Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 8 renewal

Reports from Hollywood suggest Curb Your Enthusiasm will be renewed for an 8th season.

US network HBO have officially announced that Curb Your Enthusiasm will be back for an 8th Season following unsuccessful soul searching by Larry David, the shows creator. The shows fate has depended entirely on Larry David, who often takes his time contemplating whether he wants to continue making the comedy or not after more than ten years playing himself.

During a Q&A session recently at the Paley Festival, Larry David disclosed that he was contemplating making another season after the success of the last 7 seasons. It has come to a surprise to many fans of the hit show following the end of season 7 which appeared to be the series finale. There have also been rumours that Ricky Gervais will make a guest appearance in season 8 following a meeting with the shows creator Larry David earlier this year. It should be interesting to see the two comic actors on set together.

There has yet to be release date announced by HBO, but the latest series is expected to be released at some point in 2011. I am excited to see what they come up with season 8 and will keep you updated with any further news.

The 'Prawn' Mothership in District 9

District 9  movie review of great Sci-Fi epic though using mock-documentary style

The science fiction thriller based in South Africa in 1982 is based on a short film ‘Alive in Joburg’, Directed by Neil Blomkamp and produced by Sharlto Copley. The film touches on a number of themes close to South Africa including apartheid and social segregation with regard to the Aliens who are stranded in South Africa.

District 9 successfully places a new spin on ‘Alien’ genre films. We’ve had ‘Men in Black’, ‘Independence Day’, ‘Alien’ and ‘Independence Day’, but for me these films always lacked a certain element of authenticity and were always too over Hollywoodised. The mock-documentary style really helps give the film an edgier touch which helps it seem all the more realistic.

Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp manages to create a new spin by adapting to the current trend of using a faux-documentary style to re-tell the build up to the main event. This is primarily explored by using interviews with people close to the protagonist Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) and documentray footage pieced together in the build to the relocation of the aliens. Sharlto Copley has hinted his desire to make a second film, however, in terms of exploring a potential prequel to the original film. Lets keep our fingers crossed.