Chappie / District 9 / Elysium

District 9 (2009)

Twenty years after their ship arrives in the skies above Johannesburg, South Africa, an alien race--nicknamed "Prawns" due to their shrimp-like appearance--lives separated from humans in a slum called District 9. When an agent from a shadowy corporation tasked with moving the creatures to a new internment camp is infected with an otherworldly liquid, he attempts to stop himself from being transformed into a Prawn. Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt star. 112 min. C/Rtg: R

Elysium (2013)

A century from now, the most privileged of Earth's populace will have abandoned the planet for the luxurious orbiting colony of Elysium, leaving a globe ravaged by environmental and economic collapse to the rest of us. A radiation-stricken factory grunt (Matt Damon) gets promised a cure by revolutionaries for his participation in a corporate kidnapping, but the evidence of corruption he uncovers makes him a target of Elysium's power-hungry defense secretary (Jodie Foster). Alice Braga, Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner co-star. 109 min. C/Rtg: R

Chappie (2015)

In a near-future South Africa, human cops are being replaced with heavily armed robotic replacements. When the engineer (Dev Patel) who designed the constructs is kidnapped by thugs, he takes the chance of installing his untested AI programming in a broken model--and his child-like creation becomes hunted by the authorities and a ruthless corporate rival (Hugh Jackman). Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi opus co-stars Sigourney Weaver and a motion-captured Sharlto Copley as "Chappie." 120 min. C/Rtg: R

Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.