It's been 3 years since Alex Garland's "debut" feature Ex Machina came out which put the writer/director firmly at the front and centre of sci-fi genre. Now in 2018 he returns with 'Annihilation', based off the book of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer. 

The film stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac, and follows a group of military scientists who enter "The Shimmer", a mysterious quarantined zone full of mutating landscapes and creatures.

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