DVD & BluRay

MISS FISHER & THE CRYPT OF TEARS Acorn, cert 15

DVD £24.99

Spiffing good show, jolly hockey sticks and all that, Miss Phryne Fisher, the girl with the golden gun and dazzling Roaring 20s’ fashions, gets her own big screen Aussie movie. Much of the budget for the film was raised through crowdfunding, so fans of the Alibi channel series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries will love this bigger-scale adventure romp.

It turns Phryne (Essie Davis - pictured) into a flapper girl version of Lara Croft.

The opening sequence takes a page out of the Bond playbook with Phryne saving a young Bedouin girl Shirin (Izabella Yena) from jail in Jerusalem, but it looks as if both perish under the wheels of a train - until Miss Fisher turns up in London in time for her own wake, and an astonished welcome from partner in crime and love interest, Detective

Inspector

Jack Robinson (Nathan Page).

The story is, er, highly unlikely, but it’s a fun ride as the sleuthing duo set out to solve the mystery in Palestine of who was behind the massacre of Shirin’s family. With missing gems, scheming archaeologists, guilty secrets, daring escapes, chases

REVENGE: LIMITED EDITION

Second Sight, cert 18 Blu-ray disc & booklet £22.99

This is a no-holds-barred cult French film about a young woman seeking revenge on the men who raped her and left her for dead.

Trouble looms when business fat cat Richard (Kevin Janssens) takes his mistress Jen (Matilda Lutz - pictured) to his desert chalet for a hunting trip. When he’s joined by two leery sidekicks, things turn nasty. When Richard’s absent, they take the opportunity to brutally attack Jen and leave her for dead. It’s a shocking scene from female director Coralie Fargeat. But Jen survives.. and driven by a thirst for revenge the eye-candy girl turns into a warrior as she hunts the men down across the burning wasteland through dusty desert town alleyways, Miss Fisher is no doddery Miss Marple as she shows she can fly a plane and shoot a gun while taking on a derring-do adventure with Indiana Jones-like aplomb. No matter what dangerous spot she’s in, Phryne always manages to look fabulous, and Essie Davis obviously has a ball playing her. In which decade is it set? Entries to Alex Gordon, Miss Fisher competition. All prizes will be despatched asap after lockdown.

Our rating:

with Lutz giving a mighty performance. It’s a nicely packaged edition with interview extras and collectors’ booklet.

Name another desert-set film. Entries to Alex Gordon, Revenge competition.

Our rating: