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 must see for anyone under 14 when it was released in the early eighties, it has finally been released onto DVD for those Generation X-ers to get nostalgic over. It features a gang of kids, The Goonies, in search of Uncle Willie's treasure. They need to save their town from developers but end up trying to save themselves from a family of escaped convicts determined to get to the treasure first. It's a swashbuckling adventure film full of gadgets, skeletons and Indiana Jones style humour. A clas find out more...

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. find out more...