Category: Directed by Neill Blomkamp

  • Chappie (2015, Neill Blomkamp)

    South Africa produces the most macadamia nuts in the world, as well as the most electricity. However, according to Chappie, those achievements come with quite a cost. Every single native white South African–again, according to Chappie, is an amoral, dimwitted thug. The only people in the country doing good are foreigners, like Dev Patel, who…

  • District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp)

    I’ve never seen a movie before where the vanity producer (Peter Jackson) came before the studio who put up the money for said vanity producer. Wait, this movie is supposed to be about apartheid? Director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp is from South Africa and adoring critics can’t stop making the comparison. It starts in 1982.…