DVD REVIEWS

• Mediocre 'Cemetery Junction' winds up a dead loss

  Cemetery Junction (Cert 15, 90 mins, Comedy/Drama/Romance)

• Trademark Morris wit shines in comedy about terrorism

  Four Lions (Cert 15, 97 mins, Optimum Home Entertainment, Comedy)

• Gross out moments not enough to lift raunchy buddy comedy

  Hot Tub Time Machine (Cert 15, 94 mins, Comedy/Romance)

• Tearjerker ‘Dear John’ sure to please Tatum army

  Army Special Forces operative John Tyree (Channing Tatum) heads home to South Carolina on leave to see his mildly autistic father.

• ‘Repo Men’ a serviceable sci-fi thriller

  Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) work for a powerful organisation called The Union, which provides artificial organs for a five-figure sum.

• Gritty Irish indie sees Grint leave Hogwarts behind

  Following a well-publicised online petition to secure its theatrical release, Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s independently-financed film finally opened on the big screen with a revelatory performance from Rupert Grint that proves there is much more to the young British actor than his signature role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter franchise.

• Afterlife flick struggles for balance

  ‘It’s A Wonderful Afterlife’
  (Cert 12, 96 mins, Comedy/Romance)
  To her overweight daughter Roopi and Jewish next-door neighbour Mrs Goldstein, Mrs Sethi is a doting mother and incredible cook, who tends to everyone around her.

• 'The Joneses' fails to spark

  'The Joneses'
  (Cert 15, 93 mins, Drama/Comedy/Romance)
  Steve Jones (David Duchovny) and his wife Kate (Demi Moore) move into a wealthy gated community with teenage children Jenn (Amber Heard) and Mick (Ben Hollingsworth).

• Page delivers in 'Whip it'

  'Whip It'
  (Cert 12, 107 mins, Comedy)
  Hormonally charged teenager Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page), lives in Bodeen, Texas, with her father, her beauty-pageant obsessed mother and younger sister.

• Infidel makers missed an opportunity

  The Infidel
  (Cert 15, 100 mins, Comedy)
  Doting husband Mahmud Nasir (Omid Djalili) is not the most observant Muslim but he is fiercely proud of his family, including wife Saamiya (Archie Panjabi) and son Rachid (Amit Shah), who is poised to marry Uzma (Soraya Radford), the daughter of a radical, hook-handed Islamic cleric (Igal Naor).