Science Fiction

• Videodrome | Blu Ray | (26/12/2011) from £105.87   |  Saving you £-86.62 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Lowlife cable TV operator Max Renn discovers a snuff TV broadcast called Videodrome which is much more than it seems.It's an experiment that causes brain damage. Max is caught in the middle of the forces that created and the forces that want to control Videodrome, his body itself turning into the ultimate weapon to fight them.

• 20 Million Miles To Earth | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Notable neither for its director nor its stars, 20 Million Miles to Earth has been given the widescreen spit 'n' polish treatment because of its special-effects man, the legendary Ray Harryhausen. And it's his work here that makes this daft slice of hokum so watchable. When a group of Italian boat fishermen investigate a crash-landed space rocket returned from a trip to Venus, they find one surviving all-American hero and an alien in aspic: the Emere, a tiny homunculus hungry for sulphur and growing faster than a teenager on steroids. Cue man-vs-alien mayhem, screenfuls of avuncular patriarchs and the gratuitous destruction of Rome. A by-numbers B-movie, Harryhausen's sixth feature isn't a patch on his later Technicolor masterpieces, but the unusual Italian setting ("I wanted a trip to Europe") adds an exotic quality and his effects are as solid and convincing as ever. The film only really begins to crackle when his stop-motion creation is onscreen. Like a scaly King Kong, he's as likely to engender sympathy as fear: surely anyone who's been bombed, blasted, burnt, electrocuted, shot at by trigger-happy squaddies and involved in a punch-up with a pachyderm is entitled to lose their rag a little. And fans will enjoy spotting in the Emere the flowerings of Harryhausen's later and greater creations, Sinbad's Cyclops and The Titans' Calibos and Kraken. The denouement, with the creature atop the Colosseum, is as effective as that of Kong's. It wasn't beauty who killed the beast here, however, it was bombs. On the DVD: 20 Million Miles to Earth's black and white picture is clean and crisp in this anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen transfer, and the Dolby digital mono soundtrack is clear enough. The theatrical trailer will please fans of kitsch, as will the featurette "This Is Dynamation" produced at the same time as the first Sinbad movie. The real corker here, though, is the generously lengthed documentary "The Harryhausen Chronicles". Narrated by Leonard Nimoy, this features a stellar cast of devotees (George Lucas among them) waxing lyrical about the influence of Harryhausen's films, and allows the man himself to ramble fascinatingly over clips of his filmic canon. The claw-slash menu marker is a nice touch, too. If you're a fan, this disc is Harryhausen heaven. --Paul Eisinger

• The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek | DVD | (25/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Recon 2020 - The Caprini Massacre | DVD | (01/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre

• Cyborg She | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £6.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (56.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A lonesome college student named Jiro (Keisuke Koide) is spending his 20th birthday alone when suddenly a beautiful cyborg girl (Haruka Ayase) turns up. The few hours that he spends with her are the most incredible moments of his life and Jiro is overwhelmed by his good-fortune in meeting her. But his happiness does not last for long since she disappears after that. A year later on his 21st birthday Jiro runs into her again. At least she looks the same but this time she is somehow different. It is the beginning of a love that would change his life forever...

• Empathy Inc | Blu Ray | (11/05/2020) from £9.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Walk a mile in someone else. After a multimillion-dollar deal goes bust, disgraced venture capitalist Joel (Zack Robdis, Succession) and his actress wife Jessica (Kathy Searle, The Good Guy) are forced to move in with her overbearing parents and try and start their lives again. Desperate to get back on top, Joel runs into old friend Nicolaus (Eric Berryman, Marriage Story) and his business partner Lester (Jay Klaitz, Jessica Jones) tech entrepreneurs seeking new investors for their company Empathy, Inc. Offering users the chance to experience X-VR Xtreme Virtual Reality, they place them in the shoes of the much less fortunate to make them appreciate just how good they have it. As the investments start to roll in, Joel soon discovers that this start-up may have far more sinister plans for their ground-breaking tech which comes with a terrible cost... With shades of Pi, The Twilight Zone and Primer and exploring themes of identity crisis, poverty tourism and the greed of humanity, Empathy, Inc. is a twisted virtual reality chiller for the modern tech age that will really get under your skin Special Edition Contents: High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original LPCM Stereo 2.0 Audio soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing New audio commentary with director Yedidya Gorsetman and writer Mark Leidner Behind the scenes 360 (degrees) Deleted Scenes International Trailer UK Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Barnes Brutal Posters First Pressing Only: Collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the film by Brian Tallerico

• Jupiter Moon - Volume 2 - Episodes 12 To 20 | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Episodes 12 to 20 of Jupiter Moon first broadcast on BSB's Galaxy Channel in 1990.... The spaceship Ilea is paralysed captured within a cloud of matter that seems able to think and to foil all the ship's efforts to escape. Worse still the Ilea's H2 extractor plant is able to supply oxygen for only a few more days and the magnetic shield is giving way. While the students and crew work desperately to create a defence space-criminal Alex Hartmann (Jason Durr) makes a tempting off

• The Tribe - Season 2 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the wake of a deadly virus that has wiped out the adult population the children of the world must now survive on their own. The sophisticated hi-tech society that their forefathers created has collapsed into confusion anarchy and fear. It is in this dangerous new world where The Tribe must construct a new culture in their own image and learn that in the aftermath of a disaster there come fresh opportunity and new responsibility. The future is theirs to create. Contains all 52 e

• Four Sided Triangle UHD | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hard-living Hollywood starlet Barbara Payton stars as a woman duplicated through technology in this cautionary tale that mixes Home Counties horror with prescient science fiction (Hammer's first). Co-starring Stephen Murray as the unbalanced scientist and directed by Hammer legend Terence Fisher, Four Sided Triangle is featured here as a brand-new 4K restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Lena returns to her home after many years to discover that her two childhood friends Bill and Robin are now scientists and have created a machine that can perfectly duplicate objects. Bill's heart is broken when he realises that Lena loves Robin until he hits on the mad idea to duplicate Lena in his machine.Extras:Commentary by Melanie Williams and Thirza Wakefieldwith commentary by Kevin Lyons and Jonathan RigbyTrailerIn the Sticks Sci-Fi!Terence Fisher featurette TITLE TBCI Am Not AshamedImage Gallery

• Moonfall UHD Blu-ray: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• She | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £16.13   |  Saving you £-0.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hammer's She might be a travesty of Rider Haggard's epic adventure novel, scaling things down to fit into a budget lavish only by the studio's low standards. At least the film opens with the unexpected sight of Peter Cushing and Bernard Cribbins in a dive in Palestine in 1919, shimmying with belly-dancers and brawling with the locals John Ford-style. Less entertainingly the film then switches attention to blonde clod John Richardson who is dreamily visited by blonde goddess Ursula Andress--her eerie beauty enhanced by the usual Hammer trick of dubbing the foreign crumpet with a posh voice.Our adventurers are given a map which leads them through deserts and mountains to the lost city of Kuma, an Egyptian-style civilisation ruled by Ayesha. This immortal She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed has been unaccountably waiting for Richardson to be reincarnated ever since she pettishly killed him thousands of years ago. In this reading, She is an Aryan fascist given to tipping those who displease her into a pit of molten lava. Her final comeuppance--as she bathes again in the blue flame of immortality and finds the process reversed so she suffers one of Hammer's patented Dracula dissolves to dust--takes place during a native uprising which overthrows her whole corrupt regime.The leads look terrific but can't act for beans so it's a mercy that stalwarts Cushing and Christopher Lee (as the treacherous High Priest) are on hand, not to mention Cribbins (comedy servant in bowler hat), Andre Morell and Rosenda Monteros.The James Bernard music is enchanting in a way Robert Day's direction sadly isn't, but the sets and (especially) costumes are splendid and the film has its moments of magic and terror: as the centurion pours out the remains of Morell's daughter from a jar, as the flame burns blue and the lovers bathe in it.On the DVD: the 2.35:1 widescreen print is in very good shape. Otherwise, there's not even a trailer. --Kim Newman

• The Complex: Lockdown | DVD | (26/10/2020) from £7.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. With choose-your-own-path game play, your actions and your relationship with other characters will lead you to one of eight suspenseful endings. Having treated the victims of a chemical attack in the totalitarian state of Kindar, Dr Amy Tenant is a leader in the advancement of Nanocell Technology. Now, in London, news breaks of a blood-vomiting civilian whose identity is far from coincidental. Reunited with an old friend, Amy is trapped in an impenetrable HQ of laboratories-a womb of scientific advancement with a perilous secret.

• Charlie Jade - Complete Season 1 Box Set (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £37.01 (285.13%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Charlie Jade is a science fiction television drama set in Cape Town South Africa in three parallel universes named Alpha Beta amd Gamma (or Alphaverse Betaverse and Gammaverse). The series revolves around Charlie Jade a private detective from Alpha. While on an investigation Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (Alpha) to a strange parallel universe (Beta). Soon Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (Gamma).

• Oblivion Island: Huraka And The Magic Mirror | DVD | (01/04/2013) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the driector of GANTZ and Studio Production IG (Ghost In The Shell). 16-year-old Haruka is on a mission to find her mirror - a precious childhood gift from her mother that mysteriously disappeared. While following a strange fox-like creature in the woods, she tumbles into a mystical world where once-cherished toys and treasures go when their owners neglect them. Join Haruka and her new friend Teo on a roller coaster ride of adventure as they contend with the island's greedy ruler, who w...

• Neon Genesis Evangelion - Death And Rebirth | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £29.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Welcome to the Apocalypse... At the dawn of the new millennium mankind has awakened a threat unlike any faced before - The Angels. Conventional weapons are useless against them. They can only be stopped by means of the Evangelions bio-engineered vessels born from the Angels' own technology. But this forbidden knowledge is also the key to bringing about a startling new genesis for the human race. Placed in the hands of three young pilots the final fate of humanity resting upon their shoulders the Evas are the world's last hope... From the Animators at Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell Blood: The Last Vampire) & Studio GAINAX (The Wings of Honneanmise) comes the first half of the sensational Two Part conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion saga. Featuring groundbreaking animated action sequences and mind-blowing dramatic revelations. Death and Rebirth is truly a composition of epic proportions!

• Weather Wars | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £4.02   |  Saving you £8.97 (223.13%)   |  RRP £12.99

  EARTH UNDER SIEGE - A young scientist revels in his creation of a supercomputer that can stop the effects of climate change and catastrophic weather. When the computer's artificial intelligence advances, it creates deadly storms to stop the military from controlling it or shutting it down. It's up to the scientist to outsmart his own creation, survive the disasters unleashed upon him, and save the planet from devastation.

• Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.0 | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £12.00   |  Saving you £27.99 (233.25%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Last season Starbuck returned. As did the President's Cancer. Baltar was freed but not forgiven. Four Cylons were revealed. One remains unknown. Relive the events in all 10 episodes of Season Four of Battlestar Galactica with this 3 disc Blu-Ray box set in 5.1 Surround Sound. It includes the feature length Razor deleted scenes and a sneak peek into the Final Season. Watch as humanity's last survivors struggle to be free as the end of the race to find earth is drawing ever closer. Destiny is not what it seems.

• Farscape: Complete Season 1 (Box Set) | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The first series of Farscape was a revitalising tonic for TV SF. An ambitious coproduction of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape launched itself with a refreshing mix of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry to take a visual leap beyond other genre shows. The witty scripts, too, peppered with double-entendres and pop-culture references, are light years away from the staid style of Star Trek. Admittedly, the first season's basic premise is simply Buck Rogers updated (American astronaut John Crichton, played by Ben Browder, is catapulted to a far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew initially have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it all look and feel completely original. --Mark Walker

• Survivors - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (26/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Conceived by Dr Who's Terry Nation Survivors is a groundbreaking and startlingly realistic television drama series. First aired in 1975 at the height of the Cold War the post-apocalyptic storylines immediately gripped the imagination of the British public and remains compelling viewing to this day. This digitally remastered DVD release includes all eleven hours of the second series.

• Bugs: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £12.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (92.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Follow the intrepid adventures of Ed Ros and Beckett as they track down hi-tech saboteurs and ruthless assassins. Episodes comprise: What Goes Up ...Must Come Down Bugged Wheat Whirling Dervish Black Out Gold Rush Schrodinger's Bomb Newton's Run The Bureau Of Weapons A Cage For Satan.