'Hummingbird Salamander' is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces
‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces By Paul Di FilippoSpecial To The Washington Post Share The easiest thing for Jeff VanderMeer to do after the success of his Southern Reach trilogy (which includes the novel “Annihilation,” adapted for the screen by Alex Garland) would have been to continue in that same vein: spooky, Lynchian, Tarkovskian, “X-Files” adventures in contemporary wilderness settings. Instead, he wrote “Borne,” a futuristic post-collapse urban disaster tale, followed by “The Strange Bird,” “Dead Astronauts” and...
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