DVD The House With A Clock In Its Walls King Of Thieves

A Simple Favour Cert 15, DVD, Blu-ray

A Simple Favour is a sinfully entertaining comedy thriller, which blends a cocktail of Hitchcockian whodunnit and gnarly black comedy, garnished with generous twists of spite and betrayal.

Think Gone Girl with killer oneliners and perfectly shaken martinis and you’ll be close to the lip-smacking delights of a battle of the sexes in small town suburbia.

There are winning performances from the female leads, Anna Kendrick and Blake

Lively.

OUR VERDICT 8/10 Cert 12, DVD, Blu-ray

Timid ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt travels to the sleepy ’50s community of Zebedee to live with his uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) who lives in a creepy house full of ticking clocks.

Lewis learns the building used to belong to a deranged couple, who concealed a Doomsday clock within the walls.

A warlock and a kindly witch, hope to locate the demonic timepiece before the end of days.

OUR VERDICT 7/10 Cert 15, DVD, Blu-ray

Technical wizard Basil hopes to persuade career criminal Brian Reader (Sir Michael Caine) to lead a daring heist.

Basil claims to have insider knowledge about the security system of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd, which holds millions of pounds in cash and diamonds.

Brian rallies associates Terry Perkins (Jim Broadbent), John

Kenny Collins (Sir Tom Courtenay) and Danny Jones (Ray Winstone).

OUR VERDICT 6/10