By William Gallagher BBC News Online

The Passion's lack of extras disappoints

Mel Gibson's controversial account of Jesus Christ's final 12 hours comes to DVD where, presumably, more people will see it than in the cinema.

What you see looks beautiful: every shot is just gorgeous. Yet the sound is distracting: fight scenes have the thwack and ooff of action flicks.

And then the subtitles - it's all subtitled - are either familiar lines from the Bible or such banal cliche that they're unintentionally funny.

It has power and it has gore. But it doesn't have any extras at all.

Some scenes will turn your stomach but it's one of those films you need to see. It's a shame that there's no commentary or any feature addressing the criticisms of the film, though.

The Passion of the Christ is releasd on 30 August, priced �19.99.

Star Trek

The only Star Trek without a colon has become Star Trek: The Original Series. In 1966 it was about the future; in 2004 it's really about the past.

Star Trek: "Fun and nostalgic"

It's got charm, it's fascinating to see how the whole Trek gig started and the DVD release is very well done.

Yet for a show that foresaw mobile phones and even Bluetooth headsets, it is staggering how dated Star Trek is.

You'll wince at the sexism and even the famous episodes seem to fight against you getting into them. But it's a fun and nostalgic watch.

If you're a fan you're unlikely to learn anything new from the extras but for the more casual viewer the documentaries are more interesting than the episodes.

Star Trek is released on 30 August, priced �69.99.

The Marx Brothers Collection

This boxset will normally cost you �59.99 but you can get it for under �50 if you shop around. But, even at full price it works out at just �10 per classic film.

Six of the Brothers' most famous films are included - Duck Soup is the one obvious omission - and each has has a set of extras, most of them good.

A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, A Night in Casablanca, The Big Store, At the Circus and Go West burst with sight gags and lightspeed jokes.

The first two get documentaries and rare short films are on every disc.

The Marx Brothers Collection was released on 23 August.