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  • Clockstoppers (2002)
    Science teacher's son in time speed travel thriller, as teenagers attempt to rescue kidnapped boffin.
  • Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
    Review preview for Star Trek: First Contact

    The film is tightly and crisply edited with nothing wasted on frippery or dull speeches.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    A hectic chase back through time as the Borg try to stop humans from making first contact with alien life, and Captain Picard and his crew try to stop the Borg.
  • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
    Review preview for Star Trek: Insurrection

    Suffers imagination malfunction.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    The Enterprise crew try to help the inhabitants of a peace-loving planet.
  • Thunderbirds (2004)
    Review preview for Thunderbirds

    Though it has a simple story, somewhat blank acting and awkwardly choreographed fights, its every flaw corresponds perfectly with the make-up of the original series.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Live action kids adventure, based on the long running UK puppet TV show.

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