"Ex Machina," the directorial debut by novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland ("28 Days Later," "Sunshine"), is a rare and welcome exception to that norm. It starts out as an ominous thriller about a young programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) orbiting a charismatic Dr. Frankenstein-type (Oscar Isaac) and slowly learning that the scientist's zeal to create artificial intelligence has a troubling, even sickening personal agenda. But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film...
Ex Machina Movie Review & Film Summary (2015) | Roger Ebert
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Daniel Levy
Ostensible Claim to Fame: He's a former MTV Canada presenter who's made the jump into acting with roles in Admission and Schitt's Creek (which he also co-created).
Real Claim to Fame: He's Eugene Levy's hot son!
Sexiness Rating: Three out of five Theroux.
Representative Daily Mail Photo Caption: Like father, like son: Canadian actor Eugene Levy posed on the red carpet with his look-alike son Dan Levy with wh...
Your Guide to the Hot Sons of Hollywood -- Vulture
Ostensible Claim to Fame: He's a former MTV Canada presenter who's made the jump into acting with roles in Admission and Schitt's Creek (which he also co-created).
Real Claim to Fame: He's Eugene Levy's hot son!
Sexiness Rating: Three out of five Theroux.
Representative Daily Mail Photo Caption: Like father, like son: Canadian actor Eugene Levy posed on the red carpet with his look-alike son Dan Levy with wh...
Your Guide to the Hot Sons of Hollywood -- Vulture
9 years
Every time I go to a Broadway play of any kind — good or bad — as soon as the lights go out and people come onstage and start to speak, I start to cry. I can't help it. The first minute of any play feels really stupid — they're pretending the audience isn't there, and they're having this loud dialogue, and you're like, "What the f— are these people doing?" — but it's so vulnerable. It's such an effort, and it's such a generous thing to do, and so I always get all choked up.
Louis C.K. Basically Wrote ‘Hello to All That’ -- Vulture
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The anticipation (and hype) is over: HBO today launched HBO Now, the no-longer-just-a-cable-network’s first-ever direct-to-consumer subscription product. Anyone with an iTunes account can pay $14.95 per month for on-demand access to just about everything HBO currently offers its cable subscribers, all streamable via an iOS device or the Apple TV platform. It’s the first time you won’t need to sign a deal with Big Cable or Big Internet to get HBO programming, a milestone moment for a pay-TV industry, which until recently required viewers to go through a...
HBO Now Debuts: So Far So Good -- Vulture
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