Panel of Experts: Wonder stuff

Each week we show DVDs to the people who really know. Here, staff from Hamleys examine Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

Panel of Experts: Still absolutely inspired

Five members of the 1990s sketch show Absolutely look back at their old selves in their second series

Land of Promise

This collection of 40 short films, many government-funded, from the immediate pre and postwar period are fascinating

Love Lies Bleeding

Basically a silly, Hollywood version of No Country for Old Men, the plot, script and characterisation are unforgivably stupid

Lust, Caution

Only a director as revered as Ang Lee could have shot a story about China as explicit and raw as this. The sex is brutal

Panel of Experts: We Own the Night

Each week we show DVDs to the people who really know. Here, a group of nightclub managers examine We Own the Night

Warren Mitchell's still wowing them

The 82-year-old hits the West End, still defending his racist alter ego

Natalie Dessay: La Fille du Regiment

Dessay shows incredible comic verve even when Donizetti’s music sends her voice skyrocketing, you breathe every moment

DVDs enjoy final hurrah before sales slide

British Video Association figures show that DVD sales grew by 9 per cent last year, but experts call the trend a one-off

Damages

Glenn Close exercises her claws opposite a venomous Ted Danson in the first series of this excellent US legal TV drama

I Am Legend

Existential ambience, long periods without dialogue - inside this blockbuster is an arthouse flick struggling to get out

Panel of Experts - Lions for Lambs

Les Chansons d'Amour

Director Christophe Honore's endearing French musical about louche, cool youngsters engaging in sexual experimentation

Enchanted

Part animated, part film, this ode to the Disney classics cleverly brings Ariel, Belle and even Snow White bang up to date

30 Days of Night

The relentless pace and perpetual motion of the camera create an impressive look to this vampire slasher

Panel of experts: The Darjeeling Limited

Each week we ask the real experts to assess a film. Here, three brothers cast their critical gaze over The Darjeeling Limited

Silent Light

Glacially slow but exquisitely powerful, Reygadas’s fifth film is not your normal tale of torrid infidelity

Moomin

Timeless Nordic storytelling as the classic series about the hippo-snouted trolls returns to delight a new generation

Panel of Experts: Clubland

Each week we show DVDs to the people who really know. Here, a group of female stand-up comedians check out Clubland

Chromophobia

A brilliant and thoughtful exploration of modern mores and mid-life crises in contemporary London from Martha Fiennes