Alex Garland
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Cosmo Jarvis: ‘I think Ireland tends to produce good actors’
- Film
- September 15, 2020, 05:00
“I’m the worst version of myself in interviews,” says Cosmo Jarvis apologetically. “I tend to speak too much anyway. I ramble on. So I get quite heav(...)

Patrick Freyne: Grey’s Anatomy is Love Island with white coats
- Culture
- May 8, 2020, 05:00
In more normal weeks, I like to spend my time hanging out in A&E departments because I enjoy watching the will-they-won’t-they dramas, sexual tens(...)

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
- Film
- January 18, 2020, 06:10
There has been an almighty turnover on Netflix since we last compiled this list, with more than half of our favourite films that time around disappear(...)

Annihilation: Natalie Portman in a whip-smart Netflix sci-fi movie
- Film
- March 9, 2018, 05:00
There has been so much kerfuffle around Annihilation, the drama has, in recent months, threatened to spill over into, well, actual annihilation. In ca(...)

The eight best shows to watch on Netflix and Amazon in March
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 8, 2018, 16:39
UnReal Amazon Prime, March 1st With everyone ensconced in a fort made of Brennan’s sliced pans, it might be a good time to start bingeing on the previ(...)

Straight to Netflix: Another week, another dud movie
- Film
- February 26, 2018
Earlier this month, in the hours before the Superbowl kicked off, Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, tweeted that: “#FilmTwitter is going to explode ton(...)

A mother and teen trip to Thailand
- Travel
- October 7, 2017, 06:00
With a Sawadee ka and the Wai, (a slight bow with palms pressed together) I prime my son, Mark, for his first visit to Thailand. He stands 6ft 4in tal(...)

Future romance: how sci-fi predicts our love and sex lives
- Film
- August 17, 2017, 09:48
In the opening scene of Marjorie Prime, we first meet Marjorie, an 85-year-old struggling with memory loss, as she listens to Walter Prime, a computer(...)

What will happen to the humans when science fiction becomes fact?
- Technology
- May 28, 2015, 01:20
Are technology companies running too fast into the future and creating things that could potentially wreak havoc on humankind? That question has been (...)

Alicia Vikander: ‘I have said no to roles even when I couldn’t pay rent’
- Film
- January 14, 2015, 17:15
It is an exciting time to be Alicia Vikander. Poised on the cusp of fame, fortune and everything they entail, the Swedish actor has an impressive e(...)