Ex Machina
Director: Alex Garland
Screenwriter: Alex Garland
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Universal Pictures
Rated R | 108 Minutes
Release Date: April 24, 2015

“Holding for memories, shifting for thoughts…”

Alex Garland, the writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a stylish and cerebral sci-fi thriller. Domhnall Gleeson (Frank, About Time) stars as Caleb Smith, a computer programmer who spends a week at the secluded mountain estate of Internet billionaire and reclusive genius Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac).

Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has selected him to be the human component in a Turing Test on a humanoid artificial intelligence named ‘Ava’ (Alicia Vikander). Caleb must evaluate the android’s capabilities and determine if Ava possesses real emotional intelligence or if its consciousness is just a clever deception.

The full official trailer for Ex Machina has been released online by A24. A teaser trailer for the movie was released back in October and can be viewed right here, though it plays much more like a full trailer than a teaser. This new trailer is only 30 or so seconds longer, but shows plenty of new footage we didn’t see in the teaser.

The movie comes from writer and director Alex Garland, who is making his feature directorial debut. Garland is a writer of many things, such as the movies Sunshine and 28 Days Later for Danny Boyle, Dredd, and Never Let Me Go; video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (starring Andy Serkis); and the novel The Beach, which was later adapted into a movie by Boyle. It stars Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens co-stars Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson, and also Alicia Vikander.

You can read a full synopsis and check out the new trailer for Ex Machina below.

The first trailer for Snatch and Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie‘s new movie The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has been released online by Warner Brothers Pictures.

The movie is an adaptation of the hit ’60s TV series of the same name, and stars Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, The Tudors), Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger, The Social Network), Alicia Vikander (Seventh Son, A Royal Affair), Jared Harris (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Elizabeth Debicki (A Few Best Men, The Great Gatsby), and Hugh Grant (Notting Hill, Love Actually).

You can read a full synopsis and watch the first trailer below.

A trailer has been released for the excellent looking Ex Machina, which is directed by Alex Garland in his feature debut. Garland has worked on the scripts for Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Sunshine, as well as Dredd, Never Let Me Go, and the phenomenal video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

The movie tells the story of a computer coder who wins the opportunity to spend a week at the CEO of the company he works for’s house in the mountains, but quickly finds himself part of an experiment evaluating the human qualities of a brand new artificial intelligence.

You can check out the trailer below.

We found out back in March that Tom Cruise was set to star in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., a movie version of the TV series that aired from 1964 to 1968 that’s being directed by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch).

But recently Cruise decided to walk away from the movie to instead focus on Mission: Impossible 5, a franchise also born from a ’60s TV series.

Now comes word that Man of Steel star Henry Cavill has entered into early negotiations to take Cruise’s spot as the Man From U.N.C.L.E. lead.