Gayle Rankin

I wish I could state unequivocally that this is a film perfect for this moment in time, and perhaps it is. But not in a good way. It may be that director Alex Garland has, well, a thing about women. Consider his screenplay for 28 Days Later (directed by Danny Boyle), a clever twist on the zombie genre that posits a pandemic of rage that infects the blood, set loose on the world by a female animal rights activist. Even the title hints at the undertones of menstrual madness.