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Matt Damon or Tom Cruise? In our inevitable post-apocalyptic space opera future, who do you want on your side? If you're Neil Blomkamp, creator of sharp and knowing apartheid satire District 9, it's an easy choice: you're going to pick defender-of-the-people Damon. You will define him as a working stiff by shaving his head even though bald is, distractingly, the poor fellow's least-best look. With plentiful explosions, robot machine gunners, off-world dwellings for those not restricted to Mad Max adventure wear, and a middle-aged lady authority figure, Elysium appears to be Oblivion but with a better vocabulary.
Sarah, Duchess of York (formerly HRH Duchess of York, keep up), once delayed her financial troubles by producing a series of children's books centred on Budgie, a little helicopter who was based on neither AW Baldwin's Hector the Helicopter nor the Reverend Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine.
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