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 Films 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.  The Final CutAugust 2005
What if, before you were born, you were implanted with a device that recorded every act of your life - as seen through your eyes? What if this record only became available after you died - to be edited by a 'cutter' and presented to grieving family at your funeral? In The Final Cut, Robin Williams is Alan Hakman, a cutter. He is the best of the best. No matter how awful a person's life, he views it all, then deletes the bad bits and presents the family with the sanitised version. And then his own life starts to unravel.  SolarisJuly 2005
The Polish novel Solaris (1961) was announced as a classic from the day it was first published in English. Its author, Stanislaw Lem, was Eastern Europe's most successful science fiction writer, and intent on showing the whole English-language world just how the genre should be written! Lem's fictional planet, Solaris, behaves as a giant alien mind, one essentially unknowable to human intellect. 
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