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   Films MonstersSeptember 2011
Authorities struggle to contain the alien life forms unleashed after a NASA space probe crash lands in Central America.  Battle: Los AngelesMarch 2011
Battle: Los Angeles, is best described as a mix between Black Hawk Down and Independence Day, which in theory would result in a pretty kick ass film. But there are a lot of things that sound great in theory that don't quite work in real life.  Man On Earth with Tony RobinsonNovember 2011
Fresh fuel drives the age-old axiom "adapt or die" further forward - or perhaps in this case, back in time, as host, British entertainer and activist Tony Robinson takes viewers on a journey through 200,000 years of Earth's climate.  SpliceAugust 2010
Splice is a modern-day Frankenstein story where the scientists build a creature using genetics rather than dead body parts.  InceptionJuly 2010
In Christopher Nolan’s latest foray into the mind, Inception, dreams are an experience that can be shared, manipulated and violated.  MoonFebruary 2010
This sci-fi thriller is centred on the daily life of Sam Bell, hired by Lunar Industries to manage the largely automated helium-3 extraction facility on the surface, to power fusion reactors back on Earth.  Doctor AtomicFebruary 2009
The new opera, Doctor Atomic, brings to life the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the Manhattan Project on the eve of the first atomic tests in the deserts of New Mexico in July 1945.  On the Beauty of Science: A Nobel Laureate Reflects on the Universe, God, and the Nature of DiscoveryNovember 2008
Herbert A. Hauptman is a distinguished mathematician who won the 1985 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. His groundbreaking 1950s work in determining crystal structures has since assisted in the development of many powerful medical drugs.  The HostNovember 2008
The hapless heroine is endearing, the family eccentric and comedic and, yes, there's something nasty at the bottom of the garden – well, the river, actually. Yep, the 'creature feature' is back with the Australian release of Korean blockbuster The Host, a tale of pollution and mutation on a grand scale in present-day Seoul.  MetropolisJuly 2007
In the year 2026, the population of Metropolis is divided: while the rich enjoy the delights that the city has to offer, the workers must toil on the machines that keep society running.  SerenityJune 2006
Humanity has reached the stars, seeking an alternative to an overpopulated Earth. A war between the Alliance and the Separatists has left the Alliance in control. On the fringes of the galaxy, mercenaries, bandits and cannibalistic Reavers roam. The Serenity and its crew, including Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Fillion) are rogues, trawling space for adventure and profit.  The Place Promised in Our Early DaysJune 2006
A young writer and director, Makoto Shinkai, is being praised as the 'new' Miyazaki. His first film, Voices of a Distant Star, won attention from fans and critics, and his current film, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, has some of Miyazaki's lyrical quality.  War of the WorldsFebruary 2006
Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is expecting no more than a weekend with his children when a freak and violent storm strikes his city. As Ray and his neighbours go to investigate, they discover a hole in their street, from which climbs a three-legged alien machine. As the startled crowd reacts, runs or just stands and looks in awe, the machine's death ray begins firing, and all hell breaks loose. The Martians are here (and have been for quite some time, we discover), and they want us dead.  PaycheckNovember 2005
Based on a short story written by Dick in 1953, Paycheck addresses the author's abiding fascination with groundbreaking technology and the problems such advances pose for humanity when things go awry. As a writer, Dick was quite philosophical about our reliance on machines and this film explores that idea, which is helped along by a few action sequences from director John Woo.  The Day of the TriffidsSeptember 2005
Humanity has faced destruction in a thousand increasingly horrible ways in print and on screen since John Wyndham's fine novel, The Day of the Triffids, was published in 1951. Most recently and cataclysmically, the world (with the inestimable help of Tom Cruise) fights an apparently impossible battle against the tripods in Steven Spielberg's film, War of the Worlds. 
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