Podcast appearances and mentions of Alex Garland

Zum ersten Mal verweilt die mit 28 Days Later gestartete Reihe von Danny Boyle und Alex Garland von Film zu Film im selben Zeitfenster und erzählt den Vorgängerfilm nahtlos weiter. Und so setzen auch Patrick und Daniel ihre Rezension derselben über 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple in diesem Podcast fort. Mit milden Spoilern der allgemeinen Handlungsverläufe, ohne dabei jedoch zu sehr ins Detail zu gehen.

Send us your movie recommendations!Captain and Wilson are back this week to discuss the 2018 cosmic horror film, "Annihilation," directed by Alex Garland. It stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac.

Episodio en El piscinazo En El Piscinazo hablamos de Sunshine ☀️ Una peli que mezcla ciencia ficción y suspense… y quizá por eso no es tan conocida. Con Danny Boyle y Alex Garland al frente, nos encontramos con una historia donde el sol es protagonista… y también villano. Reparto muy sólido y una BSO que se te mete dentro y no te suelta, dejando algunas de las escenas más bellas que se recuerdan. Si te gusta, comparte con tus amigos… y si no, con tus enemigos

Why Waiting Until Retirement To Travel Will Be Your Biggest RegretHave you ever said to yourself, “I'll travel when I retire”? In this solo episode of the Winging It Travel Podcast, I dive into why I believe waiting until retirement to travel could become one of your biggest regrets.After travelling to more than 75 countries over the last 15 years, I've realised that there will always be another excuse not to go — another promotion, another bill, another responsibility, another reason to delay your dreams. In this episode, I explore why so many people postpone travel until “someday,” and why I think that mindset can be dangerous.I talk about the realities of health, time, energy, work culture, fear, and the societal expectations that keep people trapped in routines they don't actually enjoy. I also share personal stories and reflections from my own travels through places like Central America, Ukraine, Canada, and the USA, alongside lessons I've learned from years of backpacking and long-term travel.This is a deep, honest, and motivational episode about creating freedom, prioritising experiences, and making travel part of your life now — not decades into the future.In this episode, I discuss:Why retirement is never guaranteedHow the “someday” mentality leads to regretWhy travel becomes harder later in lifeThe importance of time freedom and flexibilityHow geopolitics can suddenly change travel opportunitiesWhy memories mean more than possessionsThe employee mindset vs lifestyle freedomWhy taking a sabbatical or career break can change your lifeHow travel improves confidence, perspective, and personal growthWhy meaningful experiences matter more than material thingsIf you've ever dreamed of taking a career break, backpacking the world, travelling long term, or escaping the traditional 9-5 lifestyle, I hope this episode gives you the motivation to stop waiting and start planning your next adventure.Need help taking a break to travel? Check out my other podcast, Taking A Career Break with Katrina McGhee below.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TakingaCareerBreakwithKatrinaApple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/taking-a-career-break-with-katrina-mcghee/id1772602758Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1lRPigXIghYUw82Eqak0mF?si=30ab153333794e19Support Winging It Travel PodcastIf you enjoyed this episode:⭐ Leave a 5-star rating or review on your podcast app☕ Support the show at buymeacoffee.com/wingingit

The Brothers discuss Alex Garland's "Ex Machina," which held up surprisingly well. Everyone enjoyed it. Along the way they discussed Oscar Isaac's "Moon Knight," non-disclosure and no-compete agreements, the Marvel Unlimited App, new software user experiences, the Last Podcast on the Left's series on Count Dante, and data centers.   Housekeeping starts at 1:07:30 during which they ponder the proposed live-action "Spider-man Noir," AI cheating, and Spirit Airlines.   File length 1:25:37 File Size 70.4 MB Theme by Jul Big Green via SongFinch Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at Not In A Creepy Way

[School of Movies 2026] MA.I. continues, and here we're getting into relationships between humans and Artificial Intelligence with two stories about two lonely men who find an intense connection with a computer lady and have to live with the consequences. Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014) explores the cold province of a Tech billionaire genius who wants to cerate a robot woman so convincing that men cannot tell the difference. Spike Jonze's HER (2013) brings us to an alternate reality where everything seems to be going okay with the world, it's a cosy and warm, comfortable and intelligent place to be... and yet we're still isolated from one another, still frustrated and looking for someone, unable to let go of our past mistakes. Then a company launches Operating Systems that will help us with our daily organisation, but also happen to be personable and inquisitive. This might actually not end in disaster... We conclude with a bone-chilling look at a real life lady who is obsessed with her real life A.I. chatbot. You will wish you lived in the Spike Jonze reality. This weekend's After School Club: Short Circuit 1 & 2 and D.A.R.Y.L. And Next Week's Main Event: The Electric State & Ron's Gone Wrong

The A24 Rocks crew delves further into the Alex Garland universe, continuing their reviews of the 28 "Blank" Later series. This time, it's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple starring Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Erin Kellyman, and Jack O'Connell. We left off at the end of 28 Years Later with Spike finding a gang of Jimmy's, and quickly learning in The Bone Temple that they're a sadistic group of Satanic hounds. Meanwhile, Dr. Kelson tests his vaccine on the tripod. Where will the A24 Rocks crew rate The Bone Temple in the series? Does it live up to its predecessors? Caution: movie spoilers.Buy us a coffee- https://buymeacoffee.com/a24otrIntro- 0:00 to 1:30.Film Discussion- 1:30 to 1:06:31.Film Ratings/Outro- 1:06:31 to End.

Michael 2 è in sviluppo dopo il successo del biopic su Michael Jackson; Elden Ring diventa un film live action A24 scritto e diretto da Alex Garland; gli Oscar cambiano regole su nomination attoriali multiple e Film Internazionale. In più: causa degli abbonati Paramount+ contro l'acquisizione Warner Bros. Discovery e rinnovo del revival di Scrubs. Hollywood questa settimana ha messo insieme biopic musicali, videogiochi FromSoftware, antitrust, revival medical comedy e regolamenti Oscar. Tutto normalissimo, chiaramente. (00:00) Michael 2 in sviluppo — Lionsgate guarda già al sequel del biopic su Michael Jackson (02:58) Elden Ring diventa film A24 — Alex Garland porta FromSoftware al cinema (05:22) Paramount+ vs Warner Bros. Discovery — nuova causa degli abbonati per bloccare l'acquisizione (06:39) Scrubs revival rinnovato — ABC conferma il ritorno della comedy medical( 08:13) Oscar: cambiano le regole — doppie nomination attoriali e svolta per il Film Internazionale

Ex Machina came out in 2014. It feels like it was made yesterday. MonteCristo and DoA revisit Alex Garland's directorial debut a $15 million chamber piece about a tech billionaire, a coder, and the AI that outsmarts them both and break down why it's only gotten sharper in the age of AGI, Anthropic, and autonomous vehicles.   PrizePicks: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NERD and use code NERD and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rogério Montanare, Thiago Siqueira e Central Pandora (Matheus e Sora) conversam sobre um gênero que lança todos os anos grandes filmes: ficção-científica. Dessa vez decidimos conversar sobre os melhores filmes lançados dos anos 2000 pra cá! Listinha? LISTONA! Vamos bater papo sobre os 30 melhores filmes de sci-fi do século 21!!! Quem é o rei do gênero: Christopher Nolan ou Denis Villeneuve? Quem escreve melhor que Alex Garland?Falamos sobre "Ela" (2013), "Distrito 9" (2009), "Planeta dos Macacos: O Confronto" (2014), "Wall-E" (2008), "Interestelar" (2014), "Brilho Eterno de uma Mente Sem Lembranças" (2004), "Mad Max: Estrada da Fúria" (2015), "Expresso do Amanhã" (2013), "Um Lugar Silencioso" (2018), "Filhos da Esperança" (2006) e muito mais!!|| ASSINE O SALA VIP DO RAPADURACAST- Escute um podcast EXCLUSIVO do RapaduraCast toda semana! http://patreon.com/rapaduracast

The Spocklight crew are joined by 2000AD expert and host of the Mega City Book Club podcast, Eamonn Clarke, to dissect the second big screen stab at adapting the galaxy's greatest lawman to the big screen, comparing Alex Garland's vision to the comic source material and the 1995 Sylvester Stallone starring Blockbuster.    As usual you can find SPOCKLIGHT on: X - @spocklightpod INSTAGRAM – @spocklightpod BLUESKY - @spocklightpod.bsky.social FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/spocklightpod/ EMAIL - spocklightpod@gmail.com Please Follow, like, share and all that good stuff.   Check out Mega City Book Club and Liam's episode covering Judge Dredd story, Beyond the Call of Duty here: https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2026/03/323-beyond-call-of-duty.html  Credit for our wonderful theme music goes to the incredibly talented, Adam Johnston. Our beautiful artwork was created by Stephen Trumble, see more on Instagram @stephentrumbleanimation 

We reviewed the big movie of the weekend, the Michael Jackson biopic "Michael," on Tuesday. But there are plenty of other new releases as we await the summer crush. Here's what we discussed in the latest episode of our Breakfast All Day podcast: OVER YOUR DEAD BODY. Samara Weaving and Jason Segel play a miserable married couple who go on a weekend getaway to work on their relationship -- or so they've told each other. Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis co-star in this twisty action comedy from director Jorma Taccone ("Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping"). In theaters. I SWEAR. Robert Aramayo was the surprise best actor winner at the BAFTAs this year for his portrayal of John Davidson, a Scottish man with Tourette syndrome. Writer-director Kirk Jones' film is formulaic in its depiction of adversity, but its heart is in the right place. Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson and Scott Ellis Watson co-star. In theaters. MOVIE NEWS LIVE! Always a lot to talk about, including "Michael" reactions, early footage of "The Mandalorian & Grogu," casting on Alex Garland's "Elden Ring" movie and more. We won't be here next Friday in solidarity with a nationwide labor strike, but come back on May 8. Thanks for sharing some of your weekend with us! Subscribe to Christy's Saturday Matinee newsletter: https://christylemire.beehiiv.com/

Welcome back friends! Come get cosmic with us as we talk about Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's Sunshine!

In this Fanbase Feature, The Fanbase Weekly co-host Bryant Dillon is joined by special guests Corinna Bechko (writer - The Space Between, Avatar: Adapt or Die) and Dave Baxter (co-host – The Vintertainment Podcast) to participate in a thorough discussion regarding the Alex Garland novel, The Beach (1996), in light of the book's 30th anniversary, with topics including whether the novel is accurately described as Lord of the Flies for Gen X, how the story would need to change if set in current times, the illusion (or delusion) of the concept of "paradise," and more. (Beware: SPOILERS for The Beach abound in this panel discussion!)

Marvel Studios plans to return to Hall H this year, the Clayface trailer delivers a sculpted first look at that film, and there's steady heat at the box office. All of that and more coming up right after this.Welcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.Five Star Review from Simon Poelzer on Overcast: Currently the service Overcast I use doesn't have a review system but I still wanted to show my appreciation with a direct email 5 star review.Personally I think the new Harry Potter series is unnecessary like seeing new people in your old house, but it looks good and well made so I will probably watch by pirating because I refuse to give a cent towards JK RowlingGo Jays goHaha I just got an American to cheer for the Blue JaysMarvel Studios Will ReturnPerhaps hope will spring eternal after all with the announcement that Marvel Studios will be back in Hall H this year at San Diego Comic-Con. There's a lot on the line this year with Avengers: Doomsday, so the franchise giant must see the sense in returning to their iconic presentation time and space. Post-COVID, Comic-Con has seen success wax and wane in these presentations, but is it do or die time for the MCU?Skin-Deep VillainyDC Studios delivered a teaser trailer for Clayface, premiering this fall on October 23. The haunting trailer shows the titular character and flashes of violence happening to and around him. We're also getting the whole Harvey Dent family in The Batman II with legendary actor Charles Dance in talks to play Harvey's father. Dance is known for his role as Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones and joins a powerful family with Sebastian Stan and Scarlett Johansson already slated to play Harvey and Gilda Dent, respectively. Things are feeling spooky in the best way, right?Space-Crazy Box OfficeSpace is dominating the space at the box office, with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie crossing the $740 million mark recently and Project Hail Mary bringing in more than half a billion dollars. Though perhaps not well-known in the states, Super Mario just blew by China's race car film Pegasus 3, which has garnered more than $600 million. Lee Cronin's The Mummy opened last weekend to a $34 million global start as well with a different trajectory than space and keeping the horror box office strong. It appears that the movie theater is back…?Coming up in the Lightning Round: David Harbour joins Rambo prequel, The Elden Ring movie is a go, another, yes ANOTHER, Texas Chainsaw Massacre property, and Rings of Power Season 3 coming soon. Don't go anywhere!Patreon Plug - Patron of the Week: Mt.KillaManjaroSpotify PollWho won CinemaCon this year?Disney - 71.4%Warner Bros. - 21.4%Sony - 4.8%Paramount - 0%Universal - 2.4%Amazon MGM - 0%Lightning RoundDavid Harbour has joined the cast of Rambo prequel John Rambo, Lionsgate and Millennium Media's action feature being directed by Jalmari Helander.A24 has entered production on Alex Garland's film adaptation of the video game Elden Ring, which now has a release date of March 3, 2028. Several cast members have also been announced including Cailee Spaeny, Jonathan Pryce, Nick Offerman, and Peter Serafinowicz, among others.Kathryn Newton is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Avengers: Doomsday after starring in 2023's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. She announced her return to the franchise on Instagram last week.A24 is in talks with Obsession filmmaker Curry Baker to write and direct a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, which will exist separately from the planned TV series from Glen Powell.AppleTV has released the first teaser trailer for season 3 of Silo and set a release date. The 10-episode season will premiere with the first episode on July 3, followed by one new episode every Friday through September 4.The Multiverse News lore runs deep today: Ketchup Entertainment has released the first trailer for Dave Green's Coyote vs. Acme.

In earth shattering news, Xbox announces a price decrease for GamePass, Elsewhere Ubisoft finally admits the Black Flag remake is real, and Shuhei Yoshida says he was fired from Sony. Plus Top Gun 3 was announced at Cinemacon, and Marvel Studios returns to Hall H this summer. That and more on this weeks episode.

Giga Bytes Podcast 407: Cambios a Gamepass, Peliculas de juegos y mucho más!!! Cambios a Gamepass Ultimate ($29.99-22.99) y PC ($16.49-13.99), comenzando este año títulos de COD no estarán incluidos hasta el año después de su lanzamiento Assassins' Creed Black Flag Resynched Lanza julio 9 2026 (no es un RPG), reveal este Jueves medio día Devil May Cry S2 trailer (mayo 12 Netflix) Control Ultimate edition disponible ya en iPhone, iPad y Mac Silo S3 lanza julio 3 en apple tv Gundam Life Action Movie con Sydney Sweeney muestra elenco Splatoon Raiders single player spinoff a Switch 2 julio 23 Toei abre division de gaming Toei Games (Power Rangers, Kamen Riders) Imagenes de Link se filtran Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 para 2027 con diseños de Akira Toriyama PRAGMATA disponible ya 1m, update para PSSR 2 disponible ya Rumor: de acuerdo a KeplerL2 Chip de Helix estará en productos Helix por MSI, ASUS, etc, no estará para el público general 3m wishlist para 007 First Light Pelicula de COD para junio 30 2028 Top Gun 3 oficialmente en camino, Tom Cruise regresa Spaceballs: The New One 23 abril 2027 Focker In-Law llega en acción de Gracias Pelicula de Elden Ring para el 3 de marzo 2028 (A24, escrita y dirigida por Alex Garland) hecha para IMAX Shuhei Yoshida: Jim Ryan lo despidió por retar sus mandatos/decisiones Meta Aumena Precio de Quest 3, vende 1m en 2 dias & Quest 3S Quest 3S (128GB): $300 → $350 Quest 3S (256GB): $400 → $450 Quest 3 (512GB): $500 → $600     Sigueme y Suscribete: Facebook.com/elgiga Youtube.com/elgiga947 Instagram.com/elgiga947                                                                                                                                    Twitch.tv/elgiga947 Twitter.com/elgiga947 Giga Bytes Podcast   #monsterenergypr @monsterenergy @Stephreyesmarketing @caribbeanxsports @eriberto213 #gigabytespodcast #gigabytespodcast #2026

As part of Aipril, I'm delving into the back catalogue to include one of the greatest modern AI movies... Ex Machina, and a rare episode I did back in August 2022 with a guest!Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic. All words to describe this podcast, but also uttered by Nathan describing the brain of his ultimate creation; Ava. But can Ava pass as human? Let's find out as we delve into Alex Garland's (sort-of!) directorial debut, EX MACHINA!My guest for this episode wasn't lucky, he was chosen. I had to use all of my self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality and empathy to be joined by the terrific Jack Chambers-Ward from Sequelisers, who was made to be on this podcast talking about Ex Machina.Despite all of his work so far, Ex Machina might very well be Alex Garland's masterpiece. A complex, character-driven piece, on the power of nature vs future, nature vs nurture and man vs object of desire.Basically this movie and this episode.... is all about Kyoko. Kyoko is the key. Don't believe us? Listen in and we'll explain why....If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man. That's the history of gods.The YouTube video we mention several times, by Shaun, is titled How Wikipedia Got Ex Machina (2014) Wrong and is available hereJack (@jlwchambers) hosts Sequelisers alongside Matt Stogdon and Tim Maytom. You can find their back catalogue of brilliant episodes in your podcast app of choice, and they're on Twitter as @Sequelisers(Episode originally released 18th August 2022)Mentioned in this episode:From the ArchiveThere's no new episode this week, so I thought you might be interested in revisiting this slightly older, but no less brilliant episode. Just bear in mind, this episode is several years old, it may not sound quite as polished as newer episodes, and new information may have come to light in recent years with regards to the making of this movie (please see above for the original date of release) Please enjoy this time capsule of an episode. Thanks for listening!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podscribe - https://podscribe.com/privacyOP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

Episode 248: This week we take a journey down time with, Danny Boyle's 2025 sequel 28 Years Later.Does the francise have that same bite still?Join us next week, for a dog of an episode with our review of 2022's Good Boy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-cut-above-horror-review--6354278/support.

This week Brit and Katie discuss Alex Garland's controversial grief-stricken folk horror MEN (2022). Starring recent Oscar-winner Jessie Buckley, the film follows her character as she seeks refuge in the countryside but is interrupted by unwanted attention from strangers and her own traumatic past.Next time we're going to be watching HOLY SPIDER.Thanks for listening and stay spoopy ya'll!Timestamps:00:00:26 Intro00:01:53 Start/Hellos00:03:18 MEN Start-WTF Ending and No Hand Holding00:06:24 Casting (Jessie Buckley's HAMNET Warm-Up)00:14:58 Alex Garland's Filmography (28 DAYS LATER Small Spoilers)00:25:58 Verdant Visuals and Mesmerizing Mythology00:36:23 Rundown00:39:52 SPOILERS!!!01:17:52 Ratings01:28:24 Next Week (HOLY SPIDER-NETFLIX)01:34:43 GoodbyesThe Grindhouse Girls Podcast is created by Katie Dale and Brit Ray. This week's episode is edited by Katie Dale.Part of the Redacted Entertainment Network.Royalty free music used: Ready Set Go and Outro White SmokeCopyright 2020 Grindhouse Girls PodcastThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

“Fiction has this unprecedented power in tech spaces. The more I started talking to engineers about their technical problems, the more I realized there’s so much more that humanities could offer.” –Nina Begus About Nina Begus Nina Begus is a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, leading a research group on artificial humanities, and the founder of InterpretAI. She is author of Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI, which received an Artificiality Institute Award, and First Encounters with AI. Webiste: ninabegus.com LinkedIn Profile: Nina Begus  Book: Artificial Humanities What you will learn How ancient myths and archetypes influence our understanding and design of AI Why the humanities—literature, philosophy, and the arts—are crucial for developing more thoughtful and innovative AI systems The dangers of limiting AI concepts to human-centered metaphors and the need for new, more expansive imaginaries How metaphors shape our interactions with AI products and the user experiences companies choose to enable The challenges and possibilities of imagining forms of machine intelligence and language beyond human templates Why collaboration between technical experts and humanists opens new frontiers for creativity and responsible technology What makes writing and artistic creation uniquely human, and how AI amplifies—not replaces—these impulses Practical ways artists, engineers, and thinkers can work together to explore new relationships and futures with AI Episode Resources Transcript Ross Dawson: Nina, it is wonderful to have you on the show. Nina Begus: Thank you for having me. Ross Dawson: You’ve written this very interesting book, Artificial Humanities, and I think there’s a lot to dig into. But what does that mean? What do you mean by artificial humanities? Nina Begus: Well, this was really a new framework that I’ve developed while I was working on the relationship between AI and fiction, and I started working on this about 15 years ago when I realized that fiction has this unprecedented power in tech spaces. So this is how it all started, but then the more I started talking to engineers about their technical problems, the more I realized there’s so much more that humanities could offer in this collaborative, generative approach that I’ve developed. I would say that now, as the field stands, it’s really a way to explore and demonstrate how humanities—as broad as science and technology studies, literary studies, film, philosophy, rhetoric, history of technology—how all of these fields can help us address the most pressing issues in AI development and use. And it’s been important to me that this approach uses traditional humanistic methods, theory, conceptual work, history, ethical approaches, but also that it’s collaborative and exploratory and experimental in this way that you can look back into the past and at the present to make a more informed choice about the future. You can speculate about different possibilities with it. Ross Dawson: Well, art is an expression of the human psyche, or even more, it is the fullest expression of humanity, and that’s what art tries to do. Also, I’m a deep believer in archetypes, human archetypes, and things which are intrinsic to who we are, and that’s something which you can only really uncover through the arts. Now we have arguably seen all these archetypes play out in real time, these modern myths being created right now in the stories being told of how AI is being created. So I think it’s extraordinarily relevant to look back at how we have depicted machines through our history and our relationship to them. Nina Begus: Yes, this is the reason why I started exploring this topic, actually, because there were so many ancient myths, these archetypal narratives that I’ve seen at the same time, both in technological products that were coming to the market and in the way technologists were thinking about it, and also in fictional products and films and novels in the way we imagined AI. I framed my book around the Pygmalion myth, but there are many, many other myths—Prometheus, Narcissus, the Big Brother narrative, and so on—that are very much doing work in the AI space. The reason why I chose the Pygmalion myth is because it’s so bizarre in many ways: you have this myth where a man creates an artificial woman, and then in the process of creation, falls in love with her. So there’s the creation of the human-like, and there’s also this relationality with the human-like. You would think this would not be a common myth, but quite the opposite—I found it everywhere I looked. It wasn’t called the Pygmalion myth, but the motif was there. I found it on the Silk Road, in ancient folk tales, in Native American folk tales, North Africa, and so on. So I think this kind of story is actually telling us a lot about how humans are not rational, how we have some very deeply embedded behaviors in us, and one of them is that we anthropomorphize everything, including machines.So I think this was a really important takeaway that we got already from the early days of AI with the first chatbot, Eliza. We’ve learned that that will be a feature of us relating to machines. Ross Dawson: So Joseph Campbell called the hero’s journey the monomyth, as in, there is a single myth. And I guess what you are doing here is—well, if you agree with that, which I’d be interested in—is that there are facets. The classic hero’s journey is quite simple, but there are facets of that monomyth, or something intrinsic to who we are, that is around this creation. And in this case, as you say, this relation we have with what we have created. Would you relate that at all to Joseph Campbell’s work? Nina Begus: I haven’t thought about it in this way, because I thought about myth and myths more and less of a storytelling issue, which here is definitely happening—the hero goes on a task, returns back changed, and maybe changes something in the community. The myths that I was looking into and the metaphors that I was exploring, primarily this huge metaphor of AI as a human mind, as an artificial reason—I think it works differently. It’s less of a narrative; it’s more of an imaginary of how or towards what we are building. I think this is a big problem, actually, because the imaginary around AI is very poor. What you get is mostly imagining machine intelligence on human terms, and a lot of people are bothered by that in the AI discourse—right, when you say the machine thinks, or the machine learns, or it has a mind, and some people go as far as to say it has consciousness. I think this kind of debate is actually not that productive. I think it’s more important to see how all these different AI products that we’ve created—and mostly when we talk about AI, people think of language models now—are very much designed as a sort of character, almost as an artificial human that, in literature, authors have been creating for a long time. So I think in that case, we can get back to a hero’s journey. But I think what I was looking at was actually more on the surface level of what kind of shortcuts we are using with these metaphors that we’re employing when building and using AI. I think the book makes a really good case showing that, yes, this is actually a very cultural technology. It’s very much informed by our imaginaries. One surprising part of it was really how hard it was to break out of this human mold. It was pretty much impossible to find examples of machines that are not exclusively human-like. I think Stanislaw Lem is one of the rare writers who can consistently deliver this kind of imaginary. Even looking at more recent works, like popular films such as Hollywood’s Ex Machina or Her, you can see how the technologists themselves would say, “Oh, we were influenced by this film,” in a way that it affirmed their product development trajectory. You can see it now, at this moment, with OpenAI launching companionship. So in many ways, not a lot has changed. Ross Dawson: Yeah, there’s a lot to dig into there. I just want to go back—in a sense, Pygmalion is a metaphor, but it’s also a myth. It is a story: creates a woman, and then falls in love with her, and then whatever happens from there. There is this, something happens, and then something else happens. That’s what a story is. I think that can impact the implicit metaphor, but coming back to the metaphor—so George Lakoff wrote the beautiful book Metaphors We Live By. I think the way the brain works is in metaphors and analogies to a very large degree. Some of those are enabling metaphors, and some of those are not very useful metaphors. I think part of your point is that some of the metaphors that we have for thinking about AI and machines are not useful. There may be, or we could create, some metaphors that are more useful. So, what are some of the most disabling metaphors, and what are some of the ones which could be more constructive? Nina Begus: Yes, So I think this main metaphor that I’ve mentioned—of AI as a human mind—is very limiting. I think it really limits the machinic potential to actually do something good with it. The fact that we’re still using the criteria that were made for humans, like different criteria developed on human language—the Turing test was one of them, right, a while ago. Now we have stricter ones. I think this tells you a lot about how we actually evaluate AI and how even these benchmarks that are supposed to be quantitative are actually often qualitative, often stories, like mini-narratives. But yeah, when we look at different metaphors in this space, there are other ones that also emerge from fiction. I mentioned the Big Brother, the AI as an Oracle, and we need to be aware that these ideas inform the very interaction we have with AI. If we think of it as a mirror, we’re going to use it differently—it’s almost as a bouncing board. If we think of it as a teacher, or as a coach, or as an assistant, it would again create a different use. So I think there are a lot of these metaphors that the companies themselves are trying to decide which one they will go with, because it completely changes the user and the interaction. I think they’re also very cultural, even though you might say, “Oh, it’s a categorical mistake to treat a machine as a human.” I think you can see this kind of treatment across, at least in part, and it doesn’t mean that we consider it human. It just means that we’re engaging with it on our own terms, as if it was human. Now, what could be productive? I do think metaphors, even if they’re not accurate, can be productive. My goal, really, with the book was to break out of this projection of what the machine could be, to find in this exploratory way other directions, other landscapes where we couldn’t go because we’re being limited by our imaginary, by our ideas. So in this way, I think humanistic approaches can be very helpful to designers, to technology builders, to artists, to explore the novelty that so many of these sectors are after. Ross Dawson: Yeah, and I guess people latch on to what they know. I think that’s part of the thing where with AI, “Oh, it’s like a human. Let’s treat it like a human, and let’s make it like a human.” It is, amongst other things, a lack of imagination. That’s where the humanities, the arts, can offer us—those who have the imagination to be able to envisage different possibilities or relationships. But I guess part of it is also that humans relate, and so we have learned to relate to other humans and also to other animals and hopefully to nature as well. But these are all established patterns of relating. So do we need to discover in ourselves new ways of relating to new categories—things which are not humans, not animals, and not nature? Nina Begus: Exactly, this is the exact problem we’re dealing with, and because we’re dealing with a yet unexplored, yet undefined relation, and we’re using old, outdated terms for that relation. This is why we don’t really have a good way of describing it and establishing it. It will take a while for this to develop, which is fine, but we need to realize that there are some concepts that we’re using that we better leave behind and go ahead by building new ones. This is why I think it’s really important to work in a more interdisciplinary collaboration, so that you can see what you can actually build from the technical perspective, so that you can see what these machines are actually capable of. Because you usually don’t know when you create them right?Machine learning is sort of exploratory by design. Ross Dawson: So, just to call it out more explicitly, what are the metaphors you think are the most destructive or most inappropriate, and what are some of the ones which you think are the most promising? Nina Begus: Well, I’m just writing on the Midas myth, which is sort of the opposite of the Pygmalion myth. With Pygmalion, you lean into that human imitation, but with Midas, you lean into the liminality that Midas presents as this sort of hybrid creature. I think leaning into the boundaries that we draw for ourselves—and now AI is not cooperating with them—this is where the productive part will be in actually creating something that has philosophical dignity, but also a kind of productive trajectory for the machines to go. I feel like we’re still in this first phase of developing AI, because when you look at it historically, we haven’t really moved from the conceptual and philosophical premises that were established in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s for this technology. We have now gotten the technology that caught up to the ideas from the 60s, but we’re still stuck in the same conceptual space. Ross Dawson: Yeah, very much so. And, you know, of course, what is AGI, which everyone talks about, is basically—the only way in which people seem to be able to frame it is as relative to humans, which is the only reference point we have. I mean, there’s, of course, animal intelligence, but that’s because of that. It is, again, that lack of imagination—saying, “Well, intelligence, oh, intelligence is what humans do, so let’s do something which is the same as that,” whereas there’s so much white space in what intelligence could be. I think this almost comes back to definition. When people say intelligence, the word, when they use the word intelligence, they are referring to what humans do. It’s not a general term, and so it all becomes a language problem as well, because we are so rooted to relating our language to human capabilities, as opposed to a more general potential. Nina Begus: Yes, I think you’re really on to something here, because I can see it also—because I work with animal communication researchers, and we’re finding things there that we didn’t find because we limited ourselves to thinking language is just a human production, that it needs a human subject. Now, as soon as we got rid of this presumption, we’re finding new things, things that are basically parallel to what we do in our language. So language is in a space of tension because it’s being attacked both from the animal side and from the machinic side, which is why I really focused on language in this book. It’s not a coincidence that we centered artificial intelligence in language as the interface, because this is how we relate to the world—this is our interface to talk to each other, to understand each other. I think the fact that language is coming under such pressure as an interface brings with it a lot of other concepts that are being challenged. Are only humans creative? Is there a natural creativity, machinic creativity? Is there a different kind of intelligence that’s maybe solely biological, embodied? How do we think about cognition? How do we think about culture? In AI and in the natural world, there’s so much that comes with it: agency, autonomy, freedom, community, which I think we will be grappling with for the next few decades, at least. Ross Dawson: I think you alluded before to the potential for AI to have its own languages.  Nina Begus: I’ts happening already. The reason why I like Stanislaw Lem so much is because he can actually think about a machine—back in the 1970s, he’s doing that—about a machine that’s not human-like, that’s not limited to human language. It is trained on human language, but then it goes its own way, where the human linguistic ceiling just cannot go anymore. We’re already seeing that in the models, in Berkeley’s Biological Artificial Intelligence Lab, in the models that are not large language models, but generative adversarial networks that are based on speech. We see that as they are learning the words, they are encoding some information into silences that we don’t know what it is. I think what’s really exciting to me are two things about language in machines. The first one is, what is this non-human production of language? We did not think that non-humans can produce language, even though we had parrots who had to crawl their way to us to speak in “humanese,” to show that they have some kind of intelligence—even if it’s just parroting, even if it’s just what we call imitation, which some people consider not to be intelligence. We’ve had these examples before, but now it’s gotten nuclear—on this scale that LLMs are performing, it’s really challenged a lot of our solely human attributes: creativity, storytelling. A lot of journalists come to me because there’s this existential fear of machines taking over their work and so on. So we’ve been thinking about those things, and now it’s actually happening. Ross Dawson: One of the other key points here, I think, is that humanity is—the arts—there’s so much, as you mentioned, in terms of fiction, in terms of films, in terms of visual arts, and many other artistic domains. We have reference points that we use, and the amount which people refer to the movie Her in the last years is pretty extraordinary, partly because it’s obviously coming very much true. I think the Ex Machina story is very interesting as well, as are many others in the past. But there is also this act of imagination. There are people who have written these books, who have crafted these films, who have created these things, and they are the ones who have been not just manifesting our human psyche, but also pushing that out and coming up with ideas which others haven’t had, to give us something. So one thing we can certainly do is mine and dig into what has been created. But is there a way to interface through this to this act of imagining, which can give us new artifacts and ways of thinking and ways of relating? Nina Begus: Yes, I think imagination and humanities in general are going to become more and more important, because AI will do a lot of technical work, but imaginaries—this is what we really excel at. It’s actually interesting to see how you think fiction is this unbounded landscape where you can imagine anything, and yet it’s really hard to find examples of machines that are beyond the human. Even these writers, like the screenwriters for Her and Ex Machina, create these completely Pygmalion-esque films, where you have an artificial woman leading a relationship with a human man, and so on. For the whole film, you have her act as a human-like entity. But then at the end of each of those films—well, particularly in Her—Spike Jonze really tried to break out of this and show her AI side. Basically, there was no language to describe it, so he resorted to a metaphor—the metaphor of a book, where Samantha, the operations assistant, explains that her world is falling apart, like the way words are floating further and further apart in a book. That’s how she’s able to describe it; that’s the closest she gets. And then in Ex Machina, Alex Garland really wanted to portray the world from the social robot Ava’s perspective in a visual way. He wrote down a scene, but he said, “I failed to execute it visually. I just couldn’t do it well.” So instead, he gave us a different scene that’s shot from afar, where Ava embarks onto a helicopter and she has to undergo her Turing test—the helicopter pilot cannot recognize her as a robot; he needs to think she’s a human woman. There have been attempts, I think even in Garland’s next film Annihilation, they’re trying to set the grounds for something that’s entirely new and hard to imagine. I think a big takeaway for us is this is very hard to do. Ross Dawson: Yes, well, given that context, I do want to—as in the human plus AI framing—given all of this, what is it that we can do or should be doing in order to amplify our humanity, our capabilities, the positive aspects of what it is to be human? How can we relate to or use AI in order to amplify the best of us? Nina Begus: Yeah, I actually had, while I was writing the book Artificial Humanities, this other dream project to work with writers—professional writers, creatives, people who live in a world of words—to see what they make of AI. I waited a little bit for the public’s polarized reactions to calm down a bit and gathered 16 writers, some of whom already made a space for themselves in the field, like Sheila Heti and Ken Liu and Ted Chiang, and then some of the more junior writers who I knew were thinking about that—a Netflix screenwriter, and so on. I gathered them to see—I think the creative people are really the answer here—I gathered them to see how they approach this very human part of the new human and AI collaboration zone. What was common across a lot of essays that are coming out in October under the title “First Encounters with AI” is this argument that, well, AI doesn’t have subjectivity, it doesn’t have emotions, it doesn’t have a body, it doesn’t have experience, it doesn’t have meaning—all of these things that really make us human, all of these parts that actually make art compelling and literature compelling. So Ken Liu’s argument, for example, was, let’s leave machines what they’re good at—they’re good at imitating and copying—and we’re good at interpreting, we’re good at creating and imagining. I think this is really a way to go with this. This catastrophizing that’s very present in the public discourse, I think, is a bit misleading. I wish we had a more nuanced approach to what’s actually happening, particularly in the space of writing. Obviously, AI is a groundbreaking technology that affects pretty much every one of us and all the sectors, but when it comes to writing, we just don’t think it’s killable. We think that there’s this perennial impulse that humans have to play with language, and that is not going to go away with AI. We’re just going to amplify it through AI, through this new possibility that has now opened in many ways. I like to think about AI as—you know, we’ve figured out how to fly. As soon as we figured out the physics of flight, we had planes and helicopters and drones and kites, and these are the new possibilities for human activities. In the same way, we figured out the machine learning principles, and now we have large language models and diffusion models, and we have GANs and so on, and there will be more. These are the new spaces of possibility that have opened for our activities, for our spirit to work on, but they do not replace the human in a meaningful way. It’s more about extension than it is about automation. Ross Dawson: Yeah, that’s a wonderful way of framing it. So where can people go to find out more about your work? Nina Begus: I have a pretty populated website with my name, ninabegus.com, where I write about my books, I write about my public work. I have videos on there, podcasts, links, and so on. I also have a pretty lively lab with a lot of collaborators and students, where a lot of what I imagined when writing Artificial Humanities—where a lot of collaborative projects happen. We have artists, we have engineers, we have philosophers that work on the same question, but come at it from very different backgrounds and with very different skills. I think this is becoming more and more important in the world of AI. Ross Dawson: Yes, yes, bringing all of those disciplines and frames and thinking together. That’s wonderful. I love what you’re doing—very important. I hope the messages ripple through, and obviously wonderful to be able to share this with the Humans Plus AI audience. Thank you so much. Nina Begus: Thank you, Ross, and thank you all for listening. The post Nina Begus on artificial humanities, AI archetypes, limiting and productive metaphors, and human extension (AC Ep38) appeared first on Humans + AI.

On this episode we reflect on the reality that we must die, and in order to live we also must love. And it's a discussion on (ostensibly) a zombie movie that a 20+ year later legacy sequel! When the teaser trailer for 28 Years Later dropped, it seemed clear that the film wouldn't be a safe, mindless retread of previous material looking to cash in on fan nostalgia. It was visually striking, poetic, foreboding, and promised a dark, brutal world that not only has experienced a viral outbreak, but has evolved to, as much as people collectively can, live with it. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were cooking up something special and we couldn't wait! The result was not only a commercial success but a beautifully touching coming of age story that hits on several substantive themes.Joining us for this episode is film journalist Brandon Streussnig. Brandon has written for outlets like Vulture, The Ringer, GQ, Inverse, Men's & Women's Health, Letterboxd Journal, The AV Club, The Playlist, Polygon, Fangoria, Paste, The Film Stage, In Review Online, AwardsWatch, and others. He's also contributed to physical media releases from folks like Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Umbrella, IFC, Kino, and Arrow Video. In this episode we cover things likeBrandon's journey into being a full time film journalistHis experience seeing the film early in order to interview the directorThe incredible soundtrack from Young FathersAnthony Dod Mantle's gorgeous cinematographyBrandon's real time consideration of the follow up, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple The way cinema invites us to spiritual considerations regardless of personal beliefsFilm Twitter's Miami Vice ordeal from a few years ago (that culminated in a screening a listener attended and emailed about!)and MORE!Letterboxd List of Substantive Cinema EpisodesBrandon's interview with Danny BoyleShoutout:Sophy Romvari's Blue HeronFollow Brandon:InstagramLetterboxdInterview with Undertone director Ian TuasonThe Stunt ManThe CatPhysical Media Corner:She Shoots Straight (88 Films)Song of the Miraculous Hind (Deaf Crocodile)Follow Us:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Philip's Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Share Your Questions/Suggestions/Feedback With Us:Email: thesubstancepod@gmail.comDM on InstagramSupport Us: Support the show with an individual donation on CashApp to $TheSubstancePod or become a monthly Patreon supporter at patreon.com/TheSubstancePod

Alex Garland's 2018 sci-fi horror film Annihilation is a complex meditation on cells, self destruction and what makes us ourselves. Join Juliet and Theresa inside the weird shimmery dome to talk about weird bears, the visual delight of this film's third act and The New Weird. CW/TW: suicide and self harmBuy us a coffee!Become a Patron!Theme music: "Book of Shadows" by Houseghost (Rad Girlfriend Records) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we turn once more to the wonderful world of media as we consider ten films for Changeling: the Lost inspiration. We did this previously with Changeling: the Dreaming (check out episode 50!), so it seemed like the right time to pull a similar for the other fae game. There are a couple crossover titles whose themes and plots and aesthetics work equally well in both, in our opinion... but otherwise, this list has a slightly eerier, horror-inflected vibe overall, we suppose? We've tried to keep the discussion as spoiler-light as possible, but for your edification, here are the deets and some trailers for the films we discuss in this order: Alice (Něco z Alenky) (dir. Jan Švankmejer, 1988): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxugr1jEYj8 Black Swan (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaI1XOB-bs Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OP78l9oF0 The Blair Witch Project (dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBZ-POVsrlI The Cell (dir. Tarsem Singh, 2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIpy4p_yMV0 Labyrinth (dir. Jim Henson, 1986): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2yd4em1I6M The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6ksY8xWCY Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir. Jim Sharman, 1975): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldo_spDyLKc Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 2001): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXuk9QqQkk Smile (dir. Parker Finn, 2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDK7lkzzsU Obviously, there were lots of other options that we could have discussed, but for the sake of keeping things trim, these ten will have to suffice. (For now...!) And for other shortlist goodness, further vectors of media include the various avenues to get our attention: Discord: https://discord.me/ctp Email: podcast@changelingthepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699 Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast your hosts Pooka G (any pronoun/they) is four degrees from Kevin Bacon, depending how broadly you want to count. Amelia Fetch (she/her) has secured three of five clauses in the Contracts of Blooper Reel. Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies! —Frank O'Hara, "Ave Maria"

Welcome to Watch. Review. Repeat. Colton and Andrew return with the first installment of "Brews, News, & Previews" in 2026 to celebrate the lives and careers of those we've lost over the past few months and catch up on news and previews! 00:00:00 - Episode Teaser/Intro Music/Opening 00:04:29 - Andrew's Mythology Trivia Question of the Episode! 00:07:01 - 'Mortal Kombat' Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dead at Age 75 00:11:59 - 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Mask' Actor Peter Greene Dead at Age 60 00:13:47 - 'It' and 'The Wire' Actor James Ransone Dead at Age 46 00:15:40 - 'Schitt's Creek' and 'Home Alone' Actress Catherine O'Hara Dead at Age 71 00:18:39 - 'Dawson's Creek' Star James Van Der Beek Dead at Age 48 00:24:58 - 'The Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now' Actor Robert Duvall Dead at Age 95 00:27:58 - Eric Dane, "McSteamy" on 'Grey's Anatomy', Dead at Age 53 00:33:14 - Paramount Skydance Poised to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery After Netflix Bows Out of Bidding War 00:48:07 - Lucasfilm Announces Leadership Transition 00:56:36 - Original 'Star Wars' Theatrical Edition Returning to Theaters in 2027 01:00:07 - '28 Years Later III' Moving Forward at Sony, Alex Garland to Return as Writer 01:07:14 - Lars Eidinger Cast as Brainiac in James Gunn's 'Man of Tomorrow' 01:08:53 - Sebastian Stan in Talks to Join 'The Batman: Part II' 01:14:54 - 83rd Annual Golden Globes Winners 01:18:05 - Prime Video Unveils First Look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in 'Tomb Raider' Series 01:21:09 - Apple TV Lands Rights to Brandon Sanderson's 'Cosmere' Fantasy Universe 01:33:33 - 'The Last of Us' Co-Creator Craig Mazin Developing 'Baldur's Gate' HBO Series 01:36:29 - Sony Reveals First Look at the Fab Four in 'The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event' as Production Begins 01:43:39 - Kristen Bell to Voice Amy Rose in 'Sonic the Hedgehog 4' 01:45:39 - 'Venom' Animated Movie in the Works at Sony 01:48:49 - Amazon Releases First Look at Kratos and Atreus in Live-Action 'God of War' Series 01:53:19 - 'Andor' Writer Beau Willimon to Write 'Game of Thrones' Movie 01:57:28 - 'Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat' Official Trailer 02:02:44 - 'Pretty Lethal' Official Trailer 02:05:21 - 'Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice' Official Trailer 02:07:17 - 'The Drama' Official Trailer 02:09:46 - 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' Official Trailer 02:13:42 - 'Mortal Kombat II' Official Trailer II 02:16:54 - 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' Official Trailer 02:21:00 - 'House of the Dragon' Season 3 Official Teaser 02:24:44 - Catching Up With Andrew (Magic: The Gathering, 'Task', 'Predator: Badlands', 'The Pitt' Season 2, Redecorating House) 02:38:04 - Catching Up With Colton ('28 Years Later: The Bone Temple', 'Send Help', 'The Muppet Show' (2026 TV Special), 'Scrubs', Hades II, The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan, Indie Music Recommendations - Dead Pony, Momma, Die Spitz, Nine Inch Nails - Tron Ares: Divergence)  02:52:28 - Conclusion/Outro Music Visit our website! Support us on Patreon! Thank you for listening! Got something to say? Send it our way to watchreviewrepeat@gmail.com! Produced by: Anna Mattis Intro/Outro Music: Mechanolith Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This week Jim returns from illness to remind us that the retro game Dungeon Keeper still exists, Elton goes on a Alex Garland trip watching Civil War (not currently a documentary) and 28 Years Later. Darren sends everyone down a retro gaming rabbit hole digging through MyAbandonWare and also regrets watching the TV show Falling Skies, while Lee (also disappearing down the retro game hole, visits Birmingham and digs into some nostalga bait with the relaunched series of Scrubs. After that the guys realise its getting late and plough on to this weeks review. The "anarchic" time travel anti AI, anti kids, anti whatever is in the news this week, sci fi comedy thriller Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die. Media Discussed This Week Dungeon Keeper - PC / GoG / Steam Civil War - Amazon Prime 28 Years Later - Amazon Prime / VoD rental Falling Skies - Netflix War Machine - Netflix Simpsons Hit N Run - PC / MyAbandonWare . com Yellowstone - Paramount + Malice - Amazon Prime Scrubs - Disney+ Microshoot Adventures - PC / PS5 / Xbox Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die - Theatrical Release / VoD Rental 

Brad has made his pick for the month, and he's decided to take a trip down south to Alex Garland's Annihilation, where a funny kind of Shimmer has got everyone all confused and refracted and dead. Join us as we discuss at length the phantasmagoric scenes that await our scientific adventurers, the human drama that plagues them both in and out of the zone, and just how how messed up that bear really is.CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 172: Annihilation (2018)(00:00:26) - Intro.(00:04:06) - Brad's pick is up this week, and he has chosen Annihilation!(00:08:50) - Talking about the book, Alex Garland, and how he set about adapting this story.(00:16:48) - On the production, and the trouble it ran into pre-release.(00:27:02) - The flashback.(00:38:23) - This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife. How did I get here?(00:42:35) - Break!(00:42:54) - We're back, and it's time for our first look at the Shimmer.(00:53:28) - Meeting the squad.(00:59:34) - Time becomes immediately weird.(01:03:11) - The mutations start to become apparent.(01:15:33) - Video logs and environmental storytelling.(01:24:24) - Another flashback in a flashback, and the bear makes its first appearance.(01:33:44) - They find Cassie, then they find some tree people.(01:42:50) - Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear absorbs your consciousness at the moment of grim death.(01:52:28) - Josie becomes one with the field.(01:56:59) - That lighthouse is messed up.(02:07:51) - The titular line.(02:13:13) - Dancing with...myself?(02:26:20) - Are you you? Am I me?(02:30:59) - Final thoughts.(02:37:57) - Housekeeping for next week's movie: Stop Making Sense!(02:41:21) - Outro.

The Brothers discuss the 2018 sci-fi film Annihilation, a weird wild movie which Eric and Drew mentioned last week when discussing Caddo Lake. First there is a long and far-ranging digression about no Star Trek properties being currently in production, the entire Alex Garland catalog, and the United Nations of Horror. Plot talk starts about 28:00 during which they discuss the movie Erin Brockovich and the bowler Pete Weber.   Housekeeping starts at 1:13:00 during which J recounts his new medical issue:  back problems!!   File length 1:13:10 File Size 71.2 MB   Theme by Jul Big Green via SongFinch Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at Not In A Creepy Way

We continue our coverage of Alex Garland's trilogy further chronicling the post infection world with 28 YEARS LATER THE BONE TEMPLE. This time around Nia DaCosta is at the directorial helm to chronicle the fate of Spike, Dr. Kelson, Jimmy Crystal and Samson.     Intro:                    “Necromaniacs” – Mike Hill Outro:                 “Number of the Beast”– Iron Maiden

Sci-Fi Month continues as we are boarding the Icarus II and heading straight for the sun.. This week, we are talking Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 2007 masterpiece: Sunshine.Follow us @Reviewedtodeath“Alone Together” by creatormix.comAll additional music provided by Groove Witness - www.groovewitness.usAll sound effects provided by zapsplat.comCreate your ⁠podcast⁠ today! #madeonzencasterRead our companion written reviews - imgur.com/user/trojaSpaceBandit

Happy 2026, Vintage Sand fans! Thank you for taking time away from looking for real estate opportunities in Greenland to join us for Episodes 65 and 66, our first of 2026. Herein, Team Vintage Sand returns one last time to the source of some of our most popular episodes: Danny Peary's hard-to-find 1993 classic "Alternate Oscars". In the past, we have used Peary's model to approach the Best Picture Academy Awards from every decade going back to the 1930's. Collect them all! For this episode, we wrap up this series with the most recent complete decade, the 2010's. First, a caveat: we began this podcast eight years ago, in the spring of 2018, which means that we have already discussed many of today's films in a number of different contexts already. We did our Best of the Teens in early 2020, and recently did our Top 10 of the Century so far, wherein many of the films we're talking about today are contained. Add in that we did episodes on the best of 2018 and 2019, respectively, in those years, and you get the sense that we have already covered this ground several times. But like all good film fans, we're completists, so we conclude this series of episodes with these two, which will focus on 2010 to 2014 and 2015 to 2019 respectively. Mercifully, perhaps, these episodes are shorter than most others we've done, simply because, as mentioned, this is terrain we have covered several times already. The teens were clearly a transitional time for film, especially in Hollywood. The foreign market came to dominate, as did the teen market, which led to a kind of lowest common denominator for American film in these years. Throw in the uncertainties created by the rise of streaming and the changes in where and how people watch film, and you have…well, it's still a little too early to tell what the 2010's will look like to film historians, if there are indeed any film historians left. That being said, it's clear that the decade featured some of the greatest films ever made, ones that will stand the test of time and will continue to be watched long into the future. In many ways, the Mexican New Wavers dominated the decade, winning half of the Best Director Oscars for the whole decade: Del Toro for "Shape of Water", Cuarón for "Gravity" and "Roma", and Iñárritu for "Birdman" and "The Revenant". And of course, the stunning triumph of "Parasite" ended a decade in film that many were ready to write off (and got rid of the bad taste left behind by "Green Book" the previous year). It was also a decade that saw the arrival of some wildly innovative and talented filmmakers, among them Chloe Zhao, Ryan Coogler, Ava Duvernay, Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig, Steve McQueen, and Damien Chazelle, plus amazing directors who transcended often marginalized genres like Ari Aster, Alex Garland, Robert Eggers and Denis Villeneuve. We also saw some great works from directors who came of age in the 90's and early 00's like David Fincher, the Coens, Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan, Todd Haynes and the Andersons, both Wes and PTA divisions. And for the icing on the cake, we got some brilliant work from the old guard Hollywood New Wavers like Martin Scorsese (who just seemed to pick up steam as the decade went on), Steven Spielberg, (at least with "Lincoln"), Terrence Malick and, most surprisingly, Paul Schrader. So make yourselves comfortable, have yourselves one of those lovely pastries from Mendl's, and join us for our final foray into the world of Best Picture Alternate Oscars!

We give you a spoiler-filled review of Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, written by Alex Garland and starring Ralph Fiennes.Before getting to the Bone Temple, we clear the deck with catch-up reviews: Drew recommends Strip Law, a joke-dense new animated series on Netflix starring Adam Scott and Janelle James. Hunter recaps a Rob Reiner retrospective at Enzian, highlighting Stand by Me, Misery, and When Harry Met Sally. Then some thoughts on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the surprisingly funny and stripped-down Game of Thrones spinoff, plus updates on The Pitt Season 2. Hunter checks in on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Quick hits include Almost Famous, Wuthering Heights, The Traitors, and more.Timecodes:Intro - 0:00Strip Law - 1:17 Rob Reiner Retrospective - 7:14A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - 14:13The Pitt S2 - 25:29Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 36:15NTBTSTM, The Muppet Show, The Moment - 42:02Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, Send Help - 44:29"Wuthering Heights" - 45:36The Traitors - 57:57Almost Famous - 59:1028 Years Later: The Bone Temple - 1:02:09

In this episode of the 30 Screams or Less podcast we review “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” directed by Nia DaCosta, written by Alex Garland, starring Jack O'Connell (Sir Jimmy Crystal), Alfie Williams (Spike), and Ralph Fiennes (Dr. Kelson). The plot of the movie is while Spike rises through the ranks of Jimmy Crystal's violent mainland faction, Dr. Kelson makes a terrifying discovery: some infected aren't fully lost. If... The post 30 Screams or Less 144: 28 Years Later – The Bone Temple appeared first on Shining Wizards Network.

In this episode of the 30 Screams or Less podcast we review "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple", directed by Nia DaCosta, written by Alex Garland, starring Jack O'Connell (Sir Jimmy Crystal), Alfie Williams (Spike), and Ralph Fiennes (Dr. Kelson). The plot of the movie is while Spike rises through the ranks of Jimmy Crystal's violent mainland faction, Dr. Kelson makes a terrifying discovery: some infected aren't fully lost. If the virus can coexist with its host, humanity's future won't be extinction, it'll be transformation. Sponsored By:Beard Octane: Use the code 30SCREAMS10 at checkout for 10% off your order. https://beardoctane.com/Follow Us on Social Media: https://solo.to/30screamsorless

We disagree on the merits of this Alex Garland 2022 horror!

Send a textAn L.A. cop discovers a local task force is a front for an influential, vulgar, offensive podcast that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger. On Episode 708 of Trick or Treat Radio our feature film discussion is one we've been anticipating for almost 8 years! We finally check out Night Patrol from director Ryan Prows! We also pay tribute to a couple of Hollywood titans, we find out what is 8” long, green, and coming soon, and we react to trailers for the upcoming films; Lee Cronin's The Mummy, and Bodycam! So grab your preferred weapon to fend off the local bloodsucking lawmen, don your traditional ancestral garb, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: 8” long, green, and coming this summer, Eagle Rock Productions, Brian Yuzna, Re-Animator, the Ghostbuster thing, Scandinavian Vowels, Slashed Zero, Asgardian vowels, Lowlife, one of our most anticipated films in show history, Mark of the Devil, Udo Kier, Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Dario Argento, Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Army of Darkness, The Ghost of Edendale, Dead Things, Black Water, Catacombs, Attack of the Vegan Zombies, Shutter Island, The VVitch, Victoria Justice, Sam Reid, Haylie Duff, Benicio del Toro, The Wolfman, Jeff Daniels, Arachnaphobia, Witchboard, Lee Marvin, Clue, Three Amigos, Shout Factory, Martin Short, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Tim Curry, Da Ali G Show, Flight of the Conchords, The Muppets, James Bobin, Ryan Reynolds, The Greasy Strangler, can you have a time jump in a trilogy?, Lee Cronin's The Mummy, John Larroquette, Midsommar, Dashcam, Bodycam, Linda Blair, RIP Tom Noonan, Monster Squad, House of the Devil, Robocop 2, The Natural, Eight Legged Freaks, RIP Robert Duvall, Gram Protein, Honey Bunches of Oats, Justin Long, Flying Lotus, Ryan Prows, New Jack City, Training Day, Total Eclipse, Night Patrol, Pepsi Phil, Dermot Mulroney, Jon Oswald, Sinners, Night Force, Gene Colan, Tomb of Dracula, Brody King, Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, 28 Years Later, Nia DeCosta, don't dick dial me bro, Gorgonzilla, Monster's Paradise, Werner Herzog, Enjoy the Twink, and The General Prohibition Sign.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

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The 28 Days Later film series continues with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. This time, directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. Coming right after 28 Years Later (2025), this film follows Ralph Fiennes and his Bone Temple. It also follows around Satanist "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell) and his Fingers gang, played by Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Emma Laird, Sam Locke, and more. Ralph Fiennes and the Fingers eventually clash for a wild ending. You'll hear where we render our bones in this Bone Temple hawt take!

Hello, film fanciers! Mary and Dave continue their conversation about Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s fabulous Later franchise – this time talking about Nia DaCosta’s snappy, terrifying, joyous and beautiful second chapter of the 28 Years Later trilogy. Mary and Dave have loved these new iterations of the series and think you will too. Not sure why? Let them fansplain it for you!

Devin Diazoni and Paola Zavala unite for the first time in 2026 to talk about why every movie that isn't 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (People You Meet On Vacation, The Rip, The Wrecking Crew) isn't as good as 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.Support Film Literate on Patreon!Co-host: Paola Zavala (Instagram|Letterboxd)

Hello, film fanciers! We think that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (with Nia DaCosta) have created an amazing series of films that both revel in and transcend the horror genre. So this week, we celebrate the release of 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple with the first part of a long and involved conversation about 28 Days Later and its amazing follow up 28 Years Later. The second part of our conversation will appear next week – at which point we may finally get to The Bone Temple!

Synopsis The Bone Temple, in addition to what I call my bedroom is the latest installment in the 28 days later franchise. It picks up almost directly after 28 Years Later leaves off. Spike (Alfie Williams) is forced to prove himself to join the Jimmies, a sadistic cult fashioned after the media personality Jimmy Savile, led by the leader Jimmy Crystal. Meanwhile, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) furthers his research into the rage virus and befriends Samson, the Alpha. Review of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple I found 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple enjoyable, but not particularly meaty compared to it's predecessor. The humanity and reverence for death found in the last film are spare in this film, which mostly focuses on the chaos brought on by the jimmies, and Dr Kelson's descent into hopelessness. The Script by Alex Garland, is high quality, but unfortunately just feels like a retread of similar story lines in The Walking Dead. Nia DaCosta's Direction is respectful towards Danny Boyle's style established in the previous films in the series, while showing her own style with stylistic flair.  The standouts in the film are Jack O'connel, who played Sir Jimmy Crystal, and of course Ralph Fienes as Dr Kelson. O’Connell balances the two sides of portraying a cult leader well. Maintaining a believable facade of delusion and inspiration, while also showing the con-man manipulator that lurks behind the curtains. O'connell takes the great dialogue and makes it come alive through his performance, and is as enjoyable to watch in this as he was in Sinners. Ralph Fienes gets to play around a little more in this film. Instead of the stolid and enigmatic character from the last film, we get to see his humanity, practicality, and loneliness filled out and explored in this film. The best part of the film features him getting to display his own theatrics to the Jimmies, which left me laughing out loud. If you didn't like 28 Years Later because of the lack of zombies, you will be disappointed here as well, they play almost no part in this film with the exception of the tranquilized Samson. Overall it was highly enjoyable, although slightly less so than the last film Score 8/10

Just over six months after the previous entry in this franchise (28 Years Later), we return to the post-apocalyptic world of the "infected" in the UK though this time with a somewhat different focus.  This story focuses on Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) now exploring the possibility of building a bond and possibly even treating an infected "Alpha" named Samson (Chi-Lewis-Parry).  Meanwhile we are following returning character Spike (Alfie Williams) who has now found himself mixed up with a murderous cult roving through the countryside lead by Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell).  And eventually these two stories intersect....directed by Nia DaCosta (2021's Candyman, The Marvels, Hedda), this definitely takes some divergent turns from the previous film, let's see if the journey is worthwhile.....Host: Geoff GershonEdited By Ella GershonProducer: Marlene Gershon  Send us a textSupport the showhttps://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/

The review of the post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. Its predecessor 28 Years Later (2025), and serves as the fourth installment overall in the 28 Days Later film series. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It was shot back-to-back with its predecessor, "28 Years Later," and is the fourth installment in the "28 Days Later" film series. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry. Much like "28 Years Later," the film has received acclaim from critics, with praise for Fiennes' and O'Connell's performances, Garland's writing, and DaCosta's direction, with some believing it to be superior to its predecessor. DaCosta and O'Connell were both kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Sony Pictures. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Run across that causeway because we're opening the Patreon vault and diving head first into Danny Boyle's unexpectedly weird 28 Years Later (2025) after decades of anticipation. It's Act I of a planned trilogy, but does it stand on its own?Join us as we discuss the Brexit allegory, lament the predictable zombie fare and laud the emotional gut punch of the third act. Also: take a shot every time we say "maybe we'll find out in the sequel(s)."Plus, prosthetic penises, Predator-like decapitations, Ralph Fiennes' boney art installation and addressing the Jimmy Savile of it all.Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on BlueSky, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, or join Horror Queers Discord to get in touch with other listeners.> Trace: @tracedthurman (BlueSky)/ @tracedthurman (Instagram)> Joe: @joelipsett (BlueSky) / @bstolemyremote (Instagram) Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada  Art: Travis Falligant Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we're talking about writer/director Alex Garland, specifically the 2018 film Annihilation. We break down how he either loves or hates the military, what life should look like in a prism, visit trope corner, and want to see women succeed.

In this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we welcome writer/director Nia DaCosta to discuss her latest film 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Fresh off directing 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a bold and unsettling expansion of the universe created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, she turns a familiar horror landscape on its head injecting it with psychological depth, cultural tension, and a haunting sense of humanity.From redefining studio horror with Candyman, to helming one of the most ambitious franchise films in recent memory with The Marvels, her career has been marked by fearless storytelling and an uncompromising point of view.Host: Chalice WilliamsMusic by: SammusEdited by: Jamie Broadnax

We're kicking off a new year with Alex Garland's feature directorial debut, Ex Machina (2014). Joining us for the ride is Garland mega-fan Miss Sinclair from Talk Movie To Me podcast.This prescient film has aged incredibly well: from its portrayal of an entitled tech billionaire to its naive-meets-incel "white knight" protagonist to questions about the ethics of AI. It's a film filled with questions, which has us posing a number of our own!Plus: Oscar-winning FX, Ava's "Alicia Vikander drag", Joe's queer cuckolding read, and why we're planning a trip to NorwayQuestions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on BlueSky, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join Horror Queers Discord to get in touch with other listeners.> Trace: @tracedthurman (BlueSky)/ @tracedthurman (Instagram)> Joe: @joelipsett (BlueSky) / @bstolemyremote (Instagram) > Miss Sinclair: @talkmovietome (Instagram) / Website: https://www.talkmovietomepodcast.com/Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We are counting down the top 10 episodes of 2024, as voted by our listeners. At #7, we have: Saint Ghislaine?! Marx’s Theory Of Bore-out 07.25.25 In episode 1903, Jack and Miles are joined by adult film star, activist, host of the upcoming 12-hour live-stream extravaganza Corn Telethon, and host of First Thirst, Siri Dahl, to discuss… Saint Ghislaine of Maxwell, Trump Is In The Files, They Keep Coming Up With Alternative Definitions of WORKER ALIENATION, Has Hollywood Made A Single Good Movie About The Pandemic? And more! Saint Ghislaine of Maxwell Burchett dismisses Trump being friends with Epstein: "It's just like me. I know a lot of dirtbags myself." House Republicans back Epstein subpoena House panel votes to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton over possible links to Ghislaine Maxwell Swallowing Reservations, Democrats Go On Offense on Epstein Files They Keep Coming Up With Alternative Definitions of WORKER ALIENATION Eddington is a political satire by horror auteur Ari Aster. But is it also a western? Covid, social media, Black Lives Matter: Ari Aster’s Eddington takes 2020 on and mostly succeeds Eddington: Western Noir Chaos Made Boring 5 Years After COVID-19, Eddington Is The Best Pandemic Movie We've Gotten Hollywood loves a world-shaking disaster – so why is it still silent about Covid? For This Sex Satire, the Pandemic Built a Perfect Set How Pandemic Isolation Inspired Zach Dean To Write Scott Derrickson’s Genre-Bending Thriller ‘The Gorge’ Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on '28 Years Later' and how COVID influenced long-awaited sequel The spectacular frenzy of 28 Years Later offers a new breed of pandemic storytelling LISTEN: Sold My Soul by BSEARLSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.