The new Star Trek film beams onto DVD and 3 Disc Blu-ray with Digital Copy on 16th November 2009 in the UK. This visually spectacular, blockbuster prequel from acclaimed director J.J Abrams (Lost, Mission: Impossible III) follows a young James… Read More ›
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Dave Gibbons to launch Watchmen 3D Graffiti Art Instillation
To celebrate the UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Watchmen, London’s Southbank will stage an art exhibition with a difference on Tuesday 28th July with the comic’s artist Dave Gibbons and acclaimed graffiti artist Chu. Chu will showcase his artistic… Read More ›
Panel Borders Goes SciFi Mad!
We don’t often cover every podcast or radio show Alex Fitch and his team are about to broadcast, but he’s got plenty lined up we think downthetubes fans will want to check out, so hold on to your hats… •… Read More ›
Watchmen on DVD, Blu-Ray
The big-screen adaptation of the most celebrated graphic novel of all time, Watchmen, will be released as a Region 2 two-disc DVD and Blu-ray with Digital Copy on 27th July. Directed by Zack Snyder (300), the 2-disc DVD of the… Read More ›
Planet of the Apes – Down the Tube!
Commuters on the London Underground were amazed last Tuesday when characters from the Planet of the Apes films joined them on the Tube! The apes were in town to celebrate the re-release of the classic film, now 40 years old,… Read More ›
Wicked Willie Returns!
Remember Wicked Willie, the creation of Gray Jolliffe? Well, he’s back, as right and upright as ever in The Complete Wicked Willie, out on DVD in January. Based on Jolliffe’s internationally best-selling series of cartoon books about the continuing adventures… Read More ›
Captain Eager comes to DVD
Anyone who’s a fan of Dan Dare, Rick Random, Flash Gordon and perhaps even Captain Scarlet might not want to check out the new DVD Captain Eager and the Mark of the Voth, unless of course they’re prepared to enjoy… Read More ›
Stan Lee Signed Comic Must be Won!
Marking the impending release of Iron Man on Region 2 DVD, downthetubes and SF web site scifipulse have teamed up with Paramount Home Entertainment UK to offer readers the chance to win a Marvel Legends comic signed by Stan “The… Read More ›
Abracadabra! It’s Shaun the Sheep
Baa! Another bunch of great woolly adventures for Shaun, Bitzer, Shirley and the flock, not to mention those troublesome pigs is about to be released on DVD, as they go looking for more sheep thrills. The shear delights in this… Read More ›
Alan Moore in London
(via the Forbidden Planet International blog): Great Britain’s Comics Alchemist in Extraordinary Alan Moore will be appearing at London’s Orbital Comics (148 Charing Cross Road) on the 24th May to promote the new DVD The Mindscape of Alan Moore, a… Read More ›
Daily Mirror’s Jane on DVD
One of the more obscure titles in our British Comics on Film list has just been released on DVD. Odeon Entertainment have released the 1949 B-movie The Adventures of Jane which is based on the Daily Mirror ‘s Jane comic… Read More ›
More straight to DVD Stargate
Stargate: Continuum debuts exclusively on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc in the US on 29th July, with members of SG-1 find themselves returning to a world where their history has been dramatically altered. Continuing the legacy of Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Continuum… Read More ›
My Wife Left Me…
Before the sublime Doctor Who: Blink, before the gory Jekyll, before his two consecutive Hugo awards for new Doctor Who episodes, before even the four seasons of Coupling, Steven Moffat wrote two seasons of a little gem of a sitcom… Read More ›
Survivors Returns
The Forbidden Planet International web site reports the BBC has confirmed that it has concluded a deal with the estate of the late Terry Nation to create a new version of the cult 70s science fiction show Survivors. Nation, well-known… Read More ›
Where’s Clive?
(Note: the “missing puppet” story that inspired our reporter Jeremy Briggs’ research below was quickly revealed as a PR hoax, see follow up, but we have kept this item live for information purposes) Gerry Anderson fans have a new game… Read More ›
Young Indy on DVD
George Lucas’ live-action series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Volume One, the first of three, will finally make its way to Region 1 DVD from Lucasfilm Ltd., CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment on 23rd October, 2007, so… Read More ›
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales – Region 2 release news
The previously-mentioned Region 2 release of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, a straight-to-DVD B5 project has been scehduled for 3 September 2007, quickly followed on 10 September by the release of Supernatural Season Two. The Region 1 DVD was released… Read More ›