Note: This post contains plot details of Annihilation, including the ending of the film.

As predicted, Black Panther’s reign over the international box office continued this past weekend: The film pulled in in an additional $108 million at the domestic box office and $83.8 million internationally, pushing its worldwide total over $700 million and its domestic total to more than $400 million. Those numbers…

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A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club, this time discussing director Alex Garland’s Annihilation. As in his previous films, including the Oscar-winning Ex Machina, Garland tries to strike a balance between intellectual sci-fi and visceral…

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Years from now, someone’s going to stroll down the science-fiction aisle of the last remaining video store on the planet, where they’ll find the last remaining physical copy of Alex Garland’s new movie, Annihilation, shelved neatly between Aliens and Arrival. It will be exactly where the film belongs, and not just…

Annihilation, director Alex Garland’s follow-up to his sleeper sci-fi hit Ex Machina, is being praised as a new classic (at least, by early Twitter buzz—the film doesn’t come out until February 23). But that’s only part of the story: The film is also being accused of whitewashing by two activist groups, MANAA (Media…

After years of writing and producing well-regarded sci-fi features like 28 Days Later and Dredd, author Alex Garland made a name for himself as a director with 2015's Ex Machina, a tense, often horrifying look at humanity’s ever-evolving impulse to destroy itself (with a little assist from technology, to boot). Now,…

Ex Machina director Alex Garland has a busy schedule ahead of him at the moment; he has a new film, Annihilation, out in theaters later this month, and he announced late last year that he’s getting into the TV production game over at FX, signing a deal to develop projects for the network. Now, Garland has let slip a…

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In case you were worried there wouldn’t be scary monsters in Annihilation, the feature adaptation of the first novel in Jeff VanDerMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, the new trailer is here to assure you: Don’t worry, there are monsters aplenty.

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Although production on Star Wars: Episode VIII could probably keep him busy until that film’s December 2017 release date, Oscar Isaac has just boarded Alex Garland’s latest sci-fi project, Annihilation. The film, an adaptation of the first book in Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach trilogy, will reunite Isaac with…

Although waiting for Jane Got A Gun to finally hit theaters must be a relaxing way for a respected actress like Natalie Portman to spend her time, it looks like she’s decided to pick up another side project in the meantime. Variety reports that Portman is in talks to star in Ex Machina director Alex Garland’s next…

Paramount is lining up a new thriller, and they want the writer behind the movie that made you realize zombies are way scarier than you had previously imagined. (Cue angry debate over whether fast-moving people infected by a “rage virus” should be considered zombies.) Variety reports that 28 Days Later scribe Alex…