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...

A bunch of n'er do well professional killers are stranded together on an alien planet where they discover that they are the game for a hunting party of aliens and that to survive they must bond as a team. Lots of mayhem and letting of blood results.
Another dab at a sequel to Arnie's much beloved B-movie action thriller of the 1980s; the action scenes are top-rate - OK the characters are cardboard cut-outs, Arnie's off playing politics and the slow burn tension is missing, but who c find out more...