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George Clooney and Sandra Bullock star in this award-winning sci-fi thriller directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Seasoned astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) is on his final mission in space, while medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is making her first outing on the Space Shuttle. While they are engaged in extra-vehicular activity, debris collides into the shuttle, damaging it irreparably. Kowalsky and Stone now find themselves drifting in space with low oxygen supplies and cut off from all communication on Earth. They work together in their attempt to survive but will they make it back to solid ground? The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won seven including Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), Best Director (Cuarón) and Best Original Score (Steven Price), and also picked up the Golden Globe for Best Director and BAFTAs for Best Director and Outstanding British Film.
Mike Mendez directs this sci-fi comedy about an enormous alien spider that has escaped from a top-secret military lab. As the spider tears across the city of Los Angeles destroying everything and everyone in its way, it is left to two unlikely heroes to save the day. Exterminator Alex (Greg Grunberg) and security guard Jose (Lombardo Boyar) team up to trace the creature's movements in an attempt to stop it before it obliterates the city.
Patrick Troughton takes on the role of the Doctor for this TV serial in which his evil double plots to rule the world by triggering a series of volcanic eruptions. The action is set in near-future Australia, where the Doctor learns from an acquaintance named Giles Kent (Bill Kerr) that he is a dead ringer for Salamander (also Troughton), a high-profile figure who has devised a means of storing solar energy that enables him to unleash natural disasters at will. Through impersonating Salamander the Doctor discovers more about his plot, but, with his enemy also capable of impersonating him, the Doctor will face a stern test of his wits if he is to restore peace.
Sci-fi action feature directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro. Gigantic monsters known as Kaiju rise up from the Pacific Ocean and invade Earth. As they rage war, killing millions in the process, the human race defend their planet with the use of special robots called Jaegers which are controlled neurally by their pilots. However, even these magnificent machines have trouble defeating the Kaiju. With their armed forces dwindling, mankind puts its faith in ex-pilot Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) and trainee Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi). Together they must control an early Jaeger model in one last attempt to save Earth.
Sequel to the 2009 Academy Award-winning spin-off of the classic 1960s sci-fi adventure series. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise are called back to Earth after a devastating force from within their organisation leaves the planet in chaos and Starfleet in pieces. Determined to settle the score, Kirk embarks on a manhunt with the rest of his crew including Spock (Zachary Quinto), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and Chekov (Anton Yelchin) to find the party responsible before their whole world is laid to waste.
Gary Ross directs this sci-fi action film based on the best-selling novel by Suzanne Collins. Jennifer Lawrence stars as 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a citizen of the totalitarian post-apocalyptic country of Panem, formerly the United States. Every year, the all-powerful ruling agency known as the Capitol selects one boy and one girl from each of Panem's 12 impoverished rival districts to fight to the death on live national television in a contest known as 'The Hunger Games', in which the winner is given food to feed their entire district for a year. When her younger sister Primrose (Willow Shields) is selected as a contestant, Katniss steps up to take her place in the match. Under the tutelage of inebriated former champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), Katniss goes into training for the fight of her life.
All 21 episodes of the mid-1990s sci-fi series following the adventures of a group of humans who set out to colonise a planet that resembles Earth. With Earth itself all but uninhabitable, a team, led by billionaire Devon Adair (Debrah Farentino), sets out for a planet 22 light years away. Unfortunately, they aren't the only people with their eye on the planet and find themselves locked in a battle for ownership with powerful forces. The episodes are: 'First Contact', 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', 'Life Lessons', 'Promises, Promises', 'A Memory Play', 'Natural Born Grendlers', 'Water', 'The Church of Morgan', 'The Enemy Within', 'Redemption', 'Moon Cross', 'Better Living Through Morganite: Part 1', 'Better Living Through Morganite: Part 2', 'Grendlers in the Myst', 'The Greatest Love Story Never Told', 'Brave New Pacifica', 'The Boy Who Would Be Terrian King', 'After the Thaw', 'Survival of the Fittest', 'Flower Child' and 'All About Eve'.
Hammer version of the popular TV series. When prehistoric skulls and the remains of an alien spaceship are discovered in the bowels of London's Underground during an excavation, a weird and powerful force is unleashed. Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir) is called in to investigate.
Vin Diesel reprises his role as night-eyed antihero Riddick in this big-budget sequel to the 2002 sci-fi action film 'Pitch Black'. In an attempt to evade the mercenaries after him, Riddick escapes to the distant planet of Helion - only to find himself caught in the middle of a violent and bloody intergalactic conflict between two opposing forces: the Elementals, led by Aerion (Judi Dench) and the Necromongers, led by the bloodthirsty Lord Marshall (Colm Feore).
Three digitally remastered Doctor Who stories from the 1960s, '70s and '80s. In the three-part 'The Seeds of Death' (1969), the Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) travel to a moon relay station to find out why T-Mat, a form of instant travel, has broken down. There they discover a race of Ice Warriors, planning to use T-Mat to carry seed pods to earth which will produce a deadly fungus to suck the air dry of oxygen. The Doctor has to foil the Ice Warriors' plan, avoiding the deadly pods along the way. In the four-part 'Carnival of Monsters' (1972), the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Jo (Katy Manning) find themselves arrested as stowaways after the TARDIS makes an unplanned arrival on the S.S. Bernice, en route to India in 1926. However, the ship is in fact trapped in a miniscope - the mechanical peepshow of intergalactic showman Vorg (Leslie Dwyer). When the Scope is impounded by officials on the planet Inter-Minor, many of the creatures contained within get loose, including the monstrous Drashigs. In the four-part 'Resurrection of the Daleks' (1983), the Daleks are once again seeking their creator, Davros (Terry Molloy), to discover a cure for the Movellan virus. Mercenaries free Davros from his prison ship, but the Kaled scientist has other ideas, and soon a Dalek civil war is underway. On 20th-century Earth the Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) are caught up between the rival factions and the Earth rebels, but they are already part of a larger plan to destroy Gallifrey.
Complete collection of the sci-fi adventure series starring Brian Downey and Michael McManus as crew members of the Lexx, the most powerful spaceship in two universes. Stanley H. Tweedie (Downey), a failed rebel who accidentally becomes captain of the ship, is joined by Kai (Michael McManus), an undead, virtually indestructable creature with no emotions (a 'Divine Assassin'), and Xev (Xenia Seeberg), a love slave from the planet B3K. The series follows this unlikely team as they attempt to free the universe from the evil clutches of the insect civilisation (whose sole goal is to exterminate humanity); travel to far away planets like Fire, Water and Air; and eventually visit a place called Earth in search of supplies, where they encounter such strange creatures as hillbillies and politicians.
The new Doctor has landed... Introducing Peter Capaldi as the twelfth Doctor, this fantastic new series sees the Doctor and Clara (Jenna Coleman) encounter unimaginable wonders and horrors... The time travellers meet a fleet of Daleks as they attempt to rescue a stranded ship of human survivors, face ranks of Cybermen stalking the Earth, go back in time and join Robin Hood in a fight with killer robots in Sherwood Forest, become bank robbers when they break into the deadliest bank in the cosmos, face a Mummy on the Orient Express, discover a deadly horror dwelling on the Moon; and come to know the last man standing at the end of the universe. This complete box set contains every explosive episode from Peter Capaldi's debut series in the role and is also packed full of extras including:
Sylvester McCoy makes his first appearance as the venerable Doctor, coming up against his old enemy, renegade Time Lord Rani (Kate O'Mara). She forces the Tardis to crash land on Lakertya, and then masquerades as his assistant Melanie (Bonnie Langford), tricking the newly regenerated Doctor into constructing a giant time manipulator designed to drain the minds of history's greatest scientists.
An earth-shattering adventure, War of the Worlds reunites superstar Tom Cruise and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg for one of the most awe-inspiring cinematic experiences of all time! A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells' classic, the sci-fi thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family. Fleeing from an extraterrestrial army of killer Tripods that annihilate everything in their path, Ray Ferrier races to keep his family safe. War of the Worlds is an action-packed adventure that explodes with spectacular special effects!
Fifth big screen outing for the crew of the starship Enterprise. Kirk (William Shatner, who also directs and co-scripts), McCoy and Spock's shore leave is cut short when the latter's half-brother - Vulcan renegade Sybok - takes several important ambassadors hostage on the planet Nimbus. They race to the rescue, unaware that the kidnap is all part of Sybok's ploy to hijack the Enterprise and set out on a quest to discover the Supreme Being - God.
First of the big-screen 'Star Trek' spin-offs to feature the crew of 'The Next Generation'. Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) reluctantly comes out of retirement to attend the launch of the 'Enterprise B'. When the ship attempts to rescue two cargo ships trapped in a strange electrical field, part of its structure is shorn away - taking Kirk with it. Seventy-eight years later, 'Enterprise D' captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is mourning the deaths of his brother and nephew when he is called to investigate an attack on the Amagosa Observatory. The culprits turn out to be Picard's old adversaries, renegade Klingons Lursa and B'Etor, allied with sinister El Aurian scientist Dr Soran (Malcolm McDowell). Soran was amongst those rescued by the 'Enterprise B', and is now desperate to return to the energy field - called the Nexus - which claimed Kirk's life. When Picard himself enters the Nexus, an historic encounter results...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), once assimilated by the alien Borg, now senses that they are about to return. He is proved correct when the Collective engage the Enterprise E in battle, only to escape through a temporal vortex into the Earth's past. Picard and his crew glimpse an alternative Earth which is dominated by the Borg and, in an attempt to find out how the Borg have altered the timeline, follow them back to the year 2063, one day before Zefram Cochran made the first warp drive journey. It was this event that attracted the attention of some passing Vulcans and established Earth's 'first contact' with alien life. While Riker (Jonathan Frakes) leads an away team to prevent the Borg from tampering with the Earth's history, Picard must repel a Borg invasion of the Enterprise.
All 31 episodes from season one and two of the Terminator TV spin-off series which follows on from 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (1991). On the run from the government, Sarah Connor and her son John set out to put an end to Armageddon by destroying the computer network Skynet. Episodes comprise: 'Pilot', 'Gnothi Seauton', 'The Turk', 'Heavy Metal', 'Queen's Gambit', 'Dungeons and Dragons', 'The Demon Hand', 'Vick's Chip', 'What He Beheld', 'Samson and Delilah', 'Automatic for the People', 'The Mousetrap', 'Allison from Palmdale', 'Goodbye to All That', 'The Tower Is Tall But the Fall Is Short', 'Brothers of Nablus', 'Mr Ferguson Is Ill Today', 'Complications', 'Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point', 'Self Made Man', 'Alpine Fields', 'Earthlings Welcome Here', 'The Good Wound', 'Desert Cantos', 'Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep', 'Ourselves Alone', 'Today Is the Day: Part One', 'Today Is the Day: Part Two', 'To the Lighthouse', 'Adam Raised a Cain' and 'Born to Run'.
Every episode of the re-imagined American sci fi television series, from the mini series through to the final season, where the pilots of the Galactica spacecraft battle against the evil Cylons, cyborg creatures that originally served mankind, but now want humanity destroyed. After losing the initial battles, with all their colonies destroyed, mankind's last hope is to search for the fabled home planet of Earth. Episodes comprise: '33', 'Water', 'Bastille Day', 'Act of Contrition', 'You Can't Go Home Again', 'Litmus', 'Six Degrees of Separation', 'Flesh and Bone', 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down', 'The Hand of God', 'Colonial Day', 'Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 1', 'Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 2', 'Scattered', 'Valley of Darkness', 'Fragged', 'Resistance', 'The Farm', 'Home (Part 1)', 'Home (Part 2)', 'Final Cut', 'Flight of the Phoenix', 'Pegasus', 'Resurrection Ship (Part 1)', 'Resurrection Ship (Part 2)', 'Epiphanies', 'Black Market', 'Scar', 'Sacrifice', 'The Captain's Hand', 'Downloaded', 'Lay Down Your Burdens (Part 1)', 'Lay Down Your Burdens (Part 2)', 'Occupation', 'Precipice', 'Exodus: Part 1', 'Exodus: Part 2', 'Collaborators', 'Torn', 'A Measure of Salvation', 'Hero', 'Unfinished Business', 'The Passage', 'The Eye of Jupiter', 'Rapture', 'Taking a Break from All Your Worries', 'The Woman King', 'A Day in the Life', 'Dirty Hands', 'Maelstrom', 'The Son Also Rises', 'Crossroads: Part 1', 'Crossroads: Part 2', 'He That Believeth in Me', 'Six of One', 'The Ties That Bind', 'Escape Velocity', 'The Road Less Traveled', 'Faith', 'Guess What's Coming to Dinner', 'Sine Qua Non', 'The Hub', 'Revelations', 'Sometimes a Great Notion', 'A Disquiet Follows My Soul', 'The Oath', 'Blood On the Scales', 'No Exit', 'Deadlock', 'Someone to Watch Over Me', 'Islanded in a Stream of Stars', 'Daybreak: Part 1', 'Daybreak: Part 2' and 'Daybreak: Part 3'. The collection also includes the precursor episode to the events in season 4, 'Razor', and both parts of the 2003 mini-series pilot.
An early adventure for everyone's favourite time traveller. When the TARDIS lands on the planet Marinus, the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian, Barbara and Susan are captured by Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience of Marinus. The Conscience is an all-powerful machine which controls the planet in an attempt to regulate crime, but it requires four missing crystals to complete its function. Otherwise, the machine could fall into the hands of the Voord, led by the evil Yartek. The TARDIS crew are thus charged by Arbitan with recovering the crystals before it is too late.
All four seasons of the US sci-fi series. Over the last century, thousands of people have gone missing and are presumed dead. When a meteor impacts over Earth, all 4400 people are returned to Earth as suddenly and inexplicably as they disappeared. Season one episodes comprise: 'Pilot', 'The New and Improved Carl Morrissey', 'Becoming', 'Trial By Fire' and 'White Light'. Season two episodes are: 'Wake Up Call: Part 1', 'Wake Up Call: Part 2'; 'Voices Carry', 'Weight of the World', 'Suffer the Children', 'As Fate Would Have It', 'Life Interrupted', 'Carrier', 'Rebirth', 'Hidden', 'Lockdown', 'The Fifth Page' and 'Mommy's Bosses'. Season three episodes comprise: 'The New World: Part 1', 'The New World: Part 2', 'Being Tom Baldwin', 'Gone: Part 1', 'Gone: Part 2', 'Graduation Day', 'The Home Front', 'Blink', 'The Ballad of Kevin and Tess', 'The Starzl Mutation', 'The Gospel According to Collier', 'Terrible Swift Sword' and 'Fifty-Fifty'. Season four episodes are: 'The Wrath of Graham', 'Fear Itself', 'Audrey Parker's Come and Gone', 'The Truth and Nothing But the Truth', 'Try the Pie', 'The Marked', 'Till We Have Built Jerusalem', 'No Exit', 'Daddy's Little Girl', 'One of Us', 'Ghost in the Machine', 'Tiny Machines' and 'The Great Leap Forward'.
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives. This bold, original film follows our intrepid group as they brave the cold Manhattan night trying to rescue a stranded friend as well as evade the vicious threat to their city.
The Doctor and Martha follow a trail of clues across wild and wonderful alien worlds, to find the location of the legendary lost spaceship, The Infinite. They soon discover that they are not alone in their quest - the evil Baltazar is also searching for the ancient starship, and wants to use its powers in order to destroy Earth and rule the galaxy. Will the Doctor and Martha succeed in The Infinite Quest? This is the full-length version of the animated series, first broadcast as part of Totally Doctor Who.
In Stephen King's epic vision of an apocalyptic future, the few survivors of a plague-ravaged world must choose sides in the ultimate battle of good vs. evil that will decide the fate of humanity. As the followers of demonic Randall Flagg plot to rebuild the world in his dark image, a courageous foursome embarks on a heroic mission against Flagg and his minions. Fighting overwhelming odds, they will risk more than their lives as they take one desperate stand against evil.
Based on Sax Rohmer’s series of novels, Fu-Manchu is an evil mastermind, hell bent on taking over the world and enthralling it to his will, with the help of the fanatical Su-Fan sect and a rogues gallery of allies loyal to his diabolical cause.
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