Want to watch a movie about lower income black and brown kids that shows their humanity  while they fight aliens? Actress,  writer and award winning director Khanisha Foster offers a masterclass in storytelling as we dissect this 2011 London-based sci fi film. 

Released in 2011, Attack the Block is a sci fi thriller Described by director Joe Cornish as “La Haine” meets “Alien”. Attack the Block stars a young John Boyega as Moses, the 15 year old leader of teen gang of five South London inner-city teens whose mugging of a well-off woman (played by Jodie Whittacker) gets interrupted by, that’s right, an alien invasion. Moses and the gang must arm themselves and protect the block, or get eaten.

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Erscheinungs­datum: 1.12.2022, 00:06:47