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The first poster and trailer for The Great Wall (opens in new tab) debuted online last week, and controversy swiftly followed. Many took issue with the fact that both marketing materials placed a heavy focus on Matt Damon, whose white American looks to be the hero of a film set …

When Total Film saw Neill Blomkamp’s dystopian mindfuck District 9 (2009), we were blown away. A “stunning debut,” we called the epic fantasy that wrangled hot-button issues of racism, subjugation and segregation, “heralding the arrival of an exciting new action-cinema voice”. Neo-realist, gritty, innovative and boasting a gut-punch of an …