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Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Mind-Bending Pleasures Of 'Annihilation'

The latest film from Alex Garland, who made Ex Machina, lines up an impressive cast of women to go exploring in a bizarre and dangerous place none of them can fully understand.
Natalie Portman plays Lena in Alex Garland's new film <em>Annihilation.</em>

-- the movie, not the experience — is creepy. Very creepy. There are elements of traditional horror in the latest film from Alex Garland (), which is based not

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