Electric Shadow Alex Garland: Not Epiphany-Based

Ex Machina writer/director Alex Garland grew up a fan of science fiction.
His new film sets itself apart by happily eschewing on- and off-screen
obstacles that get in the way of sci-fi cinema being great.

At SXSW 2015, he and Moisés discuss the formative and professional
influences that brought Ex Machina to the screen.

Enter to win a copy of the Ex Machina soundtrack by leaving Electric Shadow
a fresh iTunes review and email us using the contact form.

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Ex Machina writer/director Alex Garland grew up a fan of science fiction. His new film sets itself apart by happily eschewing on- and off-screen obstacles that get in the way of sci-fi cinema being great.

At SXSW 2015, he and Moisés discuss the formative and professional influences that brought Ex Machina to the screen.

Enter to win a copy of the Ex Machina soundtrack by leaving Electric Shadow a fresh iTunes review and email us using the contact form.

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Show Notes and Links
JG Ballard is a writer worth discovering if this is the first you're hearing of him. This site looks like a pretty decent secondary source on all things Ballard.
In the Information Age, it is not at all as hard for a non-UK comics fan to read 2000AD (wikipedia) as it was when I was younger, when one would have to rely upon "the one guy at the comics shop" who imported it. The latest installment of the long-running weekly (since 1977) anthology is Prog 1925, featuring Judge Dredd, Sláine, Strontium Dog, and others.
See Ex Machina theatrically if you can, and not because it was shot for IMAX with a multi-hundred-million-dollar budget (neither of those are true of Ex Machina, I'm slagging a movie covered on this very show months ago). You'll wish you had if you see it at home for the first time.

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Giant Size ORIGINS 14: Cigar-Smoking Baby (originally posted in 2013) finds Moisés consulting native Englishmen (writer Antony Johnston and Drobo CEO Geoff Barrall) on what hooked them as impressionable young fans of 2000AD
Giant Size ORIGINS 15: Just a Disco Queen (reposting soon) was originally expected to be a short after-show with Antony after Geoff had to go, but it's now (in "reprinted" form) best considered a full episode of proper show.