Yes we reach half way in our festive movie round-up and enter the top five best and worst movies of the year. At number five we look at Danny Boyle's Sci-Fi triumph Sunshine and Marvel Comic disaster Ghost Rider.

No 5 The Best: Sunshine
Danny Boyle has become best known for 28 Days Later which once again placed British film making on the map.Moving away from the run of the mill horror film Boyle is back with his exciting sci-fi flick Sunshine.The best thing about this film is the market at which it's aimed: subject matter and plot are not dumbed down to appeal to children Sunshine is an intelligent adult sci-fi.

Boyle tackles a major, and realistic, threat what would happen should the star which provides life on this planet die.

It very subtly highlights the environmental problems that the planet is currently facing without rubbing it in the face of the audience.

It 's a a pity that so many people missed this film when it got it's theatrical release earlier this year.

Boyle cleverly mixes element of sci-fi spectacular with an intimate drama it's an intensely claustrophobic, psychological thriller where the crew have no where to run and no where to hide.

Despite good performances from this superb cast the starring role goes to the sun itself. The huge spectacle indifferent and ominous injects jeopardy and terror into the film as Icarus 2 cowers behind it's huge heat reflecting shield as humanities last hope.

However when watching Sunshine you must realise that the scenarios that the crew find themselves in would not stand up under scrutiny and, in may place are very far fetched, and this requires a leap of faith from the audience.

Despite this the sheer size of Sunshine is truly breathtaking. It's an intensely visual experience, which accompanied by a powerful score, is to be felt as well as seen that the small screen doesn't do it justice.

No 5 The Worst: Ghost Rider

2007 saw yet another Marvel Comic character make it to the silver screen following in the footsteps of Spiderman, X-Men and The Fantastic Four.

Johnny Blaze (Cage) was only a teenaged stunt biker when he sold his soul to the devil (Fonda) to save his dying father.

Years later, Mephistopheles is back to claim his part of the bargain.

A world famous daredevil by day, at night Blaze is transformed into the fearsome Ghost Rider and condemned to work as the devils bounty hunter, bringing evil souls on earth back to hell.

There really are very few positive aspects that can be taken from this film, Ghost Rider is one of Marvel's lesser known characters and on the basis of this mess it should have stayed that way.

At the helm was director Mark Steven Johnson, who destroyed the Daredevil franchise before it had even began, so a high quality movie looked highly unlikely.

Leading man Nicholas Cage claims to be a big fan of Ghost Rider yet there is little evidence of this and his performance is bland at best.

Eva Mendes is wasted in her role her main purpose is only to be a damsel in distress and nothing more plus she has zero chemistry with Cage which doesn't help matters.

While the action scenes will get your attention back towards the screen they will do very little to excite. The CGI guys to their best with Johnny Blaze's alter ego but the flames really are no that convincing.

This really could have been the start of a great franchise but in the hands of a poor director, he also wrote the script, it just limps along for a painful 114 minutes.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw