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He also stars in Brooklyn, Star Wars, and Ex Machina which have all been shortlisted.

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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.

The account of God which seems most compatible with Whitehead's categories, and which is presented in detail by Christian, was shown to involve incoherence in that it explains how ordinary temporal actual entities can experience the past as given but includes no account which shows how God can experience the past without making God an exception to the principles of the system, a deus ex machina.

The state must cease to be a machina machinarum which «strangles the individuality of small associations» and must become instead a communitas communitatum — a union of communities within which the proper autonomous life of each community can unfold.

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.

The orderer is no longer the deus ex machina of the deists, which Darwin rightly rejected.

From this perspective, Jesus was little more than theological dues ex machina, a vehicle through which my eternal security was attained.

This is a very different concept of ordering from the operations of the deus ex machina of the deists, which Darwin rightly rejected.

That is the hardest question you've asked me today because, for example, Ex Machina is fun in terms of discussing issues around the Turing test [in which a machine tries to convince an interrogator that it is human].

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.

A veteran screenwriter with strong roots in speculative fiction («Sunshine,» «28 Days Later...»), Garland made a knockout directorial debut with «Ex Machina» (2014), which gave us the gift of Alicia Vikander playing a sinuous female robot, plus the equally unforgettable image of Isaac tearing it up on the dance floor.

In his 2014 speculative thriller «Ex Machina,» writer - director Alex Garland created a haunting, stylishly atmospheric meditation on what it means to be human, building a credible world just this shy of the future in which humanoid robots moved, loved and deceived with all the nuance and subterfuge of their flesh - and - bone counterparts.

Sure, there are gratuitous murders by the bucketload, more deus ex machina's than you can shake a stick at and the whole black egg thing is a little too close to the 2001 - A-Space-Odyssey-bone, i.e the monoliths,,, not the mention the falling pink stars,,, which may be a metaphor for something,,, perhaps the disgracing of gay celebrities,,, I've no idea.

Third - billed Domhnall Gleeson is good enough in his sporadic role, which virtually guarantees him two Best Picture Oscar nominees this year (along with Brooklyn) and a presence in four of the year's most acclaimed films (with Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) without being terribly noteworthy or conspicuous in any of them.

The awesome folks at Mondo have a handful of great Black Friday deals which include new prints for Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Thor: Ragnarok, Ex Machina and the films of LAIKA, not to mention a deluxe edition of The Art of Mondo book.

These flashbacks are where writer - director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) leans on Stalker and Solaris, both of which eerily wed the cosmic and the personal, connecting its characters corporeal explorations to the uncharted territory in their heads.

Garland's 2015 directing debut, Ex Machina, was a slow - burning hit which found favour with critics and film festival juries.

Which is to say that while Annihilation, drawn from the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, formally belongs, much like Garland's Ex Machina, to the science fiction genre, it unfolds in a realm where conventional science has ceased to operate, and where the characters» journey, although peppered with horror tropes cribbed from Lake Placid, Prophecy and The Thing, is ultimately an internal one.

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).

Luke Scott will make his feature film debut with the sci - fi horror hybrid Morgan, which is putting off some serious Ex Machina vibes (let's all reflect on how fucking awesome Ex Machina is real quick).

Before making his directorial debut Ex Machina, which was followed by this year's Annihilation, Alex Garland wrote a handful of notable...

The film, which is Garland's highly anticipated follow - up to his Oscar - winning debut Ex Machina, is due for its US release on February 23 and will now arrive on the streaming service less than three weeks later, Deadline reports.

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.

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.

Next up for the Ex Machina and The Danish Girl star is Derek Cianfrance's swooning period drama The Light Between Oceans, which sees Vikander play the wife of Michael Fassbender's lighthouse keeper.

Thoughts: Winslet beat out Vikander here, but she beat out her performance in «Ex Machina,» not in «The Danish Girl» for which she's nominated for Oscar.

I too tend to think he has bested Ex Machina, which is some feat.

«Ex Machina» Just when we thought M. Night Shyamalan ruined the plot twist forever, along comes the directorial debut of screenwriter Alex Garland, which not only pulls the rug out from under us over and over again (without cheating or making us lose interest) but also has interesting things to say about technology (as embodied by Alicia Vikander «s artificially intelligent robot) and mankind's diminishing capacity to control it.

This is a classic nerd fantasy, and there is a sense in which «Ex Machina» might be described as «Stanley Kubrick's Weird Science.»

«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.)

We've seen a trailer for Annihilation, Alex Garland's follow - up to Ex Machina, which stars Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Oscar Isaac.

Deadline reports that Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) is in talks to star in the action - thriller, which centers on a band of misfits who hunt down and kill underground, nocturnal monsters.

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 no one will confuse this tense drama with Weird Science — Ex Machina, which marks the directorial debut of 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, is an unnerving meditation on the ethics of artificial intelligence, the ever - growing power of Silicon Valley (Isaac plays the reclusive founder of a search - engine company), the nature of human desire and more.

There are elements of traditional horror in the latest film from Alex Garland (Ex Machina), which is based not very closely on the Jeff VanderMeer novel of the same name.

The company's best known movies include «Ex Machina,» «Room,» «The Witch,» «Amy» and» Moonlight,» which won the 2016 Academy Award for best picture, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali.

One of my favorites, Son of Saul, won Best Foreign Film, and Ex Machina won with a surprise victory in Best Visual Effects, which is very exciting.

Rounding out the Best Picture lineup for 2015 is John Crowley's Brooklyn, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Pixar's animated blockbuster Inside Out, Lenny Abrahamson's Room and Oliver Assayas» Clouds of Sils Maria, which also earned Kristen Stewart a nomination for Supporting Actress.

«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.»

Alicia Vikander received Best Supporting Actress for «Ex Machina,» which was tied for # 6 on the AFCA Top Ten list.

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.»

A scene in which Milo's vaguely hilarious food allergy comes into play is curiously never resolved, two of Milo's hacker pals from the old days are so similar in appearance and voice to one another that I was abstractedly surprised to see them on the screen together at the end of the film, the reveal of a secret molestation is abused in an insulting and clumsy way, and a stock blue - collar cop character is introduced as the worst kind of deus ex machina: the late - in - the - game triumph of a heretofore marginalized comic foil (see: Barnard Hughes in The Lost Boys).

Resogun took inspiration from the work of legendary developer Eugene Jarvis, building on classics such as Smash TV and Defender.In a similar way, Robotron 2084 laid the foundation for Nex Machina, which Housemarque expanded upon with its own ideas.Only, this time, the studio also had Jarvis himself on board as a creative consultant.

Also on this nerd - tastic edition of the show, Ananda and Bernard discuss Alex Garland's stunning sci - fi indie, Ex Machina, which stars Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander.

The budget point is crucial, and Ex Machina's ($ 16.4 m) is in the danger zone: not in the ultra-low bracket that can make a sharply executed future vision ultra-profitable, as in the case of Shane Carruth's Primer (which took $ 424,000 off a $ 7,000 outlay in 2004), or Another Earth ($ 1.8 m off $ 100,000) in 2011.

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).

I haven't read any of the books in author Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning «Southern Reach Trilogy,» of which Annihilation is the first installment, but from what I understand writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has reworked the material considerably as far as the script for his feature adaptation is concerned.

The HFCS were split over their picks for the year's best new filmmakers and their debut films, as Henry Hobson's Arnold Schwarzenegger - starring zombie drama, «Maggie,» tied with Alex Garland's stylish sci - fi thriller, «Ex Machina» (which also tied with Ridley Scott's «The Martian» for Best Sci - Fi Film).