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Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in and has occupied the territory ever since despite widespread condemnation from much of the international community. Ukraine has not yet officially claimed responsibility, but a Ukrainian military official speaking on condition of anonymity told the New York Times that the nation’s armed forces launched the attack.

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Gas workers ‘dug up street just days before horrific blast three doors down’ that killed four-year-old girl and seriously injured three others Dozens of emergency services teams and engineers continued to work last night to pinpoint the cause of the tragedy. Wife of brain-damaged man who suffered catastrophic injuries while defending a boy from being bullied says she wants to be the ‘first person’ his teen attacker sees when he walks free Alan Willson, 47, was battered with a 3ft wooden log in a park on Easter Sunday last year following a row over a frisbee at a park in Worthing, West Sussex.

Public tell MPs to quit committee amid accusations that bid to make Boris Johnson answer for Partygate is a ‘witch-hunt’ Constituents of Tory MPs on the ‘witch-hunt’ committee investigating Boris Johnson last night called on them to quit. I’m waltzing on to Strictly to find love! Lower-sodium salt CAN cut risk of stroke and heart attack by helping to lower blood pressure, study suggests A team from Harbin Medical University, China , examined five studies into salt, involving over 24, people.

Relief for students as interest rates on loans are slashed to 6. Parents tighten their belts with fewer trips and treats for children this summer as cost of living bites Becca Lyon, head of child poverty at Save The Children, said: ‘These findings show overwhelmingly the cost of living crisis is putting untold strain on parents over the summer break.

Rishi Sunak says Boris Johnson is ‘responsible for his own downfall’ as Tory hustings audience BOO man for accusing ex-chancellor of ‘wielding the knife’ that brought him down – but Liz Truss says she would AXE Commons probe into PM if she could The ex-chancellor defended his resignation last month as he was grilled at a hustings in Darlington tonight. Top Tory’s slur at critics of Boris Johnson probe as he accuses them of launching ‘terror campaign’ over Partygate Senior Tory Sir Bernard Jenkin pictured faced a backlash tonight after he claimed there was a ‘terrorist campaign’ to discredit the Commons investigation into Boris Johnson over Partygate.

University bosses slap trigger warnings on more than 1, texts including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dickens over ‘challenging’ content An investigation has revealed ten institutions – including three from the elite Russell Group – have either withdrawn books or made them optional in case they harm undergraduates.

Stomach-churning pictures show inside filthy Chinese takeaway that was shut down by health inspectors for the SECOND time in four years – as its owner admits 13 hygiene offences China House takeaway has been blasted for ‘putting the grim in Grimsby’ after health inspectors released stomach-churning pictures from inside. The Pogues’ bass player Darryl Hunt dies age 72 as band pays tribute with lyrics from hit song ‘Love You ‘Till The End’ The punk group said this evening they were ‘saddened beyond words’ to share that Hunt, who began as a roadie then as a bassist for the band, had died on Monday afternoon in London.

Heat health alert comes into effect at TODAY: Amber ‘level three’ warning across England will put children, elderly and vulnerable at risk as temperatures soar to mid’s and Met Office issues ‘exceptional’ fire severity risk The Met Office said temperatures are likely to soar into the low to mids in central and southern parts of the UK later by Thursday. Don’t want your ex to see you’re online?

Beware the deadly utensils in your kitchen: ‘Forever chemicals’ on popular cooking products including non-stick pans could QUADRUPLE risk of liver cancer, study finds A new study finds that exposure to ‘forever chemicals’ on many household goods can significantly increase a person’s liver cancer risk. Water park where year-old girl drowned on inflatable assault course faces health and safety probe as police quiz staff at the site Officials with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead are poised to launch a probe once Thames Valley Police have concluded their inquiries into the death of Kyra Hill at the Liquid Leisure park.

Olivia Newton-John shared final heartbreaking photo with husband John Easterling just three days before she passed away from cancer aged 73 – as Hollywood mourns one of its brightest stars The star shared one final heartbreaking throwback image on Instagram on Friday, left , just three days before she passed away from cancer aged Dockers at Port of Felixstowe will strike for eight days from August 21 as workers reject ‘improved’ pay offer after last-ditch talks Members of the Unite union at the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk pictured – the UK’s biggest container port – are set to walk out for eight days from August The witch hunt continues: No10 officials turn on Boris Johnson saying they are prepared to tell Partygate probe that he DID mislead Parliament as pressure grows on Tories including Bernard Jenkin to quit investigation over attack on ‘dishonest philanderer’ Three members of staff who worked with the PM have indicated they could give evidence to a Parliamentary probe that his supporters claim is a ‘witch hunt’ against him.

Ryanair crew start FIVE months of strikes which could cause chaos for up to 1. Monster of the deep! Boris Johnson said being foreign secretary was ‘like being in a steel condom’ because civil servants tried to prevent him making gaffes, ex-Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson claims She revealed the bizarre comment as she spoke about her life in politics at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Water park where year-old girl drowned remains closed as police probe tragedy and tributes pour in for ‘beautiful little girl’ who went missing on inflatable assault course Two security guards stood at the entrance to the Liquid Leisure theme park near Datchet, Berkshire this morning, with ‘closed’ signs plastered on the metal entrance gates, after Kyra Hill’s death. The quiet quitters: Why that disinterested colleague in the office could just be disillusioned with the job ‘Quiet quitters’ are those who are switched off from their jobs and do the bare minimum in the workplace.

More babies born out of wedlock in for the first time on record and British women in their 40s now twice as likely to give birth than teens The latest Office for National Statistics data shows just Soldier in his 20s dies suddenly just weeks after his girlfriend, 23, who was Gunner with Royal Horse Artillery was found hanged at an Army base Bombardier Ross Burnside pictured had been in a relationship with Gunner Sophie Madden, 23, whose body was discovered at St Martin’s Plain Camp near Folkestone, Kent in June.

Fury as star of Channel 5s ‘The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door’ dumps remains of ‘eyesore’ static caravan on public lawn outside her home as it is finally demolished following years of complaints from locals Lillie Goddard’s pictured neighbours have slammed her half-baked attempts at demolition, which has left the caravan in pieces across the garden and ‘spewing out’ onto public grass areas.

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And as a statement of intent, Iron Man is pretty near unbeatable. Robert Downey Jr has now officially shuffled off the iron suit, but he leaves a pretty feisty legacy behind him. Talk of a remake — possibly overseen by Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn — rumbles on. Twenty-four years before creating Jurassic Park , Michael Crichton directed his own screenplay for the first time with this cautionary tale about another fail-safe theme park attraction going seriously awry.

The setup — Arctic scientists find something vast and otherworldly buried in the ice — is magical, and the script doctored by an uncredited Howard Hawks, king of the masculine-archetypes-in-peril movie fizzes with invention. Best of all, director Christian Nyby creates a genuinely irksome sense of impending dread, keeping the creature in shadow for much of the film.

Fresh off the massive success of Aliens , James Cameron spent three years and a boatload of studio cash bringing this daunting pet project to the screen.

The sci-fi set-up is mostly an excuse for Woody to indulge some fairly slapstick physical comedy revolving around a man quite literally out of time and place. As Vietnam raged and global revolution beckoned, a small group of filmmakers found solace in other worlds, whether the chilly future of But when the project goes awry, Ridder finds himself lost in time, reliving the breakdown of his relationship with early-model Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Catrine Georges-Picot.

Like science itself, sci-fi loves to probe the nature of what we call reality — in films as diverse as Blade Runner and Solaris , questions about subjective perception versus objective fact form the core of the story. In the unnamed urban sprawl of the title, a killer is on the loose.

Starting from a simple murder mystery and building inexorably outwards from there, Proyas introduces us to a world where — in that overused but here entirely appropriate phrase — nothing is as it seems. The ending is a stone-cold brain-melter. The first Mad Max had a faint whiff of sci-fi, but that could have been the desolation of the Aussie landscape conjuring up visions of post-nuclear hell.

With his follow-up, writer-director George Miller went all out: the world is now a dustbowl populated by rampaging mutants, petrified normals and one brutal lawgiver, and they all have one thing in common — a lust for the black gold. It opens with engineering works at the fictional Hobbs End Underground station, where workers uncover the remains of early human ancestors. Excavation on the site reveals what the army believe is a massive, unexploded World War Two bomb.

But not even the Nazis masterminded explosives containing insectoid alien dwarfs with horns…. The perfect meeting of sci-fi and horror, the Quatermass series influenced everything from The result is one of the great communal movie-going experiences of the modern age, and a gauntlet thrown down to all future sci-fi blockbuster directors: get real, or go home.

Regardless, the film found a passionate audience, one that dug the lanky, thoughtful style of breakout newcomer Jake Gyllenhaal and his equally appealing older sister Maggie. The plot concerns alternate realities, personal sacrifice, a fateful Halloween party and, yes, Sparkle Motion. Donnie Darko works best as a compendium of free-floating high-school anxieties; props to the cameoing Patrick Swayze for so thoroughly puncturing his cool for the sake of something so weird and visionary.

So few films stand entirely alone. Funded by Monkee Mike Nesmith and shot by Cox when he was fresh out of UCLA film school, Repo Man is outsider art at its most accessible, comedy at its most unusual and science fiction at its most absurd.

Make Room! Where our food comes from today is more shady and dystopian than ever. Show this one to an organics-only freak you love. The most renowned anime film made outside Studio Ghibli opens with an apparent nuclear explosion in Tokyo, ends with a Big Bang and hardly lets up in between. The plot is far too unwieldy to be summarised here; suffice to say that it involves biker gangs, wrinkled little children and psychokinetic mutants wreaking havoc in a post-apocalyptic Japan.

The cityscape, stunningly animated in mostly nocturnal scenes a notorious challenge to animators , reimagines post-war Hiroshima in a Blade Runner guise, all crumbling skyscrapers and mutated life forms.

But for all its technical bravura, Akira works because it presents a nasty vision of what military experiments might inflict on mankind, and remains frighteningly plausible even in its wildest moments.

Subsequent entries to the franchise attempted to flesh out the lore of the species in question, but none of them come close to the original, which recognizes this is not a situation that requires much exposition. Neither gets an answer. Fantastic Planet examines what happens when a civilised people tries to subdue and tame a savage one — an allegory of colonialism, if you will.

The world that the characters inhabit, at once futuristic and primordial, looks like a cross between Tatooine and a Dali dreamscape: dinosaurs mingle with tentacled aliens while headless humanoid statues abruptly spring to life. Buy, rent or watch ‘Fantastic Planet’. The set-up is fairly simple: an alien lands on Earth and tries to fit in while also having to sate an appetite for human flesh by assuming the form of a beautiful woman Scarlett Johansson and luring keen men to their deaths.

Like much superior sci-fi, the genre elements mainly exist to cast new light on our world as it is. Satire in science fiction is nothing new — but creating a perfect balance of entertainment and politics requires a particular set of skills.

To date, the crown prince of ferocious action movies with blunt-as-a-brick subtext has to be Paul Verhoeven, whose three films on this list RoboCop , Total Recall and this gem are the work of an artist equally interested in thrilling his audience, offending their sensibilities and making them think. The attacks against American imperialism and Hollywood shallowness come thick and fast, culminating in one of the most striking images in all of sci-fi as Neil Patrick Harris, in full Gestapo dress, prepares to send a platoon of terrified teenage boys into battle.

Another film that balances on the edge of science fiction — perhaps explaining its relatively low placing on this list. Rumours of a reboot emerge on an almost daily basis. Is Carl Sagan the unsung hero of modern science fiction? We often hear about the scientists who were inspired by his Cosmos TV series. Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a middle-aged man who lives alone in an apartment overlooking a skyline of skyscrapers the film was partly shot in Shanghai and whose day job involves writing emotional handwritten letters on behalf of strangers.

Theodore is going through a divorce and falls head over heels in love with an operating system, Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Rather than go heavy on developments in technology, Jonze prefers to use them to explore more timeless ideas about love, relationships and what we expect from a partner.

No one saw this one coming. District 9 was a moderately budgeted directorial debut shot in South Africa; it featured no recognisable stars; the accents were impenetrable and the cultural reference points obscure; it was politically aware, brutally violent and filled with extreme body horror.

The story of an obnoxious middle-manager — played to the smirking hilt by the magnificent Copley — who becomes infected with an alien spore, District 9 revels in its cutting-edge effects, grotty township realism and the Afrikaans accent.

Only one Star Trek adventure managed to crack our top though First Contact missed out by the slimmest of margins , but then the series never did have quite the same broad appeal as their more easy-to-swallow Star Wars rivals. But is it all just a dream, a memory, a Messianic vision — or all of the above?

The script is bursting at the seams with wild ideas. Never a critical favourite, the French filmmaking magnate Luc Besson has resolutely persisted in following his own idiosyncratic taste, and this wayward fantasy has an individuality distinct from Hollywood formula.

But boy, did Besson assemble a crack team to visualise it. It may have been written and shot in the Reagan era, but God does They Live feel relevant now. Three years before The Artist reminded audiences that silent films exist, Pixar played the neater trick of channelling the pre-talkie era into a luscious computer-animated cartoon.

Unable to manage their waste output, humans have evacuated Earth, leaving robots behind to clean up the mess. Eventually both of the key creators behind Dark Star would be involved in significantly scarier movies — one directed Halloween , the other wrote Alien Soon enough, though, they have other problems to worry about, like the bouncy alien — who looks like a beach ball with claws — wandering the corridors, or the malfunctioning talking bomb that tries to existentially justify its need to explode and kill everyone onboard.

The next time you hear a friend bemoaning the Hollywood remake factory, send them a link to this list. As the film progresses, the clammy hand of paranoia tightens its grip — and the final shot is a sucker-punch like no other.

The film admirably credits the audience with the intelligence to decipher the clues in its elliptical narrative, gradually picking its way towards a state somewhere between paranoid anxiety and head-spinning dizziness. For this story, Page and co are employed on an upping-the-ante mission: to insert rather than remove an idea into the head of a corporate bigwig Cillian Murphy in order to sate the ambitions of a business rival Ken Watanabe.

Most memorable are some jaw-dropping set pieces where Nolan and his team ostentatiously flex their special-effects muscles, most notably a scene that sees Page and DiCaprio walk through Paris as the streets appear to fold up and over before their eyes. With his orange hair and a perceptible coked-up jitteriness, Bowie is perfect as the alien, Thomas Jerome Newton: spiky, awkward, uncomfortable in his own skin.

But the real stranger in this strange land was cult director Nicolas Roeg, fascinated by the American Southwest — its listless nurses the brilliant Candy Clark and bored college professors a fearless Rip Torn.

The movie is filled with daydreamers desperate for a sense of purpose. They instead find television, guns, alcohol and inertia. Star Trek fandom was a phenomenon just begging to be lampooned, as that wonderfully dry, mismatched original cast grudgingly surrendered their lives to a legion of mega-nerds in jumpsuits with Plasticine stuck to their faces. An object lesson in the art of the affectionate pastiche, Galaxy Quest rounds up the usual sci-fi serial suspects — the macho captain Tim Allen , the window-dressing female Sigourney Weaver , the Shakespearian thesp Alan Rickman — and pulls the old Three Amigos trick of plunging them into a real intergalactic war.

The result is wickedly smart and knowingly in-jokey without ever ahem alienating the non-nerds. The fact that it placed higher on this list than any of the official Trek movies speaks volumes, although we await the furious comments… TH.

In a future where plants have become extinct on earth, a handful of starships act as greenhouses, preserving the few remaining specimens in the hope of eventually reforesting the planet.

He rebels, kills his co-workers and heads off to tend to his plants with a couple of trusty robots in tow. The film may not have aged perfectly we can live without those willowy Joan Baez numbers , and Lowell is a bit of a blowhard. But the message is eternal: whatever the risks, man must be his own saviour. This being Hollywood, suave Michael Rennie was perfectly cast as the angular alien — after all, he came from the distant galaxy of Bradford.

All well and good until the security system failsis tampered with and a T-Rex and friends go on a chomping rampage. The cast, led by Sam Neill as a gruff, kid-hating paleontologist and Jeff Goldblum as a chaos-theory rockstar, is an absolute delight.

And Spielberg knows how to build a nail-biter of a set-piece, like the now iconic but ever so tense velociraptor kitchen sequence or the central tyrannosaurus attack that was a landmark showcase for then-nascent CGI technology and which, over 25 years later, still looks pretty impressive. While the film’s numerous sequels hagve varied in quality — definitely avoid the third outing — Jurassic Park remains a gold standard when it comes to huge Hollywood blockbusters.

Effectively, the film splits society into three species: warlike gorillas, intellectual orangutans and cautious chimpanzees what happened to the gibbons?

A recent run of entertaining prequels have only served to enrich the original. Don’t despair, struggling filmmakers: you can make your sci-fi classic without a James Cameron-sized budget or any budget, really. Nor do you need a feature-length running time or, amazingly, a motion-picture camera. Inspired by Hitchcock’s hypnotically romantic Vertigo , French New Waver Chris Marker created this minute photo-roman composed almost solely of black-and-white stills, coupled with haunted narration.

In it, Paris is reduced to radioactive rubble, but scientists living underground hope to send a dreamer back in time via his strong memories of an alluring woman. The guy sees her in his mind, they begin to flirt and fall in love, and who can blame him if he never wants to return? Marker lived long enough to see his fatalistic vision become a Bruce Willis movie, 12 Monkeys , but the original can’t be beat for sheer elegance. Kubrick and Burgess were satirising new forms of psychotherapy, while Cold War totalitarianism was also on their minds.

Sci-fi fans will also appreciate that a minor character, Julian, is played by Dave Prowse, aka Darth Vader. Establishment scaremongering about the communist threat against American freedom of conscience seemingly underpins this drumhead-tight B-thriller about sinister extraterrestrial pods taking over small-town California in its sleep.

Buy, rent or watch ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’. Bruce Willis plays a low-level criminal in a future earth destroyed by disease, sent back in time to trace the roots of the plague. In the process he manages to fall in love with Madeleine Stowe fair enough and gets banged up in a mental institution where he stumbles upon Brad Pitt in one of his first and finest roles as a demented, jittery environmental terrorist.

But this is such a bizarre mind-fuck of a film that it hardly matters. Plus, you get to see our Bruce wearing a blonde wig and Hawaiian shirt, which is a huge bonus. Oscar Isaac chills as Nathan, the psychopathic yet charismatic billionaire founder of the search engine company that protagonist Caleb, played by Domhnall Gleeson, works for.

Circumstances send David on a dangerous journey to discover his maker, a nightmarish trek with many allusions to that other lost boy, Pinocchio that includes a sinister mechanical gigolo Law , a tech-phobic Flesh Fair, a visit to a half-submerged Manhattan and a controversial, highly emotional climax that lingers in the heart and the mind.

Gondry became more capable than his usual craftsy music videos, and Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter, proved himself deeper than his reputation suggested. The biggest revelation comes in the shape of Jim Carrey and his turn as the squirmingly uncomfortable Joel.

Meanwhile, Kate Winslet plays Clementine, one of the great sphinxes in modern movies: voluminous, punkish, soulful, cherishable. She would be hard to forget after a breakup. Let it be stressed: at the root of every great sci-fi film is a killer script, not special effects or lasers.

It helps when your star is Michael J Fox, captured at the peak of his youthful heroism. Add to this some still-impressive effects, a wonderful swooping electronic score and the dry, ironic presence of that mechanical icon Robbie the Robot, and the result is a film that stands up to modern scrutiny at every turn.

Is there another film that leaves audiences as sick to the stomach as The Fly? You watch Children of Men with a sinking feeling. Everything in this nightmare vision of the future is recognisable. What qualifies it as sci-fi is the setting and global infertility crisis — no child has been born since Like the city, Clive Owen, a pen-pusher at the Ministry of Energy, is a shell of a man, talked by his ex, the leader of a terrorist guerrilla group, into aiding an African refugee.

Our human protagonist is Kris Kelvin Donatas Banionis , a grief-stricken scientist still mourning his long-dead wife, Hari. After an earthbound prologue that culminates in a mesmerising drive through an otherworldly metropolis, Kelvin journeys to a space station orbiting Solaris, a sentient planet that apparently has the power to resurrect dead beings.

In the midst of investigating these claims, his spouse Natalya Bondarchuk miraculously reappears, and things only get stranger from there. With Aliens , James Cameron proved his mastery of the stakes-raising sequel. But in terms of budget, scope and epic action, Terminator 2 took it to a whole new level. Cameron had pioneered CGI in The Abyss , but T2 went a step further: limbs transform into swords, machines assume the forms of men and that final shape-shifting freakout, while undeniably dated, is still wildly inventive.

Forget all the time-hopping, helicopter-exploding and banging on about destiny — at heart, this is a story about people, whether real or fabricated: their loves, their friendships, their failings and their regrets.

It may have been loosely based on a science fiction novel — Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky — but Stalker pushes the definition further than just about any other film on this list. But it also deals with the sheer overwhelming monotony of everyday life and the crushing depression of solitude.

We only wish that more contemporary sci-fi emphasised ideas over explosions. Even the sequels, which were maligned at the time, are worth a revisit and still provide an edge-of-you-seat popcorn experience. Two decades later, The Matrix remains sci-fi at its smartest.

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