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.