Science Fiction

• Independence Day | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £8.66   |  Saving you £1.33 (13.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind.

• Turkey Shoot | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the near future after an unspecified holocaust survivors are herded into prison camps. There they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul one of the newest prisoners is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.

• Gurren Lagann Vol 3 | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This is the story of a man who continues to search for his own path even as fate betrays him. It has been seven years since Teppelin's fall. Human civilization has evolved at an astonishing rate. As Lordgenome predicted the instant that the one millionth human was born an unknown destructive weapon suddenly appeared. The declaration of war against humanity came from an unexpected person : Nia herself! Now the intrepid Gurren Brigade will have to take the fight for humanity's future into the depths of space!! Here is the third and last act of the award-winning Gurren Lagann the last creation from cult studio GAINAX (Gunbuster Evangelion) witness the epic conclusion of this journey that pushed us beyond the impossible!!

• Guyver - Dark Hero | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £24.95   |  Saving you £-18.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is the sequel to the first live action version of the cartoon 'Guyver' which was based on the original Manga (Japanese animation) cartoon series. An alien force lives within Sean Barker's body... the incredible power of the Guyver. In his search for truth about the Guyver he enters the caves of Utah where he encounters a corrupt alien empire who aim to steal his power and take control of the Earth...

• 2010 - The Year We Make Contact | Blu Ray | (20/04/2009) from £17.88   |  Saving you £2.11 (11.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction a team of Russian and American scientists hurtle to a rendezvous with the abandoned Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor the homicidal computer HAL. Their mission: 'awaken' HAL and unravel the puzzling series of events that culminated in Dave Bowman's last transmission: 'My God it's full of stars!' '2010: The Year We Made Contact' is a visually stunning emotionally moving sequel to '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

• The Thirteenth Floor | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The barriers that separate fantasy from reality are shattered in this stylish mind-jarring thriller where two parallel worlds collide in a paroxysm of deception madness and murder. On the Thirteenth floor of a corporate tower high-tech visionary Douglas hall (Craig Bierko) and his highly strung colleague Whitney (Vincent D'Onofrio) have opened the door to an amazing virtual world - circa 1937 Los Angeles. But when the powerful leader of their secret project (Armin Mueller) is discovered slashed to death hall himself becomes the prime suspect. Arriving from Paris is the beautiful and mysterious Jane Fuller (Gretchen Mol) who claims to be the murdered victim's daughter. Her instant magnetic attraction to Hall only further blurs the lines of what is real. Is he the killer and is the inscrutable Jane somehow connected? To find the answers Hall must cross the boundaries into the simulated reality he has helped create - and confront the astonishing truth of his own existence.

• Bubblegum Crash - Parts 1-3 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The crisis in MegaTokyo is not over! Now it's time for the Crash! The saga of the Knight Sabers continues in this exciting 3-part sequel to Bubblegum Crisis! Episode 1 - Illegal Army: A gang of mercenaries in armored suits is giving the AD Police serious problems. Meanwhile the Knight Sabers are... breaking up? And who is the mysterious ""Voice"" that seems to know altogether too much about them? Episode 2 - Geo Climbers: A new AI is the key to human level intellige

• Naked Souls | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Edward is a struggling young scientist whose experiments using the memories of dead killers worry his beautiful artist girlfriend Brit (Pamela Anderson). After meeting an elderly scientist Edward sees the opportunity to prove his worth to Brit with a special experiment steeped in mysticism and voodoo. The results turn Edward into a terrifying half-man tormented by the memories of the dead men he experimented on...

• Dead & Buried | Blu Ray | (27/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Szindbad | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £13.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Regarded as one of the great 'lost' masterpieces of international cinema, Zoltn Huszrik's 1971 film is finally availabe for the first time on DVD. A surreal and highly stylized adaptation of the early 20th century writings of author Gyula Krdy, the film depicts the life, loves and memories of traveller and womanizer Szindbd (played by the great Hungarian actor Zoltn Latinovits), as he contemplates his life of hedonism and impropriety and who tries to recover his great lost love before he dies. Evoking time and memory to extraordinary effect, Szindbd is a filmic elegy that is both lyrical and surreal - an experience unlike anything in modern cinema.

• Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £9.37   |  Saving you £13.61 (213.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The skilful blending of drawn animation and computer-generated imagery excited anime fans when this science fiction mystery was released in 1995: many enthusiasts believe Ghost suggests what the future of anime will be, at least in the short term. The film is set in the not-too-distant future, when an unnamed government uses lifelike cyborgs or "enhanced" humans for undercover work. One of the key cyborgs is The Major, Motoko Kusanagi, who resembles a cross between The Terminator and a Playboy centrefold. She finds herself caught up in a tangled web of espionage and counterespionage as she searches for the mysterious superhacker known as "The Puppet Master." Mamoru Oshii directs with a staccato rhythm, alternating sequences of rapid-fire action (car chases, gun battles, explosions) with static dialogue scenes that allow the characters to sort out the vaguely mystical and rather convoluted plot. Kusanagi's final quote from I Corinthians suggests that electronic evolution may compliment and eventually supplant organic evolution. The minor nudity, profanity, and considerable violence would earn Ghost in the Shell at least a PG rating. --Charles Solomon

• Nemesis | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Los Angeles 2027. Japan and America have merged-politically and economically. Man and machine have merged as well. The scientific community has perfected cybergenics to the degree that any body part can be replaced. Nemesis is an action-packed sci-fi thriller where information is the ultimate power. Systems cowboys information terrorists bio-enhanced gangsters and cyborg outlaws all play a part in this battle of man vs. machine-in the future it pays to be more than human.

• Mirrormask / Labyrinth / Dark Crystal | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Labyrinth (Dir. Jim Henson 1986): Frustrated with baby-sitting on yet another weekend night Sarah - a teenager with a active imagination - summons the Goblins from her favourite book ""Labyrinth"" to take her baby step-brother away. When little Toby actually disappears Sarah must follow him into the world of the fairy tale to rescue him in hope that their loyalty isn't just another illusion in a place where nothing is as it seems! Labyrinth is a major fantasy feat

• Twelve Monkeys - Original Poster Series | Blu Ray | (26/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It is the year 2035. In 1996 an unknown and lethal virus wiped out five billion people and only one percent of the population has now survived the decimating plague. In a grave new world in which the planet's surface has become uninhabitable the few remaining humans must live underground and rely on time travel to try to preserve their fate. A convict reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemy which he's told was spread by a mysterious Army of the Twelve Monkeys. He must locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can determine whether the cataclysm can be stopped before it is started. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 six years earlier than expected is arrested and locked up in a mental institution where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly a psychiatrist and Jeffrey Goines the insane son of a famous scientist... Special Features: Limited Edition packaging featuring rarely seen film posters and design artwork The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (The Making of) Theatrical Trailer Twelve Monkeys Archive Feature Commentary with Director Terry Gilliam and Producer Charles Roven

• Fantastic Voyage | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Fantastic and spectacular voyage... Through the human body... Into the brain. Shrunk to microscopic size an elite scientific and medical team enters the bloodstream of an ailing scientist in a desperate effort to save his life. Battling the body's incredible defenses the crew must complete their mission before time runs out. The film was to win Oscars for Best Visual Effects (by Art Cruikschank) and Art Direction. The legacy of the film was to continue as 'Fantastic Voya

• Star Trek 6 : The Undiscovered Country | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Star Trek V left us nowhere to go but up, and with the return of Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer, this sixth instalment restored the movie series to its classic blend of space opera, intelligent plotting and engaging interaction of stalwart heroes and menacing villains. Borrowing its subtitle (and several lines of dialogue) from Shakespeare, the movie finds Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his fellow Enterprise crew members on a diplomatic mission to negotiate peace with the revered Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner). When the high-ranking Klingon and several officers are ruthlessly murdered, blame is placed on Kirk and crew. The subsequent investigation, which sees Spock taking on the mantle of Sherlock Holmes, uncovers an assassination plot masterminded by the nefarious Klingon General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in an effort to disrupt a historic peace summit. As this political plot unfolds, Star Trek VI takes on a sharp-edged tone, with Kirk and Spock confronting their opposing views of diplomacy and testing their bonds of loyalty when a Vulcan officer is revealed to be a traitor. With a dramatic depth befitting what was to be the final movie mission of the original Enterprise crew, this film took the veteran cast out in respectably high style, with the torch being passed to the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the following movie, Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Alien 3 - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Alien 3 Limited Edition Steelbook. In the third chapter of the most terrifying saga in sci-fi history Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) crippled spaceship crash-lands on Fiorina 161 a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. But an Alien was aboard her craft...and soon the body count begins to mount!

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 6 | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The sixth series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer followed the logic of plot and character development into some gloomy places. The year begins with Buffy being raised from the dead by the friends who miss her, but who fail to understand that a sacrifice taken back is a sacrifice negated. Dragged out of what she believes to have been heavenly bliss, she finds herself "going through the motions" and entering into a relationship with the evil, besotted vampire Spike just to force her emotions. Willow becomes ever more caught up in the temptations of magic; Xander and Anya move towards marriage without ever discussing their reservations; Giles feels he is standing in the way of Buffy's adult independence; Dawn feels neglected. What none of them need is a menace that is, at this point, simply annoying--three high school contemporaries who have turned their hand to magical and high-tech villainy. Added to this is a hungry ghost, an invisibility ray, an amnesia spell and a song-and-dance demon (who acts as rationale for the incomparable musical episode "Once More With Feeling"). This is a year in which chickens come home to roost: everything from the villainy of the three geeks to Xander's doubts about marriage come to a head, often--as in the case of the impressive wedding episode--through wildly dark humour. The estrangement of the characters from each other--a well-observed portrait of what happens to college pals in their early 20s--comes to a shocking head with the death of a major character and that death's apocalyptic consequences. The series ends on a consoling note which it has, by that point and in spite of imperfections, entirely earned. --Roz Kaveney

• Minority Report Limited Edition Steelbook with Artcards | Blu Ray | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The science-fiction thriller Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise is based on a short story by renowned writer Philip K. Dick. In the year 2054 in Washington D.C. murder has been eliminated thanks to Precrime a program that uses the visions of three psychics called Pre-Cogs (an abbreviation for precognitive thinkers) to arrest and imprison would-be murderers before they have a chance to kill. Tom Cruise plays John Anderton a Precrime enforcer who believes in the system for his own personal reasons--years back his young son was abducted and he has dealt with the loss by becoming a high-strung Precrime officer. The director of Precrime (Max von Sydow) is eager to take the program national and feels threatened by an ambitious federal agent (Colin Farrell) who is bent on finding a flaw in the system. When Anderton finds himself accused of the future murder of a man he's never met his faith in Precrime is instantly shaken. He goes on the run and is trailed by the relentless Precrime police. In the tradition of Blade Runner (also based on a Dick story) Minority Report is a dark brooding vision of the future. Spielberg expertly mixes thrilling chase and suspense sequences (the best of which involves Anderton being pursued by eye-scanning mechanical spiders) and stunning special effects with a challenging look at society's willingness to sacrifice privacy and the notion of free will for convenience and security. Minority Report is a thought-provoking and exciting film that ranks with Spielberg's best.

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 Complete | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Many fans don't rate the second series of Space: 1999 as highly as the first. Responding to audience feedback, as well as the separation of producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the programme makers drafted in new producer Fred Freiberger, the man responsible for the third and weakest season of the original Star Trek. Under his guidance the storylines drifted away from the hard sci-fi of the first season in favour of more action and a faster pace. The theme music, sets and costumes all changed, as did some key personnel. Out went professorial (and very dull) Barry Morse, in came dashing Tony Anholt as security officer Tony Verdeschi, while the glamour quotient was upped considerably by Catherine Schell as the shape-shifting Maya (a much-needed change, since the frosty Barbara Bain had reduced the show's sex appeal to nil in Series 1). Series 2 also introduced lots and lots more aliens kitted out in badly fitting costumes and dodgy glam-rock era makeup. Responding to yet more feedback from American TV executives the protagonists now had to encounter more highly unconvincing monsters than even Dr Who ever dared imagine: "The Beta Cloud", for example, is a classic rampaging-bloke-in-a-suit scenario. That said, this second season has more emphasis on characters other than the headline stars, as various stranded Alphans are allowed to come to the fore instead of just blankly following Commander Koenig's orders. It's all good fun in a silly, nostalgic sort of way, and fans of the more vintage Season 1 will find it hard to resist this second season as well.On the DVD: There aren't many extras here, although sundry interviews with principal cast and crew are scattered across the six discs in this complete box set. There's also a commentary on some episodes with special effects man Brian Johnson, a couple of deleted scenes, production stills and some text features. Each disc has a small booklet that gives some useful background information on the episodes. The remastered 4:3 ratio picture and mono sound are fine. --Mark Walker