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A brilliant documentary about the making of Blade Runner in all it's incarnations up to the recently released 'Final Cut'. Packed full of fascinating titbits of trivia and behind the scenes footage this is an absolute must-see for fans of Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic. find out more...

Transfer (1966), Cronenberg's first film, is a surreal sketch of a doctor and his patient. From the Drain (1967) finds two men in a bathtub, which may be part of a centre for veterans of a future war. Stereo (1969), Cronenberg's first official feature film, stunningly shot in monochrome, concerns telepaths at the Institute for Erotic Enquiry where patients undergo tests by Dr. Luther Stringfellow. In Crimes of the Future (1970) Cronenberg worked in colour and with a find out more...

Jack Johnson's first break into the public music arena was when his composition 'Rodeo Clowns' was chosen to be G-ILove and Special Sauce's first single off their 1999 album 'Philadelphonic'. He had long been a huge figure in the surfing world, having been born and raised in Hawaii. He fast became a renowned surfer and scored a pro contract with Quiksilver before he had left high school. His implicit creativity led him to study and graduate with a degree in film at Santa Barbara. This then led t find out more...

'La Jetee' is a milestone in cinematic history, and the inspiration behind Hollywood hit '12 Monkeys'. This classic sci-fi short takes one man on a terrifying journey from the post-apocalyptic world he inhabits, back to his childhood and his one distant memory; the face of a woman at the end of a pier. Stunning. find out more...

Memory is hardly the first documentary to attempt to get under the obsidian, acid-bleeding skin of the Xenomorph. Practically every DVD and Blu-ray release of Ridley Scott’s influential sci-fi has come with a doc attached, even the 1987 LaserDisc. But this feature-length take from director Alexandre O. Philippe has loftier ideas than any studio-mandated featurette. It find out more...

Taking its cue from Chronicle (2012), Project Almanac is part of the "found footage" sci-fi phenomenon sweeping contemporary teen cinema. A group of friends discover time travel and use it to have a lot of fun; rewriting their entry into the high school popularity charts, partying without wasting time, acing tests and getting even with bullies. But, as science would have it, every action has its equal and opposite reaction. Soon the 'jumps' become a desperate attempt to rewrite the rewrite. G find out more...

Just when you thought it was safe to put Star Wars away, George Lucas tempts you back with this exhaustive selection of behind-the-scenes titbits and general anorak trivia. There's a two-and-a-half hour 'making of' documentary, said to be the most comprehensive yet. There's a feature on the birth of the light-sabre. There's even a portion dedicated to telling the tale of the embattled genius (ahem) George Lucas and his Homeric odyssey against all odds to get the films made, and to keep making th find out more...

 

Morgan Spurlock, the man responsible for the 2004 documentary 'Super Size Me', here turns his satirical, but increasingly irony free, eye on another of society's most ubiquitous evils: advertising, and specifically the phenomenon o find out more...