The aliens arrived almost thirty years ago, their crippled spacecraft hovering to a halt over Johannesburg, where it remains floating over the city. That defining image hovers over the entirety of District 9 (2009), a savagely whipsmart satire of first contact with an alien species that has been reduced to repressed immigrant population stranded in […]
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Watch This! Clive Owen’s The Driver is back for ‘The Escape’
Back in the early 2000s, in the days before YouTube made viral video commonplace, BMW sponsored a series of short promotional films disguised as mini action movies. That made them so much fun was that the directors who participated—John Frankenheimer, Tony Scott, Guy Ritchie, Joe Carnahan, Wong Kar-wai, and (at the time) future Oscar winners […]