Science Fiction

• Mars: Season 1 | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £14.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.

• Doctor Who - Remembrance Of The Daleks | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Remembrance of the Daleks" was the final Doctor Who story to feature the titular mutant cyborgs, and is a particularly notable adventure for the way it ties the plot into the very first story, "An Unearthly Child" made 25 years before. It is 1963, and the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy arrives in London with new companion Ace (Sophie Aldred), where two Dalek factions are engaged in a deadly search for the Hand of Omega. Ace quickly proves herself a dab-hand with high explosives, and while there are references to the history of the show, including some nice in-jokes, the drama is played much straighter than in McCoy's first season as the time traveller. This is Doctor Who with a decent budget; the period setting is surprisingly lavish and there are some fairly intense action sequences. The Daleks remain as menacing as ever, the plotting has an intriguing air of mystery, and McCoy injects some steel into his characterisation. Aldred serves an ace as a heroine with attitude, (very much post-Sarah Connor from The Terminator), and if this really does prove to be the Dalek's swansong, at least they go out with a bang. On the DVD: Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred provide a warm and friendly commentary track, which also offers optional subtitles. The audio possibilities continue with an isolated music track, though the sound is Pro-Logic stereo, not the stated Dolby Digital. There are trailers for two episodes, a collection of out-takes, 13 deleted or extended scenes, and the raw footage from two different camera angles for two major scenes. Optional on-screen production notes complete a package which, with animated menus and very good 4:3 picture quality puts many Hollywood releases to shame.--Gary S. Dalkin

• Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 1 - The Pluto Campaign | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roughnecks is the computer-animated TV spin-off from director Paul Verhoeven's live-action sci-fi shoot-'em-up Starship Troopers. Verhoeven had already seen his Robocop movie spun-off into animated television with mixed results, so when it came to Starship Troopers he wanted Roughnecks to be a little different (the director acted as Executive Producer on the series). The style of computer animation here recalls, if anything, the little green soldiers from the Toy Story movies. Backed by an unending techno-based score (despite which the series has won several awards for sound editing), the 20-minute episodes are like viewing brilliantly conceived "cut scenes" from computer games. The series concept begins by taking the movie's characters, giving them different origins---and then forgets about a bug home-world in favour of a mobile threat that can appear anywhere. With souped-up combat suits that better acknowledge Robert Heinlein's original novel, the technological look and feel also owes a significant debt to Aliens. This first collection edits together the opening five episodes to make a 100-minute self-contained movie about a crawling infestation on Pluto. You'll know where shows start and end by the narration. The story is all to do with set-up as we meet the titular Roughnecks: Rico, Dizzy, Doc, Jenkins, Higgins and Razak. Between missions of rescue and mercy, a love triangle is established, Rico's heroics and Higgins' cowardice are explored and more bugs are wasted than you can possibly keep count of. The finale's discovery of "Bug City" will test anyone for arachnophobia. --Paul Tonks

• Beasts of the Southern Wild | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (66.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A six year-old girl on the brink of orphanhood, believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a storm changes her reality...

• Doctor Who - The New Series - Series 2 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (226.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  David Tennant steps into the role of the Doctor for the second series of Doctor Who. Following the phenomenal success of the first series that took British television by storm in 2005 the second instalment is full of new thrills new laughs new heartbreak and some terrifying new monsters. The Doctor and Rose meet Queen Victoria an evil race of Cat Women and the dreaded Cybermen. Featured Episodes: 1. Tooth And Claw 2. School Reunion 3. The Girl In The Fireplace

• Highlander - Endgame | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The immortal Macleod's Connor (Lambert) and Duncan (Paul) must join forces against Kell an evil immortal who has become too strong for anyone to face alone...

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 4 | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £84.99

  The fourth series of Deep Space Nine can be summed up in one word: Klingons! The show's producers apparently felt beset from all sides. Babylon 5 was a huge hit, as was Star Trek: Voyager, the flagship of new channel UPN. Stepping up DS9's action quotient seemed to be the answer. Time would tell, however, whether doing so via Trek's tried-and-tested former bad guys was the best solution. Opening with a special two-hour extravaganza, the new year was immediately unfamiliar. Dennis McCarthy's original theme--despite winning an Emmy--was deemed too subdued. As its upbeat new rendition kicked off, the station was seen in battle and swarming with activity. Moments later, we met old/new crewmember Worf, whose sudden appearance was the result of a brewing invasive strategy by the Klingons. This initiated the first of many loyalty shifts, as the Cardassians became the victims. With plenty of re-appearances by Gowron, Kor and Kurn, it was clear that an ongoing space opera was being crafted. Dukat revealed a tragedy-ridden daughter; Odo's relationship with his people (and Kira) became increasingly melancholy; and even the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers were given a sympathetic angle by their drug addiction. Adding to the layers of ambiguity about Earth's (read: the Producers') position over being at war, was the "outing" of Eddington and Sisko's girlfriend as rebel activists. Lest we forget the homely/spiritual side of the Captain, time was spent with a future version of Jake, with his father (Brock Peters), and on the nature of his role as "The Emissary". Avery Brooks worked behind the camera a couple of times, but this year the surprise was LeVar Burton directing five shows. There was still time for comedy: the Ferengi warped back to Roswell in 1947 and Bashir played at James Bond. But the year will be recalled predominately for its violence. One of the episodes Burton directed had its fight scenes drastically cut, while the series as a whole won an Emmy for its space battle effects. On the DVD: Deep Space Nine, Series 4 contains more than two hours of extra features. Although they might all have been better compiled into one long documentary, the sections devoted to Aliens, Production Design and Artwork are, nevertheless, nicely contained. "Charting New Territory" is a 20-minute featurette on all the big changes attempted this year: Worf's introduction, arming the station and being daring with stand-alone episodes. There's also a terrific and candid dossier on Michael Dorn (Worf), ten mini-cameo cast tales, four seasons' worth of episode introductions, and a well-stocked Photo Gallery. All this can be found on the set's seventh disc; there's also the fourth CD-ROM disc, which allows you to build your own station at home. --Paul Tonks END

• All The Boys Love Mandy Lane | Blu Ray | (21/07/2008) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A group of high schoolers, including the popular Mandy Lane, head to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. However soon their numbers start to dwindle.

• Dune | Blu Ray | (05/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Outer Limits - The Original Series - Vol. 2 | DVD | (27/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission... Surrender yourself to the mysterious world of 'The Outer Limits' as one of the creepiest and most provocative series in television history comes to DVD. On this fantastic box every episode from the second season is featured alongside a host of eery special features. Episodes comprise: 1. Soldier 2. Cold Hands Warm Heart 3. Behold Eck! 4. Expand

• Die Unendliche Geschichte (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Contamination | Blu Ray | (03/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Branded as a video nasty in the UK, director Luigi Cozzi s Contamination takes the premise of Ridley Scott s classic Alien and peppers it with exploding guts galore and a dangerously infectious soundtrack from celebrated Italian prog-rockers Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria). A cargo ship drifts up the Hudson River. Its crew: all dead, their bodies horribly mutilated, turned inside out by an unknown force. Its freight: boxes upon boxes of glowing, pulsating green eggs. It soon becomes clear that these eggs are not of this planet, and someone intends to cultivate them here on Earth. But who? And to what end? Starring Italian horror veteran Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters), Contamination is an ultra-violent sci-fi epic that really gets under the skin. In space, no one can hear you scream but on Earth, the terror rings loud and clear!

• Most Haunted Series 6 Vol. 2 | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £36.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A further 10 episodes from Series 6 of the UK's scariest paranormal show - including a spooky visits to one of America's most haunted locations. Presented by Yvette Fielding and featuring psychic medium Derek Acorah in some of his final Most Haunted episodes. Each episode is accompanied by 25 minutes of bonus footage not included in the original broadcast version - plus an exclusively produced 20 minute feature that you won't see anywhere else! Episodes Comprise: 1.

• Battlestar Galactica - The Movie | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £17.68   |  Saving you £-1.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Every legend has a beginning This is the 1978 pilot movie created for the cult series created in response to the burgeoning interest in sci-fi following the impact of Star Wars. The Galactica a futuristic aircraft carrier the size of a small city careens through a distant starfield followed by a convoy of bizarre space vehicles all fleeing the destruction of the human race. Led by Commander Adama these survivors have started on a journey to a thirteenth sister colony in a distant galaxy star system - a planet called Earth. Battlestar Galactica follows these interstellar refugees and their battles with their enemy - the dreaded Cylons.

• Giorgio Moroder Presents: METROPOLIS (LIMITED EDITION DVD STEELBOOK) | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the era when one could still but only dream of a comprehensive restoration of Fritz Lang's silent sci-fi epic Metropolis, esteemed pop artist/producer and pioneering electronic composer Giorgio Moroder followed his work on Brian De Palma's cult-classic Al Pacino vehicle Scarface by assembling his own version of Lang's 1920s classic. The result was a zeitgeist-infused, high-kitsch/high-art amalgam of some of the quintessential cinema images and then-contemporary 1980s pop-chart melodrama. For millions around the world, it is this version of Metropolis – featuring music by Moroder himself and artistes such as Adam Ant, Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, and Jon Anderson – which first comes to mind whenever mention is made of the Lang original or, indeed, the iconic imagery and power of silent cinema.

• Enemy Mine/Alien Vs Predator | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-5.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Enemy Mine (Dir. Wolfgang Petersen 1985): In this visually stunning sci-fi adventure two warriors engaged in a savage futuristic war between Earth and the planet Dracon crash-land on a desolate fiery planet. At first the human (Dennis Quaid) and his reptilian alien opponent (Louis Gossett Jr.) are intent on destroying each other. But after battling the elements and each other the two stranded pilots gradually realize that the only way either of them will survive is to overcome their undying hatred... Alien Vs Predator (Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson 2004): Whoever wins...we lose. It may be our planet but it's their war! The deadliest creatures from the scariest sci-fi movies ever made face off for the first time on film beginning when the discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There they make an even more terrifying discovery: two unstoppable alien races engaged in the ultimate battle...

• Videodrome | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lowlife cable TV operator Max Renn discovers a ""snuff TV"" broadcast called Videodrome which is much more than it seems. It's an experiment that causes brain damage. Max is caught in the middle of the forces that created and the forces that want to control Videodrome his body itself turning into the ultimate weapon to fight them. Directed by David Cronenberg.

• Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £15.33   |  Saving you £-2.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Times change. Dangers remain. 10 years after he became President of the Interstellar Alliance Sheridan prepares for a fateful Babylon 5 reunion that could prevent Earth's impending doom...if he will also compromise his core principles. Meanwhile commander Lochley confronts an unexpected interloper on the way station - a being whose presence makes the B5 freeport the crossroads between heaven and hell.

• Godzilla | Blu Ray | (02/09/2019) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This spectacular adventure pits Godzilla, the world's most famous monster, against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. Special features: Discover explosive new evidence not contained in the film that unravels the massive cover-up to keep Godzilla's existence a secret in Operation: Lucky Dragon Monarch: The M.U.T.O File The Godzilla Revelation. Plus, get the lowdown on this legendary monster in Godzilla: Force of Nature. And More

• Halo - Legends | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £8.27   |  Saving you £5.98 (85.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

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