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Chappie

August 2021

  • Neill Blomkamp: ‘I’m not gonna work on a film for two years and have the rug pulled out from underneath me and then go hang out and have beers.’

    Neill Blomkamp: ‘It’s possible Ridley Scott watched Chappie and was like: this guy can’t do Alien’

    The Oscar-nominated writer-director of District 9 talks why his Alien film fell apart and why he went back to basics for his new movie

May 2021

  • Chappie film still

    Hear me out
    Hear me out: why Chappie isn’t a bad movie

    The latest in our series of writers sticking up for maligned films is a defence of Neill Blomkamp’s unusual robot adventure

March 2015

  • Yolandi Visser in Chappie

    From Insurgent to Blade Runner: why is the future on film always so grim?

  • 'Inherent Vice' Film - 2014

    Film blog
    We have ways of making you talk: how films survive the dubbing process

  • That other silver fox, Richard Gere, with Lillete Dubey in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

    Box office analysis: UK
    Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel outruns Liam Neeson at UK box office

  • From rags to riches ...

    Cinderella is belle of US box office while Liam Neeson falls short

  • Stylewatch
    Die Antwoord rapper Yolandi: redefining pink

  • Box office analysis: global
    Forlorn Chappie looks to Asia to salvage box-office short circuit

  • Box office analysis: UK
    Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel books another week atop UK box office

  • US box office: Chappie comes alive as Unfinished Business falls short

  • Chappie review – near-future fantasy falls between two stools

  • The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show: Chappie, Appropriate Behaviour, Hyena and Still Alice - video reviews

  • The Guardian Film Show
    The Guardian Film Show: Chappie, Appropriate Behaviour, Hyena and Still Alice - audio

  • Chappie - video review

  • Chappie: five surprises in Neill Blomkamp’s AI movie

  • Chappie review – robot boy grows up to become angry robot teen

  • Box office analysis: global
    Will Smith losing freshness fast as Focus dissipates at global box office

  • Film talk
    Neill Blomkamp on Chappie: 'The planet is a place of inhumane action' - video interview

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