Sentences with phrase «machina do»

So how does Lex Machina do what it does?

Ex Machina doesn't centre on Ava or Nathan, but Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a geeky, promising young Blue Book employee.

Ex Machina doesn't quite pay off, then, but it's more or less worth the trip to the mountains.

Ex Machina does what excellent science fiction always does.

Morgan covers much the same ground as Ex Machina did last year, though its story and resolution are far more predictable and less satisfying.

Nex Machina doesn't just play great, but it also looks quite nice.

To my knowledge Lex Machina doesn't literally call their system improvements an «easy button», but the site developments and O'Grady's description are symptomatic of this moment in how we discuss legal research: there is a desire to make legal research easier, and as technology improves this is becoming a reality.

Not exact matches

«We need to rediscover government as an enabler, not a solution provider; as a platform for our own innovation, a lever for our own work, not as the deus ex machina that we've paid to do for us what we could be doing for ourselves.»

Schönborn again: «Within this perspective of divine causality God does not act as a deus ex machina, as someone who plugs holes, who is invoked to explain that which is «not yet» explained.

God does not, as in the royal model, intervene in the natural or historical process deus ex machina fashion, nor does God feel merely charitable toward the world.

It is not something that will be done to us, a Deus ex machina, but rather in and through us.

The Braves are a little more curious — it probably wouldn't have taken deus ex machina for them to build a contending roster before the Andrelton Simmons trade — but once they started the process, at least they didn't pretend to be something they weren't.

March 7, 2018 • As with Ex Machina, says Marcelo Gleiser, director Alex Garland is sending a warning: We are now hacking life itself and will continue to do so with growing efficiency.

It's a similar broad - strokes question that the filmmaker toyed with in his feature debut, 2014's cynical Ex Machina, and though it's clear he doesn't have an answer (who would?)

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

As he did in «Ex Machina,» Garland exhibits exquisite taste in manifesting the Shimmer, as well as the fecund Florida swampland it's overtaking with disquieting efficiency.

Garland, whose only other directorial feature is Ex Machina, a film I thought was the best movie of its entire year, tries his hand at adapting this phenomenal book into a screenplay and then into a film, but he couldn't do it without falling back on a ton of typical elements, and that's a real shame.

Still, it does remain interesting and quite watchable even if the characters and story are cartoonish, but any aspirations of being a good film get blown into the wind by a grossly overblown deus ex machina ending and is further evidence of De Palma's problem: he has so much fun setting things up he seems begrudging when he has to end it, and it's a letdown both for him and for us that he can't punctuate things properly.

Silver lining: Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander, whose plucky German car mechanic Gaby Teller joins Furiosa and Ilsa Faust, if to a lesser degree, as heroines in action franchises this year who don't exist simply to operate as eye - candy sidekicks to their male co-stars.

Like Ex Machina, there is something almost clinical about the film, which keeps us at a slight emotional remove (the underlying drama of Lena trying to «save» Kane doesn't have quite the emotional punch that it should, especially since it drives her willingness to put herself in immense danger).

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It might remind you somewhat of Ex Machina, concerning as it does Artificial Intelligence, and containing as it does scenes where the experiment's subject is kept in a sealed room behind bullet - proof glass.

She's had an amazing year, but does she have a better chance in Supporting with «Ex Machina»?

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

Ex Machina whips up the same kind of existential terror Mary Shelley harnessed almost exactly 200 years ago in Frankenstein, but for a time in which the flow of information holds the same world - conquering potential that the flow of electricity once did.

Harvey does not appear in physical form, but he does make somewhat of a cameo in the form of images of his disembodied head adorning a deus ex machina — a slot machine, to be specific.

A24 announced yesterday that Domhnall and his «Ex Machina» co-star Oscar Iscaar are set to do a Reddit AMA on Monday at 3PM EST..

Domhnall did an interview with Indiewire last month to promote «Ex Machina».

Here's mine, since it appears that that's what we're doing here... 1 Ex Machina 2 Inside Out 3 Beasts of No Nation 4 The Martian 5 What We Do In the Shadows 6 White God 7 It Follows 8 Star Wars 7 9 Ant Man 10 The Revenant (technically 2016, but I saw it in December)

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But as many celebrated screenwriters are wont to do, Garland is trying his hand at directing, and is making his debut with «Ex Machina,» an ambitious futuristic psychological sci - fi thriller with romantic overtones.

I've tried my best to preach the Nex Machina gospel throughout 2017 because I really do believe it's the most well - designed game of the year purely from a gameplay standpoint.

Oscar Isaac has been impressing for years in films like Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year and Ex Machina (also featuring the younger Gleeson as this movie does), and he brings unending charisma and that perfect movie star chin to a Han Solo for a new age.

Still, even if much of «Blade Runner 2049» feels like well - trod territory by this point — cribbing as much from sci - fi like «Ex Machina,» «Her» and «A.I. Artificial Intelligence» as Scott's original film — it's a beautiful revisit to one of sci - fi cinema's most striking visions that does right by its predecessor.

«Moonlight» producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B are the first individual producers to snag Best Picture nominations in four consecutive years («12 Years a Slave,» «Selma,» «The Big Short»), and smartly took the movie to A24, which didn't miss a trick (they took «Amy,» «Ex Machina,» and «Room» to three Oscar wins last year.)

While «Ex Machina» has a «been there, done that» vibe to the story, it's never been done quite like this, which is what makes Garland's approach to the material so engaging.

But it's the scenes between Gleeson's nice - guy Caleb and Vikander's cold and naïve Ava that make «Ex Machina» work as well as it does, striking such a great rapport that it completely sells the idea of a man falling in love with a robot, no matter how ridiculous that may sound.

What did you think of Alex Garland's Ex Machina?

With this, Alex [Garland, Ex Machina's writer and director,] did say, «I see him with a beard.»

Matt Craven — «X-Men: First Class,» «A Few Good Men» Terry Crews — «The Expendables» series, «Draft Day» Warwick Davis — «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» «Harry Potter» series Colman Domingo — «The Birth of a Nation,» «Selma» Adam Driver — «Silence,» «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» Joel Edgerton — «It Comes at Night,» «Loving» Chris Evans — «Captain America» series, «Snowpiercer» Luke Evans — «Beauty and the Beast,» «The Girl on the Train» Fan Bingbing — «I Am Not Madame Bovary,» «Cell Phone» Elle Fanning — «The Beguiled,» «20th Century Women» Golshifteh Farahani — «Paterson,» «AboutElly» Anna Faris — «Scary Movie» series, «Brokeback Mountain» Tom Felton — «A United Kingdom,» «Harry Potter» series Rebecca Ferguson — «The Girl on the Train,» «Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation» Lou Ferrigno — «The Incredible Hulk,» «Hercules» Gal Gadot — «Wonder Woman,» «Fast & Furious» series Charlotte Gainsbourg — «Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,» «Melancholia» Jeff Garlin — «Safety Not Guaranteed,» «WALL - E» Spencer Garrett — «Public Enemies,» «Thank You for Smoking» Domhnall Gleeson — «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «Ex Machina» Sharon Gless — «The Star Chamber,» «Airport 1975» Donald Glover — «The Martian,» «Magic Mike XXL» Judy Greer — «Jurassic World,» «13 Going on 30» Rupert Grint — «Moonwalkers,» «Harry Potter» series Noel Gugliemi — «Lowriders,» «The Fast and the Furious» Jon Hamm — «Baby Driver,» «The Town» Armie Hammer — «The Birth of a Nation,» «The Social Network» Naomie Harris — «Moonlight,» «Skyfall» Leila Hatami — «A Separation,» «Leila» Anne Heche — «Rampart,» «DonnieBrasco» Lucas Hedges — «Manchester by the Sea,» «Moonrise Kingdom» Chris Hemsworth — «Thor» series, «Rush» Ciarán Hinds — «Silence,» «Munich» Aldis Hodge — «Hidden Figures,» «Straight Outta Compton» Bryce Dallas Howard — «Jurassic World,» «The Help» Bonnie Hunt — «The Green Mile,» «Jerry Maguire» Jiang Wen — «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» «Let the Bullets Fly» Dwayne Johnson — «Moana,» «Central Intelligence» Leslie Jones — «Ghostbusters,» «Masterminds» Keegan - Michael Key — «Don't Think Twice,» «Keanu» Aamir Khan — «3 Idiots,» «Lagaan» Irrfan Khan — «Life of Pi,» «Slumdog Millionaire» Salman Khan — «Sultan,» «Bajrangi Bhaijaan» Rinko Kikuchi — «Pacific Rim,» «Babel» Zoë Kravitz — «Divergent» series, «Mad Max: Fury Road» Sanaa Lathan — «Out of Time,» «Love and Basketball» Carina Lau — «Infernal Affairs 2,» «Days of Being Wild» Tony Leung — «The Grandmaster,» «Lust, Caution» Rami Malek — «Short Term 12,» «The Master» Leslie Mann — «Funny People,» «Knocked Up» Kate McKinnon — «Ghostbusters,» «Office Christmas Party» Sienna Miller — «The Lost City of Z,» «American Sniper» Janelle Monáe — «Hidden Figures,» «Moonlight» Michelle Monaghan — «Patriots Day,» «Gone Baby Gone» Viggo Mortensen — «Captain Fantastic,» «The Lord of the Rings» series Ruth Negga — «Loving,» «Warcraft» Franco Nero — «The Lost City of Z,» «Django» Elizabeth Olsen — «Avengers: Age of Ultron,» «Martha Marcy May Marlene» Deepika Padukone — «xXx: Return of Xander Cage,» «Piku» Sarah Paulson — «Blue Jay,» «12 Years a Slave» Robert Picardo — «Hail, Caesar!

Making a movie about A.I. isn't exactly a novel premise, but Garland excels at putting a fresh spin on familiar material, and he doesn't disappoint with «Ex Machina,» which draws inspiration from other genre classics like «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «Frankenstein.»

Last year's winner was dance machine Oscar Isaac from Ex Machina, and maybe the only one from my lineup last year that I feel as passionately as I do for the five on this year's ballot.

So the exec was in Cannes doing his old job: acquiring international territories for titles like Andrea Arnold's «American Honey» (continuing a long working relationship with domestic distributor A24 on «Ex Machina,» «The Witch,» and «Room») as well as opening «Loving» at the Cannes Competition.

45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015) Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015) El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra, 2015) Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) Finders Keepers (Bryan Carberry, J. Clay Tweel, 2015) Bande de filles (Girlhood, Celine Sciamma, 2014) Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, 2015) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, 2015) Krisha (Trey Edward Shults, 2015) Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) Nie yin niang (The Assassin, Hou Hsiao - hsien, 2015) La Loi du marché (The Measure of a Man, Stéphane Brizé, 2015) Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015) Saul fia (Son of Saul, László Nemes, 2015) Sherpa (Jennifer Peedom, 2015) Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore, 2014) The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015) The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015) Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (Morgan Knibbe, 2014)

Thankfully, the ideas this time around — unlike 2009's Star Trek, which clumsily established itself as an alternate timeline of the original universe — have nothing to do with time travel and trying to ensure unnecessary continuity between the previous versions and this one (save for one random scene, which uses a cameo as a way to shoehorn in an extraneous revelation via deus ex machina or vice versa).

Instead, you should pay to see excellent movies like Alex Garland's Ex Machina, because doing so will be rewarding for you - and it will be.

Although I feel like I haven't been to the theater in weeks (having only gone once last week) I had some reviews waiting in the wings for publication, including the excellent Ex Machina (in addition to an interview I did with director Alex Garland), an unexpectedly favorable assessment of social media horror Unfriended, a less favorable walkthrough of James Franco / Jonah Hill crime tale True Story and a gushing review of Noah Baumbach «s latest hit While We're Young.

Plus, I want to see what Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland can do with a $ 100 million budget.

How did your background in dance and those years of training help you with Ex Machina and The Danish Girl?

In later scenes, in Ex Machina, we do see Ava with hair and with clothes on, but in earlier scenes, she's much more spare and see - through in several parts of her body.