Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Royal appointment… Colin Firth leads the cast of this period drama about the unorthodox relationship between King George VI and the speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) set on helping him to overcome his debilitating stammer.

Sinister moves… Natalie Portman takes centre stage in this psycho-thriller about a tormented ballerina.

Towering figure… This retelling of the classic Jonathan Swift tale sees Jack Black stepping into the sizeable shoes of Lemuel Gulliver, a wannabe travel writer who finds himself stranded on an island occupied by microscopic people.

Jail break… Russell Crowe stars in this Paul Haggis thriller as a man determined to break his wife, who has been accused of murder, out of jail.

Night to remember… Four friends travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. The next morning, they wake up with no memory of the night before!

It’s a kind of magic… In the first part of the last instalment in the blockbusting franchise, Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their arduous mission to find and destroy Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Expecto darkness and danger at every turn.

Mind games… This sci-fi thriller sees Leo DiCaprio leading a team of specialists into a target’s subconscious in order to plant an idea.

Melt in the middle… Steve Carell voices the character of Gru in this family animation about a supervillain whose encounter with three orphaned girls (eventually) melts his cold heart.

Tough love… Liam Neeson’s ex-CIA agent doesn’t let dozens of bad guys stand in the way of rescuing his abducted daughter from sex-traffickers in this furious action thriller.

Freedom fighters… This historical drama follows a group of prisoners (played by the likes of Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell and Ed Harris) who escape from a Siberian gulag during World War II.

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