Science Fiction

• Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country -- Special Edition (2 discs) | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £8.14   |  Saving you £16.85 (207.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  With the return of director Nicholas Meyer, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country restored the movie series to its classic blend of space opera, intelligent plotting and engaging interaction of stalwart heroes and menacing villains. Borrowing its subtitle (and several lines of dialogue) from Shakespeare, the movie finds Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his fellow Enterprise crew members on a diplomatic mission to negotiate peace with the revered Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner). When the high-ranking Klingon and several officers are ruthlessly murdered, blame is placed on Kirk and crew. The subsequent investigation, which sees Spock taking on the mantle of Sherlock Holmes (and even quoting some of the great detective's lines), uncovers an assassination plot masterminded by the nefarious Klingon General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in an effort to disrupt a historic peace summit. As this political plot unfolds Star Trek VI takes on a sharp-edged tone with Kirk and Spock confronting their opposing views of diplomacy and testing their bonds of loyalty when a Vulcan officer (Kim Cattrall) is revealed to be a traitor. With a dramatic depth befitting what was to be the final movie mission of the original Enterprise crew, this film took the veteran cast out in respectably high style, with the torch being passed to the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the following movie, Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon On the DVD: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a two-disc set with the main feature presented in anamorphic widescreen at the fascinating (as Mr Spock would say) ratio of 2.00:1. Sound is strong Dolby Digital 5.1. Director Nicholas Meyer and screenwriter Denny Martin Flinn provide an audio commentary and Trek-trivia gurus Michael and Denise Okuda give another of their fact-packed text commentaries. The second disc has several lengthy and interesting documentaries: The Perils of Peacemaking delves into the many deliberate parallels with the Cold War; Stories from Star Trek VI consists of eight separate chapters about the making of the film (where it's revealed that "Gene Roddenberry hated the script", and that "The studio was not ready to relinquish the original actors possibly because they were still ambulatory"!); The Star Trek Universe has various nuggets of information, including the creation and evolution of the Klingons. Finally, in Farewell there are interviews with the principal cast from the set, plus a tribute to DeForest Kelley. Nicholas Meyer, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner all provide up-to-date contributions throughout. --Mark Walker

• Enemy Mine (1985) Limited Edition Dual Format (DVD & Blu-ray) Steelbook | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Enemy Mine is, in essence, a sci-fi remake of John Boorman’s Hell in the Pacific (1969), only instead of a US pilot and a Japanese naval officer stranded on a Pacific island during WWII, here we have a lizard-like Draconian (Louis Gossett Jr.) and his mortal enemy, Earthling Dennis Quaid, both having crash-landed on a hostile planet during a brutal space battle. Forced to rely on one another for survival, they overcome their differences and become fast friends. (You can almost hear them break into an off-key version of "It's a Small World".) German director Wolfgang Petersen, so brutally honest with his film Das Boot, turns warm and cuddly on us with this intergalactic buddy movie. Although the script sets us up for an intriguing encounter, it ultimately settles for a simple and sentimental resolution. Noteworthy set design and strong performances, especially by Gossett, push this beyond mere mediocrity. His performance is fascinating, as he must speak in an alien tongue, which he maintains with artistry and consistency.--Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com On the DVD: Enemy Mine on disc is presented anamorphically in its original 2.35:1 theatrical ratio with a vivid Dolby 4.0 soundtrack. Thankfully picture and sound are excellent, since the extra features are lamentably poor, consisting merely of the theatrical trailer and three (yes, three) "behind the scenes" still pictures. The disc is also equipped with multiple language and subtitle options.--Mark Walker

• Phantasm IV - Oblivion | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The true nature of the nefarious Tall Man is revealed in an epic battle between the forces of good and evil. Thirteen years after the original nightmare began, Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) must travel through dark dimensions of time and space to discover his origins and those of his nemesis, the evil Tall Man. With only his loyal friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) at his side, and the spirit of his dead brother to guide him, Mike must finally confront The Tall Man and his deadly chrome spheres to ...

• Disney Classics Complete Collection (57 Disc Collection) - DVD | DVD | (16/11/2020) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1937, the Walt Disney Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and pioneered a new form of family entertainment. More than seven decades later, Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to honour its heritage through animated films that combine beautiful artistry, masterful storytelling and ground-breaking technology. Relive & own forever 57 Disney Classics from 1937-2019 with this special collection celebrating the output of the Walt Disney Animation Studios. The boxset contains an 80-page book ˜A Celebration Of The Walt Disney Animated Studios', alongside the layflat book containing the 57 discs. Collectable poster art for each Disney classic is featured alongside the discs 1 Snow White 1937 2 Pinocchio 1940 3 Fantasia 1940 4 Dumbo 1941 5 Bambi 1942 6 Saludos Amigos* 1942 7 The Three Caballeros* 1944 8 Make Mine Music* 1946 9 Fun & Fancy Free 1947 10 Melody Time* 1948 11 Ichabod & Mr Toad 1949 12 Cinderella 1950 13 Alice In Wonderland 1951 14 Peter Pan 1953 15 Lady & The Tramp 1955 16 Sleeping Beauty 1959 17 101 Dalmatians 1961 18 The Sword in the Stone 1963 19 The Jungle Book 1967 20 The Aristocats 1970 21 Robin Hood 1973 22 The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh 1977 23 The Rescuers 1977 24 The Fox & The Hound 1981 25 The Black Cauldron* 1985 *DVD disc 26 Basil The Great Mouse Detective 1986 27 Oliver & Company 1988 28 The Little Mermaid 1989 29 Rescuers Down Under 1990 30 Beauty & the Beast 1991 31 Aladdin 1992 32 The Lion King 1994 Signature edition disc (previously available) 33 Pocahontas 1995 34 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996 35 Hercules 1997 36 Mulan 1998 37 Tarzan 1999 38 Fantasia 2000 1999 39 The Emperor's New Groove 2000 40 Atlantis 2001 41 Lilo & Stitch 2002 42 Treasure Planet 2002 43 Brother Bear 2003 44 Home On The Range 2004 45 Chicken Little 2005 46 The Wild 2006 47 Meet The Robinsons 2007 48 Bolt 2008 49 The Princess & the Frog 2009 50 Tangled 2010 51 Wreck-It Ralph 2012 52 Frozen 2013 53 Big Hero 6 2014 54 Zootropolis 2016 55 Moana 2016 56 Wreck-It Ralph 2 2018 57 Frozen 2 2019

• Avatar: The Way of Water: Blu-ray 3D + 2D | Blu Ray | (06/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Colossal | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City, and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

• Supergirl: Season 1-4 | DVD | (23/09/2019) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the vast DC Comics Universe of super heroes, the rich mythology of Superman, the planet Krypton and the House of El is perhaps the most famous and instantly recognizable. Enter Supergirl (Melissa Benoist)! Born Kara Zor-El on the doomed planet Krypton, the preteen Kara escaped at the same time as the infant Kal-El, but didn't arrive on Earth until many years later after being lost in the Phantom Zone. Protected and raised by her adopted family, the Danvers, Kara grew up in the shadow of her foster sister, Alex, and learned to hide the phenomenal powers she shares with her famous cousin. Years later, at age 24, living in National City and working as an assistant for Catco Worldwide Media mogul Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart), Kara has spent so many years trying to fit in that she forgot to ever stand out. All that changes when she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and become the hero she was always destined to be. With the help of Daily Planet photographer James Olsen, her bioengineer sister Alex, and the research of the super-secret, off-the-grid Department of Extra-Normal Operations (DEO) and its head Hank Henshaw, who are tasked with keeping the Earth safe from aliens, Kara takes to the skies to protect her world. Her foes include both a sinister extraterrestrial menace and the high-tech terrestrial threat of clever villains with powerful weaponry. Produced by Berlanti Productions (Arrow, The Flash, Pan), this one-hour drama is an epic action-adventure for the entire family. Combining the heart, humor and spectacle of a super hero series, with the week-to-week intrigue of the DEO's investigations, Kara's childhood memories of her time on Krypton and the sophisticated workplace dramedy of her secret identity at Catco,SUPERGIRLis charged with true epic storytelling -- bringing a strong female hero to television screens at long last.

• The Astral Factor | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Starcrash | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sexy space pirate Stella Star - who's kinda like Han Solo's super-hot sister - (played by Caroline Munro, the former Hammer Horror siren and Bond girl) and her loyal co-pilot Akton (Marjoe Gortner) are arrested by the Imperial Police. Fortunately the Emperor of the Universe (Christopher Plummer) offers them a reprieve. The Evil Count Zarth Arn has a secret weapon of immense power, hidden away on a planet somewhere, with which he plans to take over the galaxy. The Emperor's only son, Prince Simon (David Hasselhoff) has disappeared on an earlier mission to tackle the Count. The Emperor charges Stella and her trusty crew with locating the Count's weapon, finding the lost Prince and saving the Galaxy.. Originally released in the year after Star Wars and with the budget of Barbarella, this piece of cult cinema is a sexy space classic and given the benefit of a John Barry soundtrack, this is a must have for all sci-fi fans.

• Frank Herbert's DUNE - 3 Disc Special Edition - Includes Over 2 Hours of Extras - Emmy Award Winning | Blu Ray | (11/10/2021) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When House Atreides lead by the noble Duke Leto Atreides (Academy award-winner William Hurt) gains control of the universe's most powerful commodity ˜Spice' a bitter power struggle ensues on the planet Arrakis, and the rival House Harkonnen begins plotting their revenge. As a result, Duke Atreides' mistress (Saskia Reeves), who belongs to the ancient magical order of Bene Gesserit, and their son Paul (Alec Newman) must flee into the dangerous, giant worm-infested dunes where they will need to seek help from the ˜Fremen' the long-suppressed desert people who are engaged in a guerrilla war conflict against the Emperor's forces. As the political agenda of the reigning emperor unfolds, Paul is enlightened about his own ˜mystical powers'. The Fremen desert tribes begin to believe that Paul could be their long-prophesied redeemer and could lead their people to victory. Paul must now face his own destiny while battling the mighty forces pursuing him and restore the House of Atreides. ˜Spice' is the greatest treasure in the empire, and he must ensure it is safely controlled to maintain order and balance. Frank Herbert's Dune has been adapted and directed by John Harrison and an award-winning production team including three-time Academy award-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor, Apocalypse Now). The Special Edition includes over 2 hours of extra material.

• Alien | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £13.08   |  Saving you £2.91 (22.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

  By transplanting the classic haunted house scenario into space, Ridley Scott, together with screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, produced a work of genuinely original cinematic sci-fi with Alien that, despite the passage of years and countless inferior imitations, remains shockingly fresh even after repeated viewing. Scott's legendary obsession with detail ensures that the setting is thoroughly conceived, while the Gothic production design and Jerry Goldsmith's wonderfully unsettling score produce a sense of disquiet from the outset: everything about the spaceship Nostromo--from Tupperware to toolboxes-seems oddly familiar yet disconcertingly ... well, alien.Nothing much to speak of happens for at least the first 30 minutes, and that in a way is the secret of the film's success: the audience has been nervously peering round every corner for so long that by the time the eponymous beast claims its first victim, the release of pent-up anxiety is all the more effective. Although Sigourney Weaver ultimately takes centre-stage, the ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. The remarkably low-tech effects still look good (better in many places than the CGI of the sequels), while the nightmarish quality of H.R. Giger's bio-mechanical creature and set design is enhanced by camerawork that tantalises by what it doesn't reveal.On the DVD: The director, audibly pausing to puff on his cigar at regular intervals, provides an insightful commentary which, in tandem with superior sound and picture, sheds light into some previously unexplored dark recesses of this much-analysed, much-discussed movie (why the crew eat muesli, for example, or where the "rain" in the engine room is coming from). Deleted scenes include the famous "cocoon" sequence, the completion of the creature's insect-like life-cycle for which cinema audiences had to wait until 1986 and James Cameron's Aliens. Isolated audio tracks, a picture gallery of production artwork and a "making of" documentary complete a highly attractive DVD package. --Mark Walker

• Moonfall | Blu Ray | (26/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Flash Steelbook | Blu Ray | (18/12/2023) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/03/2021) from £12.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Something of a departure for Harryhausen and Scheer, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver is a loose but wonderfully entertaining adaptation of Jonathan Swift's famous and oft-filmed fantasy satire. Shot in the much-heralded ˜Super Dynamation' process, it presents impressive visual effects photography and some superb stop-motion creature work most notably, a climactic fight with a giant crocodile. The film also features a wonderful score by the great Bernard Herrmann. Extras 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with visual effects artist Randall William Cook and film historians C Courtney Joyner and Steven C Smith The Making of ˜The 3 Worlds of Gulliver' (1960, 7 mins) Interview with Peter Lord (2017, 10 mins): an appreciation of Harryhausen's craft by the celebrated Aardman co-founder and filmmaker Interview with Dave Sproxton (2017, 10 mins): the Aardman co-founder discusses the importance of Harryhausen's work Interview with Dave Alex Riddett (2017, 9 mins): Aardman's celebrated director of photography considers Harryhausen's importance and legacy Isolated score: experience Bernard Herrmann's original soundtrack music. 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

• Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 2 | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £16.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Second Series

• Resident Evil - Extinction | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £3.83   |  Saving you £16.16 (421.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Milla Jovovich returns in this, the third and final instalment of the popular video game adaptation.

• Dungeons And Dragons - Wrath Of The Dragon God | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £5.39   |  Saving you £10.60 (196.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Epic fantasy adventure based on the phenomenally successful role-playing game.

• Inkheart | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £3.30   |  Saving you £22.95 (1,125.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "Inkheart" is a timeless adventure tale of imagination that centres on a young girl whose father has a secret ability to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud.

• The Day The Earth Caught Fire | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When the Americans test a nuclear weapon at the South Pole at the exact moment that the Soviets are testing their own weapon at the North the earth's axis is jolted out of alignment causing catastrophic changes in global weather patterns. Additionally the earth has been dislodged from its orbit and is now hurtling towards the sun. It's a race against time as the world prepares for additional nuclear detonations which could restore life as we know it.

• Attack on Titan: The Movie - Part 1 | Blu Ray | (27/06/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fast-forward 100 years. What remains of the human population now survives in relative peace behind massive walls erected in defence against the Titans. That peace is shattered when a Colossal Titan, measuring over 50 meters tall, smashes through the wall and allows a horde of other Titans to enter. Eren Yeager had resigned himself to a life confined behind these walls. Nothing I do would make a difference, he thought. But when he joins the ˜Outer Wall Restoration Team' set up to fight against the Titans, he is reunited with Mikasa, a childhood friend. The new recruits embark on a mission to plug the gaping hole in the wall and stop the waves of titans once and for all. With humanity's survival on the line, will there be a future for Eren and Mikasa, and for mankind itself?