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Dear John

(12, 104 mins, Momentum, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

Stars: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas

ARMY Special Forces operative John Tyree (Tatum) heads home to South Carolina on leave to see his mildly autistic father (Jenkins). During an afternoon on the beach, John meets Savannah (Seyfried) and the spark of attraction is immediate. Inevitably, John returns to the frontline and fate conspires to reunite the lovers, though not in a way that either of them would have wished. Adapted from the best-seller by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook), Dear John is a bittersweet soap opera that relies on familiar plot devices including terminal illness to keep the lovers apart.

Repo Men

(18, 107 mins, Universal Pictures, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £19.99)

Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, Carice Van Houten, Chandler Canterbury, RZA.

REMY (Law) and Jake (Whitaker) work for a powerful organisation called The Union, which provides artificial organs for a five-figure sum. If patients fall behind three months with repayments, repossession men such as Remy and Jake arrive unannounced to forcibly retrieve the valuable organ. When a retrieval goes wrong, Remy ends up in hospital with an artificial heart. Unable to meet interest rates of almost 20 per cent, Remy goes on the run for his life and he meets singer Beth (Braga). Together, they attempt to bring down The Union. Based on the novel The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia, Repo Men is a futuristic thriller, which delights in scenes of gore.

Midsomer Murders: The Complete Series Eleven

(15, 744 mins, Acorn Media UK, DVD £59.99)

Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles) and his sergeant DS Ben Jones (Jason Hughes) unravel six more complicated mysteries from the enduringly popular ITV1 drama series set in a fictional corner of the British countryside. Ill feeling over a proposed bypass spills over into murder, two couples vanish into thin air supposedly as a result of witchcraft and Cully Barnaby (Laura Howard) prepares to tie the knot while blood stains the well-tended hedgerows.

The DVD includes Blood Wedding, Shot At Dawn, Midsomer Life, Left For Dead, The Magician’s Nephew and Talking To The Dead.