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
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ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN (2007)
Certification18 Our Rating
Halloween 1963; a young and violently unstable Michael Myers takes a brutal revenge on his uncaring and abusive family, butchering his stepfather, his elder sister and her boyfriend. The next 17 years sees the increasingly withdrawn Myers imprisoned in Smith's Grove Sanitorium under the care of Dr Sam Loomis until, one night, Michael escapes and heads home to Haddenfield and to the one person he ever cared about, his baby sister Laurie.
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THE FIRM (2009)
Certification18 Our Rating
Based on the gripping film of the same name which starred Gary Oldman, 'The Firm' is a brutal coming of age story set around the casual violence and pack mentality of English football hooliganism at its 1980s peak.
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WATCHMEN (THE MOVIE) (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Set in an alternative America of the 1980s, at a time when the US and the USSR seemed set for an apocalyptic war, a group of retired Masked Heroes reunite after one of their number is murdered. What they uncover seems to point toward a greater, more sinister plot.
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