David is the first artificial being to have been created by man with the ability to feel and express real human emotions. Used as a surrogate child by a needy family, David is then discarded and, along with his friend android gigolo Joe, sets about finding a true home within the world that has made him. A.I. is a concept by Stanley Kubrick, which Steven Spielberg then brought to fruition...unfortunately. The film has some stunning special effects and the story is thought provoking and engaging, find out more...

There are very few characters Robin Williams has not played during his busy acting career, so finally starring as a robot should not really come as a great surprise. Williams plays Andrew, a rather special robot in that he has real emotions, who, over the course of his time in service to the Martin family (two hundred years give or take) begins to unravel the intricacies of human life and love, while all the time harbouring the desire to become human himself. Gentle, occasionally amusing, someti find out more...

Ron Howard attempts to out-Spielberg Spielberg in the mawkish tale of old people finding reinvigoration at the hands of kindly aliens from another planet. The reasons for its appeal are fairly obvious, especially if you are old. After taking a dip in a swimming pool where the eponymous cocoons are kept, errant inhabitants from a nearby residential home find their energy levels boosted and (gulp) their libido resuscitated. They, of course, love it. The government however is not convinced that the find out more...

The Doctor crash-lands on a space travelling Titanic and while there's a merciful shortage of icebergs there is unfortunately, though unsurprisingly, an evil plan to destroy humanity. find out more...

It is the turn of the century and the Tardis materialises by a lighthouse on the desolate isle of Fang Rock. When a lighthouse engineer dies in mysterious circumstances, the remaining crew blame the mythical Beast of Fang Rock, that is until the Doctor and Leela turn up. When a small clipper runs aground the lighthouse offers shelter to its despairing passengers, but the Doctor soon discovers clues that suggest that no one is safe on the tiny island. He suspects a ruthless alien lurks in the thi find out more...

The genesis of the original Doctor Who series serves as a necessary introduction. 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. And with him three companions, two bemused London schoolteachers and a teenage girl from somewhere in space and time. find out more...

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. find out more...

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. find out more...

After a break of almost ten years the immutable Doctor returns with the writing quality of ‘The Tomorrow People' and the production values of ‘The Bill' – but hey, isn't that what we want from our intergalactic time-travelling adventure serials? 1.1 Rose; the life of Rose Tyler is turned upside down when she meets a mysterious stranger who leads her into an adventure that sees her loved ones and the rest of humanity in mortal danger. Can Rose, the Doctor and a little blue box save the planet? 1. find out more...

In the second half of the series things hot up for the Doctor and his comrades. 1.4 Aliens of London; Rose returns home but, after a spaceship crashes into the Thames, finds London in quarantine and the rest of the world on high alert. 1.5 World War Three; interplanetary war threatens and it's up to our crusading couple to unmask the real enemy and stop the missiles from flying… 1.6 Dalek; in what has been hyped as the best Doctor Who episode EVER the Doctor faces an old enemy under the Salt Pla find out more...