Science Fiction

• Infinity's Child | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Starship Troopers 2: Hero Of The Federation | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £10.18   |  Saving you £9.81 (96.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Allowing for all the low-budget shortcomings that plague any straight-to-video production, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation serves up 92 minutes of passable SF action. Parlaying his veteran status as an animator, special-effects wizard, and stalwart survivor of the CGI revolution, Phil Tippett (with returning screenwriter Ed Neumeier) makes a woefully uninspired directorial debut with this makeshift sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 blockbuster, retaining the jarhead militarism of Robert Heinlein's original novel while serving up more bugs, an all-new cast of attractive young stars and all-too-familiar plot elements borrowed from a dozen better movies. "Bigger is better" is out of the question under such meagre budgetary circumstances, so Tippett and Neumeier compensate with gruesome bug fights and gross-out effects at regular intervals, some standard-issue nudity and escalating paranoia (echoing Carpenter's The Thing) when a new breed of bugs use human hosts (à la The Hidden) to overtake a stranded platoon of Federation soldiers on a bug-infested planet. Relying on murky confinement to hide nondescript sets, Starship Troopers 2 has three engaging leads in its favour: US TV regular Richard Burgi is solidly cast as the titular hero (he's the military equivalent of Pitch Black's Riddick); Colleen Porch is engaging as the most sensible Federation survivor; and screen veteran Ed Lauter makes the most of his salty role as a battle-hardened general. Unfortunately, they're adrift in a knock-off sequel (shot on high-def digital video) that could never do justice to its energetic predecessor. --Jeff Shannon

• SCI FI Science | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £33.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Metropolis | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £27.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set around the year 2000 a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and on the surface appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living in palatial apartments set in colossal glass and concrete spires. But underground it's a different story - armies of slaves work gruelling shifts to maintain the luxurious lifestyles of their masters. The workers a subhuman species of sluggish creatures are led by the ""saintly"" Maria (Brig

• Brain From Planet Arous, The / Teenage Monster / Space Cadet | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  You have to credit the folks who put this double bill together. The Brain from Planet Arous, a low-budget alien invasion 1958 film, is one of those programmes that lingers in the memory as much for its title and impressively ludicrous giant-staring-transparent-brain monster as for its poverty row dramatics, in which the usually stiff John Agar grins evilly and flashes contact lenses when possessed by the creature and a good guy brain shows up to take over his dog to thwart the renegade cerebrum's plan for world domination. For this release, Brain is teamed with its original co-feature, a movie so bad you wouldn't buy it on its own but whose presence here is a pleasing extra. Whereas Brain from Planet Arous delivers exactly what its title promises, Teenage Monster is a cheat: rather than feature a mutant 1950s delinquent in a leather jacket, it's a melodramatic Western in which prospector's widow Anne Gwynne keeps her hulking caveman-like son (who seems to be well into middle-age) hidden, only for a scheming waitress to use the goon in her murder schemes. Brain is snappily directed, even when staging disasters well beyond its budget, while Teenage Monster drags and chatters and moans until its flat finale. On the DVD: The Brain from Planet Arous/Teenage Monster double bill disc is a solid showing for such marginal items, featuring not only the trailers for these attractions but a clutch of other 1950s sci-fi pictures (Phantom from Space, Invaders from Mars, etc.) and a bonus episode ("The Runaway Asteroid") from a studio-bound, live-broadcast juvenile space opera of the early 50s (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) in which hysterical types in a capsule break off from the space programme to deliver ringing endorsements of gruesome-looking breakfast foods. --Kim Newman

• Piercing Brightness | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £33.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Preston is a hot spot for UFO sightings and also has the UK's fastest-growing Chinese population. This was the starting point for artist Shezad Dawood film - a woozy socially-conscious science fiction movie. Avoiding Northern clichés Piercing Brightness is a tale of alien emissaries and interracial love that has a real sense of place with wig-out moments provided by Acid Mothers Temple and a climax on the roof of the brutalist Preston Bus Station.

• The Lost Future | Blu Ray | (28/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A group of post-apocalyptic survivors struggle to survive in a jungle infested world that has overgrown an obliterated civilization.They staunchly face mutated beasts and mysterious diseases while attempting to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.

• Doomwatch - The Red Sky / You Killed Toby Wren | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four frighteners on one disc: 'Frightmare 2', 'Once Upon A Frightmare', 'Schizophrenic Murderer' and 'Terrors In Habia'.

• Final Cut | DVD | (27/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.

• Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 2: The Magic of Melies | DVD | (30/03/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.39

• Species 3 | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 400 Days | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Matt Osterman writes and directs this sci-fi thriller starring Brandon Routh and Dane Cook. The film follows astronauts Captain Theo Cooper (Routh), Dr Emily McTier (Caity Lotz), Bug Kieslowski (Ben Feldman) and Cole Dvorak (Cook) as they undertake a 400-day simulation mission to study the possible effects of space travel to a far-off planet. Stationed in an underground bunker, the group are monitored to see how they would cope physically and mentally, and pass the time together with no sunlight and no contact with the outside world. As their mission approaches its end, the isolated conditions take their toll on the group and the strain causes them to question the nature of their simulated environment. When they decide to open the bunker's hatch and venture outside they begin to wonder if they really are just part of a simulation...

• Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 4 DVD (BBC DVD) | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £23.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fourth volume of the third series finds the Doctor and his able assistant Martha Jones battling against the dastardly Master. Includes Utopia Sound Of Drums and Last Of The Timelords.

• Total Recall : Special Edition | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £11.92   |  Saving you £8.07 (67.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  They stole his mind: now he wants it back! In a futuristic world construction worker Doug Quaid obsesses about taking a vacation on the planet Mars. His wife objects so Doug instead opts to have an artificial memory of a Martian holiday implanted into his mind. The trouble is during the implantation procedure Quaid suffers a strange reaction. Why? It seems as though he has already been to Mars but his memories of his journey have been wiped... Now secret agents and the cohorts

• Escape From Earth | DVD | (19/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the future Saturn's moon of Titan houses a prison where Earth's worst criminals are kept awaiting their return to Earth for trial and execution. One of those criminals, Python Diamond, is being flown back to Earth, escorted by five members of the military police. Upon their return to Earth, they find that a cataclysmic nuclear war has reduced the world to a near-lifeless husk. Searching for survivors and any clue as to the cause of the destruction leads the six to a warehouse bunker housing scientists who constitute Earth's last remaining hope for the future. Unfortunately, their landing spacecraft drew the attention of one of the gangs that roam the ruined countryside in search of food and resources, leading them straight to the carefully hidden and well-provisioned shelter. The gang lays siege to the warehouse, fighting their way inside in a bloody battle that takes lives on both sides.

• PLANET OF THE APES TRILOGY BOXSET BD EXCL ZAVVI | Blu Ray | (27/11/2017) from £41.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel (Woody Harrelson). But after the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and resolves to avenge his kind, pitting him against the Colonel in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species...and the future of the planet.

• Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 12 - Limited Edition Packaging BD | Blu Ray | (30/03/2020) from £43.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Baker's acclaimed first season as the Fourth Doctor, originally aired in 1975/76. With his best friend Sarah Jane Smith and new companion Harry, the Doctor pits his wits against a giant robot, the insect Wirrn, Cybermen, Sontarans and Daleks! Twenty episodes, specially restored for Blu-Ray and packed with new and old special features. Build your own archive of classic Doctor Who seasons with this six-disc special ˜limited edition packaging' boxset. Features: Existing bonus material from the original DVD's Brand new one hour candid interview ˜Tom Baker in conversation' Behind The Sofa classic clips from season 12 viewed by Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe, Louise Jameson, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Sadie Miller. New making-of documentaries for ˜The Sontaran Experiment' and ˜Revenge of the Cybermen' Optional brand new updated special effects for Revenge of the Cybermen Genesis of the Daleks omnibus movie version The Tom Baker Years VHS release on disc for the first time Production archive material and scripts from the BBC Archives Some other archive treats to be announced

• Mothra | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Origin Unknown | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £4.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, mission controller Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson (Sackhoff) assists an artificial intelligence system, A.R.T.I. Their investigation uncovers a mysterious object under the surface of Mars, that could change the future of our planet as we know it.

• Anomaly (Region 0 Multi-Region DVD) | DVD | (04/11/2019) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ANOMALY KATE LETHBRIDGE-STEWART IS DEAD!,br > Gordon Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart thought he had left the world of his grandfather behind him. As a research scientist, all he was interested in was developing new technologies.,br > Unfortunately, what he doesn t know is that retired UNIT operative Captain Douglas Cavendish has given him alien technology to develop his ideas with ... and that leads to a great deal of trouble indeed! Trouble that forces Kate Lethbridge-Stewart to make a life or death choice! In this fast paced sequel to both DAEMOS RISING and the DOCTOR WHO story THE TIME MONSTER, it s difficult to tell if reality is ... well ...real! Time itself it being manipulated and it s already run out more than once!