This week's new DVD & Blu-ray

Skeletons DVD, Soda Pictures You wait ages for a film about mysterious agents with a device of unspecified origin that can place them into someone's brain and then two arrive at once. This low-budget British sci-fi/supernatural comedy (of sorts) beats Inception by having more originality, wit and ingenuity; characters (instead of walking, talking plot devices); no pointless CGI – and all for a fraction of the price. Actor-turned-writer-director Nick Whitfield's film is a complete joy from beginning to end. Comedy duo Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley play Mr Davis and Mr Bennett, two bickering operatives for a psychic cleansing company wandering the Peak District. They travel to the houses of customers with dark(ish) secrets that need to be unearthed – the skeletons of the title – and enter their memories via a closet in their homes with the help of two mysterious stones and various meters. Their job is fraught with danger, there is the possibility of fire and, worse, they could end up speaking Bulgarian if they use the devices on their own memories. They hit their biggest challenge when they are hired to find a missing husband, and their fearsome boss, The Colonel (Jason Isaacs) arrives. It's been compared to the work of Charlie Kaufman and Terry Gilliam, and those are pretty spot-on comparisons, but it has a style all of its own – even managing to add an emotional punch to such an oblique tale. Of the two films that cover similar ground, this is the only one you'll need. Greenberg Sweet, subtle comedy as slacker Ben Stiller stops "doing nothing" after meeting Greta Gerwig. DVD & Blu-ray, Universal A Prophet Outstanding brutal French prison gang thriller with Tahar Rahim. DVD & Blu-ray, Optimum 1234 British comedy about an indie band. DVD, Soda Pictures 4.3.2.1 … not to be confused with Noel Clarke's Brit crime thriller. DVD & Blu-ray, Universal The Brothers Bloom Smart crime caper with Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Weisz. DVD & Blu-ray, Optimum The Disappearance Of Alice Creed Eddie Marsan kidnaps Gemma Arterton. DVD & Blu-ray, Icon Home