than satisfactory. In fact it’s wonderful and heart touching.

Blog soon,

Antony

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I Have a TARDIS! I’ve Named her Sexy :)

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I’ve had a hankering for a TARDIS for quite some time. The problem is that they are hard to find. All TARDIS toys have become collectables and are ridiculously priced for what they are. But then I found this Facebook group. I was lucky enough to find someone who builds bespoke TARDIS’ to order.

Here is my new TARDIS, which I’ve named Sexy:

I am over the moon with it. The craftmanship is incredible. I was so lucky in finding this wonderful man who did such an amazing job.

Blog soon,

Antony

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Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy – BBC Documentary

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Caroline Aherne was the comedy genius responsible for The Mrs Merton Show and The Royale Family. Caroline was from Manchester, the North West of England.

Caroline had a tragic life including being born with a rare form of eye cancer, being a victim of domestic violence & abuse in her marriage, suffering with depression/possibly bipolar, alcohol dependency, bladder cancer and died of lung cancer at just 52 years old.

Despite all this tragedy and suffering, she had the wonderful gift of being naturally funny. It is for this talent and skill that she is remembered by friends in the BBC’s Caroline Ahern: Queen of Comedy documentary.

This excellent documentary is well worth a watch. It showed Caroline’s love of life with TV clips and interviews with friends, her humour and the impact she had on individuals lucky enough to know her.

So go check it out. Until next time,

Antony

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