Wednesday, August 19, 2009

District 9

District 9 is a wildly ambitious sci-fi movie with a virtuoso performance by Sharlto Copley as an inept South African bureaucrat who is given the task of relocating about 2 million alien (as in space) refugees from a squalid containment camp to another.... After being exposed to some alien DNA, Copley becomes a whole other character and heads roll (literally). It's fierce and bloody and fun.

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Running on Empty (1988)

  All of this noisome blather about communists in America inspired me to pull out Sidney Lumet's 1988 family drama Running on Empty, whi...