Lex
Machina goes further — much further.
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Machina goes live!
With a miniscule budget of $ 16 million, Ex
Machina goes a long way on story and ideas without resorting to spectacle.
If you want a challenge and something fast paced give Deus Ex
Machina a go.
Not exact matches
I
went to the Exhibitions like Turner's Whaling Pictures and the Manus x
Machina about fashion in the age of technology which was stunning even if totally out of my usual wheelhouse.
This morning I'm
going to try to see the «Manus X
Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology» exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum.
Risking audience wrath (of which there is a lot, if message boards are anything to
go by), the movie even has the temerity to deny its audience a climactic final showdown, petering to a close with a deus ex
machina lifted from H.G. Wells's novel.
Ex
Machina and Annihilation clearly show that Garland is a force to be reckoned with
going forward.
The crew being stalked by a bear - like creature, whose wails sound uncannily like those of a disappeared crew member, manages to exquisitely generate tension from its surrealistic conceit, while the climactic twenty minutes in the lighthouse sees Garland attempt to explore the theme of consciousness (a conceit he's tackled in everything from his screenplay for Never Let Me
Go, to his directorial debut Ex
Machina) from a different perspective.
It's trippier than «Ex
Machina,» and Garland makes a valiant
go of its concerns, but «Annihilation» feels like a short - story amount of story pulled and twisted into feature length.
The game's problem's
go far beyond the craptastic Deus Ex
Machina logic devoided ending that we recieved as the game plays more like a first person shooter than a classic RPG like Mass Effect 1.
Garland was already an accomplished screenwriter, having written 28 Days Later and Sunshine for Danny Boyle, and adapting Never Let Me
Go for the screen, but his assured work in Ex
Machina proves him to be a major new talent behind the camera as well.
Final Thoughts: Like Ex
Machina, we think this movie is
going to be well - received, but won't be a box - office smash.
Knowing the provocative work of sci - fi auteur Alex Garland, who directed «Ex
Machina» and wrote «Sunshine,» «28 Days Later» and «Never Let Me
Go,» the primary question evolves: When will the trek through the forest become an expedition into the mind?
Garland made his directorial debut with Ex
Machina, having carved out an impressive career as a writer with films including 28 Days Later, Dredd and Never Let Me
Go.
And, it
goes without saying, the two films nominated for PGA's most likely to miss out on a Best Picture nomination are «Ex
Machina» and «Sicario» although this pundit is personally overjoyed they received some just recognition.
She's there to find out what happened to her active - duty husband, Kane (Oscar Isaac, in a much more subdued performance than the one he delivered in Ex
Machina), who
went MIA for months, only to return... different somehow.
Because Annihilation, director Alex Garland's scifi follow - up to the excellent Ex
Machina, is
going to give you what you've been missing, right here on planet Earth.
Screenwriter Alex Garland is no stranger to Hollywood having penned the scripts for films like The Beach, 28 Days Later, Never Let Me
Go, and Dredd, but he only just got behind the camera himself for last year's terrific Ex
Machina, which he wrote and directed.
«Ex
Machina» is the rare film that truly keeps you guessing, even when you think you know where it's
going.
This has already been proven true in his directorial debut, a secret - lab - experiment -
gone - awry in Ex
Machina — a film that took a very scientific approach to proving differences between man and machine.
A stellar work of sci - fi writing, Ex
Machina is incredibly simple, easily understandable, and terrifying in a way that has you questioning technology and just how far we're willing to
go.
Ex
Machina is as stripped and basic as most Sci - Fi outings
go, but it is one of the best examples of filmmaking the genre has ever seen.
Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Karen Asano - Myers — «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «42» Pierce Austin — «Concussion,» «After Earth» Julie Dartnell — «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «Les Misérables» Beatrice De Alba — «Away We
Go,» «Frida» Dave Elsey — «Mr. Holmes,» «The Wolfman» Camille Friend — «The Hateful Eight,» «Django Unchained» Anita Gibson — «Beyond the Lights,» «Top Five» Giorgio Gregorini — «The Impossible,» «Apocalypto» Siân Grigg — «The Revenant,» «Ex
Machina» Norma Hill - Patton — «X-Men: Days of Future Past,» «The Company You Keep» Duncan Jarman — «The Revenant,» «Rush» Love Larson — «The 100 - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared,» «The Girl Who Played with Fire» Angela Levin — «Cake,» «Horrible Bosses» Ivana Primorac — «Anna Karenina,» «The Reader» Beverly Jo Pryor — «Straight Outta Compton,» «Selma» Jan Sewell — «The Danish Girl,» «The Theory of Everything» Maurizio Silvi — «The Great Gatsby,» «Moulin Rouge» Heba Thorisdottir — «The Hateful Eight,» «Bridesmaids» Lesley Vanderwalt — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «The Great Gatsby» Eva von Bahr — «The 100 - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared,» «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo»
Similar to MLB The Show 17 on my list, Nex
Machina has been a game I've
gone back to quite a bit this year because of how accessible and easy it is to jump in and play a few levels.
Prediction: Ex
Machina's surprise Visual Effects win last year
goes to show that you never can be entirely sure what kind of effects the Academy will gravitate toward.
«This is slightly more in common with projects I've worked on like Ex
Machina or Never Let Me
Go,» he continued, «which are taking something about our world now — not our world in the future, but our world as it is right now — and then drawing sort of inferences and conclusions from it.»
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!
A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me
Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex
Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.
Author (The Beach) and screenwriter (28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me
Go, and Dredd) Alex Garland makes his directorial debut with Ex
Machina.
Acting accolades
went to Steve Jobs» Michael Fassbender for Best Actor, Room's Brie Larson for Best Actress, Bridge of Spies» Mark Rylance for Best Supporting Actor and Ex
Machina's Alicia Vikander for Best Supporting Actress.
The first film directed by screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Never Let Me
Go, Dredd), Ex
Machina is not nearly as profound as it seems to think it is, but is still (mostly) very watchable and filled with enough strange and unexpected twists to keep the viewer guessing to the end.
Anyone who feared that the writer's directorial debut would abandon the cerebral, doughty fare of his previously - penned Sunshine, Never Let Me
Go and roughly 15 minutes of 2011's Dredd need not have worried — more than any of Garland's previous efforts, Ex
Machina weighs the heavier side of science fiction and what it means to be human.
Ex
Machina «s wonderful character design and effects
go a long way, but nothing would work without her central performance.
If you combined Still Alice and Ex
Machina, you might be able to imagine what Marjorie Prime is
going for.
Annihilation looks like it has a lot
going for it: Killer art direction and special effects; acclaimed writer - director Alex Garland (Ex
Machina); and an all - star cast that includes Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, and Gina Rodriguez.
In no particular order: Branco sai, petro fica (Black In, White Out, Adirley Queirós, 2014) Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) Ji - geum - eun - mat -
go - geu - ddae - neun - teul - li - da (Right Now, Wrong Then, Hong San - soo, 2015) Cavalo Dinheiro (Horse Money, Pedro Costa, 2014) The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014) L'Ombre des femmes (In the Shadow of Women, Philippe Garrel, 2015) La Jalousie (Jealousy, Philippe Garrel, 2013) Chant d'hiver (Winter Song, Otra Iosseliani, 2015) En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Roy Andersson, 2014) Quand je serai dictateur (When I Will Be Dictator, Yaël André, 2014) It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) Field Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2015) Ex
Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) La academia de las musas (L'accademia delle muse / Academy of the Muses, José Luis Guerín, 2015) Die sechste Jahreszeit (The Sixth Season, Jan Soldat, 2015) Haftanlage 4614 (Prison System 4614, Jan Soldat, 2015) Une jeunesse allemande (A German Youth, Jean - Gabriel Periot, 2015) Chromatic Aberration (Aura Satz, 2014) 88:88 (Isiah Medina, 2015) Stinking Heaven (Nathan Silver, 2015) La isla mínima (Alberto Rodríguez, 2014) Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)(Abbas Fahdel, 2015) Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014) The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) El Perro Molina (Dog Molina, José Celestino Campusano, 2014) Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015) Haganenet (The Kindergarten Teacher, Nadav Lapid, 2014) Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night, Jean - Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014) She's Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich, 2015)
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.
After the years he spent turning out first - rate speculative scripts, both original concepts like 28 Days Later and adaptations like Never Let Me
Go, Garland made his directorial debut with the tight, contained A.I. masterpiece Ex
Machina.
One of my favorite movie scenes of the 2010s is the «I'm gonna tear up the f — in» dance floor» sequence in «Ex
Machina,» with Oscar Isaac and Sonoya Mizuno doing a bizarre, «Saturday Night Fever» - tinged routine while bathed in blood - red light.
Following the success of his spectacular first film Ex
Machina, Garland proves he was just getting started, making a film that dares the audience to
go along without asking questions.
«People could listen to Ex
Machina and
go, «Yeah that sounds like a standard electronic score.»
But know this: Screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Never Let Me
Go) has made a striking directing debut with Ex
Machina.
Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me
Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex
Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).
And at the time, Halloween 2014, he'd written a bunch of solid movies (Never Let Me
Go, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Dredd) but only directed one himself — a movie that would come out in the UK a few months later, called Ex
Machina.
In Mystic River (also based on a Lehane novel), the disparate narrative threads were made to align thanks to the inclusion of a purely irrational character, a psycho ex
machina; in
Gone Baby
Gone, a conspiracy of untrammeled unlikelihood fulfills the same purpose.
Ex
Machina became that rare indie to take the Visual Effects Oscar over much bigger studio blockbusters, and it is nice to report that the ingenuity that
went into that film hasn't been sacrificed now that he is working on a bigger scale with an Oscar - winning star on board in Natalie Portman.
Annihilation is the latest movie from Alex Garland, director of Ex
Machina and screenwriter of Never Let Me
Go, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd.
Don't be afraid to
go back and re-watch Mad Max: Fury Road and Ex
Machina because they are both just that good.
«Ex
Machina» is the kind of film that works best if you
go in knowing almost nothing.