New Images and Two New Clips From Alex Garland's EX MACHINA

When 2015 comes to an end, which films will we look back on as being the biggest surprises of this year? I have a feeling that Ex Machina could be one of those movies. The directorial debut of writer Alex Garland (Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Dredd, and the under-seen Never Let Me Go), the film stars Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander in a sci-fi tale that debates the consciousness of artificial intelligence. The first trailer put this movie on my radar, and since I'm a big fan of everyone involved, I can't wait to see this movie when it arrives in theaters on April 10th.

The Playlist points us to a batch of new images from the film, as well as two clips that do a nice job of setting the stage for the kind of moral complexities we can expect from the full feature. Think Ex Machina has the potential to be great? Let us know below.

Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated, seductive––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.