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If we didn't know better, we'd swear that Peter Jackson was deliberately aping the Star Wars saga with his mammoth blockbuster franchise. As with George Lucas's space opera, Jackson's fantasy series kicked off with a well-received trilogy that helped revolutionise the film industry, before returning after a lengthy gap with a trio of unsatisfying prequels that seem more concerned with the technology used to create them than the story they tell.

During the late 1950s Hammer Film Productions reinvented itself as the UK's leading purveyor of cinematic shockers with The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). But in 1959 the studio took a brief break from raiding Universal's catalogue of classic monsters to tackle one of Britain's best-loved literary icons – Sherlock Holmes.

If the first Hunger Games was Hollywood's answer to Battle Royale, this sequel expands the concept considerably. The first half of its lengthy running time focuses on the political ramifications of Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta's (Josh Hutchinson) victory and the seeds of rebellion it has sewn. Only then do we go finally go back to the games.

Picking up exactly where The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 left off, this franchise closer opens in media res, with the realisation of what happened to her former Games teammate Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) giving Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) a new thirst for revenge against President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

What this introspective Antipodean drama about a mercenary hired to hunt and kill an extinct animal (the Tasmanian Tiger) lacks in immediate thrills, it more than makes up for with its gorgeously moody cinematography. So it's a good job that Artificial Eye's Blu-ray release features a rich, natural-looking AVC 2.40:1 1080p image. Matching this perfectly is a DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix that's adept at bringing life to the film's wild locations. While the chat-track and deleted scenes from the US disc have gone walkabout, the UK BD does include a Making of… and 16-minute interview.

In 1994, 13-year-old Texan Nicholas Barclay disappeared. Three years later police in Spain contacted the family saying that they found him. In fact they had been taken in by 23-year old French con-man Frédéric Bourdin, but the Barclay family still accepted him as their own despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Equal parts thriller, family drama and true crime story, this unsettling documentary relates a tale so weird that you simply wouldn't believe it if it hadn't actually happened.

Originally banned outright by UK censors, this first screen adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau has stood the test of time extremely well. Unlike other horrors from the same era, the film still maintains an unshakable aura of terror and taboo-busting.