Ben and Rob summon ‘Men’ (2022), written and directed by visionary director Alex Garland. This surreal, unsettling folk horror stars Jessie Buckley as a grieving woman plagued by a series of near-identical men—all played by Rory Kinnear—in a remote English village. As Alex Garland leaves behind the structured sci-fi of Ex Machina and Annihilation, ‘Men’ marks a bold turn into dream logic, emotional horror, and symbolic storytelling.

But what is Men really saying? What do the Green Man and Christ imagery mean in the context of British folk horror? Why do all the men have the same face—and why does the film’s final monster feel more tragic than terrifying? And most importantly: what kind of twisted genius makes this movie?

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Ben and Rob take the test this week with The Assessment (2024), a stark, unsettling sci-fi drama that might just be the strongest directorial debut we’ve seen in years. With Elizabeth Olsen delivering what could be one of the best performances of the year, The Assessment throws us into a chilling future where personal worth is measured, judged, and quantified by the state—and failing the test means more than just bad news.

The lads ask: is The Assessment a late-stage capitalism nightmare, a meditation on motherhood, or just the most anxiety-inducing job interview ever put on film? They also dig into the real-life parallels that first-time director Fleur Fortune was navigating during production, and of course—what the hell does that blue pole mean?

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Ben and Rob welcome Annihilation, Alex Garland’s 2018 cosmic horror that proved too complex for the box office despite critical adoration. Starring Natalie Portman as a biologist on a grief-fuelled mission into a zone where DNA scrambles and metaphors get literal, Annihilation is part horror, part elegy, and part existential crisis. Alex Garland’s adaptation of the novel is somehow even bleaker than the source novel, perhaps contributing to it often being considered a poor follow up to Ex Machina.

But what’s so interesting about Annihilation’s five act structure? What’s this about Alex Garland being a True Gamer? Is Annihilation a misunderstood masterpiece or a cosmic screensaver with a bear jump scare? And what does this all have to do with our upcoming live show!?

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