The following contains spoilers for District 9. It’s often said that science fiction offers up a mirror to our own society – reflecting our latent fears back at us, and allowing us to confront the ...
Sci-fi body horror is a familiar cinematic recipe, but the Oscar-nominated District 9 put a fresh spin on it when it hit theaters on August 14, 2009. Sandwiched between a slick Star Trek reboot in May ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
London - Saracens have agreed to a request by the Lions to release captain Wikus van Heerden from his contract with immediate effect. Van Heerden, who played and captained the Johannesburg-based team ...
District 9's unlikely hero is Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley), an awkward bureaucrat who is spearheading the relocation of a settlement of immigrant insectoid aliens (called "Prawns") to a new ...
A thinly veiled yet highly effective re-telling of the Apartheid era of South Africa, District 9 imagines a world where aliens have landed on Earth and are treated like second-class citizens by the ...
Wikus Jacobs will be jetting off to Ireland with the Vision Sport under 19 team on a rugby tour. Wikus Jacobs (18) will be joining the Vision Sport Under 19 Rugby Team on a rugby tour to Ireland soon.
'District 9' heralds first-time feature director Neill Blomkamp as a nimble talent to watch. Shot and set in Blomkamp’s native South Africa, “District 9” imagines a present-day scenario in which ...
No true fan of science fiction — or, for that matter, cinema — can help but thrill to the action, high stakes and suspense built around a very original chase movie. By Kirk Honeycutt Combining the ...