Tagged Alex Garland

After a somewhat turbulent development period, culminating in Paramount Pictures deeming it too much of a box-office risk for real cinemas outside of North America, the dizzingly cerebral Annihilation finally...

"You've come a very long way in a very short time." So says another character to Oscar Isaac's Abel Morales in A Most Violent Year. The same could well be said about the actor himself. As recently as 2012 you...

People fight on the Internet. Who knew? The latest bout of byte-slinging has been sparked by the release - or, perhaps, lack of release - of Alex Garland’s Annihilation. For context, the movie was...

Like a refraction of Ex Machina’s interrogation of artificial intelligence, Alex Garland’s Annihilation asks similar questions about humanity’s impulse towards self-destruction, through images that are...

1. Denis Villeneuve’s Cleopatra may be comin’ atcha Denis Villeneuve is so hot right now. Arrival, Sicario, Prisoners – the man’s churning out all kinds of hits. Add to that that Blade Runner 2049 is...

We're still fresh to this News malarkey so this week we thought we'd change the format of things. We'll still cover industry news as well as the movings and shakings of those projects in production, but...

It's the moment every film fan has been waiting for...the results of the ORWAV Oscars! Will our shock front-runner Ex Machina sweep the board? Will Leo pick up his first ORWAV Oscar to sit on his mantelpiece...

“What happens to me if I fail your test?” What indeed. The year’s most interesting film? You’d be hard pressed to find a rival with the same scientific clout as this, Alex Garland’s directorial...

Alex Garland is in confident control from Ex Machina’s boldly brisk beginning to perfectly-pitched end. Carefully composed shots, swift cuts and succinct dialogue bestow the tumultuous pace and visual...