Sunshine

Rating: 8

Contrary to its perky title, Sunshine has a dark edge to it, probably because it comes from England and not from Hollywood. The director is Danny Boyle of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later. With any space movie, comparisons with other space movies are inevitable - Alien, 2001 and Solaris come to mind - but I still found Sunshine to have enough unexpected tweaks in the template to be engaging, frightening and fun.