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PASSENGERS (12) (Download now, DVD and Blu-ray
from Monday) JENNIFER Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in this fantastically intense sci-fi adventure. Five thousand people are off to start a new life on a far-away planet – a 120-year journey made possible by special hibernation pods.
But a malfunction wakes one guy (Pratt) 90 years early – which not only means he’ll die before they arrive, but also that he faces decades of desperate solitude.
Waking one of his fellow passengers (Lawrence) – claiming her own pod failed too – is his solution. He just has to hope she never learns the truth. A MONSTER CALLS (12) (Download now, DVD and Blu-ray from Monday) LIFE isn’t treating 12-year-old Conor all that well. His mum is desperately ill, his estranged dad is thousands of miles away and his gran – now setting the rules – is hardly the sweetest of souls.
But then he strikes up an unlikely relationship with a huge tree-like beast, who promises to tell him three special stories.
Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones star with Conor played by Lewis MacDougall. LINE OF DUTY: SERIES 4 (15)
(DVD from Monday) THANDIE Newton stars in the latest run of this brilliant police corruption drama, just finished on BBC One. As DCI Roz Huntley she proves one hell of a fierce opponent, prepared to sink to extraordinary depths to evade justice.
And by turning defence into attack, she gives AC-12’s investigators their toughest case to date. Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston return as the key team members. A Series 1-4 box set is also out. HOSTAGES (15) (Download now, DVD from Monday) SERIES two of this Israeli drama finds the nation in mourning for its Prime Minister. Except he’s actually alive, held hostage in an abandoned warehouse by the guy hired to assassinate him – who now has plans of his own.
FALLEN (12) (Download and DVD) BASED on the best-selling fantasy romance, this is the tale of Luce (Addison Timlin), packed off to a mystical reform school for a crime she didn’t commit – and then two very different students come into her life.