DVD & Blu-ray out this week

Avatar DVD & Blu-ray, Fox James Cameron's Avatar is an amazing, captivating, exciting, groundbreaking, "game-changing", state-of-the-art immersive experience. If you see it in 3D that is. And IMAX. In the comfort of your own home, though, it's a different thing altogether. Even on the biggest screen, it's, well, just a movie. And not even a great one at that. Serviceable, yes, classic, sadly not. It almost seems as if Cameron has intentionally stripped the narrative of any surprise or interest. All the characters here have appeared in more interesting forms in his previous films – notably Aliens – so it's clear he can do it right when he wants. But for some reason, perhaps not to distract from the pretty 3D, the characters here – the corporate villain, the tough colonel and the marines – all blend into an unmemorable mush, as Sam Worthington (a bafflingly omnipresent actor of no fixed accent) goes native after being sent to gain the trust of the residents of the planet Pandora by an evil mining company. Like many things about the film, Worthington isn't actually bad. But then, he isn't actually anything. And for such a technically advanced movie the DVD/Blu-ray is something of a let-down too. Picture and sound are awesome, but there are no extras to speak of, hinting that this is merely the first chance to buy it until the director's cut arrives, then, when home cinema tech catches up, the 3D version. It's the gift that keeps on taking. Crazy Love Chilling doc about a woman's love for the man who blinded her. DVD, Artefact Media Hamlet David Tennant tackles the Bard in this RSC production. DVD & Blu-ray, 2 Entertain Inland Empire David Lynch's surreal study of a Hollywood breakdown. DVD & Blu-ray, Optimum Nine Star-studded musical flop, inspired by Fellini and just as lifeless. DVD & Blu-ray, EV The Men Who Stare At Goats George Clooney stars in this true-life tale of covert CIA operations. DVD & Blu-ray, Momentum The Stepfather Remake of the 80s slasher, with Nip/Tuck's Dylan Walsh as a dysfunctional patriarch. DVD & Blu-ray, Sony