Companion

The bots are coming for us. Companion is the latest in a line of more or less scary looks into the near future, when even the most crucially human aspects of our existence will be outsourced to machines. Am I even writing this? After Robot & Frank, Ex Machina, The Trouble with Being Born and I’m Your Man – excellent all – writer/director Drew Hancock gives us another vastly entertaining and thought-provoking look at the subject, wrapped up in a “cabin in the woods” story about a guy called Josh (Jack Quaid) taking his new girl, Iris (Sophie Thatcher) to meet his friends at a remote weekend retreat. There, the bitchy and appropriately … Read more