DVD and Blu-Ray releases

Ted

(Universal, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

Descending occasionally into Family Guy droning, Seth MacFarlane’s comedy about a guy (Mark Wahlberg) and his walking, talking, living teddy bear otherwise riffs rude and hilarious on popular culture — hookers and hookahs to Diff’rent Strokes and Ming the Merciless.

Magic Mike

(Lionsgate, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

Channing Tatum takes his clothes off. Recommendation enough, maybe, but Steven Soderbergh’s Boogie Nights-lite drama about male strippers also faintly deals with the objectification of the male body. And Matthew McConaughey takes his clothes off, too.

The Amazing Spider-Man

(Sony, cert 12, Blu-ray/DVD)

The special effects aren’t special and the “teenage” leads are 29 (Andrew Garfield) and 24 (Emma Stone) but there’s zip and heart in this deliberately low-key reboot of the moneyspinning franchise.

In Your Hands

(Artificial Eye, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

It’s Kristin Scott Thomas, again playing a fragile, brittle woman. This time she’s a doctor in France kidnapped by some weirdo. Playing footsie with notions of “what women want”, a thriller with performances that paper over the cracks.

Southern Comfort

(Second Sight, cert 18, Blu-ray)

Deliverance in the Louisiana swamps, served up in taut and tense in 1981 by director Walter Hill, whose wide-ranging, fondly reminiscent 45-minute interview accompanying the film is exactly the sort of “extra” you’d hope for with a Blu-ray debut.