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Halo is one of the biggest video game franchises in the world. The majority of the games are sci-fi first-person shooters, which helped to make Microsoft a major player in the console market and set the standard for shooters on consoles. It started a big multimedia franchise that expanded to books, comics, and TV shows. There […]
The United States is currently going through a turbulent period in its history and politics. This political climate serves as the inspiration for Alex Garland’s near-future war film, Civil War. The United States is in the middle of a civil war with several factions rebelling against a dictatorial President (Nick Offerman). Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) […]
In the first two decades of the 21st century we saw the resurrection of the zombie genre. One of the key films responsible for this revival was 28 Days Later, a film that is now 20 years old. Jim (Cillian Murphy) is a bike courier who awakes from a 28-day long coma and finds that Central London has been […]
Men sees the cult genre filmmaker Alex Garland move into the elevated horror genre. What he delivers is one of the most divisive horror films in a long while. Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley) is a recently widowed woman who goes on a two-week vacation in the English Countryside. However, she must deal with the aftermath of […]
2010’s Never Let Me Go was an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel of the same name. The adaptation was able to attract some amazing talent in front of and behind the camera. In 1952 there has been a medical breakthrough that allows people to live up to 100 years old. But this health revolution came at a […]
When people think of British cinema a film like Dredd probably doesn’t come to mind. Despite its American setting and international cast Dredd is a British film and worthy of a Britflix retrospective. In the future, the world has gone to hell. Most of America has turned into an eradicated wasteland and Mega City One is a lawless […]
Devs, the first series to hit new “FX on Hulu” rebrand of the FX network*, is a very mixed bag. After watching the first two episodes of the series, I honestly don’t know how to feel about it. If you’re a fan of Alex Garland’s other work (Ex Machina and Annihilation), I suspect you’ll be […]