I still can't watch Quint get eaten alive by the shark in "Jaws" (1975), but I will happily replay the climactic kill scene from "Day of the Dead" (1985), in which a highly hissable villain, Captain Rhodes, gets dismembered by a horde of the hungry undead. Is it the gristly, lip-smacking hilarity of the carnage-the taffy-like ease with which they pull Rhodes's flesh apart,
With the British Isles quarantined from the rest of the world, the story follows a 12-year-old boy (Alfie Williams) who leaves behind the relative safety of his island community to search the infected-strewn mainland for a doctor to treat his sick mother (Jodie Comer). Now that digital cameras are the dominant capture device of cinema, Boyle and Dod Mantle have again challenged the status quo by foregoing high end offerings in favor of the iPhone 15 Pro.
The Festival of Britain, a showcase of art, science, design and technology, was held in 1951 to boost national morale following the Second World War, and part of the fair included the opening of the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. It remains the only permanent cultural building to come from the festival, so, as 2026 marks the 75th anniversary of the event, the Royal Festival Hall and the rest of the Southbank Centre is celebrating with a special programme of events.
But now a true successor has been announced: next year the Southbank Centre's 2026 75th anniversary programme will play explicit homage to the Festival of Great Britain, most notably in You Are Here (May 4 and 5 2026), a huge weekend-long celebration of British youth culture conceived and directed by the one and only Danny 'London Olympics Opening Ceremony' Boyle, plus Gareth Pugh, Carson McColl and Paulette Randall.
