Two astronauts land on a planet populated by apes, but these chimps are no chumps and the men find themselves imprisoned and at the mercy of their furry captors. The enigma of the planet's history, juggled through Heston's humiliating experience of being studied as an interesting laboratory specimen by his ape captors, right down to his final startling rediscovery of civilisation, is quite beautifully sustained. One interesting fact is that the aristocratic orangutan Dr. Zaius was originally to find out more...

Tarkovsky's masterpiece - often described as the Russian version of 2001. Madness threatens all those who work on the space station that orbits the mysterious planet Solaris and the newcomer Chris Kelvin is doubly haunted by memories of his dead wife. A great metaphor for inner development. find out more...

Based on the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Arcady and Boris Strugatsky. The Stalker guides the Professor and the Writer across the Zone, a forbidden territory deep inside a police state, toward the Room, in a nihilistic, journey to the heart of darkness. 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...

Classic 50s sci-fi and the film that spawned a generation of alien-invasion flicks. When friendly alien visitor Klaatu is wounded by trigger-happy state troopers his robot mate seeks revenge, but Klaatu has a message for mankind and takes to the streets to teach the world the true meaning of peace. Brilliant. find out more...

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...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...

From afar Hector spots a woman undressing in the woods and, out of curiosity, tracks her down only to find her comatose body. He then gets attacked and stabbed with a pair of scissors by a man with a bandage wrapped round his head... 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...