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Adapted from the award-winning young-adult bestseller of the same name, this near-future thriller tells the story of an American teenager (Saoirse Ronan) trapped in the UK with relatives she hardly knows when war breaks out in Europe and the country is turned into a military state. While director Kevin Macdonald's bittersweet film doesn't pull any punches, it's also packed with strikingly beautiful images, which this Blu-ray's AVC 1.85:1 1080p transfer excels at recreating in the home. Extras are sadly limited to just a six-minute Making of… featurette and eleven deleted scenes.

Not even an all-star voice cast including Antonio Banderas, Charles Dance and Saoirse Ronan can save this sub-Shrek medieval 'toon. So banal that it's only real audience will be the most undemanding kids, we doubt many buyers will actually make use of the Blu-ray's optional 3D mode, which is a shame as the stereoscopic MVC 2.40:1 1080p visuals add some much-needed dynamism to the otherwise sharp-but-bland animation. The disc also offers a rather modest DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix, an hour of interviews and four featurettes.

Brian De Palma's gaudy 1974 rock musical draws on some very familiar sources (Faust, The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Phantom of the Opera), but that doesn't prevent it from being unlike anything else you've ever seen. A brilliantly funny and surprisingly sharp satire of the music business, Phantom… stars William Finley as a naive composer whose music is stolen by music impresario Swan (singer/songwriter Paul Williams). Hideously disfigured in an accident, Leach begins haunting Swan's new club, only to be drawn into a Faustian pact with his enemy...

This second instalment in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy highlights the real flaws in the filmmaker's plan to spread the plot of what is a fairly slight book across three films.

This remarkable 1924 film documents the tragic attempt to conquer Everest that resulted in the deaths of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. While the film's treatment of the Tibetan locals makes for rather uncomfortable viewing, there's no denying that it stands as a powerful testament to the climbers and the mountain itself. The BFI's AVC 1.33:1 1080p restoration still exhibits damage and instability, but also reveals a wealth of detailing thanks to the improved clarity. A recreation of the original musical accompaniment (LPCM 2.0) is joined by a new score by Simon Fisher Turner (DTS-HD MA 5.1/LPCM 2.0).

Based on true events, this flick tells the story of three bodybuilders – Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) and Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) – who decide that they deserve more from life than the hands they've been dealt. To this end they cook up a scheme involving kidnap and extortion, but it isn't long before things get completely out of hand…

Mixing together epic action spectacle and romantic melodrama to tell a story of two World War I fighter pilots in love with the same woman, William Wellman's Wings is in many ways the silent film equivalent of Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor. The difference is that Wellman's film gives us actual characters to root for alongside the astonishing eye-candy – no wonder that it went on to scoop the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture.