Science Fiction

• Chobits: The Chobits Collection | Blu Ray | (14/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A country boy, Hideki arrives in the big city to go to college. He is amazed by the variety and prevalence of Persocoms: personal computers designed to look and act like animals or even people! Too poor to afford one of his own, Hideki is overjoyed to discover a discarded Persocom in a trash heap. But this gift of fate turns into a mystery as his Persocom, Chi, appears to be able to operate without her OS. How real is real?

• Knowing/District 9/Moon | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £6.08   |  Saving you £13.91 (228.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Knowing: Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true. Rose Byrne (Damages Troy) Chandler Canterbury ( The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Lara Robinson (Saved) also star in this riveting feature from director Alex Proyas' (I Robot ). District 9: From producer Peter Jackson and director Neill Blomkamp comes a stunningly original sci-fi thriller throwing viewers headlong into an escalating conflict between alien refugees and Johannesburg locals. Only one man hunted and hounded will come to understand what it truly means to be an outsider. Moon: Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is just two weeks away from finishing a lengthy lonely contract mining Earth's primary source of energy Helium-3 on the dark side of the moon. Thanks to a glitch in the communications satellite Sam's only companion on this trip is Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey) the base's unsophisticated computer and the odd recorded message sent from home. As his contract nears termination Sam starts suffering from crippling headaches and vivid hallucinations which lead to a near-fatal accident in a lunar rover. But while he's recovering back at the base he makes a shocking discovery: a younger version of himself has arrived to fulfil the same contract Sam started all that time ago. Is the second Sam just another hallucination or something altogether more sinister?

• Helldriver (DVD) | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £11.00   |  Saving you £6.99 (63.55%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The absolutely insane Yoshihiro Nishimura director of Tokyo Gore Police and the amazing Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl is back with another foray into disturbing wonder with the Japanese zombie movie Helldriver. An alien-spawned mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan transforming those who inhale it into ravenous flesh-eating zombies. Plunged into chaos Japan is torn in two: the southern half of the country where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas lives behind a heavily-fortified wall while the northern half is a lawless zombie-infected wasteland. Hope arrives in the form of Kika (Yumiko Hara) a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government Kika leads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina from Audition Tokyo Gore Police) and put an end to the plague of the living dead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie population that refuses to lay down and die!

• Repo Man (1984) | Blu Ray | (20/02/2012) from £21.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (28.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Arguably the defining cult film of the Reagan era, the feature debut of Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy, Walker, Straight to Hell) is a genre-busting mash-up of atomic-age science fiction, post-punk anarchism, and conspiracy paranoia, all shot through with heavy doses of deadpan humour and offbeat philosophy.After quitting his dead-end supermarket job, young punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) is initiated as a repo man after a chance encounter with automobile repossessor Bud (Harry Dean Stanton). An illicit, high-voltage life follows, including an adrenalised search for a mysterious '64 Chevy Malibu loaded with radioactive – and extragalactic – cargo...With an iconic soundtrack (Iggy Pop, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies), stunning Robby Mller cinematography, and iconoclastic direction, Repo Man remains one of the great debuts of the 1980s. Special Director-Approved Blu-Ray Features: New high-definition master in the original aspect ratio – 1.85:1 Original mono soundtrack and 5.1 remix, both in DTS-HD Master Audio English SDH subtitles on the main feature Isolated music and effects track Audio commentary with Cox and executive producer Michael Nesmith, casting director Victoria Thomas, and actors Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss, and Del Zamora All-new 2012 video piece by Cox offering further thoughts on the film Repo Man (entire TV version) – this legendary variant, prepared by Cox for network television, incorporates deleted material and surreal overdubs in place of profanity Repossessed – a retrospective video piece on the making of the film, featuring Cox, producers Peter McCarthy and Jonathan Wacks, and actors Del Zamora, Sy Richardson, and Dick Rude The Missing Scenes – a roundtable viewing of deleted scenes from the film with Cox, executive producer Michael Nesmith, real-life neutron bomb inventor Sam Cohen, and character J. Frank Parnell Up Close with Harry Zen Stanton – an extended interview with the legendary actor Original theatrical trailer A 48-page full colour booklet specially created by Cox, entitled The Repo Code and incorporating all manner of Repo ephemera

• Bugs: Complete Series 4 | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  First broadcast on BBC1 in 1998 Bugs 4 is the final instalment in the seemingly never-ending exploits of Ed (Steven Houghton) who takes over the role from Craig McLachlan Ros (Jaye Griffiths) and Nick Beckett (Jesse Birdsall) who use high-tech devices to track down callous assassins ruthless organisations and brutal villians. Episodes comprise: 1. Absent Friends 2. Sacrifice to Science 3. Girl Power 4. The Two Becketts 5. Hell and High Water 6. Pandora's Box 7. Jewel

• Boa Vs. Python | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £8.38   |  Saving you £11.61 (138.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two of nature's biggest and most terrifying scaled predators square off in an action-filled battle of fangs! When a gigantic python is on the loose on a private reserve the FBI must release an equally large boa to track and capture it as a group of wealthy big game hunters try to bag the python as a trophy themselves...

• Komodo | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  I think they're contesting our place in the food chain", quips an Imperilled teen at an especially low moment of Komodo, a regulation trapped-with-monsters straight-to-video quickie. There was a millennial blip of such nature-on-the-rampage horrors in the year 2000 and Komodo settles comfortably onto the shelf with King Cobra, Blood Surf, They Nest, Crocodile, Spiders and Octopus. If you've seen all of them, you'll probably want to see this too--but don't say we didn't warn you. Komodo familiarly packs a few no-name actors to an island supposedly off the shore of Carolina (actually somewhere in Australasia and has them menaced by CGI creatures, then fighting back and beating the beasts. Though the title gives away the nature of the menace, ex-effects technician-turned-director Michael Lantieri keeps the monsters off-screen and purportedly mysterious for half the running time. Teenage Patrick (Kevin Zegers) is traumatised by the deaths of parents (and his dog) and retreats into an amnesiac fugue, but his psychiatrist Victoria (Jill Hennessy) brings him back to the site of the tragedy to stir his memories. It turns out that the local evil oil company has always known that a bunch of giant, flesh-eating lizards were on the loose but kept quiet about it for nebulously nefarious purposes. Oates (Billy Burke), a rebellious company minion, hooks up with Patrick (who shows unexpected resourcefulness in whipping up lizard traps) and the shrink and they have a last-reel confrontation with the monsters that allow for some very distant echoes of Jurassic Park. The CGI and model work is seamless but the monsters have too little personality and, despite their voracious appetites, require all manner of contrivances to bring their victims within snapping distance. Nice bit at the end though with a gory if not dramatic finale. --Kim Newman

• Weird Science | Blu Ray | (05/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gary and Wyatt are hardware mechanics who feed pictures of gorgeous women into the computer and magically create Lisa the perfect woman. Lisa helps them adjust their lives and takes the boys from zeroes to heroes.

• Revenge of the Creature (1955) DVD | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-2.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The follow up to Creature From The Black Lagoon Having survived being riddled with bullets at the end of the first film the Gill Man is captured and sent to the Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida where he is studied by animal psychologist Professor Clete Ferguson and student Helen Dobson. Helen and Clete quickly begin to fall in love much to the chagrin of Joe Hayes the Gill-man's keeper. The Gill-man takes an instant liking to Helen (as he did to Kay in the first film) which severely hampers Professor Ferguson's efforts to communicate with him. Ultimately the Gill-man escapes from his tank killing Joe in the process and flees to the open ocean. Unable to stop thinking about Helen he soon begins to stalk her and Ferguson ultimately abducting her from a seaside restaurant where the two are at a party. Clete tries to give chase but the Gill-man escapes to the water with his captive. Clete and the local law enforcement must now try to track down Helen and her amphibious abductor.

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 4 (Vol. 18) | DVD | (26/12/2001) from £6.54   |  Saving you £13.45 (67.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On the DVD: Episodes: Absolute Power, The Light, Prodigy, Entity. The Harcesis child Shifu (an excellent young Lane Gates) decides Earth needs a lesson in what would happen if it acquired the "Absolute Power" its powers-that-be are greedily after. Daniel is the unwitting test subject, and by the time we see him unflinchingly destroy Moscow it's apparent just what this lesson is. Seeing "The Light" in another way, SG-1 find themselves like moths to a flame on a seemingly abandoned planet. After the shocking suicide of another team member, it takes everyone's individual talents (including the under-used Dr. Fraser) to crack the mystery of the pillar of energy from which all the trouble clearly emanates. In a rare glimpse of ordinary military life, Sam is presented with a "Prodigy" of sorts. The brilliant young Cadet Jennifer Hailey (Elisabeth Rosen) is precocious about her talents to the point of being obnoxious in the eyes of her tutors and peers. She naturally experiences quite a humbling come down when taken through the Stargate to assist on a science mission dealing with a pesky new life form. This episode is all about identifying personal flaws and what it takes to acknowledge them. In another strong show for Carter, a particularly elusive "Entity" imprints itself upon her consciousness as well as the base's computer systems. While every conceivable method of extraction is undertaken, the situation is made more complicated by the possibility that it's all been an enormous misunderstanding. Definitely the most heart-warming presentation of the life of a computer virus you'll ever see!

• Cocoon II - The Return | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Journey to the most wonderful place in the universe...home. In director Daniel Petrie's sequel to the smash hit 'Cocoon' the retirees who chose to leave earth to live forever return home for a temporary visit with their loved ones while their alien escorts attempt to rescue a cocoon dislodged by a pesky oceanographer (Courteney Cox). Don Ameche is back as Art Selwyn with his friends Ben Luckett (Wilford Brimley) and Joe Finley (Hume Cronyn) and their wives Bess (Gwen Verd

• After Earth | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape.

• Star Trek - Alternate Realities Collection | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Available for the first time on DVD is a collection featuring the bizarre and strange of episodes of Star Trek! See your favorite characters behaving contrary to type in familiar but odd circumstances in Star Trek: Alternate Realities a 4-disc collection that includes 20 episodes selected from all five Star Trek television series plus exclusive special features. Episodes Comprise: 1. Mirror Mirror - (The Original Series) 2. Crossover - (Deep Space Nine) 3. Through The Looking Glass - (Deep Space Nine) 4. Shattered Mirror - (Deep Space Nine) 5. In A Mirror Darkly (Part 1) - (Enterprise) 6. In A Mirror Darkly (Part 2) - (Enterprise) 7. The Alternative Factor - (The Original Series) 8. Parallels - (The Next Generation) 9. The Enemy Within - (The Original Series) 10. Turnabout Intruder - (The Original Series) 11. Frame of Mind - (The Next Generation) 12. Shattered - (Voyager) 13. Yesterday's Enterprise - (The Next Generation) 14. The Inner Light - (The Next Generation) 15. The Visitor - (Deep Space Nine) 16. Before And After - (Voyager) 17. Timeless -(Voyager) 18. Course: Oblivion - (Voyager) 19. E2 - (Enterprise) 20. Twilight - (Enterprise)

• Iron Man 3 (3D Vers.) (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (04/10/2013) from £6.14   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stargate: Atlantis (Vol. 1) | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £6.93   |  Saving you £13.06 (65.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rising (Part 1): The discovery of an amazing city left behind by the Ancients in the most unlikely of places leads a new Stargate team to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Once there the new team encounters a planet of primitive humans being decimated by a terrible alien race - the Wraith. Rising (Part 2): Sheppard tries to convince Weir to mount a rescue mission to free Colonel Sumner Teyla and the others captured by the Wraith. Meanwhile Sumner faces the Wraith themselves. Hide And Seek:An alien intruder has found it's way into the city threatening the security of the base. Dr McKay's experiments with alien technology lands him in trouble. 38 Minutes: The Atlantis team's 'puddle jumper' becomes trapped in the Stargate.

• The Island Of Dr Moreau | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £39.56   |  Saving you £-23.57 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though this graphic 1996 version of HG Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau was roasted by critics, it's an utterly fascinating failure, largely due to the performances of David Thewlis, Val Kilmer and especially Marlon Brando in the title role as a mad (and in this case outrageously bizarre) scientist whose experiments in crossbreeding humans with animals have gone terribly awry. Thewlis plays the wayward scholar who is rescued at sea by Kilmer and brought to Moreau's island to discover the doctor's unnatural "children". Fairuza Balk plays Moreau's half-cat daughter, but it's Brando and Kilmer (in one scene doing a killer Brando impersonation) who steal the show, along with the astounding make-up effects created by Stan Winston. A guilty pleasure by any measure, this movie has definite cult-favourite potential. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Quiet Hour | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  THE QUIET HOUR is a science-fiction thriller written and directed by Stéphanie Joalland and produced by Sean McConville. It stars Dakota Blue Richards (THE GOLDEN COMPASS, SKINS), Karl Davies (GAME OF THRONES), and Brigitte Millar (HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, SPECTRE).

• Jupiter Moon 3 - Return To Space City | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jupiter Moon is about the perils of life on the very frontier of human existence. It is about the loves passions and ambitions of young people growing up in an alien and dangerous environment many millions of miles away from Earth.... It is the year 2050 and mankind has established a space city on Jupiter's moon. In orbit around the moon is the spaceship Ilea home of Columbus College University Of Space.

• Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 3 | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Saved from the brink of cancellation by its loyal fanbase, Star Trek's third and final season rewarded them with a number of memorable episodes. Tight budgets and slipping creative control, however, made it the most uneven, though it did have some of the coolest episode titles ("For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", "Is There in Truth No Beauty", "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"). Some of the best moments involved a gunfight at the OK Corral ("Spectre of the Gun"), a knock-down drag-out sword battle with the Klingons aboard the Enterprise ("Day of the Dove"), the ship getting caught in an ever-tightening spacial net ("The Tholian Web"), TV's first interracial kiss ("Plato's Stepchildren"), Sulu taking command ("The Savage Curtain"), and Kirk's switching bodies with an ex-love interest ("Turnabout Intruder"). Also appearing in the set as a coda are two versions of the series pilot, "The Cage", a restored color version and the original, never-aired version that alternates between color and black and white. Starring Jeffery Hunter as Captain Pike, Leonard Nimoy as a relatively emotional Spock, and Majel Barrett (the future Nurse Chapel and Mrs. Gene Roddenberry) as a frosty Number One, this pilot was rejected, but a second was commissioned, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", now considered the "official" beginning of the series. But "The Cage" is very recognizably Star Trek with its far-out concepts (telepathic aliens collecting species samples), sexy humanoid women, character development, and of course cheesy costumes and special effects. Footage was later reused in the season 1 two-parter, "The Menagerie". The best of the 63 minutes of bonus material focuses on three of the actors: Walter Koenig, George Takei, and James Doohan. Koenig discusses how he was cast and shows off his various collections, one consisting of Chekov figurines. Takei speaks movingly about the Japanese American internment and, in what is probably his last Star Trek appearance, Doohan, slowed by Alzheimer's but still with a twinkle in his eye, recalls his voiceover roles and his favorite episodes. The Easter eggs are amusingly called "Red Shirt Files" in tribute to those poor saps who everyone knew were only in the landing party so they could die. --David Horiuchi

• Monster Hunter | Blu Ray | (02/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A