In an ominous warning endorsed by military and financial experts, America’s disaster preparedness czar is cautioning the ...

The Ukrainian front dissolves into a large gray area where soldiers hold their positions for months without possible rotation ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: One of the best films of 2018 has finally made it onto a streaming service, only it’s not the one we all initially expected. Annihilation, Alex Garland’s deeply ...

Unlike Alex Garland’s previous film Ex Machina, everything isn’t wrapped up neatly at the end. Where Ex Machina’s ending (where you could watch another, equally fascinating, three-hours if Garland ...

The filmmaker talks the power of his female cast, his ‘striking’ source material, avoiding franchises, Netflix distribution … and the prospects of a Dredd sequel. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman ...

There is a fascinating discussion of 2018’s A Book Club from Folding Ideas that talks about how a movie producer can still profit even if audiences don’t like their movie. Doom: Annihilation seems ...

The alien dome they call "The Shimmer" stretches for several miles, radiating from a lighthouse in the middle of a national park. Its border is pulsating and translucent with shades of purple, like a ...

Great art invites interpretation, not by being needlessly obtuse, but by encouraging the viewers to explore certain ideas and concepts that are presented uniquely. Alex Garland’s sci-fi film, ...

In a way, Annihilation is like Arrival meets Event Horizon meets The Abyss, and in another, it’s not like anything. The premise feels vaguely familiar for a sci-fi premise. But what writer/director ...

The director wrote and cast "Annihilation" based on the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's trilogy, which doesn't reference the lead character's heritage until the second book. “The characters in the ...

The three books in 'The Southern Reach Trilogy' by Jeff VanderMeer: 'Annihilation,' 'Authority,' and "Acceptance.' In the book, the characters are introduced without names. But in the film, Natalie ...