Science Fiction

• Exodus (DVD) | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £12.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.54%)   |  RRP £12.99

  12 astronauts volunteer to pioneer a colony on a newly discovered planet. They awake from their frozen 15 year sleep to discover that the ship has crashed and that they're trapped in their cryo-tubes. To make matters worse an alien beast breaks in and begins devouring them one by one.

• Farscape 1.4 | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew 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 look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds--in Dolby Digital 5.1) as if every penny made it to the screen. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays leading man John Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up.Box Set 4 includes four episodes, another gallery of conceptual art, and video profiles of everyone's favourite Hynerian Dominar, Rygel, as well as a profile of Moya the living Leviathan transport ship and her pilot. The episodes are: "Durka Returns", in which the crew meet the beautiful Chiana for the first time, as well as Rygel's old tormentor, Captain Durka; "A Human Reaction", where Crichton finally gets back to Earth but with unfortunate results for the rest of Moya's crew; "Through the Looking Glass" in which the crew and Moya are thrown into a dimensional schism inhabited by a strange creature; and "A Bug's Life", in which an intelligent virus is released on the ship after an encounter with Peacekeepers. --Mark Walker

• Doomwatch | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Mutant X, Series 1 Vol. 2 | DVD | (26/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mutant X takes the useful SF trope of the mutant minority persecuted by the state and adds potentially interesting spins on which it rarely delivers. After a couple of pilot episodes that pushed into OTT visual stylishness, the show has settled into mildly repetitive though watchable blandness: for the most part it avoids story arcs and a large cast of regulars in favour of plugging its characters into the stock plots of television SF, such as doubles, vengeance crusades and untrustworthy lovers. On the DVD: Mutant X Series 1, Volume 2 contains the following episodes: "The Meaning of Death". A plague that kills mutants forces Adam to work with Mason Eckhart and the invulnerable mercenary Marlowe in the knowledge that any cure he comes up with will lead to a double-cross. "Lit Fuse". Brennan is attracted to energy-absorbing Ashley, who is being set up for betrayal by bounty-hunter Cross. When she absorbs Brennan, things get really complicated. "In the Presence of Mine Enemies". Jesse's hacker girlfriend Toni is forced by Eckhart to betray Adam's hideout Sanctuary and the computerised journalist Proxy Blue. Can the tables be turned? "Crime of the New Century". Youthful mutant firestarter Joshua is kidnapped, rescued and then turned over to the GSA by a renegade FBI agent. "Dark Star Rising". The survivors of a commando team have been altered into mutancy by scientists and want vengeance for their dead squad members. Mutant X helps them stop Eckhart getting the secret serum. The DVDs also contain trailers, a feature on the elaborate stunts and interviews with stunt coordinator Paul Rapovski, show runner Howard Chaykin and Victor Webster (Brennan). --Roz Kaveney

• The Twilight Zone - Season 3 (Colour) | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call...The Twilight Zone! Episodes comprise: 1. Two 2. The Arrival 3. The Shelter 4. The Passerby 5. A Game of Pool 6.

• Halo - Legends | Blu Ray | (15/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Halo universe will expand on February 15th 2010, with the arrival of seven brand new animated stories.

• Skyhook | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £14.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (9.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Space is the next business frontier. The challenge is in finding a practical method to transport man equipment and resources from earth to orbit. In SkyHook a team of brilliant scientists compete to build the world's first space elevator and find themselves up against an evil corporate mercenary in this science fiction espionage extravaganza of deals and death. A material science expert is blackmailed to steal designs from the team of scientists that are on the brink of their goal. While the SkyHook team continues to pursue their dream Jamal continues his attack in an attempt to secure the 1 Billion Dollar Space prize and control the fate of the space industry.

• The Matrix Reloaded (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Neo and the leaders of the human resistance discover that Sentinels are burrowing their way towards Zion. Estimating they have perhaps just 72 hours until an all-out assault Neo must return back into the Matrix and find the keymaker to gain access to the mainframe to ensure human survival...

• Zone Of The Enders: Delores - Vol. 5 - Episodes 19-22 And | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £24.65   |  Saving you £-4.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Get ready for action as questions are answered when the war for Mars rears its ugly head. James Links is finding it's no easier to evade his enemies than it is to keep his friends! Tearful reunions and departures bring the Links family closer to their ultimate fate. In this uncertain world there are surprises and setbacks but the headstrong family bond is going to keep the Links defiant in their determination to do the right thing not only for Orbital Frame Dolores and for Mars - bu

• Lost Solace | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £4.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Spencer Cutler is a psychopath who has never felt empathy or guilt. However, a fateful encounter with a new drug is about to give him a dose of reality. As he takes a mind-bending trip down the highway of consciousness, he comes face to face with his own morality and his own twisted soul.

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.

• Avatar: The Way of Water | Blu Ray | (20/06/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Noir - The Firing Chamber (Vol. 3) | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £24.65   |  Saving you £-4.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Noir is back in business but Mireille and Kirika's latest case takes an unexpected turn when someone else beats them to their target. Who is this unexpected competition and what links does she have to the mysterious soldats?

• Farscape 1.5 | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £11.27   |  Saving you £-0.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise, but taking a visual and conceptual leap beyond those shows. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script, which is peppered with post-modern pop culture references and film in-jokes, never takes itself too seriously. It may be expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds--in Dolby Digital 5.1) like every penny made it to the screen. Ben Browder plays leading man John Crichton as a latter-day Buck Rogers but with an entirely believable sense of bewilderment, not to mention loss; the rest of the living ship Moya's crew also has plenty of difficult issues to deal with, allowing Farscape's writers licence to develop their characters in often unexpected ways. The result is episodic TV sci-fi that continually pushes at the accepted boundaries of the format. Box Set 5: these four episodes lead up to the climax of the show's first season. "Nerve" and "The Hidden Memory" make for a bold two-parter in which Crichton is reunited with his Peacekeeper Tech girlfriend, Gilina, and emotions are strained as he infiltrates a Peacekeeper base to find a cure for Aeryn's wound. But the story's most important function is to introduce the dreaded Scorpius, who uses his Aurora chair torture device to extract what he mistakenly believes is vital knowledge from Crichton. Scorpius, it soon becomes clear, is just not going to go away. In "Bone to be Wild" the crew is still on the run from the vengeful Scorpius and take refuge on a strange vegetation-covered asteroid where there's a deadly role-reversal of the beauty and the beast story taking place. Finally in "Family Ties" the season ends on a tense cliffhanger as Rygel plots with Scorpius, Crais intervenes unexpectedly, Moya's child turns out to be something of a handful, and Crichton and D'Argo must take a desperate gamble. Also on the disc is an interview with costume designer Terry Ryan and a profile of the Australian Creature Shop. --Mark Walker

• Equlibrium | UMD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Chocky - The Complete Collection | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Chocky: The first series tells the story of young Matthew Gore an intelligent lad who is chosen by a mysterious extra-terrestrial visitor Chocky as a source of information about life on earth. As Matthew's schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically his parents become concerned about the strange changes in his behaviour and refer him to a child psychiatrist. But his dubious social connections lead to Matthew's subsequent kidnap as a ruthless businessman tries to ta

• Andromeda - Season 1 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The long night has fallen the greatest civilisation has crumbled. The universe falls into chaos. It is left to a man out of time Captain Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) of the warship Andromeda Ascendant to take back the night and reform the Systems Commonwealth before all is lost. On the Andromeda Ascendant hope lives again... Episodes Comprise 1. Under The Night 2. An Affirming Flame 3. To Loose The Fateful Lightning 4. D Minus Zero 5. Double Helix 6. Angel Dark Demon Bright

• Arcadia | DVD | (24/10/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hack // Sign - Vol. 2 | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £9.73   |  Saving you £10.26 (51.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tsukasa has been captured by the Crimson Knights. Inside Lady Subaru meets him for the first time. Their meeting is interrupted as Sora breaks in to free Tsukasa. But the path to freedom is blocked by Crim. After his escape Tsukasa disappears. Mimiru realizes that she should give up on him but an adventure with a character called simply A-20 makes her rethink that decision... Tsukasa meanwhile cares for another player's Grunty and learns something about responsibility in Th

• Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space: Special Edition | DVD | (01/10/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A