Love Actually (15, Universal Pictures Video, DVD £24.99/DVD box set with Four Weddings And A Funeral and Notting Hill £37.99/VHS £14.99) Starring: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Laura Linney, Keira Knightley, Andrew Lincoln, Rowan Atkinson.

Love is all around, if you know where to look for it. Richard Curtis's eagerly awaited directorial debut is an unabashedly feelgood romantic comedy that creates a tableau of contemporary London life from ten separate stories of love, longing, camaraderie and failed relationships. The colourful menagerie of characters include the newly elected, bachelor Prime Minister (Grant), who falls for his teagirl Natalie McCutcheon).

DVD Extras: Director and actors commentary, deleted scenes and storylines presented by Richard Curtis, Billy Mack Christmas Is All Around music video, music highlights, The Storytellers.

In America (15, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, DVD £19.99/VHS £14.99)

Starring: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Djimon Hounsou, Randall Carlton, Neal Jones, Adrian Martinez.

Stage director and playwright Jim Sheridan collaborates with his two daughters Naomi and Kirsten on a part autobiographical piece about his experiences as an outsider living and working in the United States. Struggling Irish actor Johnny (Considine) uproots his wife Sarah (Morton) and daughters Christy (Sarah Bolger) and Ariel (Emma Bolger) to New York, where he hopes to find work.

The relocation comes as a massive culture shock to the family and with little money to their name, Johnny and Sarah are forced to take up lodgings in a run down apartment block.

DVD Extras: Director commentary, ten deleted scenes, A Personal Journey: The Making Of In America featurette.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (U, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, DVD £19.99/VHS £14.99)

Starring: Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Ricardo Montalban, Salma Hayek, Holland Taylor, Danny Trejo.

Robert Rodriguez's hugely entertaining spy series comes to an explosive end in glorious 3-D. Diminutive Juni Cortez (Sabana) is trying to forge a career as a private detective when he is lured back into the Spy Kids fold to rescue his older sister Carmen (Vega), who has become stranded in a virtual reality game created by the dastardly Toymaker (Stallone).

DVD Extras: Director commentary, Robert Rodriguez's Film School, An Adventure Into The 3rd Dimension: The Making Of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over featurette, Surfing And Stunts Piece featurette, The Effects Of The Game featurette, Big Dink, Little Dink featurette, Making Traks With Alexa Vega featurette, three Alexa Vega music videos, Mega-Race Set Top Game (2-D and 3-D versions).

Published: 11/03/2004