Cinema struggles to tell stories that reflect a contemporary Africa and remains hamstrung by self-serving voices

Elysium is today’s gross global inequality realised. By 2154, humanity is divided into the privileged and the masses on whose backs this is built.

Tattooed baddies using lasers that resemble ?waterpistols? Why can’t sci-fi films take an honest stab at what the future might really look like?

Matt Damon’s sci-fi thriller Elysium has won a tight box-office race among four new films at US and Canadian cinemas.

Neill Blomkamp pitched up at Comic-Con in San Diego with some preview footage for his District 9 follow-up – Elysium – and it was awesome.