The Creator movie review: meat versus metal
Looks great, but the plot falls apart if you poke it and makes no attempt to grapple with AI’s potential. Instead it renders its robot people as a racialized Other in a clunky metaphor for bigotry.
District 9
daily stream: TFW the ETs are just kinda annoying and in the way
2009’s District 9 is on Max in the US, Netflix in the UK…
Chappie movie review: robot icks
A morally muddled mess that is convoluted in plot and appallingly simplistic in its themes. I am a sad geek today.
Elysium review: third world rock from the sun
Neill Blomkamp cements his science-fiction credentials as a filmmaker with a genre vision the likes of which we haven’t seen since the socially conscious SF of the 1970s.
I talk to Neill Blomkamp (back in the District 9 days)
There’s a few bits that may have some bearing on Elysium…
looks like Neil Blomkamp made that Halo movie after all (Elysium trailer)
Love of Blomkamp flips around a movie image that’s almost religiously iconic…
question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?
Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!
question of the day: Where are all the benign alien first-contact stories?
Is this just too optimistic a scenario for our anxious, paranoid times? Or is something else going on?
question of the day: Is science fiction on the rise in Hollywood?
Do new remakes, reboots, sequels, and prequels indicate a suddenly love of SF in Hollywood?
watch it: “Armadyne: Taking Mankind Into The Future” (viral for Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’)
After District 9, I will follow Neill Blomkamp anywhere…
