COREY JOHNSON

EX MACHINA (2015)

Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Corey Johnson, Claire Selby, Symara A. Templeman, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Tiffany Pisani and Elina Alminas. Directed by Alex Garland.

Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world’s largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

REVIEWS Ex Machina - Women of colour and the AI fantasy
Ex Machina - A new science fiction classic is born

HOW I LIVE NOW (2013)

Starring Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, Danny McEvoy, Anna Chancellor, Corey Johnson, Darren Morfitt, Sabrina Dickens and Stella Gonet. Directed by Kevin MacDonald.

Daisy, a teenager from New York City, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. she soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie, until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. along with eddie’s younger siblings, Isaac and Piper, they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is never far from Daisy’s mind but as her journey to find him becomes more desperate, the idea of what she may or may not find consumes her consciousness and haunts her soul.

REVIEWS How I Live Now - Love is a battlefield

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (2013)

Starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Chris Mulkey, Max Martini, Michael Chernus, Yul Vazquez, Corey Johnson, David Warshofsky and John Magaro. Directed by Paul Greengrass.

A retelling of the headline-grabbing events that occurred on the high seas in April 2009 when cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, married father of two, surrendered himself to a group of four Somali pirates in order to protect his crew off the coast of Africa. After an unsuccessful escape attempt, he was subsequently rescued when U.S. Navy SEAL snipers shot and killed three of the pirates.

REVIEWS Captain Phillips - Real-life tension on the high seas