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Darkest moment: Robert Liensol is the unnamed protagonist in Soleil Ô
ABOUT SOME MEANINGLESS EVENTS

These are not our names. These are not our stories. These are not our gods.

Cinema struggles to tell stories that reflect a contemporary Africa and remains hamstrung by self-serving voices

  • Eli Osei
10 min read
DISTRICT 9

Move on, nothing to see here

Elysium is today’s gross global inequality realised. By 2154, humanity is divided into the privileged and the masses on whose backs this is built.

  • Joonji Mdyogolo 2
4 min read
Harrison Ford in Blade Runner(Supplied)
ELYSIUM

Back to the (same old) future

Tattooed baddies using lasers that resemble ?waterpistols? Why can’t sci-fi films take an honest stab at what the future might really look like?

  • Joe Queenan
9 min read
ELYSIUM

‘Planes’ dips below Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’

Matt Damon’s sci-fi thriller Elysium has won a tight box-office race among four new films at US and Canadian cinemas.

  • Reuters
2 min read
Cast member Sharlto Copley speaks
COMIC CON

Blomkamp’s Elysium has epic written all over it

Neill Blomkamp pitched up at Comic-Con in San Diego with some preview footage for his District 9 follow-up – Elysium – and it was awesome.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read