Much imitated but never equalled, this is the definitive space nightmare. The crew of a commercial spacecraft are stalked by a stowaway, mutating monster of veracious appetite. Weaver puts in a splendidly believable performance as the resourceful Ripley. Taut script and awesome special FX. find out more...

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...

Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved. find out more...

A 2009, computer-generated imaging 3-D feature film from DreamWorks and Paramount and the first to be directly produced in a stereoscopic 3-D format, instead of being converted into 3-D after completion. find out more...

Sam is a lone astronaut doing a three year stint running a Helium 3 mine on the moon. Bored senseless and with only sentient computer GERTY for company, Sam fears he is losing his mind. After an accident he wakes up in the infirmary, but the familiar monotony of his old existence is gone, has Sam finally slipped over the edge into insanity or is he merely an expendable pawn in the mining corporation's ruthlessly logical world. A hypnotic, contemplative performance from Rockwell powers this exami find out more...

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. Through a device called the "DC Mini" it is able to act as a "dream detective" to enter into people's minds and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen. In the wrong hands the DC Mini can be used to completely annihilate a dreamer's personality while they still sleep, so scientis find out more...

Arnie is the leader of a tough bunch of professional soldiers down in Central America sorting out a little problem for Uncle Sam. An unexpected hitch is the hunter, an alien sportsman who'd like Arnie's head for his trophy wall! A great action movie - Alien meets Rambo!!! find out more...

JJ Abrams reinvents Star Trek and the cast, going back in time to before Captain Kirk run a ship when he was a young, brash, arrogant, opinionated genius. The designs are immaculate, the characters engaging and this hugely budgeted sci-fi action adventure is high in entertainment - a renegade Romulan from the future wreaking revenge on the Federation with the use of a black hole! A must watch. find out more...

2017 and humans have become so fearful that they've replaced themselves in the 'interactive world' with better looking robots so as they needn't leave the supposed safety of their own homes ever again. But when federal agent Greer is assigned to an unusual murder case, whereby the assassination of a surrogate simultaneously resulted in the operator's death, he uncovers an organised conspiracy that is alarmingly and ultimately endangering to humans.
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Following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton and a small town community, all trapped in the local supermarket, come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist. Local rumours point to an army experiment gone awry at a nearby top-secret base, but as the locals break off into increasingly murderous factions the ravenous monsters are in danger of taking a back seat to the carnage. Mist is a superior adaptation of a Stephen King horror thanks in large part to find out more...