Director Neill Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi work, “Chappie,” explores a futuristic world patrolled by a robotic police force. Blomkamp’s creative yet realistic cinematography and original storylines in ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is one of the major casualties of “Chappie,” a robot-themed action movie that winds up feeling as clunky and confused as the childlike droid with which it shares ...

NEW YORK - What happens when artificial intelligence thinks for itself? That's the basis of Chappie, a film set in the near future in Johannesburg South Africa, where robotic police droids are keeping ...

Director Neill Blomkamp has a formula: a protagonist burdened with a life-threatening condition subversively defies a pursuing authority against a gritty, near-future urban backdrop. Heavy-handed ...

Science fiction has always been a good conduit for telling stories with a message.View trailerIf you look back at the genre over the decades, on either the page or screen, social issues of the day ...

After a promising start with District 9, it has been straight downhill for writer-director Neill Blomkamp. That 2009 film won four Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. But his follow-up, ...

Chappie is the new film from director Neil Blomkamp about a robot that becomes humanity's last hope. It echoes everything from Dr. Frankenstein's creation to the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. The ...

Neill Blomkamp is full of good ideas. He’s a visionary. With three features now under his belt the South African filmmaker has quickly become one of the most recognized names working in the sci-fi ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...