This week's DVD releases

I, ROBOT

Directed by Alex Proyas. Starring Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan 12 cert ***

Efficient, occasionally rather spooky adaptation of Isaac Asimov's speculative stories in which Detective Smith, as prejudiced against androids as Ripley was in Aliens, investigates the murder of a founding father of robotics. The robots are impressive, the chase sequences hum-drum. The retail release is available in a groaning two-DVD version. -  Donald Clarke

13 GOING ON 30

Directed by Gary Winick. Starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffal, Kathy Baker 12 cert ****

In this female spin on Big, Garner lights up the screen with radiant star quality as the 30-year-old incarnation of a shy girl who gets her wish to be grown-up. The logic of the plotline crumbles under close inspection, but this is, after all, a fantasy and it's permeated with an infectious sense of fun. - Michael Dwyer

ADAM & PAUL

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Starring Tom Jordan Murphy, Mark O'Halloran, Louise Lewis, Deirdre Molloy, Mary Murray, Paul Roe 15 cert ****

Abrahamson's thoughtful, unpatronisng and acutely observed serious comedy is set in present-day Dublin, over one eventful day as two scruffy, glazed-eyed junkies desperately scrounge for drugs. Mark O'Halloran's screenplay finds humour in the most unlikely places, and the film features vivid, perfectly complementary performances from him and Murphy. - Michael Dwyer