The TARDIS arrives on an apparently deserted and deactivated space station Nerva, otherwise known as the Ark, orbiting Earth in the far future. There the Doctor, Sarah and Harry discover the last survivors of the human race held in suspended animation, Earth having been evacuated thousands of years earlier when solar flares threatened to destroy all life, but the station has been visited by Wirrn, an insect life form, which has laid its eggs in the solar stacks and absorbed the mind and body of find out more...

Paul McGann steps out of the Tardis as the 8th Doctor, and a very dashing timelord he makes too. While transporting the remains of the Master, an evil Time Lord, the TARDIS malfunctions and ends up in San Francisco in 1999. The Master escapes and assumes a bodily form, the Doctor regenerates and, with the help of an attractive heart surgeon, must locate and defeat the Master before the turn of the millennium at midnight or we all cop it. This big budget adventure retains the charm of the old-sty find out more...

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'Number 5' is a killer robot created in a defence establishment. However, life as a killer is not to his liking and he escapes. He takes to living with a wacky girl who keeps lots of pets and in her care he begins to learn about life; 'Five is Alive!'. 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...

Things are a bit complicated for Anakin; the war continues to escalate, the Jedi are being betrayed left, right and centre, the dark Lord of the Sith wants him as his apprentice and his now consummated love for Queen Amadala breaks all of his codes as a knight. The Chosen One is ready for turning to the dark side, while democracy is about to give way to the empire and its ultimate henchman, Darth Vader. Though rather like a drawn out explanation of the bleedin' obvious, the third episode of the find out more...

Someone is taking the Doctor's past selves out of time and space and placing them in a vast wilderness, a battle arena with a sinister tower at its centre. As 5 incarnations of the Doctor join forces, they learn they are in the Death Zone on their home world of Gallifrey, fighting Daleks, Cybermen and a traitorous Time Lord. Originally made to celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of Doctor Who, this new version of the story features extended scenes and new special effects, largely tweaks to some find out more...

 

 

The Mitchells vs the Machines is a ridiculously fun and thought-provoking satire on how humanity has become over-reliant on technology, so much so that a simple dinner conversation with your family has become a rare occurrence.

 

Abbi Jacobsen voices Katie, a teenage misfit who tries to keep her weird family together during a robot uprising. Danny McBride voices her technophobic dad who strives to get his children more in touch with nature an find out more...

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.

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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...