Ex Machina

One Mann’s Movies – The Best of 2015

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Lists, lists… nothing but bloody lists.  It’s that time of the year again, and a chance to look back at the films that have thrilled, moved or excited me during the last year.  And then some of the turkeys of the movie season.  While some of these were released in 2014, they only reached my … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Ex Machina (2015)

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Ex Machina has a simple story dealing with a deeply complex and philosophical topic:  namely what makes humans human. The increasingly omnipresent Oscar Isaac plays billionaire Nathan Bates, genius creator of ‘Google’ – my mistake – ‘BlueBook’, the world’s “leading search engine”.  Living in the middle of the American wilderness (in reality, a very picturesque … Read more