DVD REVIEWS

• ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows’ stays true to the original

  Newspapers are full of shocking headlines about anarchist bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna, the overdose of a Chinese opium dealer and the death of an American steel magnate.
  

• Fassbender magnificent in ‘Shame’

  Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a handsome thirtysomething office worker who is never short of bedfellows, including one of the secretaries (Nicole Beharie).
  

• ‘The Sitter’ not a good career move for Hill

  A college student discovers that babysitting isn’t the breeze he thought it would be in this foul-mouthed comedy from director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Your Highness).
  

• ‘War Horse’ pulls on the heartstrings

  Alcohol-soaked farmer Ted Narracott (Peter Mullan) pays over the odds for a foal called Joey to spite landlord Lyons (David Thewlis) when he is supposed to be buying a plough horse.
  

• 'Dream House' is a nightmare watch

  Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) is a successful publisher in Manhattan who abandons the city to spend more time with his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz) and daughters Dee Dee (Claire Geare) and Trish (Taylor Geare) in the suburbs.
  

• 'Mother And Child' lacking something

  Hard-nosed attorney Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) has no interest in raising a family, having been given away at birth by the biological mother she never knew.
  

• Smooth Banderas makes 'Puss In Boots' a must-watch

  As a youngster, Puss (voiced by Antonio Banderas) is abandoned at an orphanage where kind Imelda (Constance Marie) raises the kitten as her own.
  

• 'Happy Feet Two' a two-step in the wrong direction

  Mumble the penguin (voiced by Elijah Wood) has raised a son called Erik (Ava Acres) with his wife Gloria (Pink).
  

• Spielberg makes 'The Adventures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Unicorn' sparkle

  Gung-ho reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) buys a model ship and is plunged into a centuries-old mystery involving Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Daniel Craig).
  

• 'Moneyball' worthy of all the plaudits

  Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), general manager of Oakland Athletics baseball team, goes cap in hand to the team’s owner for more funds after bigger teams pilfered three of his star players.