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...

New York teenager Dave decides to become a superhero like those that he's read about in comics and soon finds himself drawn into the battle between Big Daddy, his 10-year-old killing machine of a daughter Hit-Girl and crime overlord Frank D'Amico.
Full of comic strip references this is a brilliant, profane, over-the-top, ultra-violent, hyper-action Kick-Ass movie. find out more...

Black Mamba was a member of one of the most lethally efficient assassination teams the world has ever know, but when she's beaten to within an inch of her life and then shot in the head at her own wedding by her former comrades in arms, the bond would seem to be well and truly broken. Snapping out of a coma four years after this traumatic event Mamba has only one thing on her mind, retribution, and the bloodier the better. Kill Bill Vol 1 is a mind warpingly visceral affair, with Tarantino resor find out more...

The second half of Tarantino's homage to Honk Kong Chinese action movies, preposterous 70's TV, martial art, Manga... (I could go on, but you get the drift) is slightly more gobby than Kill Bill Vol I - which with a Tarantino script can only be a good thing. The resurrected Bride is considerably closer to wish fulfilment, having offed nearly half of her former colleagues in the first film, the opportunity to slash Bill a new orifice is looking good, and if there's one thing she doesn't lack, it' find out more...

Spielberg continues to weave his magic over movie audiences with this WW2 blockbuster, being both a harrowing portrayal of the horrors of war, and a heartfelt, if unlikely, human drama. Matt Damon plays the young soldier, destined to almost certain death, who's unaware his three brothers have all been killed in battle in the past few days. Hanks and Sizemore are the caring Captain and battle-hardened Sergeant who are dispatched to find distraught Mother Ryan's only remaining son, and bring him h find out more...