Skip to content
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
New:
  • The Screenwriting Sensei by Paul Chitlik (book review).
  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – more rage, more cults (trailer).
  • Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews With Legends of Science Fiction edited by Richard Wolinsky (book review)
  • Unknown Destinies volume 1, edited by Fiction4All (ebook review).
  • The Great West Wood by Philip Palmer (book review).
SFcrowsnest

  • Awards
  • Books
  • Cons
  • Comics
  • Films
  • Games
  • Illustration
  • Kit
  • Magazines
  • Music/Audio
  • Toys/Models
  • TV
You are here:Home » Chappie
Scifi

Chappie: Neill Blomkamp’s swansong, or a stepping stone to future marvels? (retrospective)

District 9, Neill Blomkamp’s first feature picture, launched him into the spotlight in 2009. Audiences praised the movie’s freshness and

Read More
FilmsScifi

Chappie (2015) DVD (film review).

A combination of ‘Robocop’ and ‘Frankenstein’, with a little ‘Star Wars’ chucked in, ‘Chappie’ is the latest offering from director

Read More
FilmsScifi

Chappie is a cheeky droid (behind the scenes on Chappie).

Here’s an exclusive clip given to SFcrowsnest to celebrate the fact the scifi robot movie Chappie is hitting the Blu-ray

Read More
FilmsScifi

Chappie . . . Five’s alive!

Another movie entry into the A.I.s becoming sentient – and possibly human – subgenre. This film is from the brains

Read More

Get our free newsletter

Recent stories

  • The Screenwriting Sensei by Paul Chitlik (book review).
  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – more rage, more cults (trailer).
  • Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews With Legends of Science Fiction edited by Richard Wolinsky (book review)
  • Unknown Destinies volume 1, edited by Fiction4All (ebook review).
  • The Great West Wood by Philip Palmer (book review).
  • Editorial – September 2025: The World Is Run By Templates.
  • SF: A Point Of Initials, an article by GF Willmetts.
  • My Pride And Joy: a short story by GF Willmetts.
  • After Doomsday by Poul Anderson (book review).
  • Real Tigers (Slough House book 3) by Mick Herron (book review).
  • DC Comics: A Celebration Of The World’s Favourite Comic Book Heroes by Les Daniels (book review).
  • Wild Cards: Ante Up: a graphic novel by Kevin Andrew Murphy and John Jos. Miller with art by Jon Sanchez (graphic novel review)
  • UFO/UAP news roundup (28th August 2025).
  • Outer Lands (Comixology Originals) by Matthew Arnold and David Gianfelice (e-graphic novel review).
  • Alter Ego #193 June 2025 (magazine review).
  • Why Call Them Back From Heaven? by Clifford Simak (book review).
  • Chasing The Sun by Linda Geddes (book review).
  • Retro Fan #37 March 2025 (magazine review).
  • Illustrators #48 (magazine review).
  • Fallout TV series season 2: Viva Las Nuclear Vegas (trailer).
  • Incredible Science Fiction: The EC Archives volume 2 (graphic novel review).
  • Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe (book review).
  • 21st Century Foss by Chris Foss (book review).
  • Dead Lions (Slough House thrillers book 2) by Mick Herron (book review).
  • K-Pop Demon Hunters: Mark Kermode’s film review (video).
  • Doctor Who series six: the one where Hitler ends up in a cupboard (retrospective).
  • Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver (book review).
  • Alter Ego #192 March 2025 (magazine review).
  • The Avengers In The Veracity Trap! by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho (graphic novel review).
  • Drive Or Be Driven: Stories Of Travel (Polestars 6) by Aliya Whiteley (book review).
  • Torchwood: Children Of Earth (blu-ray TV series review).
  • Marshall Rogers: Brightest Days And Darkest Knights by Jeff Messer and Dewey Cassell (book review).
  • Weapons: Mark Kermode’s horror movie review (video).
  • Comic Book Creator #37 Winter 2025 (magazine review).
  • The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3 (trailer).
  • Ark II: classic scifi TV series retrospective (video).
  • Invasion season 3: Tentacles and teamwork (trailer).
  • Time Tunnel revisted: classic TV retrospective (video).
  • The Society Of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown (book review).
  • Dark Wraith Of Shannara by Terry Brooks (book review).

Browse by…

  • Anime/manga
  • Awards
  • Books
  • Comics
  • Computers
  • Cons
  • Cri-Fi
  • Culture
  • Doctor Who
  • FAN-ATICS
  • Fantasy
  • Featured
  • Films
  • Games
  • GENRE
  • Horror
  • Humour
  • Illustration
  • J-life
  • Kit
  • Magazines
  • MEDIA
  • Movie books
  • Music/Audio
  • Offworld Report
  • Science
  • Scifi
  • Short fiction
  • Short movie
  • Spy-Fy
  • Star Trek
  • Star Wars
  • Steampunk
  • Superheroes
  • Toys/Models
  • TV
  • World getting weirder

Indexes

Book Index
Film Index
TV Index
  • About SFcrowsnest magazine
  • Contribute to SFcrowsnest
  • Contact the SFcrowsnest team
  • Privacy Policy
Copyright SFcrowsnest © 1991 - 2025 SFcrowsnest. All rights reserved.