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After months of online speculation, writer-director Alex Garland’s button-pushing thriller Civil War has premiered at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.The film imagines what America would look like in the midst of full-scale civil war with broken supply lines, abandoned highways and a national military cleaved into opposing factions. Set to be released during a fractious election year, it shows a dystopian near future in which the US is riven by military conflict from within.Civil War, starring Kirsten Dunst and…

Screenshot: A24, Paramount, Image: Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Mondo, Marvel StudiosThis weeks news brought with it a whole sandworm’s worth of Dune Part 2 coverage, from reviews to interviews, but that wasn’t all: we’ve got Cate Blanchett serving in the messy-looking Borderlands movie, a very cool X-Men figure, and a critical re-appraisal: Madame Web? Good, actually! With several asterisks. Check it out! — James Whitbrook Screenshot: A24, Paramount, Image: Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Warner…

Alex Garland has written or directed several excellent, terrifying, disturbing films. Films like 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Ex Machina and Annihilation. Films that show familiar worlds in unfamiliar, and often times unfathomable, circumstances. His new film seems as if it’s going to do that too, but it’s somehow much scarier than all of those combined. Because, well, the dystopia feels a little too real.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedThe film is called Civil War and—because you aren’t reading this on…

Frances Ethel Gumm, more commonly known by her stage name, Judy Garland, was born on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Her exceptional talents as a singer and actress made her one of the most popular Hollywood icons of the 20th century. Here are five of her best-known performances! Judy Garland, star of classic films including The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis, died in 1969 at age 47 in London. Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)One of Judy Garland's most popular movies is the…

20. Listen, Darling (1938)A very silly and frankly odd musical, although perhaps not quite odd enough to qualify for cult status. Judy Garland plays a girl called Pinkie who is worried about her widowed mother, played by Mary Astor – and believes she needs to get remarried to a nice man. So with her pal Buzz (played by the renowned former child actor Freddie Bartholomew, of David Copperfield and Little Lord Fauntleroy fame), she in effect kidnaps her bemused but indulgent mother in a trailer and tours around the country…

Dir: Alex Garland. Starring: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin. 15, 100 minutes.Alex Garland’s new horror film Men is a trippy exercise in self-flagellation, a bloody folktale meditating on male malevolence. It frames men as an ancient, insurmountable evil and misogyny as a bogeyman of unknowable origin. Certainly, that sounds damning (I can already hear hands revving up over computer keyboards, quaking with indignation), but who does Men’s broad-brush statement actually serve? For all its…