Outer Space (U)

Outer Space (U)

Part of the British Film Institute's ongoing Sci-Fi: Days Of Fear And Wonder strand of DVDs and theatrical re-releases, the three films in this collection also mark the sixth release from the archives of the much-missed Children's Film Foundation. Included here, then, are Supersonic Saucer, from 1956; the award-winning Glitterball, from 1977; and, from a year earlier, Kadoyng, which throws Last Of The Summer Wine's Bill Owen into a sci-fi story with an environmental theme as a cute alien visitor helps some village children block a controversial road-building scheme.

Stray Cat Rock: The Collection (18)

Blu-ray release featuring all five films in the psychedelic, uber-cool Japanese girl gang series from the late 1960s, which starred Meiko Kaji of Lady Snowblood fame. If that doesn't tempt you, the titles should: Delinquent Girl Boss starts the series, Beat '71 ends it.

Before The Winter Chill (15)

After teaming up for the BAFTA-winning I've Loved You So Long, French director Philippe Claudel and actress Kristin Scott Thomas are reunited for this classy drama in which she plays a woman married to a brain surgeon. Trouble arrives when he falls for a young student who may not be all she seems.