A must-see

Last week we saw Inglourious Basterds and last night, District 9. It's interesting that they both opened to about the same box office, $38M versus $37.3M. But Basterds cost $70M, and the sf flick less than half as much, $30M.

I liked them both, but District 9 will stick with me longer. An actual adult science fiction movie that asks to be evaluated as a real movie, in spite of the presence of a huge space ship and a million plug-ugly aliens. Of course the real ugliness is in the way the human