DVD and Blu-Ray releases

The Dark Knight Rises

(Warner, cert 12, Blu-ray/DVD/Download)

The series has been overpumped but Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film is definitely the best of the bunch, a luxuriously long, character-packed comic-book adventure all the better for featuring Christian Bale’s caped crusader very little.

The Bourne Legacy

(Universal, cert 12, Blu-ray/DVD/Download)

It’s the Bourne Leftovers, with Jeremy Renner taking over from Matt Damon, the taciturn, amnesiac superspy now with a memory, a loose tongue and little raison d’être. S’okay. Just.

New Year’s Eve

(Warner, cert 12, Blu-ray/DVD/Download)

A Love, Actually idea — a parade of largely unlovely people finding their inner human — gilded with a cast of Famous Actors (De Niro, Efron, Pfeiffer, Biel, Heigl and on and on). The end-credit blooper reel is the bit that’s worth waking up for.

Ninja Scroll

(Manga, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD)

This classic anime adventure looks razor-sharp in Blu-ray, is full of action, incident, sex and blood and remains a forceful reminder that even Scooby-Doo animation technology can produce something of expressionistic loveliness.

A Trip to the Moon

(Park Circus, cert U, DVD)

A restoration of one of the most famous of all films, Georges Méliès’s 110-year-old 16-minute sci-fi and special effects motherlode — in colour too, every frame hand painted. The soundtrack by Air is as impish as the film itself, and there’s a well researched accompanying doc.

Sound of My Voice

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

A woman from the future becomes a cult leader in the present — or is it all hogwash? Two investigative reporters go undercover to find out in this genre-confounding drama. It’s low-key and surprisingly tasty.