28 years have passed since the rage virus consumed the United Kingdom. Life has moved forward for Europe and the rest of the world, and having placed the islands under strict quarantine, the remaining uninfected were left to regroup and reform their own societies. On one of the northern islands, one such group has come…
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Warfare
Ramadi, Iraq. 2006. Navy SEAL team Alpha One closes in on a family home, taking it over under the cover of night and turning it into a surveillance station. Led by Erik (Will Poulter), the Officer in Charge, the team waits out for hours, anxious as their sniper, Elliot (Cosmos Jarvis) begins to suspect that…
Civil War
After a pivotal maneuver in the Second American Civil War, the president (Nick Offerman) prepares his address to the fractured nation that the military has pushed back against the western forces of California and Texas as well as crippling the Florida Alliance. North of DC, in New York, journalists Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and Joel (Wagner Moura),…
Men
After Harper’s (Jessie Buckley) husband, James (Paapa Essiedu), dies by suicide, she books a two-week retreat in an old country estate to heal. Owned by the affable yet odd Geoffrey (Rory Kinnear), he shows the grieving woman the grounds and leaves her be. One morning she begins walking through the woods behind the house when…
The Marquee Topic 