Keanu plays a whizz-kid scientist (stop sniggering please) whose team have just cracked a major development. But when their top egg-head is murdered, he and colleague Lily find the finger pointed at them, with nowhere to run and no-one to be trusted. Throwaway plot but plenty of bullet-dodging action. find out more...

Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects th find out more...

The true story of Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma, who becomes aware of cover-ups about the dangers to her and her fellow workers and gets immersed in fighting her bosses for safety rights. The film very effectively mixes her personal life, ex-hubby, boyfriend, lesbian mate, child custody, heart to hearts, and her political struggle. Eventually she discovers she has a highly radioactive fridge and they are out to get her. Meryl Streep is again brill find out more...

Three of Hollywood's most famous liberals team up to explore the horrific possibity of a nuclear meltdown. Fonda and Douglas play TV news reporters latching onto a scare about falsification and negligence of safety regulations. Well scripted and genuinely tense. Tinseltown gets a conscience! find out more...

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The name's Clooney - George Clooney - and the ER heartthrob has surely found his purpose in life with this 007-style actioner. George is a Special Forces superhero on the trail of a bunch of fugitive Bosnians. With impossibly perfect partner Nicole Kidman at his side, Action Man pursues his prey from the good ol' US of A to Vienna, Bosnia and the USSR, fighting an impossible battle against the clock before they detonate those ten Russian nuclear warheads they pinched earlier..............high oc find out more...

It's 1999 and Doomsday is fast approaching. Sam Farber is on the run from a bounty hunter, after stealing his father's machine - a device which enables the blind to see. A woman helps him escape and they begin to realise the huge potential of the machine. Good both for film buffs and sci-fi fans. find out more...

This movie is about as good as it gets from John Hughes. The plot revolves around the rather farsighted premise (this is 1983, folks!) that a young high school punk hacks into the national defence network (the old internet) and starts off a global nuclear incident. As Cold War paranoia abounds him and his girlfriend have to convince a disbelieving US military that it's all a big mistake. Sounds all a bit hokey, I know, but where the film lifts itself above the normal teen trite Hughes has bee find out more...