Alvin And The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel (U)

84 mins

Twentieth Century Fox

DVD £19.99/Double Trouble DVD £22.99/Blu-ray £28.99/Double Trouble Blu-ray £34.99

Stars: Jason Lee, Kathryn Joosten, Zachary Levi, David Cross, Wendie Malick, and the voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler, Anna Faris

SINGING chipmunks Alvin (voiced by Long), Simon (Gubler) and Theodore (McCartney) continue to thrive in the cutthroat music business. When the boys’ surrogate father Dave (Lee) is consigned to a hospital bed, the youngsters stay with Aunt Jackie (Joosten) and nephew Toby (Levi), who enrolls the chipmunks at high school where the pop stars secure a nomination to represent their classmates at a battle of the bands. Aggrieved former manager Ian Hawke (Cross) enrolls the Chipettes – aka Britney (Applegate), Eleanor (Poehler) and Jeanette (Faris) – at the very same school, then petitions headmistress Dr Rubin (Malick).

Law Abiding Citizen (18)

104 mins, Momentum Pictures, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99

Stars: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis, Regina Hall, Emerald-Angel Young, Brooke Mills, Ksenia Hulayev

BRILLIANT inventor Clyde Shelton (Butler) is the victim of a home invasion, which results in the murder of his wife (Mills) and young daughter (Hulayev). Police catch the killers but then lead prosecutor Nick Rice (Foxx) cuts a deal with one of the perpetrators. A decade after the worst moment in his life, Clyde enacts his masterplan to make Nick suffer just like he did, even involving Nick’s wife Kelly (Hall) and daughter Denise (Young). When more people die while Clyde is safely tucked away in a prison cell, the prosecutor and cop pal Detective Dunnigan (Meaney) face the terrifying possibility that their prime suspect has an accomplice on the outside.

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Glee: Season 1 Volume 1: Road To Sectionals (12)

546 mins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, DVD £27.99, Musical

FOUR-disc box set comprising the first 13 episodes of the new TV sensation set at the fictitious William McKinley High School. In this hallowed seat of learning, Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) is given the unenviable task of taking over the school’s glee singing club in the face of derision from the acid-tongued head of the cheerleading squad, Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch).