Valentine's Day DVDs - pick of the new releases

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, the shelves of your local DVD emporium will be positively creaking with chick-flicks designed to make you curl up on the sofa with a box of Maltesers and a loved one.

The first, a sumptuous but mostly saccharine travel pic starring Julia Roberts.

She plays the unhappily married Liz who y pp y ditches her cosy life in the US for a year of wandering. Her first port of call is Italy, where the locals tell her to embrace life through eating. Her next stop is India, where a former alcoholic from Texas (Richard Jenkins) teaches her about spirituality. Lastly, she arrives in Bali and meets a charming local (Javier Bardem) before, literally, sailing into the sunset.
A movie of picture postcard landscapes and hunky blokes, this is cinematic comfort food where the answers to life's problems come a little too neatly gift-wrapped.

Next is The Rebound starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as a mum of two who leaves her cheating husband for a new life in New York City, where she falls for her kids' nanny (Justin Bartha). While it might by have worked as an exploration of how women of a certain age deal with singledom, it fails thanks to a flat script and Zeta-Jones, whose face is as expressive as a satellite dish.

Finally, The Death And Life Of Charlie St Cloud  sees Zac Efron leap from the High School Musical juggernaut to try something a touch more serious. And for those who th ght h ld d g h ' thought he could do no wrong, here's very solid proof to the contrary.

The Best DVD's of 2010

 It's the time of year when every site on the planet is compiling their retrospective "Best of" lists, and we're no exception.
But when it comes to the world of home entertainment and DVDs, what exactly constitutes the "best" of the year? Is it the highest profile releases? The ones that brought in the most bank? The ones with the most expansive bonus features? Maybe just an unexpected gem that came out of nowhere? The answer, as far as we're concerned, is all of the above.

Hollywood may be feeling the recession in its pocketbook lately, but that didn't stop movie and TV fans from having a great array of DVD releases to choose from. Here are our favorite titles we added to our shelves in 2010.

The Alien Anthology 

Until Ridley Scott's as-yet-unmade prequel officially makes it into the canon, the Alien series will have to make do with this enormous, six-disc Blu-ray anthology. Shucks, right? This isn't the first time these films have been compiled together, but they've never looked or sounded better. On top of that, you get multiple versions of each movie to choose from. And then there's, oh I don't know, about three days' worth of special features for your sci-fi addled mind to wrap around. No other set this year had H.R. Giger talking about sexual imagery. Whether you're interested in isolated film scores, monster make-up, James Cameron's lack of military knowledge, special effects, or thousands upon thousands of on-set photographs, then look no further.