I found this site which collects the top movies that prophecies a dystopian future. dystopia is the opposite of utopia whereby the world descends close to chaos.

http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/

some of my favourite sci-fi flicks are in the list including blade runner, minority report, the matrix, twelve monkeys, serenity, ghost in the shell, akira, gattaca, dark city etc.

The new "Superman Returns" film is currently garnering positive reviews. What is interesting is that the film is directed by former X-Men & X2 director Bryan Singer. You will note that Rotten Tomatoes have given him a similar high score for the first two X-Men films (the third X-Men film was not directed by him and wasn't favoured by the critics). Singer also made quite an impact in "The Usual Suspects". He seems to understand the myth & mystery of larger than life characters. Perhaps the other director that can do good superhero films is Sam Raimi (Spider-man 1 & 2, Darkman).

Another 3 days to Christmas and another 10 days to the New Year. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are now approaching the final corner of the year and down to the start/finish straight.

I hope that for many of you 2005 was a great year. It certainly is for me, and many of the ingredients in 2005 would form a nice foundation for 2006: so I am looking forward to better things come end year and the new year 2006. And yeah, 2006 will be World Cup year - so more sleepless nights. As ever, I will be cheering out for Brazil. They are looking strong for retaining the cup. And for the second year running, Brazilian Ronaldinho was recently named FIFA World Player of the Year.