Director Alex Garland follows up “Ex Machina” — his excellent, Oscar-winning examination of man and machine — with another challenging sci-fi mind-bender. Based on a trilogy of novels by Jeff VanderMeer (though veering significantly from that source material), “Annihilation” follows the members of an expedition team sent to explore a mysterious, reality-warping zone known as […]
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Building a machine
City spoke with “Ex Machina” director Alex Garland about moving into the director’s chair.
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Film Review: “Ex Machina”
If you’re like me, you tend to shy away from science fiction. Getting invested on any make-believe plane is difficult enough without all the chilly technical mumbo-jumbo required to craft a futuristic but still-plausible setting. Plus there’s always a Big Idea of some kind, usually a commentary on man’s hubris, which rarely results in anything […]
