Author Archives: Really Awful Movies

Ex Machina

A weird, extended cyber version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Ex Machina features a “romance” between a sentient and a non-sentient that’s more compelling than 1,000 rom-coms. Programmer Caleb – a kind of James Damore type – also toils away for a global search engine juggernaut. (And speaking of Damore, the #GoogleMemo author recentlyContinue reading “Ex Machina”

Crawl

Parisian Alexandre Aja is one of the more dependable horror directors out there, bursting out of with the exemplary Haute Tension and the surprisingly adroit remake of The Hills Have Eyes. When it comes to creating tension, he definitely didn’t have to “Crawl” before he could walk. This one’s a surprisingly character-driven effort however, absentContinue reading “Crawl”