Blu-ray

This new restoration of the celebrated Ealing comedy is almost as dazzling as the titular garment itself. Okay, so there's some minor print damage here and there, as well as occasional shimmering contrast levels, but overall it's a very commendable image that restores the movie to its original visual glory while maintaining a natural, film-like appearance. Just as impressive is the LPCM dual-mono soundtrack, which is extremely clear and well balanced. The disc also includes a featurette, stills gallery, restoration comparison and trailer.

Michael 'The Miz' Mizanin follows fellow grapplers John Cena and Ted DiBiase Jr. in this third instalment of the undemanding DTV franchise – although taken on its own terms, The Marine 3 isn't a bad little action film and while he's no Dwayne Johnson, 'The Miz' manages to give a good performance even when not hitting people. The film's AVC 1.78:1 108p encode is pretty solid, although artefacts do creep into a couple of the action scenes. Curiously, given all of the violence, the film's DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix feels oddly constrained.

The Mechanic isn’t a film about the trials and tribulations of a wannabe Kwik-Fit fitter. It’s actually a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson movie of the same name, with HCC favourite Jason Statham taking over as the burly bloke who makes his living ‘fixing things’ (by killing people). With its undemanding student-teacher story and its predictable twists, the film doesn’t add anything to the genre that you won’t find in numerous straight-to-DVD flicks. But The Mechanic does offer up some great action and the chance to see Statham kicking ass again – which should keep fans happy for a couple of hours.

After a string of successes in the late sixties and early seventies with a series of anthology horror movies that rivalled the Hammer film output, American producer Milton Subotsky once again jumped on the bandwagon with this 1981 offering aimed at a much younger audience. Draconian censorship laws in the UK had seen to it that all of Subotsky’s previous portmanteau pictures had been X certificate, but the change in attitude towards horror movies and the success of TV shows like the Hammer House of Horror and the American series Night Gallery, in which the frights were more tongue-in-cheek, convinced Subotsky that he could get away with scaring the pants off a more juvenile audience.

Even director John 'The Plague of the Zombies' Gilling can find nothing new to do with the mummy genre in this third of Hammer's forays into the sub-genre. But, even if the film itself is a little bit of a yawn-fest, Hammer fans can at least take comfort in the fact that it certainly looks better than it has in decades thanks to this Blu-ray's beautifully restored AVC 1.66:1 1080p encode.

Aaron Sorkin's latest show explores what would happen if a TV news programme decided to stop chasing ratings in order to report genuine news stories. Just like his earlier hit, The West Wing, it makes for provocative, engaging and very funny (if somewhat idealised) television drama of the highest calibre. This four-disc release delivers strong AVC 1.78:1 1080p encodes (although the pilot was shot on super-grainy 16mm), modest DTS-HD MA 5.1 sonics and some enlightening extra features.