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...

In the crumbling society of the near future a young drifter discovers that aliens from another dimension are controlling the Earth through mind control. Armed only with bubblegum, special sunglases and a sub-machinegun he takes on the evil invaders. find out more...