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.
Not exact matches
It comes from writer - director Alex Garland, whose previous
film, «
Ex Machina» (2015), was unusually effective speculative
fiction involving artificial intelligence and Oscar Issac's dance moves.
Especially good to see were screenplay nominations for two of the year's most inventive and original
films, the science -
fiction brain twister «
Ex Machina» and the inside - the - brain animated triumph «Inside Out.»
That sequel isn't the only science
fiction film in the mix, as Alex Garland returns with his «
Ex Machina» follow - up titled «Annihilation.»
I wrote in my review of the
film: «With
Ex Machina, Alex Garland shows that he's just as talented as a director as he is a writer, and that he should definitely keep challenging the science
fiction genre.
Ex Machina is a science -
fiction horror
film that, like so many others, plays on fears of the future: of artificial intelligence, of the blurred line between human life and its imitations, of online surveillance shaping our experiences.
Director Alex Garland, whose first
film was the impressive science -
fiction drama «
Ex Machina,» returns with a more elaborate and expensive tale of alien invasion starring Natalie Portman and
Marketed as an intelligent rumination about artificial intelligence,
Ex Machina actually carries a mean exploitation streak: it uses science
fiction as a lure for nerds, but halfway through the
film suddenly switches sides to explore a few older and darker issues.
Word has spread that he is looking to cut his directorial teeth on an indie - budgeted science -
fiction film called
Ex Machina.
This all helps
Ex Machina to be a unique science
fiction film while tackling familiar science
fiction themes.
Almereyda's
film belongs to a category that also includes «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,» «Her,» «
Ex Machina» and «A.I. Artificial Intelligence» but to me it's singular in being the science -
fiction movie that feels the least like a sci - fi movie.
Annihilation, adapted from Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning novel by the director of the science -
fiction masterpiece
Ex Machina, Alex Garland, includes some of the most chilling scenes recently committed to
film.
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