If 2009 wasn’t already looking like a damn good year for sci-fi (and it sure as shit is), Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 would almost certainly give it the edge it needed. While this film is the first feature with Blomkamp in the director’s seat, you may have heard his name start to pop up about four years back when he released the 6-minute sci-fi orgasm that is Alive in Joburg. Needless to say, it wasn’t too surprising when the 29 year old film-maker landed in the lap of the beautifully bearded Peter Jackson, who has been tasked with producer duties on this quickly approaching epic.
Sam Rockwell is venturing into outer space once again, this time playing a lunar miner in the upcoming Duncan Jones project titled, aptly enough, Moon. The praise poured in for Jones’ film after its run at The Sundance Festival just a few months back, and it has since become a hot topic for the handful of sci-fi geeks who remain capable of thinking about anything other than the upcoming Star Trek reboot.
Life is full of tragedies, and I just stumbled upon another one today. Somehow, despite having a longtime affection for (and being fairly obsessive about) certain elements of Scandinavian media (not to mention having a direct line of contact to that part of the globe, thanks to my roommate and Automaton cohort Lars), I have remained completely unaware of the glory that is Kenny motherfucking Starfighter.
Can the producers of the Resident Evil films create a “terrifying sci-fi thriller” that’s any good? Hell, can the producers of the Resident Evil films create anything that’s any good? Well, all presumptions aside, the trailer for their next release, Pandorum, actually looks damn decent. I wouldn’t exactly bet my life on it not being this year’s Babylon AD, but casting Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster as the leads gives them a hell of a leg up (this, and The Horsemen, makes two interesting Quaid films this year).
Damn, I miss the eighties. Back then, you could get almost any terrible idea made into a motion picture, mostly because the majority of Hollywood was doing far too much blow to even notice. They tell us drugs are bad, but I say they gave the world The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Howard The Duck, so how bad can they really be? Exactly.
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