Alien: Covenant

In this instalment of the sci-fi franchise, director Ridley Scott follows the space-booted footprints he made in 2012's Prometheus, and arguably a little too closely. The colony ship Covenant is on a years-long voyage to a new inhabitable planet, but skipper Billy Crudup decides on a detour when radios pick up a faint signal of human singing. On landing, the search party discovers evidence of the Prometheus, a ship that went missing ten years earlier. In terms of story, it's familiar creationism and origins-of-man stuff, but bloodier and gorier than its predecessor or any earlier films in the series. The characters aren't especially fully-formed or memorable, with the exception of Danny McBride's redneck pilot, and the returning Michael Fassbender as the android David from Prometheus, and his supposedly technically more finessed 2.0 version, Walter. Long-time fans of the movies will quickly realise no particularly new ground is broken, and pivotal plot points won't surprise anyone. Scary as all hell, but the story's been told before.