From "Jaws" all the way to "Inside Out 2," we ranked the highest-grossing movies of the summer. Plus: 28 Years Later is finally here, but how does it measure up against the rest of Danny Boyle's work?

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Every Summer Blockbuster Since 1975, Ranked

With the semicentennial of Jaws upon us, we’ve gone ahead and compiled our definitive ranking of summer blockbusters that followed in its wake. Considered as a whole, these 50 films comprise a pocket history not just of Hollywood — its trends, its industrial mission shifts, its technological advances — but of America, which has always confronted and reassured itself through the “dream-life” played out on screen. Like it or not, Shrek 2 is part of our shared cultural heritage. Ghost, if you’ll believe it, is who we are.

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Every Danny Boyle Movie, Ranked

Danny Boyle hasn’t always commanded the same level of respect as other auteurs who burst into cinema during the ’90s and solidified their reputation in the ’00s. Part of the reason is probably that his career has a bit of a journeyman quality to it, in the best way: He’s done comedy, romance, thriller, biography, horror, sci-fi and family films — and none of those are his Best Picture winner! But beyond the iconography of Trainspotting, perhaps the surest sign of Boyle’s distinctive voice as a filmmaker is the enduring success of 28 Days Later, his take on the then-moribund zombie genre, such that he has returned to that world this summer for a long-gap sequel.

This guide sorts through his entire filmography from that point forward; they’re almost all worth watching.

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Sign of the Times: Beer’s Biggest Stout Embraces a Smaller Bottle

In 1992, Chicago’s Goose Island Beer Co. effectively invented the bourbon barrel-aged stout. As one of the first breweries with the novel idea to put a big, boozy stout into a bourbon barrel, Goose Island created one of beer’s most clamored-for substyles, one to be emulated by hundreds if not thousands of breweries ever since. That clamor has often been directed right at Goose Island’s own take, in particular, of course: Bourbon County Stout became one of the first beers that people were willing to wait in overnight lines for.

In November of 2025, Goose Island will make history again. Its iconic Bourbon County Stout, clocking in between 14 and 15 percent alcohol depending on the year, will come not in the single 16.9-ounce bottle it always has, but in a four-pack of 10-ounce bottles.