The Old English epic poem is brought to magical life through the use of state-of-the-art motion capture and computer animation. His kingdom threatened by the troll Grendel, Danish King Hrothgar summons the famed warrior Beowulf, who must do battle against the evil monster before facing Grendel's vengeful mother and, finally, a fierce dragon. Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright Penn, John Malkovich lend their likenesses and voices to this gripping saga. Director's cut; 114minutes

Two generations from now, a climate change-ravaged Earth will depend on artificial oxygen-and a contamination to the supply looks to write man's last chapter. A single message is transported back to our present-InchSend Ethan WhyteInch-and how ordinary tunnel laborer Whyte (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is supposed to both reach and rescue the future fuels this stylish sci-fi saga from Australia. Ryan Kwanten, Leeanna Walsman, Deborah Mailman, Sana'a Shaik co-star. 114 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

In the early '80s, a Soviet space mission crashed back to Earth... and not all was right with the sole surviving cosmonaut (Pyotr Fyodorov). Confined to a research facility, it's found that he's now host to an alien being... and as a maverick researcher (Oksana Akinshina) is tasked by a calculating officer (Fyodor Bondarchuk) with separating him from the entity, all three might rue the end result. Provocative sci-fi shocker co-stars Anton Vasilev, Anna Nazarova. 114 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack Russian; Subtitles English. In Russian with English subtitles.