The Starship Enterprise is now halfway through its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. But when the Enterrprise is hit by repeated waves of unstoppable alien vessels and the crew need to abandon ship, they find themselves stranded on a hostile planet with no hope of rescue, in conflict with a ruthless unknown enemy who threatens everything the Federation stands for...

The reboot of Star Trek in 2009 was fairly popular, but the follow up Star Trek Into Darkness wasn’t as much so. Two of the key objections were that it was just recapping a bad guy and plot elements from previous movies, and it still remained very Earth-centric rather than actually going out anywhere into the depths of space to properly explore.

This third film immediately takes steps to remedy these problems, taking us somewhere completely new and alien and kicking our characters out of their comfort zone, while still giving us a strong guest-star bad guy (in this case, Idris Elba at maximum aggression). It also has a different director (Justin Lin, fresh off four Fast and Furious movies and ready for a franchise with slightly smaller muscles and slightly more brains), and changed screenwriters (Simon Pegg picks up the typewriter as well as continuing to play Scotty).

So why not boldly go to the Coombs Theatre to check it out?