The Real District 9: Cape Town's District Six
Science fiction has always provided the best metaphors for isolation and anomie, and District 9--the two-week-old box-office hit from South African di...
Science fiction has always provided the best metaphors for isolation and anomie, and District 9--the two-week-old box-office hit from South African di...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
As everyone and their sister already knows, Inglourious Basterds scored a genuinely impressive $38 million over its debut weekend.
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.22.2009 | Entertainment
District 9 is one of those movies that comes to the screen out of the blue with no name actors and no real appeal except in this case it is produced by Peter Jackson.
Brad Balfour | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment
"I felt like half of my mind wanted to make some serious film about these topics and the other half wanted to make a bloody genre film, "said Blomkamp. "And then I thought maybe I'll be able to do both."
Will Menaker | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment
Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience may have been the smartest movie I've seen this year, but Neill Blomkamp's District 9 is definitely the most fun.
Warren Holstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy
An indignant Palin immediately released a series of searing Facebook status updates denouncing the impending alien immigrant infestation as "icky" and "un-American,"
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
My ReThink Review of Neill Blomkamp's excellent film, District 9, and why its creativity and social/political commentary make it a modern classic.
AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The first-time director and cast of unknowns of the acclaimed sci-fi thriller "District 9" have given Hollywood a late-summer box-...
Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment
What we're seeing with movies such as these is not the literal manifestation of remakes, but a sort of cinematic cannibalism, rather than invention.
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
The "wow" factor in Neill Blomkamp's District 9 is huge -- so much so that it would be easy to overlook what a soulful, tragically heroic story it is.
newsweek.com | Posted 10.17.2009 | World