The filmmaker directed his latest picture with Ray Mendoza, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Iraq War. They wanted to depict, with ...

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 ...

Alex Garland has now constructed ... and those of his comrades in order to create what he termed a “living document” for Elliott Miller, one of the men injured, who has no recollection of ...

The director of ‘Civil War’ and a real-life Iraq veteran have rounded up a cast of young stars – including Will Poulter, Kit ...

Alex Garland has now constructed what could be called his trilogy of violence: the relentless, patriarchal assault in horror Men (2022), the ... of his comrades in order to create what he termed ...

Alex Garland ... He and Garland began work on a screenplay that painstakingly reconstructed his memories and those of his comrades in order to create what he termed a “living document” for Elliott ...

Garland is working in peak form and with ... the balance between base commands and the necessity of the men to improvise in order to survive. And there’s poignancy and glimmers of understated ...

Entertainment Critic While Alex Garland is best known for science-fiction and horror (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men, Devs), the ... any neutral and truthful sequence of events, anybody receiving ...

In order to accomplish that goal, Garland has done his best to strip ... in detailing the competence displayed by these young men, in studying the camaraderie that binds them together, and ...