Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames is an expert at survival in the harsh landscape that has become the America of the near future, which is fortunate because when he's framed for a brutal murder and incarcerated in the country's most notorious penitentiary he'll need every skill he can muster. Forced to compete in a murderous car race by the corrupt warden, Jensen's only hope of freedom is to win, whatever the cost. A remake of the 1970s B-movie cult classic, 'Death Race' is a slick, blood find out more...

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 find out more...

A frantic call for help from a remote research station on Mars brings a crack team of Marines to the remote Olduvai genetic Research Station where they find a legion of nightmarish creatures, lurking in the darkness, killing at will. These boys are pretty hard-arsed but nothing has prepared them for the hell they are about to experience, a mission that will more than likely be their last. Yet another adaptation of an iconic computer game and sadly just as half baked as all the others…lots of big find out more...

The last of the V8 interceptors takes to the road for the first time. Urban society is in terminal decay and the roads have become an arena for a strange death game between nomadic bikers and young cops in souped up pursuit cars. Less futuristic than the sequels but disturbingly bleak and violent. find out more...

Easily the best of the Mad Max trio. In an apocolyptic post-nuclear war future, where violent scavengers dominate society, our hardened existential hero finds himself forced to side with the remnants of civilization in their desperate battle for survival. find out more...

A bunch of n'er do well professional killers are stranded together on an alien planet where they discover that they are the game for a hunting party of aliens and that to survive they must bond as a team. Lots of mayhem and letting of blood results.
Another dab at a sequel to Arnie's much beloved B-movie action thriller of the 1980s; the action scenes are top-rate - OK the characters are cardboard cut-outs, Arnie's off playing politics and the slow burn tension is missing, but who c find out more...

A future where the key sport's central feature is violence and the star a little too independently minded. A sci-fi film which can't quite make up it's mind whether to go for serious satire or mindless violence and ends up being the kind of violent escapism it seems to dislike. find out more...

Peter Parker balances his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.

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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...