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Miles - a failing writer wrestling with an existential funk - wants to bond, quaff and play golf. Jack wants to 'get his joint smooched'. They meet two women and Miles struggles with his psychological defences while Jack has Sandra Oh's knickers off before you can say Pinot Noir. But if Miles is miserable, this delightful Alexander Payne film never is, so break out the red wine and enjoy.

Extras: Audio commentary, featurettes including one on wine, deleted scenes, Easter eggs and gag reel.
Nina Caplan

The Legacy.
'From the director of Star Wars...' is splashed across the cultastic cover of The Legacy. Impressive, until you realise we're talking Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi here. Still, it's worth blowing the dust off this illogical 1978 melodrama wherein na've Americans Katherine Ross and Sam Elliott are invited back 'to tea' at an eccentric English gent's mansion - only to find themselves entangled in a macabre, And Then There Were None-style game of Death. Creepy Bond-villain cats and assorted D-list Satanists may compete but the movie's most scary creation remains Roger Daltrey's sinister perm.

Extras: One paltry - but pricelessly camp - trailer.
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

Tristana
Catherine Deneuve's blonde impenetrability obviously worked for Spanish master Luis Bu"uel, as he made strange morality tale Tristana with her three years after their better-known collaboration, Belle De Jour.

Tristana (Deneuve) is an innocent given into the care of Fernando Rey, a moral man with a weakness for beautiful women. So he seduces his charge, while maintaining she is free to act as she will - but he's not happy when she later takes him up on it.

The film is a potent mixture of dream imagery, sadomasochism and Freudian overtones. And Deneuve, growing from manipulated young girl to manipulative woman, is riveting.

Extras: Spanish and French versions; booklet.
Nina Caplan