Top DVDs out now!

Fancy hiring or buying a flick over the weekend? We check out the newest DVDs and videos to reach the shops and tell you what's worth watching. From X-Men 2, to Moby at Glastonbury, there's plenty to keep you entertained.

1. X-Men 2 (Fox, 12)

Strip away the special effects and there's almost nothing left in Bryan Singer's super-glossy, hyper-kinetic follow-up to what was a painfully thin original in the first place. New viewers - don't start here.

2. Russian Ark (Artificial Eye, 12)

Aleksandr Sokurov has the final word in one-shot movies with a continuous digi-cam tour of the Hermitage Museum mixing historical musings, commentary on the nature of the Russian soul and an elegy for the age of Europe.

3. The Battle Of Algiers (Argent Films, 15)

Gillo Pontecorvo's magisterially even-handed 1965 pseudo-doc on how France's attempts to subdue Muslim Algeria created, in the process, a revolutionary backlash. Timely, and utterly brilliant.

4. Rising Damp: The Complete Works (Granada, PG)

Writer Eric Chappell's finest hour, thanks to a cast able to rise beyond his occasional On The Buses lapses. Leonard Rossiter and Frances De La Tour's every nuance speaks absolute volumes.

5. Moby: 18 DVD + B Sides (Mute, E)

The bald one's live outing at this year's Glastonbury is just part of a value-for-money package, with TV show odds and lots of audio-only sods thrown in for good measure.