The bad news is that the 80s remake (or “re-imagining”) craze is no longer confined only to the big screen. The good news, however, is that the remake of the 1883 TV miniseries V is actually pretty darn cool!

Retaining the basic premise from the original cult series, the pilot episode gets straight down to business. Within minutes the story has been set up, giant alien mother-ships [...]

If something ever goes wrong, just do what Hollywood does and blame it all on the Nazis. Seriously, if Paul McGuigan’s sci-fi thriller Push is anything to go by, they’re responsible for everything. In a ridiculously overloaded voice-over, Dakota Fanning’s character explains how Nazi experiments resulted in a breed of artificially enhanced humans with paranormal abilities. No, this not an episode of Heroes, but it might as well be; there are those who can use telekinesis, ‘Movers’, those who can draw the future, ‘Watchers’, and those who can control minds, ‘Pushers’. But that’s only the beginning; there are also ‘Sniffs’, ‘Stitchers’, ‘Wipers’, ‘Shadows’ and whole range of talents. You’re going to want to bring along a pen and some paper to this one, folks.