Alex Garland

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Mysterious mission: the group ventures into Area X, a site hit by a meteor
Annihilation: Natalie Portman in a whip-smart Netflix sci-fi movie

There has been so much kerfuffle around Annihilation, the drama has, in recent months, threatened to spill over into, well, actual annihilation. In ca(...)

Unreal: Amazon Prime’s sharp reality-show satire returns for a third season
The eight best shows to watch on Netflix and Amazon in March

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

Earlier this month, in the hours before the Superbowl kicked off, Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, tweeted that: “#FilmTwitter is going to explode ton(...)

Mark and Michelle cleaning an elephant at Maesa Elephant Camp
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(...)

Jon Hamm as a computer simulation of a woman’s dead husband in Michael Almereyda’s indie film Marjorie Prime. Photograph: Jason Robinette.
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(...)

Science-fiction film Ex Machina which offers a clever version of the robots versus humans narrative
What will happen to the humans when science fiction becomes fact?

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 can read 30 or 40 scripts, and to find one character-driven complex part is difficult.’ Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images
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(...)