Alex Garland
Movie Review: 28 Years Later
The film proves to be a mixed bag that delivers on its pedigree yet seems more concerned with setting up subsequent films than concluding its story.
Movie Review: Annihilation
The science-fiction genre has always held a special place in the hearts of cinephiles over the decades. Classics like Blade Runner (1982), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Alien (1979) appealed to audiences’ imaginations like no other films before them, arguably, they still do today. The genre is arguably one of the riskier for filmmakers to tackle because the film must not only make the audience...[Read More]
Interview with Alex Garland, writer/director of Ex Machina
Alex Garland’s résumé reads like a laundry list of recent sci-fi and horror cult hits, with screenplay credits including 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), and Dredd (2012). His latest, Ex Machina, may stand to follow that same path of cult adoration – although hopefully for Garland, its box office will follow more in the footsteps of 28 Days Later than those of Dredd. The sparse, character-dr...[Read More]
Movie Review: Ex Machina
Ex Machina may not be quite as profound an “ideas” movie as writer-director Alex Garland thinks it is, but I’m willing to cut it some slack for at least taking the shot. Garland’s film is intimate and intensely character-driven, with essentially only three main characters bouncing off each other in a very confined space. The film raises some interesting questions about human emotion, our desire to...[Read More]