Gran Turismo review – gamer turns racer in super-bland ode to product placement
Rather than embrace the video-game that inspired it, the film is a simulation of cinema featuring a reliably underwhelming cameo from Geri Halliwell Horner
August 2021
Demonic review – Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi horror is pure pulp
The director’s third film – in which a daughter enters the virtual mind of her serial killer mother – is so-so compared to his earlier efforts
July 2021
Week in geek
Will we ever get to see Neill Blomkamp’s mooted District 9 sequel based on ‘American history’?
Blomkamp’s dystopian satire left so many questions unanswered that it simply demands a follow-up – and recent US politics could be the perfect inspiration
May 2021
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
October 2018
Week in geek
Where will Hollywood's search for authenticity end?
Long-running franchises, in their attempts to bottle the essence of the original movie, are going back to source material and bringing back the old protagonists
October 2017
Sigourney Weaver and sci-fi shorts: inside Neill Blomkamp’s secret film studio
Instead of railing against the industry’s injustices, the District 9 director set up a self-sufficient movie lab that sidesteps Hollywood altogether
May 2017
Ridley Scott: Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is never going to happen
The Alien: Covenant director has confirmed that Blomkamp’s much-hyped sequel will not go ahead, saying ‘there was never a script’
July 2015
From Alien to ITV: Sigourney Weaver set for guest role on Doc Martin
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Still Alice; Chappie; Focus; The Boy Next Door; Return to Sender; Two Men in Town; Black Coal, Thin Ice; Hyena; I Don’t Want to Be a Man – review
March 2015
Film blog
Like Leviathan? You'll love The Leviathan!
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
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
February 2015
Elysium was not a good enough film, says director
I'll ignore Alien 3 and take the franchise back to familiar territory, says Neill Blomkamp
