New DVD releases: October 2014

Reviews of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases, plus box sets and movie downloads
Picture of a princess: Nicole Kidman in Grace of Monaco
Steve Morrissey10 October 2014

Released on Mon Oct 13

Kidnapped

(Icon, cert 18, DVD/digital)

Brutal, and then some, this Spanish home-invasion horror movie grabs from the first image and then spends 85 minutes daring you not to look away. Not for wimps.

Moebius

(Terracotta, cert 18, DVD/digital)

Like a True Stories comic strip, maverick Korean Kim Ki-duk’s wordless melodrama starts with a mother cutting off her son’s penis and then gets really weird.

Sofia’s Last Ambulance

(Second Run, cert E, DVD)

Documentary following of one of the few ambulance crews looking after the two million souls in Bulgaria’s capital. Tight, unfussy and intensely intimate.

The Other Woman

(Fox, cert 12, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

Cameron Diaz discovers she’s the “other woman” to happily married (or so she thought) Leslie Mann in a Bridesmaids-lite comedy with too many other women in it.

Camille Claudel 1915

(Soda, cert PG, DVD)

The ex-mistress (Juliette Binoche) of the sculptor Rodin is thrown into an asylum for daring to be an artist in this tasteful incarceration horror for arthouse fans.

The Notorious Mr Bout

(Kaleidoscope, cert 12, DVD/digital)

If you’ve seen Nicolas Cage’s film Lord of War, this documentary about its inspiration – Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout – will be a doubly fascinating rise and fall.

Grace of Monaco

(Warner, cert PG, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

Isn’t being royal just bloody marvellous – the apparent message behind this vapid portrait of Monaco’s people’s princess starring a panting Nicole Kidman.

Box Sets

Him and Her Series 1-4

(2entertain, cert 15, DVD)

The Royle Family boiled down to two people, this antidote to the “always on” world stars Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani as the duo who never go out.

The Steven Spielberg Director’s Collection

(Universal, cert 12, Blu-ray)

A blu-ray pick’n’mix of eight early films from Mr S – Duel, Jaws and ET balanced by Sugarland Express, 1941, Always and two Jurassic Parks. Hear him roar.

Penny Dreadful Season 1

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

Josh Hartnett, Eva Green and Timothy Dalton lead the gore-splattered cast in a Ripper-esque madwoman’s breakfast of gothic nonsense. A bucket of fun.

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