The Other Guys (12)

103 mins

Sony Pictures, DVD £17.99/Will Ferrell DVD Box Set £24.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

DETECTIVES PK Highsmith (Samuel L Jackson) and Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) are the golden boys of the NYPD, but when the two officers are sidelined, hot-headed Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) and his mild-mannered partner Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) vie with rival detectives Fosse (Damon Wayans Jr) and Martin (Rob Riggle) to lead the team. When Terry fails to get a case involving multi-millionaire David Ershon (Steve Coogan), he drags Allen into the field with only a wooden replica gun for protection. The Other Guys is an intentionally ludicrous buddy cop movie that gets considerable mileage from several running jokes. Coogan fares less well in a thankless supporting role. Explosive action sequences collide with polished one-liners and some amusing supporting performances.

Devil (15)

77 mins

Universal, DVD £19.99/Bluray £24.99)

SECURITY guard Ben (Bokeem Woodbine), mechanic Tony (Logan Marshall-Green), suited salesman Vince (Geoffrey Arend), beautiful wife Sarah (Bojana Novakovic) and an older woman (Jenny O’Hara) all enter the same lift only for the car to become stuck between floors. Tensions within the claustrophobic space explode. Based on a story by M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), it has been adapted for the screen by Brian Nelson, where a group of apparent strangers discover that one of their number is Satan.

Since the story tumbles from the imagination of Shyamalan, there is the obligatory twist.

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Doctor Who Christmas Special (PG)

60 mins

BBC DVD, DVD £12.99/Blu-ray £15.99)

THE timelord draws inspiration from Charles Dickens for this festive helping from yesteryear. Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) find themselves aboard a space liner that is plummeting through clouds of choking fog towards the surface of a nearby planet. The only person who can allow the liner to land safely, is wealthy curmudgeon Kazran Sardick (Sir Michael Gambon). In order to save Amy, Rory and the 4,000 other passengers, the Doctor (Matt Smith) travels back in time to when Kazran was a boy and reminds the old man that life is for living.