Movie Review: Annihilation (2018) *Enter Area X*

Director Alex Garland’s last film, Ex Machina, is one of the best science fiction films of the last 25 years, so Annihilation has been greatly anticipated by me for quite awhile.  This is in spite of the fact that it is an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel that I did not care for at all.  I found the book’s style of writing in which events leap in and out of the characters inner monologue and the reader has to do a lot of heavy lifting to keep up with a weirdly presented already odd plot to be off-putting.  Unfortunately, with a few minor changes to make the end a little more coherent (a little), Garland’s Annihilation is a pretty faithful adaptation of the novel.

Annihilation Trailer #2 (2018) *Enter Area X*

Paramount Pictures and Skydance have released the second official trailer for Annihilation, director Alex Garland’s follow-up to his 2015 hit Ex Machina. The futuristic gothic horror adaptation, based on the first part of novelist Jeff VanderMeer’s “Southern Reach” trilogy, stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac. Annihilation will arrive in theaters on February 23, 2018.

Annihilation Trailer #1 (2018) *Alex Garland’s Follow-Up to Ex Machina*

Paramount Pictures and Skydance have released the first official trailer for Annihilation, director Alex Garland’s follow-up to his 2015 hit Ex Machina. The futuristic gothic horror adaptation, based on the first part of novelist Jeff VanderMeer’s “Southern Reach” trilogy, stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac. Annihilation will arrive in theaters on February 23, 2018.

Ex Machina Blu Ray Release Date and Special Feature Details

Coming up on the year’s halfway point, the best movie of 2015 is still Ex Machina by far and away.  It had a limited theater run, and I was lucky to catch it when I did, but for those who didn’t, Alex Garland’s Science Fiction masterpiece comes to Blu Ray on July 14th and I’m looking forward to diving into the extras to see how they managed to pull this off.  You can read my original review of the film here.

Movie Review: Ex Machina (2015) *Intelligent, Brilliant, Thought Provoking and Perfectly Strange*

I know we’re all psyched for Avengers: Age of Ultron hitting next weekend, but fans of science fiction can go watch a masterpiece right now (if they are lucky enough to live close enough to a theater where Ex Machina is showing).