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
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DOCTOR WHO ORIGINAL SERIES 1 THE DALEKS (1963)
CertificationU Our Rating
William Hartnell starred as the avuncular Doctor careening thru' space and time in his never to be forgotten blue police phone box, you mean the police had their own phone boxes? Yep.
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DOCTOR WHO ORIGINAL SERIES 1 THE EDGE OF DESTRUCTION AND THE BRINK OF DISASTER (1963)
CertificationU Our Rating
William Hartnell starred as the avuncular Doctor careening thru' space and time in his never to be forgotten blue police phone box, thwarting evil where ever it rears its slightly unwieldy latex head.
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DOCTOR WHO SERIES 4 VOLUME 1 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Partners in Crime - Donna is determined to find the Doctor again, even if it means going up against the villainous Miss Foster and her army of sinister and incredibly cute Adipose.
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KING KONG (2005) (2005)
Certification12 Our Rating
A movie in which a lovelorn supersize gorilla and lonely human belle make heavy eyes at each other, not Lord of the Rings here, but Beauty and the Beast! The film is in three chapters; a movie producer sets sail with cast and crew for the legendary Skull Island; where they are attacked by human sacrificing natives, ravenous dinosaurs, cockroaches as big as beer barrels and scorpions the size of cars, to name but a few; what's left of our less than heroic crew return to New York with the greates
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PALIO (2015)
Certification12 Our Rating
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THE MIST (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
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
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THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (2008)
CertificationPG Our Rating
When three children, with their recently divorced mum, move to a country mansion young Jared pretty soon discovers a book, Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, which he starts to read. Unfortunately the book is a key target for an evil ogre, Mulgarath, who, although he knows no way through a protective magic circle, lays seige to the house with his army of goblins and gubbins. So it's up to the family (well, in truth mum's not much help) to fight the demons and save thei
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WOLFMAN (2010) (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Troubled aristocrat Lawrence returns to his ancestral pile after the disappearance of his brother, falls for his sibling's girl, but soon discovers that a wild beast is on the loose savaging the locals and that the origins of this lycanthrope might be a bit closer to home than he'd have wished for.
'Even a man who is pure of heart
And says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright'
A faithful remake of the 1940s classic.
'It is said
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