District 9
March 11, 2010
Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare - they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens’ awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. [Read more]
FAQ About Time Travel
September 11, 2009
Twentysomething sci-fi geek Ray (O’Dowd) works at an amusement park with fellow dweeb Toby (Wootton) and down-to-earth scallywag Pete (Lennox Kelly). When Ray is fired, the three head to their local where, after a trip to the gents, sci-fi hating Pete experiences a bizarre vision of the future in which everyone in the pub has been horribly murdered.
Meanwhile, Ray bumps into the beautiful Cassie (Faris) at the bar, who promptly informs him that she is from the future and a huge fan of his ground-breaking work on time travel.
As events take a turn for the even more weird, the three pals find themselves buffeted between the near and distant future as they try to prevent the massacre witnessed by Pete. [Read more]
Mutant Chronicles
March 8, 2009
In the year 2707, war rages between earth’s four giant corporations as they battle over the planet’s dwindling resources. In an era marked by warfare and social regression, the earth is on the verge of ruin, destruction is everywhere; battles explode on every ravaged continent. midst heavy combat, an errant shell shatters an ancient buried seal releasing a horrific mutant army from its eternal prison deep within the earth.
As the mutant scourge threatens human extinction, a single squad of soldiers descends into the earth to fulfill the ages-old prophesy of the “Mutant Chronicles” and save mankind.
The X Files: I want to Believe
November 9, 2008
When a dubious psychic offers to help solve the disappearance of an FBI agent, the bureau reaches out to Dana Scully (Anderson), now a practicing doctor, to enlist the aid of Fox Mulder (Duchovny), still recognised as an expert in supernatural mysteries. The former agents reunite to pursue the case, which raises their long-standing argument about faith and scepticism. [Read more]




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