In a not far off dystopian future women have become infertile and governments have forgotten that Orwell's ‘1984' was supposed to be a searing indictment of what NOT to do. Into this less than hopeful world arrives a young woman who has achieved the miracle of pregnancy, everyone wants the child as a cynical totem for the people, and those planning rebellion are as ruthless as those in power. Finding a reluctant but increasingly determined guardian in the form of Theo, mother and child go in sea find out more...

For generations (since a non-described apocalypse) the people of the city of Ember have flourished in an amazing indoor world of glittering lights, uncertain of their past and unquestioning of the future. It takes two young teens to decipher the notes left behind by 'The Builders', start to piece together the ancient mystery of the city's existence and reach the forbidden world of the outside. But time is not on their side, Ember's once powerful generator is failing, the great lamps are starting find out more...

Hiding and enslaved in a future Earth, Caesar, the son of Cornelius and Zira, prepares an uprising against his human captors. As with its predecessors Conquest of the Planet of the Apes explores issues such as xenophobia and cruelty. Certainly the darkest of the series, 'Conquest' is also the the most under-rated. The picture features a slave revolt that was specifically based on footage of the 1965 Watts Riots. The 2011 movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes has the same theme but is not offic 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...

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

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A deadly virus erupts in Scotland, turning those that survive into drooling cannibalistic nutters and so the Scots get barricaded in and left to there own unpromising devices. 27 years later the virus breaks out in London and, in a desperate attempt to find a cure, an elite force of scientists and squaddies are sent to reconnoitre the Highlands and Lowlands of Bonnie Prince Charlie's homeland. "Doomsday" is a curious, if ridiculous, fast paced amalgam of ‘28 Days Later', ‘Resident Evil' and ‘Mad find out more...

Skint super-psychic Dennis Quaid attempts to pay off his debts by trawling through other people's dreams, righting wrongs and fending off demons. Some of these dreams are funny, but most pretty horrific, check out a 6-year-old's primal fears! Things get slightly more serious, though, when he has to confront a would-be assassin in the US President's nightmares. Totally implausible, very surreal and a cracking rollicking adventure story. find out more...

Following the events in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" Zira and Cornelius use Taylor's repaired spaceship to escape the holocaust on the ape planet and slipping through a bend in time they land on earth circa 1970. Captured by the military and scrutinised at various hearings, the two apes are subjected to the same xenophobic treatment that their human counterparts encountered in the previous ape instalments. As a sequel to a sequel this is a reasonable movie, although like the others the under find out more...

A genetically engineered soldier, reported as missing in action, returns to exact revenge on his creators. Hyperreal art house animation. It may blow your mind. It may just befuddle you. Looks great though, no doubt. find out more...

It's late 21st century and earth has been over run by malignant spirits; after a vision Aki Ross and an elite squadron set out on a mission to save the world by releasing 'the final fantasy'. Final Fantasy has a god-awful script and an incoherent plot, but there's no denying the amazing computer generated visuals and that, I suspect, is going to be most people's incentive for watching it. find out more...