Thanks to next summer's Terminator: Genisys' refusal to stop depressing me—its most recent assaults on all that I hold dear include worrisome plot details, awkward photos of Doctor Who screaming while firing lasers out of a paintball gun, and (never forget) the fact it's apparently really going to be called Terminator: Genisys—I'm having to turn elsewhere to find promising new installments in the genre that is the apex of modern cinema: movies about robots.

And thus we come to Ex Machina, from Alex Garland, the writer of 28 Days Later and one of the guys behind 2012's surprisingly decent Judge Dredd movie. Ex Machina's got a brand-new trailer, and it looks good and creepy and like something I look forward to seeing. It's nice to be excited for things.