RECORDED DELIVERY

A critical guide to the week's videos

Copycat (18) (above) Warner Home Video, retail pounds 14.99, 2 Jun. A copycat movie about serial killers which bumps up The Silence of the Lambs' premise by having not one but two strong women - Holly Hunter's detective and Sigourney Weaver's criminal psychologist - investigating and threatened by a gruesome killer. With a sly wink at "free ring-binder" magazine voyeurism, the movie serves up the usual slasher suspense as the killer works his way through a top 10 of serial killers from the Boston Strangler to Ted Bundy, and subjects Weaver to every violation in the stalker's handbook. The concept of a kind of self-propagating serial-killing celebrity is rather overstated, and the plot is faintly ludicrous (particularly Weaver's overdetermined sacrificial status), but a well-textured script and strong performances from Hunter and Weaver carry the movie.

Last of the High Kings (15) First Independent Films, rental, 2 Jun. David Keating's rites-of-passage story covers some familiar territory, but a gentle pace and light touch ensure that it's a charming debut, illuminated by cameos from two of Ireland's leading actors, Gabriel Byrne and Stephen Rea - the latter great as a name-dropping cabbie.

Fargo (18) Polygram, retail, on release pounds 13.99.

Set in snowy, hicksville Minnesota, the Coen brothers' violently deadpan thriller stars Oscar-winning Frances McDormand as pregnant cop Marge Gunderson, investigating a bungled kidnapping by Steve Buscemi and his ominously silent partner. The sweet ordinariness of Marge's relationship with her stamp-collecting husband and her wide-eyed sincerity when questioning suspects - "You have no reason to get snippy with me" - counterbalance the Coens' chillingly knowing gaze.

Robinson in Space (PG) Academy Video, retail pounds 15.99, 2 Jun. After his idiosyncratic study of London, director Patrick Keiller gives an ideologically guided tour of the suburbs, industrial estates and historic landmarks of Britain's countryside. A trained architect, Keiller brings a sharp eye and a keen sense of social politics to his mapping of contemporary Britain. The dense quotes, observations and statistics of this semi-documentary can be hard to ingest in one go, which makes this intelligent essay worth more than one viewing.