At the centre of the universe, something is up. The 90 000 year old matriarch of the Abrasax family (kindof like the Lannisters, only in space) has been murdered, setting off a powerplay between her three children (kindof like ‘Succession’, only in space). Which one of them will gain control of the earth, and its valuable crop of human cattle? That’s right: if you have ever had a sense that something, somewhere, was terribly wrong, you were right; the entire population of our planet is destined to be ‘harvested’, and used to make alien skin cream. Continue reading Jupiter Ascending (2015)

In 2027, the world’s women have been rendered collectively infertile. As despair for the future of our species overwhelms the population, a totalitarian English government maintains order by force, and clashes with underground freedom fighters. Then a pregnant woman is discovered, a potential symbol of hope and power to both sides. Fearing for her safety, she enlists a washed up journalist to help her escape to a protected refuge. Continue reading Children of Men (2006)

In the near future, criminals from the far future dispatch their enemies via time travel, sending them back to be killed by ‘Loopers’; assassins whose own destiny is to be sent back and killed themselves. Meanwhile they get paid in silver and live it up. But then one Looper spoils the party by letting his own future self slip away. Continue reading Looper (2012)

During a routine demonstration flight, post retirement, Captian Kirk is seemingly killed when he is dragged into the impromptu rescue of a cilivian ship. But there are survivors, and two of these share a secret; the energy field that destroyed their vessel is the ‘Nexus’, a mystery realm where anyone’s every wish can come true. Continue reading Star Trek: Generations (1994)

In small town 1950s America, on the night of the big high school basketball game, a radio DJ and a switch board operator start hearing weird sounds through their equipment. Their investigation of these takes them from mildly curious to outright alarmed, as they discover that something sinister is hovering in the darkness above their heads. Continue reading The Vast of Night (2019)

In the early 80s, two superstar directors at the height of their fame teamed up with two up-and-comers to revisit one of TV’s most venerated and influential shows. The result: a goofy mess, with the odd moment of inspired genius. Continue reading Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Fifty years into the future, something has gone wrong with the sun: it’s fusion engine is sputtering, and the earth is being turned into a snowball. In best movie tradition, our only hope is to send a volatile team on a craaaazy space mission; physicists, engineers and astronauts who have to drop a giant nucelar bomb into the sun’s core to kick start it back to life. Continue reading Sunshine (2007)

A young, space fixated student, on the verge of a promising academic career, drunkenly smashes her car, killing a pregnant mother and son. But this is not just a random accident. A second Earth has just been discovered in the sky, and our protagonist had been staring dreamingly out the window at it. Fate, very strange fate, has intervened in these lives. Continue reading Another Earth (2011)

In 2035 a killer virus has wiped out most of the Earth’s population, and driven the survivors underground. Bruce Willis, a resourceful prisoner with a short temper, is ‘volunteered’ for a dangerous mission: time travel back to the 90s, and trace the source of the outbreak. But the Strangelovian scientists who are in control of this future dystopia, are not as shrewd as they make out. Continue reading Twelve Monkeys (1995)