District 9 (2009)

Recommended
USA/New Zealand
Feature Film
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Cinematographer: Trent Opaloch
Composer: Clinton Shorter
Cast: Sharlto Copley, David James, Louis Minnaar, Vanessa Haywood, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Kenneth Nkosi, Mandla Gaduka, Jason Cope

After being exposed to an alien fuel source whilst issuing eviction notices to the residents of District 9 (a slum housing 1.8 million stranded extra-terrestrials), a newly promoted MNU agent becomes genetically modified, slowly turning into a “prawn”, and finds his friends becoming his enemies, and his enemies becoming his friends, as he races in search of a cure, in Blomkamp’s fun, imaginative, and (relatively) intelligent sci-fi thriller. Iain.Stott