DVD & Blu Rays released this week

 
Steve Morrissey22 June 2012

Young Adult

(Paramount, cert 15,

Blu-ray/DVD)

A “psychotic prom-queen bitch” returns to her native town where she tries to lure her long-ago-ex away from wife and family. Diablo (Juno) Cody’s wiseass script prompts a brilliant piss-and-vinegar performance from Charlize Theron.

The Innkeepers

(Metrodome, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD)

Big screen last week, small screen this, Ti West’s moody horror film is Clerks meets The Shining, all smart slacker banter in a haunted down-at-heel hotel. Highly recommended, not least for the glimpse it affords of future star Sara Paxton.

A Dangerous Method

(Lions Gate, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

An adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure, starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender (left) as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley (on a mission to prove she can act) as Jung’s patient. A fascinating drama of ideas, like Merchant Ivory with a PhD.

Box sets

Sebastian Bergman Series 1

(Entertainment One, cert 15, DVD £19.99)

Can’t get enough Nordic noir? These two Swedish whodunits starring Rolf Lassgård (the original Wallander) should hit the spot, though they’re gloomy, even by the standards of The Killing etc, as the original title, Den Fördömde (The Condemned) suggests.

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