Out with the old, in with the new! Hulu is ushering in the new month with plenty to add to your to-watch list but not before it says farewell to dozens of its current movies and shows available for streaming. Its first loss will come on the first of the month with the critically acclaimed “Lucky,” starring the late Harry Dean Stanton, but the streamer will remove titles all month long, from the “Pusher” trilogy to “Magic Mike.”
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Accomplished character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars in the drama, one of his final on-screen roles before his death at the age of 91, as, fittingly, a 90-year-old on...
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Accomplished character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars in the drama, one of his final on-screen roles before his death at the age of 91, as, fittingly, a 90-year-old on...
- 2/1/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" put the fledgling South African director on the mainstream map in 2009. With a $30 million budget and "The Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson in his corner as a producer, Blomkamp expanded his fascinating social sci-fi short film "Alive in Joburg" into a feature-length discussion about racial divisions and the violence inherent in anti-immigration sentiments.
Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) learns in the hardest way possible what South Africa's alien newcomers, derisively called "prawns," have been going through at the hands of men like him. With stunning effects and CGI characters, the film ends on a tailor-made hook for a follow-up. His ally, the alien Christopher Johnson (Jason Cope), promises to return with a cure for Wikus in three years, although it's unclear if he'll also return with an angry force at his back. Meanwhile, a fully transformed Wikus languishes at the new District 10 camp,...
Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) learns in the hardest way possible what South Africa's alien newcomers, derisively called "prawns," have been going through at the hands of men like him. With stunning effects and CGI characters, the film ends on a tailor-made hook for a follow-up. His ally, the alien Christopher Johnson (Jason Cope), promises to return with a cure for Wikus in three years, although it's unclear if he'll also return with an angry force at his back. Meanwhile, a fully transformed Wikus languishes at the new District 10 camp,...
- 8/13/2023
- by Margaret David
- Slash Film
Synopsis
From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director, Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that “soars on the imagination of its creators”. With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed… only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.
Bonus Material
4K Ultra HD Bonus Materials:
Comic-Con Extravaganza Featurette Original Theatrical Trailers
Blu-ray Bonus Materials:
Hours of Archival Special Features Including: Deleted Scenes Director’s Commentary The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker’s Log – Three-Part Documentary Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus Innovation: Acting and Improvisation Conception and Design: Creating...
From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director, Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that “soars on the imagination of its creators”. With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed… only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.
Bonus Material
4K Ultra HD Bonus Materials:
Comic-Con Extravaganza Featurette Original Theatrical Trailers
Blu-ray Bonus Materials:
Hours of Archival Special Features Including: Deleted Scenes Director’s Commentary The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker’s Log – Three-Part Documentary Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus Innovation: Acting and Improvisation Conception and Design: Creating...
- 7/10/2020
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Chicago – The Blu-Ray release of “District 9” is one of the best of 2009, a perfectly transferred film with a great selection of special features that enhance the viewer experience of the film itself. “District 9” is one of the most beloved films of last year and Sony deserves credit for treating its diehard fans as well as any studio in the last twelve months with only one major flaw in an otherwise perfect package.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
So many films are released that feel like a product of a corporate machine designed to take your hard-earned cash. I think the reason so many people have taken so wildly to Neill Blomkamp’s revelatory debut (Cfca winner for Most Promising Newcomer) is that it is such an original, daring, and inventive piece of filmmaking.
District 9 was released on Blu-Ray and DVD on December 22nd, 2009.
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Home Video
There...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
So many films are released that feel like a product of a corporate machine designed to take your hard-earned cash. I think the reason so many people have taken so wildly to Neill Blomkamp’s revelatory debut (Cfca winner for Most Promising Newcomer) is that it is such an original, daring, and inventive piece of filmmaking.
District 9 was released on Blu-Ray and DVD on December 22nd, 2009.
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Home Video
There...
- 1/3/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Who went into this film with high expectations? Honestly, if you haven't seen this film, your expectations are just not enough. In fact, for a science-fiction film, District 9 will simply exceed your expectations. This means that Neill Bloomkamp's gem - which was shot with a budget of $30 million - gives credibility to the genre of science-fiction the same way 28 Days Later does it to zombie films.
In the 1980s, a spaceship arrives above Johannesburg, South Africa. The South African authorities soon discover that the ship was transporting malnourished and sick aliens who are called as "prawns" (a reference to the sea creature they look like). Because of that the situation, the government segregates the aliens by putting them into a slum known as District 9. Two decades later, people are fed up with the coexistence between humans and aliens. Therefore, they demand actions from the South African government.
This...
In the 1980s, a spaceship arrives above Johannesburg, South Africa. The South African authorities soon discover that the ship was transporting malnourished and sick aliens who are called as "prawns" (a reference to the sea creature they look like). Because of that the situation, the government segregates the aliens by putting them into a slum known as District 9. Two decades later, people are fed up with the coexistence between humans and aliens. Therefore, they demand actions from the South African government.
This...
- 8/25/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
District 9 Directed by: Neill Blomkamp Written by: Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell Starring: Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood, Johan van Schoor, Nathalie Boltt First contact. Who thought it would be this messy? War is hell. And now Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9, vividly demonstrates that apartheid is also hell. In a blistering, hard-edged blend of science fiction storyline, corporate morals inspired by the Third Reich, and adrenaline spiked action, District 9 does for science fiction what Saving Private Ryan did for war movies. Let me quickly add there is no preaching. Blomkamp doesn’t show and tell. He shows and shows and shows again in a no-respite avalanche of agonized faces, seriously wrecked bodies, and searing emotions. Along the way, the movie also delivers the first serious CGI candidate for an Academy Award. Not for effects. For best actor in a supporting role. District 9 aliens (prawns to...
- 8/17/2009
- by Curt
- FilmJunk
District 9 2009, South Africa/New Zealand Directed by Neill Blomkamp Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Thatchell Starring Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood, William Allen Young, Andre Odendaal 112 minutes Generally speaking, I don’t like to be lectured. It brings back painful memories of my childhood, when my father would continually admonish me for being untidy, killing the family pets, and digging up my dead sister for Saturday night ‘dates.’ I especially dislike preaching about race relations, because ever since flipping past The O’Reilly Factor while channel surfing, I’ve become convinced that only communist agitators and terrorists complain about racism. But I’ll make a special exception for director Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, because it mixes its didactic moralizing with giant bugs and the mechanized body armour from Robot Jox. The film, Blomkamp’s first feature, is an obvious but nevertheless effective metaphor for South Africa’s apartheid past,...
- 8/15/2009
- by Al Kratina
- SoundOnSight
District 9
Starring Sharlto Copley, Louis Minnaar, and Vanessa Haywood
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Rated R
Around the time the narrative thrust of District 9 loses a bit of steam and you begin to put the pieces in place for how things might end, something else takes over. There is a great discussion to be had about the morality of the characters and the story, a discussion that director Neill Blomkamp leaves fairly open. That isn't to say there aren't conclusions or consequences, but more than in most contemporary science fiction movies, the events of District 9 aren't an escape but rather a parable for something we're confronted with everyday, whether we know it or not.
Despite appearances, Blomkamp's film is not just about aliens versus humans. In fact, it's almost never about that dynamic specifically, but rather it's about human nature at its best and worst.
You see, District 9...
Starring Sharlto Copley, Louis Minnaar, and Vanessa Haywood
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Rated R
Around the time the narrative thrust of District 9 loses a bit of steam and you begin to put the pieces in place for how things might end, something else takes over. There is a great discussion to be had about the morality of the characters and the story, a discussion that director Neill Blomkamp leaves fairly open. That isn't to say there aren't conclusions or consequences, but more than in most contemporary science fiction movies, the events of District 9 aren't an escape but rather a parable for something we're confronted with everyday, whether we know it or not.
Despite appearances, Blomkamp's film is not just about aliens versus humans. In fact, it's almost never about that dynamic specifically, but rather it's about human nature at its best and worst.
You see, District 9...
- 8/14/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
A new behind the scenes featurette for District 9, the Neill Blomkamp-directed, Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi flick, has been released online. It opens August 14 and stars Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood and William Allen Young. In the film, which is based on Blomkamp’s 2005 short Alive in Joburg, an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. Blomkamp penned the screenplay with Terri Tatchell.
- 7/29/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
The only thing we’ve seen of the Peter Jackson-produced “District 9″ so far has been trying to sell us the viral side of the movie. It’s all very clever and cute, but it’s about time we saw some real plot from this movie, and this latest trailer does just that. I just hope that when all is said and done, this isn’t another movie about Government conspiracies and cover-ups, with the aliens ended up being exploited by the big bad humans and are just fighting back, etc. Man, that would be so predictable… An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. Starring Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Mandla Gaduka, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi, Louis Minnaar, William Allen Young, and Hlengiwe Madlala. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Stay...
- 7/8/2009
- by Nix
- SciFiCool.com
A new full trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s scif-fi flick District 9, which will be playing this weekend in front of Bruno, has hit the web. The film was produced by Peter Jackson and is based on Blomkamp’s short film Alive in Joburg. It opens August 14 and stars Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood and William Allen Young. Official Synopsis: Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (Mnu), a private company uninterested in the...
- 7/8/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Yahoo Movies has debuted the latest poster for the sci-fi flick District 9 and you can check it out below. Set to hit theaters in August, the film centers on an extraterrestrial race who, after arriving on Earth, are forced to live in slum-like conditions. They suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. Neill Blomkamp directed the film and Peter Jackson produced. It stars Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Mandla Gaduka, Vanessa Haywood and William Allen Young.
- 7/7/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
See another poster added to the buffet from Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" sci-fi flick backed by Peter Jackson. District 9 depicts a fictional world where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa. Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi and Devlin Brown. Blomkamp writes alongside Terri Tatchell. Jackson's Wingnut Films produces.
- 7/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Three new images from Neill Blomkamp’s South African sci-fi drama “District 9″, which is quite the intriguing movie. As to the execution, well, that remains to be seen. But from everything I’ve seen of it, it sure looks like it has the potential to be good, or at the very least, something very different in sci-fi fiction. Being that it’s been a while since we’ve gotten something different, I think we should definitely give the film a shot. An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. Starring Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Mandla Gaduka, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi, Louis Minnaar, William Allen Young, and Hlengiwe Madlala. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. The aliens walk among us August 14.
- 5/20/2009
- by Nix
- SciFiCool.com
"District 9," a film from director and writer Neill Blomkamp with Peter Jackson as executive producer is moving towards an August 14, 2009 release date. The large cast, which can be seen below, have finished filming and now the project is in post-production with the first trailer and movie poster available. Based on the short film "Alive in Joburg," this film from Key Creatives, alludes to racism through the use of a stranded alien space force. Along with a clever promotional campaign the film offers one of the more creative theatrical trailers in some time. Have a look at the full cast information, trailer, and the complete "Alive in Joburg," short film inside.
A synopsis for "District 9," here...
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology (Internet).
Release Date: August 14, 2009.
Director: Neil Blomkamp.
A synopsis for "District 9," here...
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology (Internet).
Release Date: August 14, 2009.
Director: Neil Blomkamp.
- 5/18/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The first poster for Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 has arrived online, courtesy of Yahoo Movies. The docu-style flick about an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth, who suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology, was produced by Peter Jackson and opens in August. It stars Sharlto Copley, William Allen Young, Robert Hobbs, Vanessa Haywood and Jason Cope. You can check out the trailer here and a slightly alternate version here, which features subtitles and non-blurring of the alien’s face.
- 5/8/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
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