Skip to content
TrackPodcasts
newsApr 25, 20261:27

Ex Machina's AI Chills: A Must-Watch

About this episode

Ex Machina (2015) by Alex Garland explores AI sentience, resonating with todays AI debates. Oscar Isaacs Nathan Bateman and Alicia Vikanders Ava star in a Frankenstein-flipped narrative. Vikanders performance, reminiscent of the Turing test, earns an Oscar. Watch on HBO Max before April end.

Support the show:
Get a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn.

Advertise on DNN:
[email protected]

This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.
Report issues to [email protected].

View sources & latest updates:
https://sources.thednn.ai/9373ee8e92080dca

Get every episode summarized

Each time Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.

Email me new episodes

Free for 3 shows. No card needed.

Transcript ready

23 searchable segments. Every word is indexed and playable.

Ex Machina's AI Chills: A Must-Watch

Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!

0:00
1:27

Full transcript

Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Ex Machina's AI Chills: A Must-Watch. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

It's April 25th. This is Entertainment and celebrity news today, powered by AI, your front row to the latest buzz. I'm Corey with the story. Alex Garland dropped his directorial debut back in 2015 with X Machina, a tight sci-fi flick about an AI that might just be truly sentient. It pulled in $37.3 million worldwide off of $15 million budget and over the years, it cemented itself as one. Of the top films of the 2010s, one of the strangest two. Fast forward nearly a decade, and the movie's premise feels ripped from today's headlines. AI's everywhere now, snatching jobs and sparking debates, much like the row creations and terminator flicks, though nothing matches Ava from this one. Yet, fans and critics keep hyping it up, loving how it flips the Frankenstein story with Oscar Isaac as the cocky creator Nathan Bayman, a god complex bro. Who builds brilliance without thinking twice about the fallout? Alicia Vikander steals the show as Ava, her otherworldly vibe turning the whole thing

into a mind-bending test for us viewers. The real hook? The candor's layers make you question everything, echoing that classic touring test but aimed right at the audience, proving why this film's effects. Snagged in Oscar and wide indoors. Catch it on HBO Max before it bounces at the end of April. Perfect timing to dive into AI chills while the tech world's heating up.

More episodes

More from Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!

View all episodes →