Coraline

DVD & Blu-ray, Universal

While people like James Cameron are predicting that one day all movies will be 3-D, it's going to take a while for the format to work properly at home. The polarised-glasses method Coraline impressed with in cinemas can't be replicated domestically yet, so this home version relies on the old red-and-green glasses. So despite watching such a state of the art movie on Blu-ray on a large plasma screen with surround sound, you're still dragged back a century-and-a-half by the 3-D process. This suggests that a) There's still a good reason to venture out to the cinema; and b) Our wonderful new TV sets will probably have to be replaced by something even more wonderful and new in 10 years' time. These discs contain both 2-D and 3-D versions, though, and the movie itself is great no matter how you view it. Based on Neil Gaiman's Alice In Wonderland-riffing novel, it follows a young girl into a secret, dazzling, too-good-to-be-true, alternate world, where she's overindulged by button-eyed copies of her family and friends. She's invited to stay, provided she also replaces her eyes with buttons, and that's when the already weird and wonderful movie gets scary, and the nature of this "other" world becomes apparent. It's to everyone's credit that Coraline, unlike so many family-oriented films, remembers that kids can take a few scares. It shows that actions have consequences, often terrible ones, and to be careful what you dream of – good things to learn at any age.

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