An unfulfilled man (Owen Wilson) and a mysterious woman (Salma Hayek) believe they are living in a simulated reality, but when their newfound ‘Bliss’ world begins to bleed into the ‘ugly’ world they must decide what’s real and where they truly belong.

Writer/director Mike Cahill, along with frequent collaborator/muse Brit Marling, burst onto the scene back in 2011 with their critical darling debut Another Earth, which took on the ambitious task of slapping together intimate and textured human drama with big world ideas about parallel universes, they and pulled it off famously. Now Cahill is back with I, Origins, another endeavour trying to marry brainy sci-fi …

My bordering-on-obsession love for everything Brit Marling does is well documented (luckily, not yet in police case files). The actress/screenwriter first came to my and many a film fan’s attention with the amazing lo-fi science-fiction drama, Another Earth, in which she teamed up magnificently with director Mike Cahill. She’s since done work with other directors, notably Zal Batmanglij on The Sound …

By the power of Grayskull, can none lift the sword of power and helm a new He-Man movie? I’ve always held a soft spot for the legendary 1987 He-Man movie that saw Dolph Lundgren actually become a cartoon character thanks to his ridiculous amount of muscles, and a remake has been on the cards for years now. John “GI-Joe: Retaliation” …

I’ve been drinking and dispensing the Brit Marling kool-aid ever since I first saw and was subsequently blown away with the writer-actress’ work in low-fi sci-fi Sundance hit, Another Earth. But while Marling’s script and performance certainly was a huge component of what made that movie so good, you can’t deny the contribution of Mike Cahill’s touching direction. And his luscious hair. …