DVD REVIEWS

• Coco Before Chanel a welcome dose of Gallic chic

  Coco Before Chanel (Cert 12, 105 mins, Drama/Romance)
  Coco Before Chanel is a welcome dose of Gallic chic chronicling the rise to fame of one of couture’s most revered icons.

• Land Of The Lost is a deeply unsatisfying mish-mash of comedy

  Land Of The Lost (Cert 12, 97 mins, Comedy/Sci-Fi/Action/Romance)
  Dr Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) becomes the laughing stock of the scientific community for his outlandish theories on time-warps.

• Ice Age 3 is family fun

  Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Cert U, Family/Comedy/Action)
  Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo) yearns for a family so he ‘appropriates’ a nest of soon-to-hatch dinosaur eggs.

• Terminator Salvation bleak and sombre affair

  Terminator Salvation (Cert 12, 110 mins, Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller)
  John Connor (Christian Bale) leads the dwindling human race against Skynet and its relentless army of Terminators, with his doctor wife Kate (Bryce Dallas Howard).

• ‘Star Trek’ breathes new life into iconic franchise

  Cocksure and impetuous James T Kirk (Chris Pine) enrols at Starfleet Academy, making an instant friend in Dr Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban).

• Little to warm to in ‘Four Christmases’

  Every Christmas, San Francisco couple Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) make outlandish, charity work-related excuses to avoid spending the festive season together.

• ‘Moon’ haunting and memorable

  On the moon, Lunar Industries employee Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) single-handedly oversees the harvesting of the Helium-3 isotope, which has become Earth’s primary fuel source.

• Bittersweet portrait of family life in ‘Sunshine Cleaning’

  Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) is a thirty-something single mother trying to take care of her impressionable young son Oscar (Jason Spevack).

• 'The Informers' trawls the underbelly of 1980s LA

  The late Brad Renfro makes his final big-screen appearance in this downbeat depiction of sex, drugs and infidelity in 1980s Los Angeles, adapted by screenwriter Nicholas Jarecki and author Brett Easton Ellis (American Psycho) from his own book of the same name.

• Second 'Museum' visit a triumph of style over substance

  Security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) has left behind his old job at New York City’s famed Museum Of Natural History to front his own company, which has just launched a glow-in-the-dark torch.