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‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Bucks One of Hollywood’s Most Frustrating Trends

And reinforces a couple others

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Ben Ulansey
Jan 20, 2026
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Cast of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — Sony Pictures Releasing / Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Releasing / Columbia Pictures

Most fans of cinema live in quiet acceptance of the fact that, no matter how many sequels a movie gets, it will almost invariably be a cheap imitation of the original. No matter how much of a masterpiece the initial release, or no matter how fertile of a bedrock it lays, few and far between are those followups …

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