The Hunger Games:
Catching Fire (12)
This second instalment in the Hunger Games franchise finds I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence taking over, as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) returns home after her victory in the first film. It also features the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee, a role he reprised in the as-yet-unreleased final films in the series, two-parter The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
Journal De France (E)
Documentary following acclaimed French photojournalist and filmmaker and Raymond Depardon, co-founder of the Gamma photo agency, as he travels round France in a van taking pictures on a huge medium format camera. It you think it sounds dull, think again: from the free-wheeling black-and-white 1960s footage from a fairground that opens it, to snippets from Depardon's time covering wars in Algeria, Chad and Vietnam, this is fascinating portrait of a thoughtful (and occasionally irascible) artist.
Inside No 9 (18)
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's bizarre and blackly comic BBC Two series comes to DVD. If you missed its six-part terrestrial run, it's a series of stand-alone episodes featuring Pemberton, Shearsmith and a roster of helpmates including Anna Chancellor, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Gemma Arterton. It's brave, too: Games Of Thrones star Oona Chaplin features in episode two, A Quiet Night In, which in honour of her grandfather Charlie Chaplin is entirely silent.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour (18)
Based on Julie Maroh's graphic novel and directed by French-Tunisian Abdellatif Kechiche, this sapphic coming-of-age story centres on Adele (Adele Exarchopolous), a 15-year-old schoolgirl who finds her head turned by punky art student Emma (Lea Seydoux). It proved a controversial, though not undeserving, winner of the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival.
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