Alex Garland made a name for himself with genre classics such as 28 Days Later and Sunshine, but his directorial debut in 2015 stands apart. The frequent Danny Boyle collaborator set off on his own, ...

From Blade Runner and A.I. to Short Circuit and the universally beloved D.A.R.Y.L., science fiction has long poked and prodded at the theoretical line separating sentient beings from artificial ...

But what I love about Ex Machina is that it makes it clear that these moral decisions aren’t black-and-white. Nathan’s fembots actually do turn out to be malicious—they turn on him, and on Caleb.

In the not-too-distant future, a humble programmer and eccentric inventor test the limits of a robot only to learn they are ...

My friend recently sent me a TikTok video of Ameca, a robot humanoid created by Engineered Arts, the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of humanoid entertainment robots. Upon watching the video, ...

Arguably, some of the most memorable and popular thrillers feature science fiction elements. The publication Collider ...

Alex Garland has an inspired mind for the beginning and middle of end-times. A novelist turned screenwriter and now director, he’s consistently mined the premise of a collapse – of infrastructure, the ...

Ex Machina, from screenwriter-director Alex Garland, is the latest take on the perils of AI. And in the view of Bennett Stein aka The GOOD4NOTHING CONNOISSEUR, it is one of the best depictions of it ...