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Movie Review – Ex Machini

June 6, 2015June 6, 2015 B. John 282 Views 0 Comments Alex Garland, Alicia Vikander, Corey Johnson, Domhnall Gleeson, Drama, Oscar Isaac, Sci-Fi

Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world’s largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. Watch this movie, it’s weird, it’s claustrophobic, it will suck you in, and it will make you stop and think.

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Captain Phillips – A Movie Review

October 18, 2013 B. John 299 Views 0 Comments Adaptation, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener, Corey Johnson, David Warshofsky, Drama, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, Paul Greengrass, Pirates, Somalia, Tom Hanks

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is – through director Paul Greengrass’s distinctive lens – simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller, and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama’s commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks), and the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage. Phillips and Muse are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips’ unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.