Listen to sophomore Penny Dominguez Walton’s podcast featuring Biology teacher, Anton Brammer, as they discuss the film, Annihilation, released in 2018, a science fiction horror thriller helmed by Alex Garland, adapted from Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel of the same title. Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac headline the cast. The narrative tracks a team of scientists venturing into ‘The Shimmer,’ an enigmatic restricted area where flora and fauna undergo unsettling mutations due to an extraterrestrial influence. Do we have something to fear about genetic mutation?
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Podcast: Biology in Film (featuring Anton Brammer)
A Look Into the Science of the Science Fiction Horror Thriller Film, Annihilation (2018)
May 16, 2024
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Penelope Dominguez Walton, Assistant Editor
Penelope Dominguez Walton is a Junior at Bishop O'Dowd, and an aspiring filmmaker. Her interests are film and psychology, and would hope to be a psych major and film minor once she's off to college. She loves to incorporate film into any topic, and uses it as a way to connect with the people around her.