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agents can’t and he’s needed when 700 of New York’s wealthiest are vaporised in a thermobaric bomb attack. That’s just the start of a campaign of terror that puts Page in the sights of someone with a terrible agenda. Pulseracing brilliance.

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THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS Acorn, cert 15

DVD 2-disc set £24.99 Once, they were labelled ‘kitchen sink dramas’. Now, looking glossier and slicker, they’ve become ‘domestic noir’ thrillers about dangerous relationships. It’s something Australian author Michael Robotham does well, and this six-part BBC1 adaptation was a hit. It heralds a change of status for British actress Laura Carmichael (pictured), going from playing Lady Edith, the dowdier of Lord Grantham’s daughters in Downton Abbey, to being Agatha, a downtrodden shelf-stacker in an Oz supermarket. When Agatha meets glamorous, and very pregnant, customer Meghan (Jessica De Gout), a successful mummy-blogger, she’s jealous and decides to follow Meghan and spy on her domestic bliss with her successful TV executive husband

Jack (Michael Dorman). But, Agatha’s mainly green with envy because Meghan’s having a third child. How greedy thinks scheming. childless, Agatha whose own previous pregnancies went wrong. So, she launches a devious and deceitful plan to wreck Meghan’s life while turning around her own joyless existence - she’s on the point of losing her sailor

ISLAND ZERO High Fliers, cert 15 DVD £7.99 Author Tess Gerritsen wrote this horror film for director son Josh’s debut, and like Jaws it’ll put you off a dip in the sea. Residents on a small island off Maine (where spooky Stephen King events happen) find themselves cut off with no ferry, no supplies or power, and no internet. Helpless. Then bodies wash up on the shoreline and terror sets in. The only person excited and intrigued by this calamity is marine biologist Sam (Adam Wade McLaughlin) who is studying similar events in other coastal areas. Something lurking in the sea seems to be the cause. Yikes! Name another seagoing horror film. Entries to Alex Gordon, Island competition.

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boyfriend who’s tired of her misery and constant lying. So she spins the biggest lie of all, convincing her boyfriend, and Meghan, that a happy event is on the way. She even makes ‘friend’ Meghan - whom she’s bombarding with nasty anonymous online insults after discovering she had an affair - believe they will give birth around the same time. But as the due date approaches how can Agatha get out of the inevitable revelation that she’s a big fat liar? Her solution is shocking.

Who played Lady Edith’s glamorous sister Lady Mary in Downton? Entries to Alex Gordon, Secrets competition.

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ECHOES OF FEAR Second Sight, cert 15 DVD £7.99 This haunted house chiller has been a hit at global horror film festivals. It begins when Alisa (Trista Robinson) inherits her late grandfather’s old pile and moves in to fix it up. A bad move for Alisa as she very soon discovers.

The house seems to have a mind of its own, or existing inhabitants object to the change of earthly ownership. Because something or other is intent on driving Alisa out screaming all the way.

But no, as in any good horror film, Alisa chooses every possible way to put herself in alarming danger as she sets out to investigate creepy music and spooky bangs and crashes in cobwebby corridors.

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