matrix: the news and media magazine of the british science fiction association
Issue 187
March 2008
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- primeval
- beowulf
- theory of everything
- town called eureka
- the laughing man
- bender's big score
- ...view all
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- myth-understandings
- the reef
- dark blood
- blue war
- deluge
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- dream theatre
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- panic at the disco
- the gutter twins
- joy division
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LATEST RELEASES: DVD

by Kim Lakin-Smith

Primeval - Series 1 and 2 Box Set


Primeval


Release Date: 17 Mar 2008
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Classification: To be announced

For those who missed this popular ITV sci-fi series, now is your chance to get the entire first and second series on DVD.

When prehistoric creatures start appearing in random locations in England, a team of scientists team up with a secret government department to find out what these anomalies are and how to stop the human race being devoured by prehistoric monsters.

This 4-disc box set includes DVD extra ‘Through The Anomaly’, a behind the scenes documentary, and audio commentaries.

Beowulf - Limited Edition 2 Disc Steelbook Director's Cut (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk)


Beowolf


Release Date: 17 Mar 2008
Classification: 12
Studio: Warner Home Video

Robert Zemeckis directs the CGI-animated Beowulf, which features the voices of Angelina Jolie, Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins. In killing the demon Grendel, Beowulf sets himself up against the demon's ruthless, seductive mother, who will exact her revenge on him by any means possible.

Stephen Hawking and The Theory Of Everything


Stephen Hawking and The Theory Of Everything


Release Date: 17 Mar 2008
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Channel 4 DVD

Twenty years on from releasing his best-seller, A Brief History of Time, Professor Stephen Hawking asks how much more do we know about the universe? Drawing on the incredible scientific advances of the past 20 years, Hawking introduces fresh ideas which he cold never have dared to imagine two decades earlier. The questions here are as fundamental as ever…How did the Universe begin? How will it end? What was there before it?

A Town Called Eureka - Series 1


A Town Called Eureka


Release Date: 24 Mar 2008
Classification: 15
Studio: Universal Pictures UK

Combining the strangeness of The X-Files with the off-the-wall characters of Northern Exposure, A Town Called Eureka is touted as an innovative SF comedy drama. A car accident leads U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) to the small town of Eureka. The brainchild of Albert Einstein and President Truman, the town is home to the most intelligent people in the US. While Eureka appears the same as any other small city on the surface, its citizens are actually busy creating the innovations that power the rest of the globe.

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex – ‘The Laughing Man’


Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex – ‘The Laughing Man’


Release Date: 31 Mar 2008
Classification: 15
Studio: Manga Entertainment

Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex centres on a future where technology has saturated our lives. Hand in hand with this new technology go new types of crime. Female cyborg, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and her team of police, Section 9, are committed to chasing down criminals, both on land and in cyberspace. Influenced by the show's first series, this feature-length film homes in on Kusanagi and Section 9 as they pursue a cyber-terrorist nicknamed ‘The Laughing Man.’

Futurama – ‘Bender's Big Score’


Futurama – ‘Bender's Big Score’


Release Date: 7 April 2008
Classification: 12
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

In this first feature-length film of hit SF animated parody, Futurama, Planet Express has become the victim of a hostile takeover and the new bosses want to send Bender back in time to steal the world's most valuable treasures. Luckily Fry’s backside has just the ability to send him back in time…

Cameo appearances include Al Gore and Coolio.

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