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Both Ex Machina's Ava and Companion's Iris are given agency and escape in the end, but the ways in which they do so have very different implications.
Alex Garland's sci-fi film Ex Machina celebrates its 5th anniversary this year, and we're still thinking about the Oscar Isaac dance scene.
Written and directed by Civil War helmer Alex Garland, Ex Machina is ostensibly about a modern-day Turing test. Bateman, the mastermind behind a Google/Facebook surrogate, has secretly developed a ...
Besides Ex Machina, the only other newcomer of note this weekend is The Longest Ride, a wide release romantic adaptation of another Nicholas Sparks novel serving as counter-programming.
Ex Machina ending spoilers follow. Westworld, Black Mirror and I Robot are just some of the more recent(ish) sci-fi outings that have explored the idea of artificially intelligent machines ...
How 'Ex Machina' Foresaw the Weaponization of Data The computer-science-philosophy-horror film was a good movie in 2015, but it's a perfect movie now.
Sara Bennett is among four Oscar nominees for the visual effects for 'Ex Machina.' She's the third female nominee ever in that category.
“Ex Machina,” it must be said, was in some ways an easy shoot. Set almost entirely in the remote, modernist getaway home/laboratory of an Internet billionaire, it’s essentially a three ...
How Did Ava Get On The Helicopter? One of the more silly-yet-important questions to come out of Ex Machina is how Ava actually managed to escape the secluded estate. The helicopter pilot was ...
In the end, Ex Machina seemed a mashup of Frankenstein, Pinocchio, a prisoner-escape flick, and a bit of Bladerunner. What Ava desires most is to look human (she seems to be ashemed of her android ...
Ex Machina is one of the best sci-fi movies of the last 15 years, and its Rotten Tomatoes score proves it. Written and directed by Alex Garland in his film debut, Ex Machina stars Oscar Isaac as ...