Science Fiction

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Steven Spielberg's futuristic sci-fi classic A.I. dazzles! When a prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to love, his human family isn't prepared. Now alone in a dangerous world, David befriends a streetwise robot (Jude Law) and embarks on a spectacular quest to discover the secret of his own identity. SPECIAL FEATURES Documentary on bringing A.I. to the screen Interviews with Steven Spielberg, Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law Behind-the-scenes featurettes on the making of A.I. Interview with Sound Designer Gary Rydstrom at Skywalker Ranch Visit to Stan Winston Studios with early Teddy footage Interviews with Lucasfilm's ILM special effects group Trailers, storyboards, drawings and hundreds of photos And much, much more!

• 2001: A Space Odyssey | Blu Ray | (02/10/2023) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-winning* achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonised space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin. The Film Vault is a new, premium home entertainment range celebrating cinema's greatest films. The collection features exclusive artwork from Vice Press plus unique premiums, housed in innovative numbered packaging. LIMITED EDITION of 6,000 Worldwide Product Features Featured In Pack NEW KEY ART by Matt Ferguson & Florey from Vice Press ACETATE O-RING - Removes for type-free display of your key art Exclusive individually-numbered CRYSTAL DISPLAY PLAQUE Rigid clamshell box with MAGNETIC CLOSURE 7 replica LOBBY CARDS - with added film quotes Double-sided reproductions of original THEATRICAL POSTERS Poster of the NEW KEY ART Feature film on 4K-UHD and Special Features on BLU-RAY On Disc Special Features Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood Channel Four Documentary 2001: The Making of a Myth 4 Insightful Featurettes: Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001, Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001, 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future and What Is Out There? 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork Look: Stanley Kubrick! Audio-Only Bonus: 1966 Kubrick Interview Conducted by Jeremy Bernstein Theatrical Trailer

• Space: 1999 - The Complete First Series (Repackaged) | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £24.17   |  Saving you £25.82 (106.83%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Space: 1999 is a Gerry Anderson cult classic as unmissable today as it was when first conceived in 1973. Starring husband and wife team Martin Landau and Barbara Bain Space: 1999 revolves around the crew of Moonbase Alpha where scientific experiments are conducted and space data gathered. Disaster strikes and the Moon is blown out of the Earth's orbit by a huge explosion emanating from man-made nuclear waste pits causing it to drift endlessly through the void of space where the real adventures begin. Episodes comprise: 1. Breakaway 2. Force Of Life 3. Collision Course 4. War Games 5. Death's Other Dominion 6. Voyager's Return 7. Alpha Child 8. Dragon's Domain 9. Mission Of The Darians 10. Black Sun 11. Guardian Of Piri 12. End Of Eternity 13. Matter Of Life And Death 14. Earthbound 15. The Full Circle 16. Another Time Another Place 17. The Infernal Machine 18. Ring Around The Moon 19. Missing Link 20. The Last Sunset 21. Space Brain 22. The Troubles Spirit 23. The Testament Of Arkadia 24. The Last Enemy

• Bugs: Complete Box Set | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £112.87   |  Saving you £-42.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The entire four series of Bugs spread over 13 discs! Series 1:Helicopter pilot Ed en route with a government agent and a highly sensitive package realises that his passenger and cargo may be very valuable when he is engaged in a deadly aerial dogfight with another helicopter. Ed shoots his aggressor down and later discovers that the package is a revolutionary satellite-jamming device - SACROS - developed by the government at their intelligence base The Hive. The adventure i

• Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1-2 | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £34.35   |  Saving you £25.64 (74.64%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 & 2

• Mothra (Masters of Cinema) LIMITED EDITION Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most iconic Japanese kaiju (films featuring giant monsters), Mothra has appeared in over a dozen feature films. Presented here is her debut, a gloriously vibrant piece of filmmaking that forever changed how kaiju eiga would be produced in Japan. Following reports of human life on Infant Island, the supposedly deserted site of atomic bomb tests, an international expedition to the heavily-radiated island discovers a native tribe and tiny twin female fairies called Shobijin who guard a sacred egg. The overzealous expedition leader kidnaps the Shobijin to exhibit in a Tokyo stage show but soon they summon their protector, hatching the egg and releasing a giant caterpillar. When Mothra arrives in Japan and transforms into her final form, the nation and its people face their destruction. Psychedelically colourful, with an intelligent, benevolent protector as its lead kaiju, Mothra was radically different to every other monster movie that had come before it, and it remains a classic of the genre to this day. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Ishirō Honda's Mothra on Blu-ray for the first time on home video in the UK. Extras: Hardbound Slipcase Reversible poster featuring the film's original US and Japanese poster artwork Includes both Japanese and English versions of each film (101 mins & 90 mins respectively) Original mono audio presentations (LPCM) English subtitles (Japanese version) and English SDH (English version) Brand new audio commentary with film historian and writer David Kalat Audio commentary with authors and Japanese sci-fi historians Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski Kim Newman on ˜Mothra' an interview with film critic and author Kim Newman on the history and legacy of Mothra Mothra: 1974 Champion Festival Version [61 mins] a special version of the film edited by Ishirō Honda for the 1974 Toho Champion Festival (INCLUSION TBC) Stills Galleries featuring rare archival stills and ephemera PLUS: A Perfect Bound 60-PAGE Collector's Booklet featuring essays by Christopher Stewardson and Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp (Midnight Eye); a new interview with Scott Chambliss (production designer on 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters); an extract from Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski's Ishirō Honda biography; and archival reviews and stills.

• The Wandering Earth II | Blu Ray | (11/12/2023) from £11.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the near future, the sun is rapidly expanding and will engulf the Earth within 100 years. To ensure the survival of humankind, nations join hands to form an unprecedented, ambitious global project to build powerful engines on the earth's surface and propel the planet away from impending doom. Meanwhile, protests have broken out to demand the restart of the controversial Digital Life Project, which digitalises human beings after they have passed. Tensions soon escalate and the protestors plan to sabotage the Wandering Earth Project by attacking the Ark Space Station... Based on the popular novella by science fiction author Liu Cixin, The Wandering Earth II is a true sci-fi blockbuster directed by Frant Gwo (The Sacrifice) and starring Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Infernal Affairs) and Wu Jing (The Battle at Lake Changjin, Wolf Warrior).

• La Brea - Season 1 | DVD | (04/09/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Day of the Triffids, the | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £13.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (15.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS is an epic adaptation of John Wyndham's best-selling iconic novel, which brings his terrifying creation of carnivorous plant species to life in a CGI extravaganza.

• The Andromeda Strain | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £22.95   |  Saving you £-16.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Directed with clinical precision by Academy Award winner Robert Wise this compelling account of the Earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most chillingly realistic science fiction thriller ever made. After an errant satellite crashes to earth near a remote New Mexico village the recovery team discovers that almost everyone in the town are victims of a horrible death with the mysterious exception of an infant and an old homeless man. The survivors are brought to a state-of-the-art laboratory descending five stories beneath the ground where the puzzled scientists race against time to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it wreaks worldwide havoc. A trailblazer in the areas of special effects and inventive sets The Andromeda Strain is based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel that created national paranoia for its topical relevance to the first moon landing.

• Dune | Blu Ray | (23/12/2021) from £11.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Southland Tales | Blu Ray | (14/03/2022) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the way the world ends. In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly achieved cult status with Donnie Darko, an assured debut feature exploring deep existential questions through the lens of 80s nostalgia. Five years later, he followed up with a more ambitious and even more beguiling sophomore effort, in which forces of totalitarianism and anarchism collide against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic, near-future world the beguiling and baffling Southland Tales. Los Angeles, 2008. As the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental chaos, the fates of an eclectic set of characters including an amnesia-stricken action star (Dwayne Johnson, the Fast & Furious series), an adult film star developing her own reality TV project (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cruel Intentions) and a police officer whose identity has split in two (Seann William Scott, TV's Lethal Weapon) intertwine with each other and with the whole of humanity. A darkly comic futuristic epic that speaks as presciently to our turbulent times as it did to the American socio-political climate in 2006, Southland Tales receives a fresh and timely lease of life with this director-approved restoration. Product Features 2K restoration by Arrow Films, approved by director Richard Kelly and director of photography Steven Poster High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the theatrical cut Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by Richard Kelly It's a Madcap World: The Making of an Unfinished Film, an in-depth retrospective documentary on the film, featuring contributions by Richard Kelly and members of the original crew USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland, an archival featurette on the making of the film, featuring interviews with the cast and crew This is the Way the World Ends, an archival animated short set in the Southland Tales universe Theatrical trailer Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jacey

• Project X | Blu Ray | (16/09/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Classic sci-fi thriller produced and directed by cult filmmaker William Castle (The Tingler). A secret agent is brought back from cryogenic suspension after surviving a plane crash during a mission, in order to uncover a secret germ formula that had been hidden away years earlier. As part of the plan, through a complex scientific charade the agent is convinced that he s a gangster living in the year 1968. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to uncover the secret. The film boasts top-notch special effects and a cast of great character actors, including Henry Jones, Harold Gould and Monte Markham.

• Fortress | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of Fortress takes place in drastically overpopulated America of the year 2017, where each woman is allowed only one pregnancy. John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) flee to Mexico when she becomes pregnant after the death of their first child. They are captured by border police and sent to the Fortress, a subterranean high-security prison owned by the Men-Tel corporation and operated by "Zed-10", an omnipotent computer system, and a sadistic, genetically "enhanced" warden (Kurtwood Smith) who has nefarious plans involving Brennick's wife and unborn child. Along with his cellmates (including Jeffrey Combs, a favourite of director Stuart Gordon), Brennick plots a breakout and Fortress shifts into auto-pilot action mode. After making his reputation with such audacious horror films as From Beyond and Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon graduated to a bigger budget with Fortress but his penchant for exploitation remains deliriously intact. While borrowing elements from a variety of better sci-fi movies, Fortress indulges every prison-flick cliché, but does it with such enjoyable B-movie vigour that it qualifies as a bona-fide guilty pleasure (indeed, it deserves to be ranked with James Cameron's original Terminator in terms of its budgetary ingenuity). Featuring such giddy (and gory) devices as "intestinators" (deadly obedience devices implanted in prisoners' bodies) and a torturous "Mind Wipe Chamber", this is really just a drive-in action movie with lofty ambitions and the schlocky script hasn't a prayer of rising above the level of juvenile popcorn fodder. But there's no denying the energy and enthusiasm that Gordon brings to the film, which understandably became a global box-office hit and spawned a 1999 sequel starring Lambert and Pam Grier. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Titan A.E. | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £7.21   |  Saving you £5.78 (80.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the future, after Earth has been destroyed by a devastating alien attack, Titan A.E. is the story of an orphaned young man who suddenly finds himself on an incredible adventure after he is given a mysterious treasure map.

• Cocoon | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1985 Cocoon was a significant trend-bucker amongst summer blockbusters. Whereas other genre efforts were devised to lure a teenage audience into FX extravaganzas, this looked like one for their grandparents. Except that it turned out to be a gentle, affecting tale for all ages. Adapted from David Saperstein's novel, director Ron Howard took great delight in focusing on family relationships and the encroachment of old age (themes that reappeared in nearly all his work from here on). The plot is rather surreal in summary: a group of Florida OAPs befriend aliens in next-door's swimming pool and are rejuvenated to youthful well-being. It's in the FX and characterisations that the story comes alive. Both were acknowledged with Academy Awards; with Don Ameche's supporting role deserving praise for more than just the moment when he does some bodypopping on the dance floor. Wilford Brimley is the real star, a bluff old codger wanting to do right by everyone. Steve Guttenberg provides comic support and allows for a little non-wrinkly nudity with foxy space gal Kitty (Tahnee Welch). ILM's visuals remain polished and inspired, but never allowing us to lose sight of the characters basking in their dazzle. --Paul Tonks

• Synchronic | Blu Ray | (05/04/2021) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From breakout genre filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless) Synchronic is a mind-bending, haunting sci-fi starring two of Hollywood's most popular actors Jamie Dornan (The Fall, Fifty Shades of Grey franchise) and Anthony Mackie (The Avengers franchise, Detroit). When New Orleans paramedics and long-time best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis' oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality -- and the flow of time itself Special Features Commentary With Directors And Producer Making Of Previsualization Vfx Breakdown Deleted Scene Who Carved Always On The Rock Trailers

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Anniversary Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (01/10/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  For the first time in the history of the universe, the complete Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy is available in high definition! The cult classic British series from the mind of Douglas Adams is back in this very special edition. Featuring all episodes in full HD and 5.1 audio plus over 5 ½ hours of new and existing bonus material. Unbeknownst to its inhabitants, Earth is to be demolished to make way for an intergalactic highway. Arthur Dent (Simon Jones), an unassuming Englishman, is whisked off the planet to safety by his alien friend Ford Prefect (David Dixon), and launched on a dizzying journey through space and time (with only a towel, and a fish to help them) to discover the meaning of life itself. This special edition release comes in retro VHS-style packaging and includes collectors art card and 24-page booklet.

• Doctor Who - The Green Death | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £7.57   |  Saving you £12.42 (164.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor--Jon Pertwee's patriarchal renaissance man--The Green Death is a solid addition to the Doctor Who canon. Originally broadcast in May 1973, it may now have dated a little, with its vegetarian hippies and "boyo" Welshmen, but it has all the elements of classic Who, the Doctor encountering green-glowing dead bodies, a shadowy mastermind, a global conspiracy, brainwashing, a megalomaniacal supercomputer and, of course, giant maggots.This story, the final sequence of Pertwee's penultimate season, reached the TV ratings Top 10, and fittingly, met high production standards. The environmental message, while facilitating Who's ongoing individual-freedom motif, also proved prophetic in its warnings of globalisation and pollution. The special effects, though admittedly dated now, were good for their time and budget--the stop-motion photography of the maggots and the front-axial projection used for the pulsating green skin are particularly effective. The well-crafted script manages to combine monsters, punch-ups and cliffhanger endings with cerebral concepts, human drama and erudite references to Beethoven and Oscar Wilde--the single tear of the reformed villain as he destroys his paymaster is just one of the subtle touches distinguishing this work. The Green Death's six filler-free episodes belong to the Golden Age of Doctor Who, and their denouement is one of the most poignant in the series' long history.On the DVD: the Beeb, as always, have gone to town on the picture, with the images and colours scrubbing up nicely for their age. Sadly there are none of the usual nostalgia-inducing contemporaneous news features, but there is an amusing mockumentary starring The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss. The interviews with writer Robert Sloman and actor Stewart Bevan will also give fans some extra insights--particularly Bevan's revelation that the actors were discouraged from rehearsing the final scene so as to give it genuine emotional intensity. --Paul Eisinger

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £13.79   |  Saving you £16.20 (117.48%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Set after the events in Terminator 2 Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and her son John (Thomas Dekker) now find themselves alone in a very dangerous complicated world. Fugitives from the law they are confronted with the reality that more enemies from the future and the present could attack at any moment.