Image: Screen Gems. I swear it’s not from a leaked episode of Doctor Who season 11.
Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block isn’t just who you’ve probably now heard of), to survive a night of terror and lots of thick London accents:
Aside from being filled with some really great action — and a thumping soundtrack to boot courtesy of Basement Jaxx — Attack the Block is a great examination of the struggles of the British working class, framing its entire alien nightmare around Sam, Moses, and the gang coming to understand each other through their shared experiences of growing up around and living in their housing estate, and how the two different groups come to respect and learn from each other, ultimately for the better. Then it’s also got some crazily well-done and intense action sequences where giant, terrifying fuzzy aliens get the crap beat out of them on top of all that, and that’s good too.
And, of course, it means that now you can watch Finn from Star Wars and Doctor Who‘s new Doctor fight aliens together instead of just reading the fanfiction that’s inevitably already being written.