Best 5 films to stream this week

Discover the best 5 films to stream from 1 to 5 January 2025, as chosen by ScreenHub staff.
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Film (2024). This sci-fi horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its chest-busting, head-thrusting roots. While scavenging in a derelict space station, young colonisers come face-to-face with the most relentless and deadly life form in the universe.

That’ll teach them for being colonisers, and hopefully lead to some honest self-reflection on the desperately misguided hubris of colonisation, in deep space or otherwise … What about you just leave the space station alone? Don’t blame anyone but yourselves when things start climbing through your ribcage.

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Paul Dalgarno is author of the novels A Country of Eternal Light (2023) and Poly (2020); the memoir And You May Find Yourself (2015); and the creative non-fiction book Prudish Nation (2023). He was formerly Deputy Editor of The Conversation and joined ScreenHub as Managing Editor in 2022. X: @pauldalgarno. Insta: @dalgarnowrites