An idea came to director Alex Garland on the set of his thought-provoking action extravaganza “Civil War.” Soon, the idea consumed him. He was watching military advisor Ray Mendoza during a ...

For Garland, it was also about deprogramming himself from how war movies have taught audiences to understand the nature of violence. “One of the things that Ray and I and everybody who worked on ...

There’s a disembodied, bloody leg on a road that’s seen throughout much of the movie “Warfare ... tightly packed narrative with Ray Mendoza, his “Civil War” military adviser, based ...