Prometheus (2012)

Erich Von Däniken's admittedly bonkers book "Chariots of the Gods" (about extraterrestrial 'engineers' kickstarting the ancient civilisations on the third rock from the sun) is a fascinating read for 13-year-old sci-fi geeks. As far as pseudo-scientific treatises go, it's up there with the best of them. Von Däniken's ambitious and passionate approach to his theory is infectious from the first page until the end. So much so that it makes you wonder what else he has to say on the subject. Over a career of countless books, each featuring the word "gods" in its title, he has proselytized the notion that we have come from outer space.

Predators (2010)

Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators does a pretty decent job of not defecating on the original. Crucially, all of our memories of the much-maligned AvP debacle is also smashed into pieces by its quality. This is surely a fitting sequel to a franchise that we all figured had died a slow, horrible death. Mind you, John McTiernan's original wasn't anything amazing per se, but it was unadulterated fun in all its unashamed 80s glory. Danny Glover-starring sequel was a bit shit, but you kinda expected that - it was a desperate attempt at squeezing more money from a non-franchise.

Then the AvPs came and ruined the P and dragged the sublime A along with it to the dark recesses of movie shitedom that we occasionally force ourselves to subject to for lack of any decent films (case in point: Clash of the Shitans).