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Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina

Free stream: ‘Ex Machina’ on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Kanopy, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/09/201909/14/2019 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Ex Machina (2014) plays the man-vs.-machine story as a chamber drama. Domhnall Gleeson is the socially naïve computer programmer Caleb who wins a company contest to spend a weekend in the private retreat of visionary company CEO Nathan (Oscar Isaac), a software genius who can’t wait to show Caleb his new project: a sophisticated artificial intelligence […]

Cillian Murphy in the zombie film by Danny Boyle

’28 Days Later’ – the zombie movie resurrected on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/29/201812/29/2018 Sean Axmaker

28 Days Later (2003), Danny Boyle’s 21st century take on the zombie film, isn’t actually a zombie film, Boyle insists, and technically he’s correct. The springy, savage human monsters aren’t dead, merely infected with an experimental viral weapon called “rage,” which has turned them into mindless animals intent in tearing every living thing they see […]