3. 21 Jump Street
Those with a serious jones for great action comedies, or craving a nostalgic walk through the silly teen cop series from the 1980s will find that and much more with 21 Jump Street. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill star as two cops sent undercover into a high school to ferret out a drug ring. Hilarity ensues, plus some unexpectedly clever cultural insights.
2. The Raid: Redemption
Martial arts movies don't get made like this anymore, with the sheer ferocity and bone crunching realism of The Raid: Redemption. Directed by Gareth Evans and staring pencak silat superstar, Iko Uwais, the film features SWAT team scaling a drug lord's high rise apartment, each floor more deadly than the next.
1. The Hunger Games
Believe the hype. Not just for the devoted fans of Suzanne Collins's novels, The Hunger Games is a thrilling, ambitious epic with enough big ideas to truly warrant the franchise treatment. Featuring a wealth of fantastic performances, Jennifer Lawrence leads the cast as Katniss Everdeen, a fierce and intelligent young woman thrust into a fight to the death against 23 other competitors.
DVD Pick of the Week: Battle Royale: The Complete Collection (Blu-Ray)
Finding new life thanks to the arrival of the similarly themed The Hunger Games, Battle Royale is one of the greatest and most controversial films of all-time. Never released in theaters here due to the extreme violence, the story has the Japanese government sending the worst high school kids off to an island to kill each other until only one remains.
