Science Fiction

• The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Remember the good old days when anyone with a camera a few thousand bucks and more ambition than talent could schlep up to Bronson Canyon and quickly make a cheap sci-fi/horror movie? Well they're back! The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra is an affectionate meticulous re-creation of those notoriously cheesy clunkers as a gaggle of beloved stereotypes pursue that rarest of all radioactive elements--atmosphereum. Writer/Director Larry Blamire heads a superb cast--including Fay Masterson (Eyes Wide Shut) Brian Howe (Gran Torino) Andrew Parks (Donnie Brasco) and Jennifer Blaire (The Majestic)--that faced a daunting task: having to be brilliant and terrible at the same time! The dialogue is marvelously insipid and the music cuts in and out of the action with breathtaking suddenness. Aliens from Mars crash-land setting loose a mutant while a mad scientist re-awakens a talking skeleton that could hold the key to world domination and don't forget Animala a half-woman half-animal beatnik! It's one of the most original clever and hilarious comedies to come along in eons of your Earth years--and became such a fan favourite that there's now a sequel...maybe two...

• Survival Code | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £5.11   |  Saving you £10.88 (212.92%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Survival Code It is the year 2045. The planet s last oil and gas reserves lie barren and Earth is rife with sabotage, warfare and turmoil. A daring platoon head to Borealis: an unknown glacial landscape which could promise hope for mankind, or death for all. Vic Carboneau (Ty Olsson, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, X-Men 2) is an ex-ultimate fighter in control of the only way in and out of Borealis: the air strip. As more troops, weapons and danger arrive, the stakes quickly become about more than natural resources alone and a ruthless fight for survival ensues. An intense action-adventure filled with ammunition and peril; Survival Code questions what extremes humanity must face if planet earth teeters on the brink of ruin.

• Shock Waves | Blu Ray | (25/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• LX 2048 | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the year 2048, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Adam is a husband and father who discovers that he has a mysterious heart disease. With no possibility for an organ transplant, he is now scheduled to be replaced by a cloned upgrade an improved version of himself that will be supplied to his estranged wife as part of the Premium 3 government insurance plan. Spiraling out of control, Adam starts living on borrowed time, seeking to find a solution before his replica will be sent to raise his kids and replace his existence across the board.

• Alien Vs Predator | UMD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Battlestar Galactica | DVD | (26/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Battlestar Galactica was one of the first off the starting blocks in the rush to repeat the Box Office business of Star Wars. The original pilot episode was adapted for both cinema and television viewing, and this DVD features the more self-contained theatrical release, which eliminates certain plot threads (such as John Colicos's treacherous character Baltar). Mixing Egyptian, Greek and made-up mythologies and designs, the premise was almost too sprawling for a two-hour presentation. In the series, we'd go on to learn why there were only a handful of humans left floating around, and what their relationship with the eagerly sought planet Earth was. Here it's all about set up, with Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) stealing the show as the fighter pilots with all the charm and the best lines. Lorne Greene adds a classy element to the large-scale acting ensemble, as does an uncredited Patrick Macnee as narrator and voice of the villainous Cylon Leader. Producer/writer Glen A Larson debuted Buck Rogers in the 25th Century at almost the same time (again for both TV and cinema), but something about this has always made it the most fondly remembered Star Wars wannabe. It's a shame that the soundtrack, and Stu Phillips's cracking music in particular, is only presented in mono, but a clean digital transfer at least means that Daggits, Centons and all the other felgercarb look its best. Extras on the DVD include cast and filmmakers' biographies, production notes and Web links. --Paul Tonks

• Orcs! | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £6.51   |  Saving you £9.48 (145.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two park rangers must defend their turf against hordes of rampaging orcs.

• Neon Genesis Evangelion - Vol. 2 | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Personal differences between two of the Eva pilots sets the team back but when a proposed replacement for the Evas malfunctions runs amok the Evangelion team must stop a rampaging robot before it melts down an entire city! Finally the fight for mankind's survival moves into a whole new phase as the first combat-designed Eva is prepared for a battle! When the Naval convoy transporting the new Eva is attacked by an angel the protected becomes the protector as 2nd child Asuka Langley and shinji must activate Unit 02 for a deadly underwater duel to the death!

• The Martian War | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £2.64   |  Saving you £10.35 (392.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the near distant future, Earth's natural resources have been obliterated and the remaining human population has fled to live on Mars. Despite bringing them closer than ever to the sun, they colonise the planet, recreating the huge cities they left behind on Earth, protecting each city from the atmosphere with enormous dome-like force fields. However, when a massive sandstorm violently tears through the dome and destroys Mars New York, a warning signal is quickly sent to Mars Los Angeles where they face a ticking clock to figure out how to stop the terrifying storm before it wipes them out next. Starring Alan Pietruszewski (Zero Dark Thirty), Lane Townsend (Age of Tomorrow) and Jennifer Dorogi (Days of our Lives), prepare for danger and battle as humankind faces extinction. Again.

• The Lost World | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £14.20   |  Saving you £-9.21 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since--from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park--owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London. With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously extant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. On the DVD: From the attractive solid slipcase to the wonderful "period" menu interface, this is a delightful DVD package. The film itself looks surprisingly good--a real tribute to the restoration team's efforts--with careful tinting in the style of the period (blues for evening, reds for dawn etc.). The disc features the choice of either an original score by The Alloy Orchestra or a classical orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models) and a well-meaning but basic commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. There's also a text biography of Conan Doyle and a display of original postcards, posters and other promotional items. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• The Man Who Fell To Earth | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Who is Newton? Arriving one day at a remote Kentucky town Newton has soon hired a New York lawyer to help him found a mysterious industrial empire using his advanced technological advantage. As he takes on and beats every major US corporation people can only guess at his true purpose. Initially his noble intention is to save his dying world from agonising death by drought but soon Newton agelessly falls from grace as he becomes prey to lust...

• The Alien Conspiracy - Time Enough | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The war between the two alien races escalates with the Greys contaminating mankind with violence and the Morphs using humans as pawns. One human operative ambivalent about his situation in New York City wants to experience the same time over and over again with his new girlfriend because he knows of the fateful events that will soon happen. Yet he can't seem to get the relationship right. A cult classic sci-fi flick!

• The X Files: Season 3 | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Focused lightning bolts, stigmata, possession, and ancient curses become secondary in Season 3 of The X-Files as more episodes are devoted to pursuing the increasingly complex story threads. "The Blessing Way" is an explosive start, introducing the Syndicate's well-manicured man (John Neville), while Scully's sister Melissa is shot and Mulder experiences Twin-Peaks-like prophetic visions. We learn of medical records of millions, including Scully, who have been experimented upon ("Paper Clip"): the fast-paced train-bound two-parter "Nisei" and "731" suggests the experiments are about alien hybridisation. Krycek turns out to be hosting an alien in the next double-act, "Piper Maru" and "Apocrypha", in which Skinner is shot by Melissa's killer. Two great one-offs outside the arc are "Clyde Bruckman's "Final Repose", a bittersweet tale of foreseeing death (featuring an Emmy-winning performance from Peter Boyle) and Jose Chung's " From Outer Space", a spoof of alien conspiracy theories through an author's investigations into abductees. --Paul Tonks

• The Twilight Zone - Season 1 | DVD | (22/08/2005) 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! This fantastic 6 DVD boxed set contains all 36 episodes from Rod Serling's classic groundbreaking s

• Solty Rei Collection | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £29.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (33.34%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Solty Rei: Complete Collection (6 Discs)

• Helldriver (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £7.95   |  Saving you £12.04 (151.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The absolutely insane Yoshihiro Nishimura director of Tokyo Gore Police and the amazing Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl is back with another foray into disturbing wonder with the Japanese zombie movie Helldriver. An alien-spawned mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan transforming those who inhale it into ravenous flesh-eating zombies. Plunged into chaos Japan is torn in two: the southern half of the country where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas lives behind a heavily-fortified wall while the northern half is a lawless zombie-infected wasteland. Hope arrives in the form of Kika (Yumiko Hara) a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government Kika leads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina from Audition Tokyo Gore Police) and put an end to the plague of the living dead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie population that refuses to lay down and die!

• Farscape: Complete Season 4 (Boxset) | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The final series of sci-fi extravaganza, Farscape, this 10-disc Box Set contains all 22 episodes, presented as widescreen and uncut features with Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio. Also included are more than 2½hrs of never before seen features.

• The Last Line Of Defense | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Fire in the Sky (Imprint # 26) | Blu Ray | (25/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bakugan - Battle Brawlers - Series 1 Vol.2 | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bakugan: Season 1 - Vol.2