28 Days Later

2003, Rated R, 113 minutes, Directed by Danny Boyle, Produced by Andrew Macdonald Written by Alex Garland, Cinematography by Anthony Mantle, Original Music by John Murphy

With: Cillian Murphy (Jim), Naomie Harris (Selena), Noah Huntley (Mark), Brendan Gleeson (Frank), Megan Burns (Hannah), Christopher Eccleston (Major Henry West),

What do chimpanzees in cages have to do with anything? A whole lot it turns out. When animal activists break into a lab animal testing compound to free them, they find out they are infected with an ebola like virus that turns those infected into rage filled menaces that attack whatever they can get their hands on. And so the stage is set for Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, a horror, zombie film with deep emotion and an intimate look at the characters involved.

Green Zone

2010, Rated R, 115 minutes Directed by Paul Greengrass, Written by Brian Helgeland, based on the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Produced by Lisa Chasin & Debra Hayward, Cinematography by Barry Akroyd, Original Music by John Powell

With: Yigal Naor (General Al Rawi), Matt Damon (Miller), Amy Ryan (Lawrie Dayne), Greg Kinnear (Clark Poundstone), Brendan Gleeson (Martin Brown), Jason Isaacs (Briggs)

In an attempt to distance the movie from the war in the Iraq box office curse, Universal decided to market Green Zone as a movie with that director from Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum, and Jason Bourne in the US army; the only problem is the movie does not really compare with any of the Bourne series and so draws viewers in with false expectations...at least that is what happened to me.