The Occupy movement has made it exceedingly easy to frame almost any movie about class warfare in terms of both the 99 and the 1 percent. “Elysium,” the new movie from director Neill Blomkamp, makes ...
The film is visually amazing. The majority of it takes place in a raw, dark-looking, ruined environment. When we witness the futuristic elements of this world, including the robots, the set design, ...
Mulling over this new film opening up today, I thought of an inversion of the ole’ “Lone Ranger” TV/ radio intro…” Return with us now to those depressing days of future-year”. For the third time (I’m ...
Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Four years ago, first-time director Neill Blomkamp put a spin on a basic sci-fi conceit and turned it into a parable about apartheid in his native South ...
It's been a tough summer at the movies .Which is why we were holding out so much hope for Neill Blomkamp's Elysium. In vain, unfortunately. Yes, there are some good things to be said about Elysium.
Welcome to the Elysium Citizenship Initiative. Although this viral website first launched at Comic-Con last year, Sony Pictures has relaunched the "Its Better Up Here" ARG website for Neill Blomkamp's ...
is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Elysium takes place 140 years in the ...
Sony is revising its summer 2013 calendar: The studio has pulled its “RoboCop” reboot from the Aug. 9 slot and put in Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9” sci-fi follow-up “Elysium.” “RoboCop,” from ...
Elysium is the new movie from District 9 director Neil Blomkamp. It's the year 2154 and overpopulation has effectively ruined living conditions on planet Earth. The 1% have moved to a space station in ...
Matt Damon thriller wins close weekend %27We%27re the Millers%27 a strong No. 2 %27Planes%27 takes third place Planes, demigods and a weed-toting RV crowded the ...