Top ten dvd rental

LONDON'S TOP TEN FILMS

3 Birth (15) 5 Alfie (15) 6 Bad Santa (15) 7 Shark Tale (U) 1 The Grudge (15) 4 Look at Me (12A) 2 Finding Neverland (PG) 8 My Summer of Love (15) 9 The Corporation (PG) 10 Coffee and Cigarettes (15) Source: Screen International

LONDON'S TOP TEN RENTAL DVDs

(12) 1 Shrek 2 (U) 2 Troy (15) 4 The Ladykillers (15) 5 Van Helsing (12) 6 Mean Girls (12) 7 Fahrenheit 9/11 (15) 8 Secret Window (12) 9 Dawn of the Dead (18) 10 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (15) 3 The Day After Tomorrow

THIS WEEK'S DVD RELEASES

Elf Uzak Octane Shirley Valentine Come Back Little Sheba (Paramount, PG, retail) Explorers La Lectrice Godsend (EV, cert PG, rental/retail) Jon Favreau's cosy comedy tearjerker, with Will Ferrell as a man brought up as one of Santa's helpers. An instant classic.

(Artificial Eye, cert 15, retail) Country boy in big city drama - Turkish-style. Beautiful, haunting, lowkey.

Frank Capra Box Set (UCA, cert U, retail) It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, You Can't Take It with You ...

restored to original perfection.

(Buena Vista, cert 15, rental) Raves, evil cults and other Nineties concerns power Marcus Adams's atmospheric horror, with appropriate Orbital soundtrack.

Strangers on a Train Special Edition Warner, cert PG, retail) Raymond Chandler and Ben Hecht's ace adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's homo-erotic thriller, with Hitchcock at the helm.

(Paramount, cert 15, retail) Cue another wave of runaways as Scouse housewife Pauline Collins finds love again with moustachioed Greek Tom Conti.

1952 slice of American life, with Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth spinning gold from a story about a runaway dog.

(Paramount, cert U, retail) Joe "Gremlins" Dante's 1985 sci-fi adventure with Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix - ET for the media savvy.

(C'est la vie, cert 18, retail) Fluffy, gently erotic French romcom with literary bent, with Miou-Miou as upmarket book-reader.

The Country Girl (Paramount, cert PG, retail) Against-type casting, with Grace Kelly as a supportive hausfrau and Bing Crosby as an alcoholic - a backstage drama with balls.

Pink Floyd: The Wall (Sony, cert 15, retail) Gerald Scarfe's jagged pen saves Alan Parker's film translation (starring Bob Geldof) of Roger Waters's turgid concept album.

(Fox, cert 15, rental/retail) De Niro as an evil baby-cloner?

Believe it. A wan shocker aiming to be Rosemary's Baby in a test tube.

Seminal it ain't.

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