Science Fiction

• The X Files: Season 4 | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £16.90   |  Saving you £18.09 (107.04%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In Season 4 of The X-Files, Scully is a bit upset by her on-off terminal cancer and Mulder is supposed to shoot himself in the season finale (did anyone believe that?), but in episode after episode the characters still plod dutifully around atrocity sites tossing off wry witticisms in that bland investigative demeanour out of fashion among TV cops since Dragnet. Perhaps the best achievement of this season is "Home", the most unpleasant horror story ever presented on prime-time US TV. It's not a comfortable show--confronted with this ghastly parade of incest, inbreeding, infanticide and mutilation, you'd think M & S would drop the jokes for once--but shows a willingness to expand the envelope. By contrast, ventures into golem, reincarnation, witchcraft and Invisible Man territory throw up run-of-the-mill body counts, spotlighting another recurrent problem. For heroes, M & S rarely do anything positive: they work out what is happening after all the killer's intended victims have been snuffed ("Kaddish"), let the monster get away ("Sanguinarium") and cause tragedies ("The Field Where I Died"). No wonder they're stuck in the FBI basement where they can do the least damage. The series has settled enough to play variations on earlier hits: following the liver vampire, we have a melanin vampire ("Teliko") and a cancer vampire ("Leonard Betts"), and return engagements for the oily contact lens aliens and the weasely ex-Agent Krycek ("Tunguska"/"Terma"). Occasional detours into send-up or post-modernism are indulged, yielding both the season's best episode ("Small Potatoes") and its most disappointing ("Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"). "Small Potatoes", with the mimic mutant who tries out Mulder's life and realises what a loser he is (how many other pin-up series heroes get answerphone messages from their favourite phone-sex lines?), works as a genuine sci-fi mystery--for once featuring a mutant who doesn't have to kill people to live--and as character insight. --Kim Newman

• The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years (Region 0 Multi Region DVD | DVD | (18/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the definitive set of interviews with the team who brought the SYLVESTER McCoy era of DOCTOR WHO to life! These six documentaries are the best in-depth interviews with SYLVESTER McCoy (the Seventh Doctor), SOPHIE ALDRED (Ace), ANGELA BRUCE (Brigadier Bambera), JESSICA MARTIN (Mags), LISA BOWERMAN (Bernice Summerfield) and Script Editor ANDREW CARTMEL ever undertaken! Presented by the voice of the Daleks NICHOLAS BRIGGS. For all DOCTOR Who fans, this 2 DISC special collector s edition is 5 hours of pure nostalgia, which will give you a whole new insight into the making of your favorite science fiction series! Features: Introduction by SOPHIE ALDRED & Producer KEITH BARNFATHER

• Space Patrol: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (08/10/2018) from £25.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is Earth the year 2100 and these are the adventures of cult hit Space Patrol! Newly remastered in High Definition from the original film elements for this Blu-ray edition, the series has never looked better! Join Galasphere 347 and its intrepid crew on their voyages around the solar system: heroic Captain Dart, elfin Slim, sausage-mad Husky, Irish genius Professor Haggerty, mad Martian parrot Gabbler and, keeping them all on a tight rein (and an even tighter budget), Colonel Raeburn and his super-efficient secretary, Marla!

• Star Trek 2 - The Wrath Of Khan | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training manoeuvres and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this inspection may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan is back... Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen Khan - the brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth - has raided Space Station Regula One stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis wrestled control of another Federation starship and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk . . . with the threat of a universal Armageddon!

• The Invisible Swordsman Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mysterious sprites, eerie supernatural goings on and heroic sword-fighting action abound in this mystical tale of vengeance and adventure from the makers of the Zatoichi, Daimajin and Yokai Monsters films. In Edo-era Japan, Sanshiro diligently hones his sword-fighting technique at the kendo dojo, but no amount of practice can hide the fact that he is both clumsy and cowardly. When his samurai father falls prey to a gang of murderous phantom thieves while on night watch duties, Sanshiro is drawn to the banks of the Sanzu River that separates the worlds of the living and the dead. Here he encounters a strange being that introduces itself as a Shokera. The otherworldly apparition offers advice on how Sanshiro can avenge his father with the aid of a mysterious potion with the power to turn him invisible. But first Sanshiro must gather the ingredients, and his father's killers might be closer to home than he thinks. Directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda (Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare, Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell) and beautifully shot by Hiroshi Imai (Zatoichi and the Doomed Man, The Haunted Palace), The Invisible Swordsman boasts the sumptuous attention to its historical setting, costume design, fight choreography and period details that Daiei Kyoto were renowned for, all with an added dose of rip-roaring fantasy and adventure. Arrow Films is proud to release this unseen gem in a brand new high-definition transfer for the very first time for the home video market outside of Japan. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ¢ High-Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation ¢ Original lossless Japanese mono audio ¢ Optional newly translated English subtitles ¢ Brand new audio commentary from author and Asian culture expert Jonathan Clements ¢ The Invisible People, a brand new interview with film critic Kim Newman on the history of invisibility in cinema ¢ Phantom Fighter, a brand new interview with film critic and Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp ¢ Image gallery ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jolyon Yates ¢ Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Zack Davisson

• Hetalia World Series Season 3 Collection | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hetalia takes on the world! Italy, once home of the strongest empire in the world, has changed. This is the story of Italy, now a cowardly pasta-loving fool, and his friends (other personified countries of the world) as they live through strange moments in world history.

• Red Dwarf - Series 3 BD | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £33.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All six episodes from the third series of the popular sci-fi sitcom. In 'Backwards' the crew returns to what they think is Earth, but find time is behaving oddly, and loads of things begin to un-happen. In 'Marooned' Lister (Craig Charles) and Rimmer (Chris Barrie) find themselves stranded on an arctic moon with no food (except a pot noodle and a can of dog food), no heating and little hope of survival. The boys decide to open their hearts to each other. In 'Polymorph' a chameleonic genetic mutant gets aboard the ship and terrorises the crew with non-stop slobbering horrors. In 'Bodyswap' Rimmer and Lister swap bodies to help Dave lose weight, but Rimmer won't swap back after the experiment. In 'Timeslides' the crew travel back in time thanks to some mutated developing fluid that allows people to walk into photographs. Finally, in 'The Last Day', Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) discovers that he only has 24 hours of operating time left, so the boys decide to give him a great, last day.

• Freaks (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2020) from £12.77   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father's protective and paranoid control.

• Geostorm | Blu Ray | (19/02/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrongthe system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything...and everyone along with it.

• A Christmas Carol | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £12.51   |  Saving you £-9.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Disney's "A Christmas Carol", a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event

• Air | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £2.98   |  Saving you £16.27 (945.93%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind struggle to preserve their own sanity and lives while administering to the vital task at hand. Starring Norman Reedus and two-time Oscar® nominee Djimon Hounsou.

• Doctor Who - Vengeance on Varos | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most popular of Colin (the sixth Doctor) Baker's adventures, Vengeance on Varos finds the Doctor and Peri (Nichola Bryant) involved with rebels in a 1984-like world, where televised torture is used to support and enforce an unworkable regime ruling a mining society on the planet Varos. When first broadcast the story aroused condemnation not only over the violence shown--particularly two men falling into a vat of acid--but also over the implied horror and moral corruption. However, these complaints missed the satiric subtext of a world in which the reality TV suffering pacifies the masses while big business carries on exploiting them; and none were more memorably corrupt than the reptilian alien Sil--a love-it-or-hate-it OTT performance from Nabil Shaban. While there is rather too much running about in corridors, the surreal terrors of the Punishment Dome make for good Doctor Who, and the adventure develops ideas from both The Sunmakers (1977) and The Caves of Androzani (1984) with considerable low-budget aplomb. Filled with bizarre touches such as Peri's transformation into a bird creature, the show also marked Jason Connery's TV debut as a rebel leader.On the DVD: There's 15 minutes worth of deleted and/or extended scenes and four minutes of stage footage, but by far the finest extra is the three way commentary track, with Baker, Bryant and Nabil Shaban. Affectionately sending the show and themselves up, while still demonstrating a great love for Doctor Who, the track sometimes degenerates into trivia, but at its best is simply hilarious. Both original BBC1 trailers and a continuity link are included, as is a photo gallery and the option to listen with the unfinished "production sound", something which is likely to appeal only to die hard fans. Rather more interesting are the optional on-screen production notes, which offer a wealth of behind-the-scenes information. The extras are completed with a small selection of outtakes. The sound is strong, clear mono, the 4:3 transfer has no sign of compression artefacting and is good enough to reveal the weaknesses in the original studio-bound video production. --Gary S Dalkin

• Johnny Mnemonic (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (09/05/2022) from £29.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents Robert Longo's cyberpunk classic Johnny Mnemonic (1995), released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Adapted for the screen by visionary writer William Gibson from his own short story and starring Keanu Reeves in a role that paved the way for his lead role in the Matrix series, Johnny Mnemonic is a futuristic thrill-ride that will blow your mind. It's the year 2021 and Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data courier with a secret: he is carrying a dangerous stash of information in his mind and must race against time, money and gangsters to deliver the package and save himself. Accompanied by physically enhanced bodyguard Jane (Dina Meyer), Johnny sets out to acquire the passwords he needs to save himself. Worse yet, he is hunted by gangster Shinji (Denis Akiyama) and businessman Takahashi (Takeshi), both of whom seek the data Johnny possesses. Product Features Audio commentary by film critic Rich Johnson Limited Edition Booklet: Features 'Future Proof: A Cyberpunk 101' by Rich Johnson and 'The Semiotic Ghosts of William Gibson' by Brian J. Robb Limited Edition packaging with new artwork by Lucas Peverill Set of art cards Tomorrow Calling (1993), a short film adaptation of William Gibson's short story The Gernsback Continuum Commentary with director Robert Longo Japanese Director's cut (SD) Featurette Behind the Scenes Interviews from the shoot Music video Trailer

• Pet Shop Of Horrors | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £30.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 4 | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £84.99

  Set early in the 22nd century Enterprise focuses on a history of the galactic upheaval that leads to the formation of The Federation. Its compelling stories of team bravery and individual heroism are sure to answer countless questions for both die-hard fans of the series and neophytes to the Star Trek universe. Starring a fresh young cast this exciting new chapter continues to push the edge of the visual envelope with the kind of state of the art special

• Star Trek 9: Insurrection (remastered) | Blu Ray | (22/03/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Engage! Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his Next Generation crew are back and so is the excitement and fun in this the ninth feature film of the Star Trek series. From the beginning of the Federation the Prime Directive was clear: No Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. But now Picard is confronted with orders that undermine that decree. If he obeys 600 peaceful residents of Ba'kul will be forcibly removed from their remarkable world all for the reportedly greater good of millions who will benefit from Ba'kul's Fountain Of Youth-like powers. If he disobeys he will risk his Starship his career and his life. But for Picard there's really only one choice. He must rebel against Starfleet... and lead the insurrection to preserve Paradise.

• Rupture | Blu Ray | (09/01/2017) from £6.07   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Young mother Renee (Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus) has her life thrown into chaos when she is randomly abducted, drugged and taken to a secret lab facility. As her captors traumatically experiment on her, Renee must discover why she was chosen and fight to escape her prison.

• Snow White | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £6.13   |  Saving you £6.85 (218.15%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Once upon a time in a land far, far away, an ancient and honourable King is cruelly killed in battle. The beautiful Snow, his only daughter and Princess of the realm, is forced to flee the land that is rightfully hers. She must escape her embittered and jealous stepmother, who spies the opportunity to not only seize the throne, but to kill Snow, and truly be ‘the fairest of them all’. Desperate to survive, Snow escapes to the enchanted forest, a place of fantasy and magic that will change her life forever. With help from the seven dwarfs, and displaying regal courage and grace, Snow must once again face her wicked stepmother, as in the end, one only of them can live happily ever after…

• The Summerland Project | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £17.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Single Disc Edition) | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £4.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (223.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law play an intrepid reporter and ace aviator determined to stop an evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth.