Science Fiction

• Ultraviolet | Blu Ray | (07/03/2016) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As an overdose of eye candy, Ultraviolet can be marginally recommended as the second half of a double-feature with Aeon Flux. Both films are disposable adolescent fantasies featuring a butt-kicking babe (in this case, the svelte and sexy Milla Jovovich) in a dystopian future, and both specialize in the kind of barely-coherent, video-game storytelling that's constantly overwhelmed by an over-abundance of low-budget CGI. Director Kurt Wimmer fared much better with his earlier film Equilibrium, but he's trying for a lively comic book vibe here (beginning with Hulk-like opening credits) with a digitally enhanced, Tron-like color palette. It largely suits this late-21st century story of a "blood war" between the ultra-violent Violet (Jovovich), member of a vampire-like group of resistance fighters infected with a man-made virus called the Hemophage, and the human Vice Cardinal Daxus (Nick Chinlund), who's determined to eliminate Violet's kind once and for all. Wimmer takes all of this way too seriously, crafting a plot involving Violet's rescue of a human clone boy (Cameron Bright) that's intended as an homage to John Cassevetes' 1980 drama Gloria, but Wimmer's good intentions are mostly lost in a repetitive series of chaotically choreographed fight scenes, mostly involving the tight-bodied Jovovich wiping out dozens of armour-clad enemies. It's all too numbingly hectic to qualify as a satisfying movie, but sci-fi buffs should give it a look anyway, if only to see how locations in Shanghai and Hong Kong contribute to the film's futuristic design.--Jeff Shannon

• Vegas In Space | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vegas in Space follows the futuristic fortunes of four male astronauts who on a secret mission to the Planet Clitoris are ordered by the Empress of Earth to swallow gender reversal pills and thus change thier sex turning themselves into mid-Twentieth Century show girls from Earth in order to infiltrate the glamorous Clitorean resort Vegas in Space.

• Space Precinct - Vol. 5 And 6 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Power: Jane and Took are assigned to protect a shipment of Luxorian Ice a vital part of Solartek's new solar power system. Seek and Destroy: With the discovery of Aladine-50 a vaccine against creon fever the importation of Earth dogs is all the rage in Demeter. Illegal: An illegal immigrant from Sagania saves Brogan's life in a shooting incident and Brogan learns that his saviour's son Nilim is being held by snuff fight promoter Coe Barner. Divided We Stand: Jane and Took investigate the theft of a tarn egg-sac from Demeter Memorial Hospital.

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 4 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Seed of Destruction: Whilst exploring a bizarre asteroid Koenig is detained and replaced by a double. The fake Koenig returns to Moonbase with a crystal which is discovered will draw all the energy from Moonbase in order to revitalise its home the steroid where the real Koenig is still a prisoner. The Beta Cloud: After a cloud of space dust causes a mystery illness on Alpha an Eagle crew is sent to track the storm cloud. They return with a terrifying space creature which they discovered is their agent and wants the Moonbase life support system. Tony and Maya must fight to defeat the space creature. A Matter of Balance: When Koenig and Shermeen decide to explore an apparently lifeless planet Shermeen wanders into a temple and comes under the spell of a Vindrus. She wants to help Vindrus' doomed race but soon learns that for each Vindrus saved one Alphan will be doomed and that she is the first in line. Space Warp: Two crises strike the Alphans simultaneously. Koenig and Tony who are checking out a derelict spaceship in when Eagle One encounter a space warp and end up five light years away while Maya is stricken down by a fever and changes into a range of creatures. Before long she changes into a space animal and escapes to the moon surface. Koenig and Tony began to find a way back through.

• Blue Gender - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 3 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One Day In The Western Year 2031... It's unknown how long the Blue have actually existed. The first confirmed sighting came in 2017. That was fourteen years ago. At first we thought they were a biological weapon that some rogue nation had developed but we soon learned they were very different. One Day: It is the year 2031. Humankind has been replaced as the dominant species by a race of monstrous insect-like creatures known as Blue. Sleeper Yuji Kaido finds himself thrust in

• Space Precinct - Vol. 10 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A further two episodes of the sensational sci-fi television series. Smelter Skelter: Sally and Liz are violently threatened during an armed robbery at the Jewellery Centre and Brogan takes a personal interest in tracking down the culprits. His investigations lead him to mining operator Alvin Zann who plans a daring raid on the orbiting Bank Of Altor with a small beam accelerator - an unstoppable weapon capable of punching a hole in the very fabric of the universe! The Forever Beetle: Pteronarcys Eternicum a rare beetle capable of cell regeneration is stolen from Dexkor Laboratories. Brogan and Haldane are assigned to the case and suspect that the theft may be an inside job. But Brogan is preoccupied with nailing drugs dealer Amory Wolf whom he believes is responsible for the death of Tommy Murphy his oldest friend. Meanwhile Jane and Took have a run-in with local hero Thunder Cole...

• Zathura | UMD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Tron Legacy Magical Gifts DVD Retail | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £3.59   |  Saving you £14.40 (401.11%)   |  RRP £17.99

  TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen.

• Men In Black --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This imaginative comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty) is a lot of fun, largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent (Tommy Lee Jones) assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extra-terrestrials. There's lots of comedy to spare in this bright film, some of the funniest stuff found in the margins of the major action (a scene with Smith's character being trounced in the distance by a huge alien while Jones questions a witness is a riot.) The inventiveness never lets up, and the cast--including Vincent D'Onofrio doing frighteningly convincing work as an alien occupying a decaying human--hold up their end splendidly. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com On the DVD: This Collector's Edition disc contains a "Visual Commentary" that features director Barry Sonenfeld and actor Tommy Lee Jones in an anecdotal conversation, but with the unique twist that they are displayed as silhouettes on your TV screen (imagine you're sitting in the back row of the cinema and they are up front) using a pointer to highlight particular events on screen. If you have a widescreen TV, the menu prompts you to switch to 4:3 mode to see this. There is also a "Visual Effects Scene Deconstruction" in which the tunnel scene and the Edgar Bug fight scene are dissected into their constituent parts; an in-depth documentary, "Metamorphosis of MIB", which charts the progress of the concept from comic book to screen; five "Extended and Alternate" scenes; trailers, including a teaser for MIB II; and Will Smith's "Men in Black" music video. --Mark Walker

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 7 | DVD | (25/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• Code Geass R2 - Set 1 | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (15.70%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The year is now 2018. With Zero dead and the remnants of the Black Knights being swept up by the Britannian forces a forced state of peace settles over Area 11. The rights of the Elevens remain limited but with no one to lead them and the defeat during the Black Rebellion hanging over them the Japanese people remain under the boot of Britannian Empire with no hope to overcome this oppression. But forces are moving in the shadows and nothing is quite what it seems - are the hopes and dreams of the Black Knights crushed or were the battles up until now a prelude for greater things yet to come?

• STAR TREK: Lower Decks - Staffel 1 - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (18/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 5 (Vol. 22) | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stargate SG-1 is the TV spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Episodes on this DVD:"Between Two Fires". If there's one lesson SG-1 has learned, it's to always look a gift horse in the mouth. So when old acquaintances the Tollan offer Earth a brace of advanced weaponry, Jack's the first to raise a questioning hand and wonder if they aren't "Between Two Fires". Some James Bond-style sneaking about soon unravels the mystery. "2001". A lot of behind-the-scenes political machinations occur during "2001". There's another gloriously menacing cameo from Ronny Cox as Senator Kinsey who's desperately trying to dismantle the Stargate programme. All of which makes the A-plot about a new ally somewhat insignificant! But as always with newcomers on the show, the Aschen may not be all they appear to be. "Desperate Measures". Driven to "Desperate Measures", the perpetrator behind the kidnap of Major Carter puts everyone in an ethical quandary. Jack is forced to team up with his old foe Maybourne to find her. As if his cameo isn't insidious and slimy enough, there's another terrifically snake-like appearance by John de Lancie as Colonel Simmons. "Wormhole X-Treme!". Coming soon to network TV is "Wormhole X-Treme!", a science fiction show featuring an intrepid team travelling to other worlds via an intergalactic portal. Sound familiar? It sure does to the SGC, and when Jack and company investigate they discover dear old Willie Garson (Martin Lloyd from Season 4's Point of No Return) has become a whole new form of security problem. This is the show's 100th episode, and was created as a sort of Galaxy Quest parody. Full of crew-member cameos and in-jokes, it's definitely the best fun fans and cast have had amid the more dramatically serious story arc over the year. --Paul Tonks

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 2 (Vol. 5) | DVD | (26/06/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. Since neither Kurt Russell nor James Spader would be able to commit, it gave the producers licence to tinker with the cast and the universe they'd explore. Replacing the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" pharaohnic Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld, and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. A satisfying conclusion to the previous episode's cliff-hanger is reached in "The Tok'ra (Part II)". There may only be preliminary goodwill established between Earth and the rebels, but the dangling thread bodes well. On planet Madrona, the team are accused of stealing a "Touchstone" that controls its climate. The revelation of who really stole it causes ripples in the pond back on Earth. Prepare for a science lesson (one of the series' strengths) in "A Matter of Time" as the gang ponders how to resist a black hole's pull. The last episode in the volume carries a voice from the past through O'Neill's lips as the "Fifth Race" demands to be heard. --Paul Tonks

• Rahxephon - Vol. 4 | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tremors ripple through the city as new Dolems attack but the most dangerous shock waves of all are the mental assaults that now threaten to overwhelm Ayato's grasp of the physical world itself. As new players enter the deadly game between the humans and the Mu the young pilot finds himself alone and without backup struggling to rebuild the foundation of his own reality as the universe threatens to collapse beneath him. The secrets of Ixtli begin to reveal themselves in the four

• Mutant X The Complete First Season | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mutant X chronicles the adventures of a team of four human mutants possessing extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. Like hundreds of other unsuspecting subjects, these mutants were altered in secret experiments conducted in a covert government project. Realising that events have spun out of control, the organisation that created them is now hunting them down in an urgent 'product recall'. Mutant X's mission is to seek out their fellow mutants to help them come to terms wi...

• THE QUESTOR TAPES-EIN COM - MO | DVD | (27/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alien Abduction | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  While camping Jean and her three friends are abducted by extra terrestrials. She returns to consciousness in a US Military Hospital especially designed to rehabilitate alien abductees. Her army interrogators soon resort to torture lobotomy and even the execution of uncooperative and mutated patients. Jean escapes only to discover the awful truth about the bloody conflict between humanity and the conquering forces of extraterrestrial evil.

• Zonad | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £3.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (552.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From beyond the very limits of our imagination comes a stranger. Who is he? Where is he from? And why is he so fond of our black beer?

• The New Barbarians | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's the year 2019 fifteen years after the world was devastated by a nuclear war. It is a land where gangs of human predators travel in packs like wolves where junkyards are filled with the dying remnants of society and an army of carnivorous escaped military prisoners threaten a fragile sliver of civilization. The only hope of the few remaining survivors is to reach a distant land from where radio signals indicating the presence of human life are being emitted...