If you haven’t already seen Alive In Joburg, the short movie on which District 9 is based, you might want to check it out before heading to the cinema to catch out this year’s most original feature, and possibly one of the best alien invasion movies to ever be committed to celluloid. But don’t think that you need to watch Neill Blomkamp’s short before hitting the cinema, as the film on its own is no less impressive.

Terminator: Salvation opened this weekend stateside, but won’t be hitting cinemas in the UK and Ireland (and Australia too) until the first week of June.

The Terminator franchise wasn’t necessarily something that needed such a drastic reboot: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines wasn’t a great film, but it wasn’t exactly the nail in the coffin that, say, Star Trek: Nemesis was to that franchise.

On the other hand, Terminator: Salvation just might be that last straw that it takes for the Terminator franchise to rust and turn to scrap metal. The most forgiving of fanboys and girls might be able to see past its flaws, but if the general reaction of the audience at the screening I attended is anything to go by, the rest of the cinema-going public might not be so forgiving.

“Coraline” has been a long time in the making, understandably so: an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2002 novel (the man also responsible for “Stardust” and the “Sandman” comics series) the movie began production before the book was published, the latest stop-motion animation movie from Henry Selick, whose previous directing credits include “James and The Giant Peach” and the Tim Burton-scripted “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

On paper, “Let The Right One In” sounds a lot like the recent tween-pleasing “Twilight”: young Oskar (Hedebrant) keeps to himself and has few friends at school, living in an apartment with his mother. When Eli (Leandersson) moves into the building, he becomes enthralled with the young girl, with the eventual revelation that she is a vampire, incapable of escaping her hunger for blood.

Therein ends the similarities, as “Let The Right One In” acknowledges the darkness of its topic in a way “Twilight” never would

For first-time director Mark Tonderai, “Hush” is a film to be proud of, a low-budget British film that walks a fine line between horror and thriller that will get to you in a way a million American-teen-gets-slashed films never could.

Jensen Ackles has already graced our screens this year in horror re-make My Bloody Valentine: now, it’s screen brother Jared Padalecki’s chance to shine in Friday the 13th, a re-make/reboot of the popular series that made Jason Voorhees (and his mother) a cult icon. Strictly speaking, the film is the twelfth in the franchise (just one short, dammit, and yes, we’re including the unspeakable horrors of Jason X and Freddy vs. Jason in there.

Sometimes, a movie comes along so unflinchingly terrible, it’s just awesome. Sometimes, that film is called My Bloody Valentine,