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When Alex Garland first worked with Ray Mendoza, he was immediately struck by the latter’s precision and intuitive storytelling instincts. At the time, the pair were collaborating on Civil War, Garland’s blistering speculative fiction about, perhaps, the direction things could head in the U.S. Garland wrote and directed that movie,

This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister: Into Infinity.” Throughout its seven-season run, Black Mirror has covered a lot of ground. From sapphic digital afterlives to video game haunted houses to fulfillment center post-apocalypses, Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi/horror anthology has a penchant for boldly going where few

This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Eulogy.” Wait, was that the best episode of Black Mirror ever? That thought incepted itself into my brain once credits began to roll on “Eulogy,” the fifth episode of Black Mirror‘s seventh season. Eventually, that thought trickled its way back out.

Warning: contains spoilers for Black Mirror season 7 episode 4 “Plaything.” You have to admit, the man has a point. Peter Capaldi’s “Plaything” character may have spent the last four decades tripping balls in a funky-smelling attic while serving as a wide-eyed acolyte for a bunch of potentially murderous Tamagotchi, but he’s

Warning: contains spoilers for Black Mirror season 7 episode 2 “Hotel Reverie” When season three’s “San Junipero” came out in 2016, it made a splash. Acerbic, cynical Black Mirror – a series in which a man had sex with a pig, a child killer was tortured for public entertainment, and the Christmas special featured