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 […]
Maleficent (2014) does sort of a “Wicked” number on the story of Sleeping Beauty’s evil sorceress, casting her as the tragic figure of a dark fantasy (but not too dark for children—barely) of a revisionist fairy tale. Angelina Jolie plays the adult Maleficent, a fairy who watches over and defends the natural and supernatural wilds […]
Originally made for the PlayStation Network, Powers is an adaptation of the graphic novel series by Brian Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, a superhero series from the perspective of the human police responsible for taking on super-powered criminals. Sharlto Copley (of District 9 and The A-Team movie) plays Christian Walker, the top cop of the […]
The PlayStation Network is now in the original programming game and they launched their first series this week. Based on the comic book by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, “Powers” is a superhero series as seen through the eyes of the cops who police the super-powered beings, with Sharlto Copley as Detective Christian […]
