![]() |
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
||
Captain Marvel
The Marvels
Ridley Scott helms this sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce. After finding fragments of Alien DNA, a team of scientists known as The Company travels into space aboard the state-of-the-art Prometheus spacecraft to investigate the origins of human life on Earth. Their journey takes them into the darkest corners of the universe - but, to their horror, their very inquisitiveness ends up posing a threat to the future existence of humankind. The scientists now find themselves tested to their mental and physical limits as they fight a desperate battle to preserve the future of the human race.
The complete seasons 1 and 2 of the American sci-fi drama created by Joss Whedon. Eliza Dushku stars as Echo, a young woman who is part of a group of people known as 'Actives' or 'Dolls'. The Dolls are people who have had their personalities wiped clean in order to be imprinted with any number of new personas. They are then hired out for particular jobs, which can be anything from committing a crime to enacting a fantasy. Although the Dolls are all volunteers who have agreed to work for a period of five years, the organisation is highly illegal and under constant threat from Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett), a federal agent who is determined to expose the Dollhouse and bring it down. Season 1 episodes are: 'Ghost', 'The Target', 'Stage Fright', 'Gray Hour', 'True Believer', 'Man On the Street', 'Echoes', 'Needs', 'Spy in the House of Love', 'Haunted', 'Briar House', 'Omega' and 'Epitaph One'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Vows', 'Instinct', 'Belle Chose', 'Belonging', 'The Public Eye', 'The Left Hand', 'Meet Jane Doe', 'A Love Supreme', 'Stop-Loss', 'The Attic', 'Getting Closer', 'The Hollow Men' and 'Epitaph Two: Return'.
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...
James Cameron's epic action, sci-fi masterpiece starring Schwarzenegger in his most iconic role, has been stunningly restored by Cameron himself and is loaded with special features. First hitting our screens in 1991 with ground-breaking special effects, this version will take the seminal blockbuster to the next level of effects and into the 21st century for a new generation of fans. It has been 10 years since the events of Terminator. Sarah Connor's ordeal is only just beginning as she struggles to protect her son John, the future leader of the human resistance against the machines, from a new Terminator, sent back in time to eliminate John Connor while he's still a child. Sarah and John don't have to face this terrifying threat alone however. The human resistance have managed to send them an ally, a warrior from the future ordered to protect John Connor at any cost. The battle for tomorrow has begun.
Visually explosive sci-fi tale of the night a monstrous creature attacks the city of New York. When five young friends get together to hold a going-away party for one of their number, their celebrations are violently curtailed by a series of huge tremors felt throughout the city. As panic begins to spread, it soon becomes apparent that New York is under attack from some huge malevolent force intent on destroying the city. Told in a jerky, documentary style, from the perspective of a hand-held camera, the film chronicles the attempts by the group to make their way, with chaos raining down, towards the destruction in order to rescue another friend.
Sci-fi directed by Graham Baker and starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin. When an alien species arrived on Earth, they were predictably met with animosity and quarantined. But now they have begun to slowly integrate into human society and one of these Newcomers even becomes a police officer. Sam Francisco (Patinkin) is unfortunate enough to be assigned a partner who harbours a deep mistrust of Newcomers, Matthew Sykes (Caan). But the tension between them must be set aside as they investigate the Newcomer underworld and their leader William Harcourt (Terence Stamp).
Justin Lin directs this second sequel to the 2009 Academy Award-winning spin-off of the classic 1960s sci-fi adventure series. After overcoming doubts about his continued role in Starfleet, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) leads the crew of the USS Enterprise as they continue to explore the darkest reaches of space as part of their five-year mission. Upon arriving for a routine stop at a remote Federation planet, the Enterprise is subjected to a devastating surprise attack by swarms of mysterious alien vessels. Overrun and with all systems failing, the crew have no option but to abandon ship, leaving them stranded on the surface with limited supplies and no way of sending for help. After coming across alien warrior Jaylah (Sofia Boutella), Kirk soon discovers that the merciless Krall (Idris Elba) is behind the attack and is readying an army to destroy Starfleet once and for all. Now facing a desperate battle to survive, Kirk must reunite his crew and find a way of defeating their frenzied new enemies before it's too late. The cast also includes Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg and Anton Yelchin.
Stéphanie Joalland writes and directs this post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama. In the aftermath of a devastating alien invasion, 19-year-old orphan Sarah Connolly (Dakota Blue Richards) tries to protect her blind brother (Jack McMullen) and her family's farm from the unseen alien race that is wiping out the Earth's population and destroying its natural resources. In her struggle to survive, Sarah faces further threat from the planet's desperate survivors including a mysterious wounded stranger (Karl Davies) who turns up at her isolated farmhouse seeking shelter, claiming his family were killed by bandits. But Sarah soon becomes increasingly sceptical of the wanderer's true identity and motives...
Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman return for the next instalment of the 'Star Wars' franchise. In this episode, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) disobeys the strictures of his Jedi training, embarking on a forbidden affair with Padme Amidala (Portman) while his teacher Obi-Wan Kenobi (McGregor)'s investigation of assassination attempts against the Senator (Jimmy Smits) leads him to the distant planet of Kamino and into the middle of a separatist plot which brings the Galactic Republic to the very brink of civil war.
Horror meister John Carpenter directs this remake of the 1960 sci-fi classic. When an unseen force invades the village of Midwich, ten women are found to be mysteriously pregnant. All the babies, who are born simultaneously, have white hair, glowing eyes, strange psychic powers, and an unsettling desire to dominate anyone who crosses their path. Local doctor Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve) and government scientist Susan Verner (Kirstie Alley) set out to investigate.
Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen in the second instalment of the sci-fi adventure trilogy based on the novel by Suzanne Collins. Fresh from her triumph in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss, along with fellow winner Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), returns home to District 12 for some much needed rest. But soon after, while on a 'Victory Tour' of the other districts, she becomes aware of growing dissent to the Capitol's rule, and realises that rebellion is in the air. As Panem prepares itself for the third 'Quarter Quell' (75th Hunger Games), autocratic ruler President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), still smarting from the Capitol's humiliation in the last games, stacks the deck to ensure that the upcoming tournament will wipe out any resistance from the districts once and for all.
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.
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!
The director of the acclaimed 'Moon' (2009), Duncan Jones, helms this sci-fi action thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Soldier Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers that he is part of a government mission to identify the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. The experiment, known as the 'Source Code', enables its subjects to take on a person's identity for the last eight minutes of their lives. Colter has been programmed to relive the incident over and over again, piecing together clues until he can figure out who the suspect is and prevent another large-scale terrorist attack. Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright co-star.
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.
The director of the acclaimed 'Moon' (2009), Duncan Jones, helms this sci-fi action thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Soldier Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers that he is part of a government mission to identify the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. The experiment, known as the 'Source Code', enables its subjects to take on a person's identity for the last eight minutes of their lives. Colter has been programmed to relive the incident over and over again, piecing together clues until he can figure out who the suspect is and prevent another large-scale terrorist attack. Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright co-star.
All six episodes from the fifth season of the dinosaur fantasy adventure series. In this series, the ARC team must race against time to save the public from vicious burrowing creatures, enormous underwater predators, a raptor on the rampage in Victorian London, a Tyrannosaurus Rex prowling the streets and a mass of ferocious future-beetles laying siege to the ARC Headquarters.
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.
In a sterile, forbidding future world in which tranquilised humans have numbers not names, THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) meets LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) and the two begin a relationship and stop taking their drugs - both highly illegal activities. They are arrested and tortured, but THX 1138 is determined to escape the android-controlled prison. George Lucas' first film.
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.
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'.
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'.
For their fourth big-screen outing the crew of the USS Enterprise abandon their usual 23rd century time frame for Earth in the year 1986. In order to save the planet from a rogue space probe in the future, Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Bones (DeForest Kelley) and co must travel back to the twentieth century to find the only creature capable of communicating with it: a whale. The story is given comic treatment - Spock hides his Vulcan ears with a headband and poses as a burnt-out hippy, while the normally intrepid Kirk gets lost on a bus.
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'. |
You may like...
Proceedings of the Annual Congress of…
U S National Prison Association
Hardcover
R809
Discovery Miles 8 090
|