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2020s
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Byte-Sized Overview On the remote farming moon of Veldt, former soldier Kora has found an anonymous new life among a peaceful community.…
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2010s
Lucy
Byte-Sized Overview Lucy is an American living in Taipei whose new boyfriend forces her to deliver a locked briefcase to the heavily…
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2010s
10 Cloverfield Lane
Byte-Sized Overview After leaving her fiancé and driving away from New Orleans, Michelle is involved in a violent car accident. She awakens…
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1980s
RoboCop
Byte-Sized Overview Detroit police officer Alex Murphy is transferred to one of the city’s most dangerous precincts as the corporation controlling the…
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2010s
Star Trek Into Darkness
Byte-Sized Overview After violating Starfleet regulations to save an endangered civilisation, Captain James T. Kirk loses command of the Enterprise. His demotion…
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2010s
Star Trek Beyond
Byte-Sized Overview Three years into the Enterprise’s five-year mission, Captain James T. Kirk is beginning to question both his future and the…
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2000s
Star Trek (2009)
Byte-Sized Overview When the Romulan mining vessel Narada emerges from a black hole, its arrival changes history and leaves James T. Kirk…
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2020s
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Byte-Sized Overview After Mysterio reveals Spider-Man’s secret identity, Peter Parker’s private life collapses. He is investigated by the authorities, surrounded by hostile…
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Pre-1950
A Trip to the Moon
Byte-Sized Overview Six extravagantly dressed astronomers propose an expedition to the Moon, construct a bullet-shaped capsule and launch themselves into space using…
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2010s
Alien: Covenant
Byte-Sized Overview The colony ship Covenant is carrying thousands of sleeping passengers towards Origae-6, where its crew intends to establish a new…
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1990s
Alien: Resurrection
Byte-Sized Overview Two hundred years after Ellen Ripley sacrificed herself to destroy the alien queen she carried, military scientists decide that death…
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1990s
Alien 3
Byte-Sized Overview Alien 3 begins immediately after the apparent victory of Aliens. An emergency sends Ripley’s escape craft crashing onto Fiorina 161,…
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1980s
Aliens
Byte-Sized Overview Fifty-seven years after escaping the destruction of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is recovered from hypersleep and returned to a society…
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2020s
A Quiet Place: Day One
Byte-Sized Overview A Quiet Place: Day One returns to the beginning of the alien invasion, leaving the rural survivalism of the Abbott…
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2020s
A Quiet Place Part II
Byte-Sized Overview A Quiet Place Part II begins by briefly returning to the day the world changed, showing how an ordinary small-town…
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2010s
A Quiet Place
Byte-Sized Overview A fallen world is frightening enough when its survivors do not understand what destroyed it. In A Quiet Place, the…
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2020s
Mercy
Byte-Sized Overview: In Los Angeles in 2029, criminal justice has finally achieved maximum efficiency by removing lawyers, juries, lengthy trials and apparently…
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2020s
Project Hail Mary
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes aboard a spacecraft with two dead crewmates, no memory and absolutely no recollection of…
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2020s
The Tomorrow War
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When time travelers from 2051 interrupt the World Cup (rude) to announce that humanity is about to be wiped…
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2000s
Jumper
Byte-Sized Overview David Rice discovers his extraordinary ability as a teenager when a life-threatening accident causes him to teleport from a frozen…
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2010s
Riddick
Byte-Sized Overview Betrayed and abandoned on an apparently lifeless planet, Richard B. Riddick awakens badly injured and without transport. The world’s extreme…
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2000s
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When Joel discovers his ex-girlfriend Clementine has had all memories of their relationship erased, he impulsively decides to do…
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2010s
Chronicle
Byte-Sized Overview Andrew Detmer is a withdrawn Seattle teenager living with an abusive father and a seriously ill mother. He begins filming…
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2020s
Moonfall
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: The Moon has left the chat. It’s not orbiting — it’s plunging straight toward Earth. Cue rogue astronauts, unlikely…
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