Here are our picks of the movies you should put on your radar if you enjoy cinematic depictions of future technology, from a couple of space station thrillers to a story that turns our current social media exhibitionist tendencies into an Orwellian take on the importance of privacy in a digital age.

The first of two 2017 movies that play in the oft-used sandbox of "things going wrong for a crew on a space station," Life recently dropped an exciting but curiously derivative trailer that looked technologically compelling, but frustratingly familiar. The short synopsis tells us, "a six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extraterrestrial life, but it proves to be more intelligent than expected." 

The film seems to be immersively playing up on the realism of the scenario, and while several moments in the trailer scream, "we want to do something like Gravity", that's not necessarily a bad thing. The strangest thing about the project is that it's written by the team behind Deadpool and Zombieland.