Science Fiction

• The Chronicles Of Riddick | HD DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vin Diesel (XXX The Fast and the Furious) stars in this electrifying special-effects-fuelled action spectacular featuring 15 minutes additional footage! After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds this lone reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation. Powered by groundbreaking visual effects and pulse-pounding thrill-a-minute action!

• They Have Returned | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Four years ago it arrived. It was mean. Tough. Destructive. By the time it was finished almost no one was left alive. Now a new alien shapeshifter has arrived and slaughtered the personnel of a Russian nuclear power plant. She's got her hands on a hyper-fusion reactor and a cache of nuclear warheads - and is about to ignite an explosive chain reaction that will crack Earth open like an egg. But not before she takes personal highly painful revenge on IF leader Sean Lambert who ki

• Kino's Journey - Vol. 1 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For centuries those in search of self-discovery and knowledge of the world have hit the road in furtherance of those quests. Young Kino along with her talking motorcycle Hermes has the same goal - to travel and observe and learn from different cultures. Staying exactly three days in each location Kino and Hermes learn much about the world and themselves... Episodes comprise: 1. Land Of Visible Pain 2. A Tale Of Feeding Off Others 3. Land Of Prophecies 4. Land Of Adults

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on a first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds--an astounding amount--and ran for two seasons from 1975 to 77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances are: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from its orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propel it out of orbit and sent it flying through space without regard for any physical laws. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Space Precinct - Vol. 3 And 4 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Snake: An alien extortionist and explosives expert known only as The Snake threatens the executives of Brett Interplanetary. Precinct 88 becomes a task force to track him down and Jane reunites with her old ECPF colleague Bill Gray. The Snake reveals his next target - The Princess an Omega Class tanker en route to Altor with two hundred million gallons of liquefied hydrogen! Body and Soul: Caught in the radiation field of Merlin's Asteroid a prototype spaceship created by recluse industrialist Alden Holmes returns to Altor after being lost in space for twenty years. Brogan finds a body on board opening an investigation into a homicide that took place two decades ago. As he tracks down the killer Brogan is haunted by the ghost in the machine..... Time To Kill: A routine sweep on a counterfeiting operation goes horribly wrong for the officers of Precinct 88 when they are suddenly attacked by a violent Cyborg and Took is caught in the crossfire. The Cyborg has Brogan marked for death and one by one Brogan's colleagues fall victim to the creature... Deadline: Brogan and Haldane discover a capsule containing the body of a Tarn male. The autopsy reveals that the Tarn is missing vital organs removed with surgical precision... and Brogan and Haldane find themselves on the trail of organ leggers from Danae - vicious killers who murder for profit and target Brogan as their next donor.

• Stardust | HD DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An all-star cast headline this fantasy outing from director Matthew Vaughn.

• Unidentified | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

• The Subjects | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  SunSkye, a global technology and pharmaceutical corporation, have created an all new revolutionary drug that is now ready for human testing. They recruit a group of eight strangers for the trial offering a large sum of money. The conditions are simple, they are locked in an observation room, required to take a pill, and be observed for eight hours. The subjects begin to feel their bodies change. The effects are unlike anything a human has ever experienced; they are developing superpowers. Can they control their new found abilities and work together to escape the room? Or are superpowers not for everyone? Extras: Behind-The-Scenes Featurette Audio Commentary Music Video Image Gallery Concept Art

• Kino's Journey - Vol. 4 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £25.25   |  Saving you £-5.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Idle Traveller. A winding road feeds turn after turn - Some soft curves some harsh corners; Sometimes leading to nowhere. Tales differ from mouth to mouth. Ear to ear they change yet again. The answer to perception vs. reality is neither here nor there. Toe to toe the tall tales grow Blow by blow and woe by woe - Of love conquering all And wars promising peace. See for yourself; eye to eye. See yourself; live and die. What you see is what you get and what you don't you wo

• Tin Man | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tent-pole miniseries release from RHI Entertainment and Sci Fi Channel, Tin Man is a modern science fiction update of L. Frank Baum's timeless The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. When a sorceress named Azkadellia scorches the once-beautiful land of Oz into a desolate wasteland the only hope lies in an outsider named DG, a young Midwestern woman whose troubling dreams have summoned her to the doomed paradise. D.G. embarks on a journey to find the great mystic man to save the Oz and on her way she befriends a scarecrow named Glitch a tin cop named Cain and a gentle manimal named Raw. Take a journey beyond the yellow brick road with Tin Man.

• Farscape 2.2 | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £19.27   |  Saving you £5.72 (22.90%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second season of Farscape expands upon and develops the characters introduced in the ambitious first season. John Crichton's new nemesis is the deadly Scorpius, replacing Crais who has taken the living ship Moya's offspring on a voyage into the unknown. Moya's regular crew--Aeryn, Zhaan, Chiana, D'Argo and Rygel--remain as divided and suspicious of each other as ever, yet somehow manage to pull together at times of crisis. After revelations about Pilot's introduction to Moya in "The Way We Weren't", the writers continue to exploit the show's gift for surprising as well as emotionally convincing character development. The CGI effects, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, continue to make Farscape the most original looking sci-fi show on TV. The witty scripts, peppered with post-modern pop culture references and movie in-jokes, are also a breath of fresh air. The result is episodic TV sci-fi that continually pushes at the accepted boundaries of the genre. On the DVD: the four episodes included here are all distinguished by ambitious storytelling, somewhat let down in the execution. In "Picture if You Will", an old enemy returns with a truly bizarre and barely comprehensible scheme to imprison Moya's crew inside a picture (shades of Dorian Gray maybe?). "Home on the Remains" has a contrived plot that harks right back to classic Star Trek, with Crichton even quoting Jim Kirk (the highlight, though, is Zhaan's transformation, which gives a whole new meaning to hay fever). Both "Dream a Little Dream" and "Out of Their Minds" play around with the crew's perceptions of reality--the former is a curious flashback episode set in between the first and second season, as Zhaan is put on trial for murder on a dystopian planet run by lawyers; the second plays body-swap with the crew, with everyone obviously having fun pretending to be everyone else (the aliens, however, look like leftovers from The Dark Crystal). DVD extras include a handful of deleted scenes, a DVD-ROM screensaver and yet another photo gallery. --Mark Walker

• Andromeda - Season 1 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on an idea by Gene Roddenberry, Andromeda wears its debt to Star Trek on its sleeve, recalling the best SF of Roddenberry's heyday. Kevin (ex-Hercules) Sorbo, plays Captain Dylan Hunt, the sympathetically flawed idealist in command of the Andromeda Ascendant, a massive 1.4 KM long starship of the now-disbanded Systems Commonwealth. The fall of civilisation has meant that although she ought to be a relic she remains the zenith of technological advancement. Episodes on this DVD: "The Pearls That Were His Eyes", "The Mathematics of Tears", "Music of a Distant Drum" and "Harper 2.0". "The Pearls That Were His Eyes" was one of the first conceived episode ideas, but was delayed until the availability of a Star Trek regular. That eventually turned out to be John (Q) de Lancie, who gives a brilliant turn as Beka's long-lost Uncle Sid. She really ought to have learned by now that no one is out for completely altruistic goals. An indication of how rotten the galaxy has become is that it can now takes three years for junk mail to reach you. Finding another High Guard ship with a crew looking as it did 300 years ago seems like an awful big coincidence. In "The Mathematics of Tears" Dylan works to stay focused on the enigma at hand. Unfortunately, high-ranking officer Jill Pierce keeps distracting him with red herrings and all-manner of feminine wiles. Did they really stay young from the after-effects of an experimental weapon? Or is there a far more tragic secret to be revealed? When the show focuses purely on Tyr, we can always be sure of certain eventualities. There will be glistening displays of muscle, questioned loyalties and some sort of humbled reconciliation with Dylan. This time his erratic behaviour is influenced by the "Music of a Distant Drum" which takes him to the planet Midden and a family of fishmongers. The episode gets to look at the character from the inside out due to a complete memory loss. Never, never, never pick up a floating life pod. When will characters in SF learn this? The dire result of doing so this time is an impressive "Harper 2.0". Gordon Woolvett hasn't had many opportunities to shine thus far. But here we see him talking in multiple languages and contrasting his general surfer wise-cracking with sharp intellect and a mean streak. We also get a glimpse of what it is that's so feared about the Magog in battle. On the DVD: Andromeda, Season 1 Vol. 3 has the regular extras package, with trailers, deleted scenes and comments from star Kevin Sorbo. This box set also features interviews with Brent Stait (Rev) and make-up effects artist Harlow McFarlane. --Paul Tonks

• 2012 Damnation | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Get Backers - Vol. 5 | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £25.25   |  Saving you £-5.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  They've fought their way through the maze of the Limitless Fortress. They've done battle with old friends and new foes. They've crept closer and closer to the mastermind at the centre of all the insanity: Makubex. But can the Get Backers possibly survive the final trials he's got in store for them? Watch as the Get Backers make their final push into Makubex's lair! Ban and Fudou face off for a deathmatch in a Roman coliseum. But can the master of the Jagan win against a half-mad war

• PREDATOR 4K UHD+BD - ZAVVI STEELBOOK EXC | 4K UHD | (06/08/2018) from £34.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Predator BD: Predators: Sneak Peek Predator: Evolution Of A Species: Hunters Of Extreme Perfection Commentary By Director John Mctiernan Text Commentary By Film Historian Eric Lichtenfeld If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It: The Making Of Predator Inside The Predator Special Effects Camouflage Tests Short Takes Deleted Scenes And Outtakes Theatrical Trailers Photo Gallery Predator Profiles Predator UHD: Commentary By Director John Mctiernan Text Commentary By Film Historian Eric Lichtenfeld

• Planetes - Vol. 1 | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  2075 AD. In this age living and working in space is commonplace. Regular commercial flights can take you to cities on the moon or space stations orbiting the Earth. But there exists a threat that may seem trivial but left unchecked can prove fatal: space debris. In orbit around the Earth are millions of pieces of space trash including derelict satellites spent fuel tanks and discarded pieces of space stations. The diligent members of the Debris Section based at the space station

• Planzet | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (67.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the year 2047, an alien life form codenamed FOS invades Earth and smashes through the world's major cities in one wave. The earth unites to fight back and puts up a Diffuser in place to stop further invasions 3 years after. Now in 2053, a plan is made for a last counterattack that must disable the Diffuser for an offensive and Akeshima Taishi, who lost his father to the FOS when they first invaded, may finally get his revenge.

• Starship Operators Collection | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £39.13   |  Saving you £-9.14 (-30.50%)   |  RRP £29.99

  All 13 episodes of the anime sci-fi series revolving around the 73rd class of the Defense University of the Planet Kibi. As the cadets are returning home from the maiden voyage of the new combat spaceship Amaterasu they are shocked to discover that their home planet has been taken over by the Henrietta Alliance. The cadets decide to fight back using the Amaterasu with funding from the Galaxy News Network. Episodes comprise: 'Count Down' 'Trafalgar Crisis' 'Call from Home' 'Final Answer' 'Great Escape: Part 1' 'Great Escape: Part 2' 'Stardust Memory: Part 1' 'Stardust Memory: Part 2' 'Turning Point' 'Sudden Death' 'Return Match' 'War Cry' and 'Moment of Truth'.

• Sci-Fi | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes: 1. The Final Countdown 2. 976 EVIL 3. The Astral Factor 4. Agency Apex 5. Creator 6. Digital Man 7. Earth Minus Zero 8. Hologram Man 9. Judgement Day 10. Protoype 11. Rot 12. Sci-Fighters 13. The Sender 14. Chaos Factor 15. Guardian 16. Militia 17. Space Marines 18. Stealth Fighter 19. Virus 20. The Willies

• Robotech 2 - The Sentinels | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  On Earth an expedition is being readied to send a valient task force into space to confront the leaders of a vast alien armada. The Robotech Masters have become a nomadic race of techno-voyagers leaving their home world almost a deserted planet and open to a secret invasion by the Invid an alien race driven by vengeance. As the alien invaders attempt to attack the planet's automatic defence mechanisms are set in motion by the Sentinels guardians of a dying race. The most astonishing science fiction saga ever told - featuring action packed state of the art animation!