Critics, fanboys, and audiences alike have been very fickle about Neill Blomkamp – adoring his out-of-nowhere debut District 9, predictably dismissing his Hollywood follow-up (Elysium), and now writing off Chappie, a return to the gritty Johannesburg of District 9, as derivative. In truth, Chappie is not a bad film at all, and the problems that many are having with it are,… read more!

A thoroughly unique science fiction/action picture that purports that sometime in the 1980s – perhaps not coincidentally during the final days of Apartheid – a gigantic alien mothership appeared in the skies above Johannesburg, South Africa, and hasn't budged since. Investigators discovered over a million starving alien drones on board, then promptly evacuated them to filthy shanty towns on the… read more!