You know how before this came out at the cinema there was massive internet hype, a mind boggling disaster, sci-fi, horror, action flick, but bugger all about what the plot actually involved? Well that's because apart from monsters reeking havoc in New York, and some pretty young things trapped in the carnage, there is no plot; nada, zilch, nothing. Cloverfield works so well because it stoutly refuses to offer you anything other than adrenalin fuelled, clammy palmed escapism and filming it throug find out more...

Set in Johannesburg (more than a welcome change to the usual formulaic Hollywood paradigm whereby LA or New York are not only the backdrop for disaster but act too as the centre-point of planet Earth), An ominous mothership hovers above Johannesburg containing an alien race of insectoid refugees. Derogatively referred to as 'Prawns' by humans they are cordoned off in an apartheid-esque fashion and forced to live a desolate and slum-like existence in the titular District 9. While forcibly relocat find out more...

William Hartnell starred as the avuncular Doctor careening thru' space and time in his never to be forgotten blue police phone box, you mean the police had their own phone boxes? Yep. find out more...

William Hartnell starred as the avuncular Doctor careening thru' space and time in his never to be forgotten blue police phone box, thwarting evil where ever it rears its slightly unwieldy latex head. find out more...

A platoon of soldiers are sent out on manoeuvers in the wilds of Scotland and at first their only worry is that they're missing the England Germany match, but when they discover the remains of a special operations unit things take a distinct turn for the worse, a misery compounded by the fact that the farm they've taken refuge in is home to a family of werewolves. Dog soldiers teeters dangerously between horror, comedy and just plain cheese but it never lets up the pace or the tension. All told find out more...

A comet hurtles into the earth, but rather than being dead rock it begins to evolve at a fantastical pace (while taking some serious liberties with Darwinism) and only two rather inept college professors seem to have any idea how to stop the alien life form before it takes over the world. Evolution is Si-Fi, action, comedy which concentrates on wit of the lowest common denominator, but as long as you're fine with that, sit back, giggle a bit and enjoy the spectacular special effects. find out more...

 

 

Scrat’s pursuit of the nirvana acorn causes yet another continental cataclysm which plunges our three bestest buddies into yet another perilo find out more...

A movie in which a lovelorn supersize gorilla and lonely human belle make heavy eyes at each other, not Lord of the Rings here, but Beauty and the Beast! The film is in three chapters; a movie producer sets sail with cast and crew for the legendary Skull Island; where they are attacked by human sacrificing natives, ravenous dinosaurs, cockroaches as big as beer barrels and scorpions the size of cars, to name but a few; what's left of our less than heroic crew return to New York with the greates find out more...

'J' is back in black and in the intervening years he's become pretty much as anally obsessive as his old partner 'K', but when the world is threatened by intergalactic nastiness you couldn't wish for a more effective arse kicker.... except perhaps 'K' himself. Dragged out of retirement the elder statesman of men in black joins his old partner in some wise cracking butt whoopin'. Men in Black II is entertaining eye candy that moves at a pretty frantic pace, but unlike the original this is a serie find out more...

Jack's back after an unholy union of ‘friends' and rogues save him from Davey Jones' locker. In this final instalment the pirates must form an unlikely brotherhood to defend their carefree existence from the dastardly and ruthless British. Unfortunately for us this means a whole wad of Keira Knightley, she even gives a rousing speech to the rabble before battle, a delivery that brings to mind one of those handbag dogs being garrotted by its own collar. An enormous running time, a god awful score find out more...