Science Fiction

• Deep Blue Sea Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE ULTIMATE PREDATOR JUST GOT SMARTER. From Renny Harlin, maximalist director of Die Hard II, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight, comes Deep Blue Sea, a shark-infested action-thriller where everyone is on the menu. At an isolated research facility in the middle of the ocean, a team of scientists, led by Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), are working on a cure for Alzheimer's by genetically altering the brains of sharks. When a shark escapes and attacks a pleasure boat, the company sponsoring the research threatens to pull its funding and sends corporate executive Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate. McAlester has just 48 hours to prove the value of her work, but her experiments have made the sharks smarter. No longer happy to be injected, prodded, and caged, they begin to turn the tables. As a freak storm causes chaos on the surface, making it impossible to leave, the facility is flooded and the scientists must fight to survive against the rising water and the hungry sharks that now swim freely through the corridors. Embracing action, horror and suspense with a knowing sense of humour and pushing them all as far as they can go, Deep Blue Sea is an adrenaline rush of pure entertainment presented in a brand new 4K restoration approved by director Renny Harlin. Come on in, the water's great! LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS - Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negatives by Arrow Films approved by director Renny Harlin - High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation - Original DTS HD-MA 5.1 and Dolby Atmos audio options - Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing - Brand new audio commentary by screenwriter Duncan Kennedy - Brand new audio commentary by filmmaker and critic Rebekah McKendry - Archive audio commentary by director Renny Harlin and star Samuel L. Jackson - From the Frying Pan into the Studio Tank, a new interview with production designer William Sandell - Beneath the Surface, a new visual essay by film critic Trace Thurman - When Sharks Attack: The Making of Deep Blue Sea, an archive featurette - The Sharks of the Deep Blue Sea, an archive featurette - Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary by director Renny Harlin - Theatrical trailer - Image gallery - Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Preece - 60-page perfect bound collector's book containing new writing by film critics Josh Hurtado, Jennie Kermode, and Murray Leeder, plus previously unseen production art and designs - Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Preece - Postcards from Aquatica

• Planet of the Apes | Blu Ray | (01/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!

• Star Trek 1: The Motion Picture (remastered) | Blu Ray | (22/03/2010) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The U.S.S. Enterprise proudly soars again in this beautifully restored edition of the original Star Trek movie classic. Featuring enhanced visual effects and a new sound mix supervised by legendary director Robert Wise. When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley and the cast from the acclaimed original Star Trek televsion series mobilise at warp speed to stop the alien intruder from its relentless flight toward Earth.

• Cosmos | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When two young men arrive at a family-run guesthouse in rural France, their anticipation of a few days' peace and quiet is undermined by a variety of sinister occurrences. A small bird is found murdered, its neck in a tiny noose, a strangely sexualized stain appears on a wall, and a slug crawls across the breakfast tray. Are these all signs comprising a portent of truly cosmic significance, or merely bizarre coincidences? And is it any wonder that one of the visitors, Witold (piercing-eyed Jonathan Genet) has such difficulty writing his novel, or that his companion Fuchs (Johan Libéreau) prefers to find solace in earthier pleasures? The final film by the late Andrzej Żuławski, director of the legendary Possession (the only Cannes-winning arthouse film to be officially classified as a video nasty), Cosmos adapts Witold Gombrowicz's legendarily challenging novel into a beguilingly witty combination of (deceptively) lighthearted French farce and a complex, knowing reflection on the absurdities both of humanity itself and the way that we define our notion of the universe according to our individual hang-ups. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition digital transfer of the film supervised by Andrzej Żuławski New subtitle translation approved by Żuławski Hanging Sparrows: A retrospective making of interview featurette including cast (Jonathan Genet, Victoria Guerra, Jean-Francois Balmer, Clementine Pons), crew (cinematographer Andre Szankowski and others) and archive footage of director Andrzej Zulawski A Brief History of Gombrowicz - An interview with Rita Gombrowicz and on the life and work of Witold Gombrowicz Bleurgh - Daniel Bird on the films of Andrzej Zulawski and adapting Cosmos into English Trailers Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork options

• Warm Bodies | Blu Ray | (17/06/2013) from £15.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wynonna Earp: Season 4 | DVD | (05/07/2021) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The fourth and final season of Wynonna Earp. Wynonna Earp is a fast-paced, gun-slinging thriller that follows Wyatt Earp's great-granddaughter as she battles demons and other supernatural beings. After years away, Wynonna Earp has travelled back to her hometown of Purgatory to reluctantly take on the role destined for Wyatt Earp's heir: end the family curse that has resurrected the villains her legendary ancestor dispatchednow known as Revenants. Using her unique abilities, a magical gun, and a dysfunctional posse of allies, Wynonna must try to stop the Revenants from taking over the townand escaping into the world. An international cult sensation, Wynonna Earp stars Melanie Scrofano & Tim Rozon

• The Signal | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £7.24   |  Saving you £8.75 (120.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A road trip turns in to a breathless battle for reality itself in this astonishing science fiction thriller starring Laurence Fishburne and Brenton Thwaites. When a trio of computer geniuses are lured to the desert they believe it to be a hacker’s prank but things turn serious when they’re kidnapped and taken to a mysterious facility. Who has taken them? The government? A terrorist organisation? An agency not of this world? They will do whatever it takes to find out.

• Silent Running | DVD | (09/11/2020) from £9.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Douglas Trumbull directs this sci-fi drama starring Bruce Dern. By the year 2008, all that remains of the Earth's plant life is preserved in space, maintained under huge geodesic domes on board three ships orbiting the planet Saturn. Botanist and crewman Freeman Lowell (Dern) is horrified when the order comes from home to destroy the greenhouses, and kills his three human crewmates in order to prevent them from carrying out the termination. Injured in the process, Lowell is forced to rely on his three service robots as he goes on the run in the one remaining station, determined to preserve what is left of his home planet's ecology.

• The Andromeda Strain - The Mini-Series - Complete | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the makers of American Gangster and Deja Vu and based on Michael Crichton's classic sci-fi novel The Andromeda Strain stars Benjamin Bratt (Law And Order) Rick Schroder (24) and Eric McCormack (Will And Grace) and is directed by Mikael Solomon (Band Of Brothers). It all started with a brilliant flash of light - and then a thunderous explosion. In the desert in a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere something has just fallen from the sky! Within the hour all the townspeople - except a single infant and a drunkard old man - are dead. Now an elite scientific unitare sent in to study the deadly virus determine its origin and figure out a way to stop it... Before its too late!

• Star Trek 1: The Motion Picture (remastered) | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £2.63   |  Saving you £5.36 (203.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The U.S.S. Enterprise proudly soars again in this beautifully restored Director's Edition of the original Star Trek movie classic. This director's cut features enhanced visual effects and a new sound mix supervised by legendary director Robert Wise. When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley and the cast from the acclaimed original Star Trek televsion series mobilise at warp speed to stop the alien intruder from its relentless flight toward Earth.

• Aliens (Two Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  James Cameron heads back into the depths for this underwater IMAX extravaganza.

• Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem | Blu Ray | (12/05/2008) from £23.90   |  Saving you £1.10 (4.60%)   |  RRP £25.00

  Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem features the iconic monsters battling it out on the big screen! The warring alien and predator races descend on a small town where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

• 20 Million Miles to Earth (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/03/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A US rocket returning from Venus crash lands off the Italian coast, bringing back with it a strange creature that quickly begins to grow to terrifying proportions Clearly indebted to King Kong, and employing that film's empathetic approach to its 'monster' (a trope that Harryhausen would continue to employ throughout his career), 20 Million Miles to Earth is a terrific slice of fifties sci-fi. It boasts some of Harryhausen's finest work of the period, as well one of his most beloved and enduring creature creations. Extras High Definition remasters of the original black & white and authorised alternative colour versions Original mono audio Alternative 5.1 surround soundtrack Audio commentary with Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett, and documentary producer Arnold Kunert Finding Harryhausen (2017, 12 mins): a new interview with SFX maestro Dennis Muren Remembering ˜20 Million Miles to Earth' (2007, 27 mins): a look at the making of the film Interview with actor Joan Taylor (2007, 18 mins) Film Music's Unsung Hero (2007, 23 mins): film music expert David Schecter on composer Mischa Bakaleinikoff The Colourisation Process (2007, 11 mins): Harryhausen expert Arnold Kunert details the press and advertising materials produced to market Harryhausen's films 20 Million Miles More: sample pages from the comic book inspired by the film Super 8 version Theatrical trailer Image gallery: extensive promotional and on-set photography, poster art and archive materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• The Time Machine | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In 1960 producer-director George Pal's The Time Machine reshaped HG Wells' thoughtful, ironic novel into a two-fisted action movie, but one that still appeals to children and adults immensely and deserves its classic status. Wells' themes of biological and social evolution are played down, but there is a surprisingly melancholy thread as Rod Taylor's Time Traveller keeps stopping off at future wars to find that human stupidity still persists. In the first week of 1900 a group of fussy Victorians gather in Taylor's chintzy, overstuffed parlour to hear him tell of his expedition to the future, where the world is divided between the surface-dwelling, childish, beautiful Eloi and the hideous, underground, cannibal Morlocks. Wells intended both factions to seem degenerate, the logical final evolution of the class system, but Pal has Taylor pull a Captain Kirk and side with the Eloi and teach them to fight against their oppressors. The time travel sequence remains a tour de force, with a shop window mannequin demonstrating a parade of fashions as the years fly by in seconds and charming but still-effective stop-motion effects. The future is a wonderfully coloured landscape with properly gruesome cave-dwelling monsters and a winning Eloi heroine in Yvette Mimieux. It may not be totally Wells, but it's a treat. On the DVD: The Time Machine arrives on disc in a lovely widescreen print which makes the film seem new all over again. The featurette "Time Machine: The Journey Back" combines some mild behind-the-scenes stuff about the film (and its star prop) with a moving mini-sequel reuniting stars Rod Taylor and Alan Young in a scene that actually addresses a plot point skipped over in the original. --Kim Newman

• The Hunger Games | Blu Ray | (16/04/2013) from £3.32   |  Saving you £21.67 (652.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The sci-fi thriller The Hunger Games based on the best-selling epic novels is set in the ruins of what was once North America. Every year the Capitol of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in The Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment part government intimidation tactic The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which these 24 Tributes must fight with one another until one survivor remains. When her little sister is picked to compete Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers in her place. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson). If she's ever to return home to District 12 Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Also starring Donald Sutherland Elizabeth Banks Stanley Tucci Liam Hemsworth Josh Hutcherson Toby Jones Wes Bentley and Lenny Kravitz.

• Disney & Pixar's Lightyear 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £19.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ! Disney and Pixar's Lightyear the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans), the hero who inspired the toy follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure, alongside a group of ambitious recruits, and his robot companion Sox. Blu-ray Now in slim line Sustainable Packaging. Blu-ray Special Features Features Disney Enhanced High Definition Picture And Sound Lightyear Filmmaker Commentary Building the World of Lightyear The Zap Patrol Toyetic Deleted Scenes

• Silent Running Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (12/12/2022) from £12.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1968, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) contributed to the ground-breaking special photographic effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Four years later, he stamped his own indelible mark on the science fiction genre with his mesmerising directorial debut Silent Running. In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet's former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern, The 'Burbs), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship's three service robots. Featuring a captivating central performance by Dern, visual effects that rival anything in 2001 and a powerful ecological message, Silent Running is a haunting and prescient sci-fi classic that resonates even more strongly today than it did at the time of its original release. Product Features 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative, approved by director Douglas Trumbull High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation Original lossless mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by critics Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw Original audio commentary by Douglas Trumbull and actor Bruce Dern Isolated music and effects track No Turning Back an interview with film music historian Jeff Bond on the film's score First Run a visual essay by writer and filmmaker Jon Spira exploring the evolution of Silent Running's screenplay The Making of Silent Running an archival 1972 on-set documentary Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull and Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now two archival interviews with the film's director A Conversation with Bruce Dern an archival interview with the film's lead actor Theatrical trailer Extensive behind-the-scenes gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Arik Roper FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Barry Forshaw and Peter Tonguette

• Doctor Who: The Gunfighters | DVD | (23/07/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ghostbusters 2 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis take up their proton packs once more to battle the forces of evil in Manhattan! After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the Ghostbusters find themselves out of business-until an ancient tyrant, preparing a return to the Earthly domain through his portrait at the Manhattan Museum of Art, sets his sights on Dana Barrett's baby as the new home for his wicked soul! With the help of the Museum's possessed curator, he plans to turn New York into a really scary place to live! Now only the Ghostbusters can save New York City, by turning paranormal pest control into an art form!

• Firefly - The Complete Series (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Much praised and much missed after its premature cancellation, Firefly is the first SF TV series to be conceived by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and cocreator of Angel. Set five centuries in the future, it is a show where the mysterious personal pasts of the crew of the tramp spaceship Serenity continually surface. In fact, it's a Western in space where the losers in a Civil War are heading out to a barren frontier. Mal Reynolds is a man embittered by the war, yet whose love of his comrades perpetually dents his cynicism--even in the 14 episodes that exist we see him warm to the bubbly young mechanic Kaylee, the preacher Book, the idealistic doctor Simon, even to the often demented River, Simon's sister, the psychic result of malign experiments. Firefly is also about adult emotional relationships, for example Kaylee's crush on Simon, the happy marriage of Mal's second officer Zoe and the pilot Wash, the disastrous erotic stalemate between Mal and the courtesan Inara. Individual episodes deal with capers going vaguely wrong, or threats narrowly circumvented; character and plot arcs were starting to emerge when the show was cancelled. Fortunately, the spin-off movie Serenity ties up some of the ends; and in the meantime, what there is of Firefly is a show to marvel at, both for its tight writing and ensemble acting, and the idiocy of the executives who cancelled it. On the DVD: Firefly on DVD is presented in anamorphic 1.78:1 with Dolby Surround Sound. It includes commentaries on six episodes by various writers, directors, designers and cast members as well as featurettes on the conception of the show and the design of the spaceship Serenity, four deleted scenes, a gag reel, and Joss Whedon singing the show's theme tune, more or less. One of the things that emerges from all of this is how committed to the project everyone involved with it was, and is--unusually, you end up caring as much for the cast and crew as for the characters.