The twelfth – twelfth! – Doctor Who Christmas special goes easy on the festive decoration. No flesh-eating snowflakes, no sentient alien tinsel, no Weeping Angel plonked on top of the tree. The Return Of Doctor Mysterio riffs on an altogether more recent tradition: the comic book blockbuster, those shiny, mega-budget …

Star Wars: Rogue One (opens in new tab) isn’t your typical Star Wars story. There isn’t an opening crawl, there are heroes that don’t want to be heroes and there are, shock, horror, no Jedi. Things could have been very different though – Jedi were included in various early drafts …

At this time of brotherly love, peace, and good will to all men, there are surely few more appropriate SF movies to watch than Enemy Mine.  Directed by Das Boot’s Wolfgang Petersen, this 1985 film centres on a human pilot (played by Dennis Quaid) and an alien “Drac” (Louis Gossett …