Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

A Good Day to Die Hard

Explosive personality… Action franchise favourite Bruce Willis returns as wisecracking John McClane, who this time travels to Russia to help his estranged son, Jack, but soon becomes embroiled in a terrorist plot.

Family ties… Guillermo del Toro presents this supernatural chiller that tells the tale of the spooky goings-on when two orphaned, feral children are taken in by their uncle and his girlfriend (Jessica Chastain).

Warm Bodies

Dead romantic… Nicholas Hoult plays a zombie whose heart pounds for an apocalypse survivor in this offbeat American rom-zom-com.

Beautiful Creatures

Any witch way… Mystical powers and passion collide in this teen fantasy about a young witch who is drawn to a man longing to escape his small town.

Lincoln

Fight for freedom… Steven Spielberg’s historical drama follows the fierce battle to abolish slavery by American President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis).

Life of Pi

Novel approach… Ang Lee brings Yann Martel’s bestselling novel about a young boy cast adrift with a Bengal tiger to life.

Django Unchained

Wild west… A freed slave joins forces with a German bounty hunter as he seeks to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner in Quentin Tarantino’s sharpshooting Western revenge thriller.

Zero Dark Thirty

Manhunt… The Hurt Locker helmer Kathryn Bigelow’s latest drama charts the US military operation that found and killed Osama bin Laden.

Les Misérables

Dreamed a dream… Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing for their supper in this feature-length reworking of the popular stage musical, based on Victor Hugo’s classic story.

Skyfall

Mission in action… Bond is back in action – and a well-tailored suit – in this Sam Mendes-helmed instalment in the super-spy franchise. This time 007’s loyalty is put to the test as M’s past comes back to haunt her.

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