DVDs of the week

SAVE ME (CERT 15) £24.99

The Sky Original drama from the producers of the award-winning Line of Duty, which follows an estranged father accused of kidnapping the teenage daughter he hasn’t seen since she was three years old, arrives on DVD. Lovable rogue Nelson “Nelly” Rowe (Lennie James) lives within limited means on a south-east London housing estate where, sometimes, he cheekily peddles lies as truth. Police burst into Nelly’s flat and arrest him on suspicion of abducting 13-year-old love child Jody (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness). He weathers a storm of suspicion from every direction and vociferously pleads his innocence to the girl’s mother (Suranne Jones), his best mate (Stephen Graham) and the wider community. Never underestimate a desperate man who has nothing to lose but his tainted reputation. The two-disc DVD includes all six episodes

YOUTH (CERT 15) £15.99

Liu Feng (Huang Xuan) is the leader of a People’s Liberation Army dance troupe which rehearses tirelessly to perform ballets against a backdrop of violence and pain from the Cultural Revolution in China. There is a strict pecking order in the troupe led by general’s daughter Shuwen (Li Xiaofeng), followed closely by resident beauty Dingding (Yang Caiyu) and Mongolian curiosity Drolma (Sui Yuan). Unfortunately, Xiaoping (Miao Miao), newly arrived from Beijing, is at the bottom of the pile by virtue of a stain on her father’s reputation. Time and again, other girls in the troupe bully and intimidate Xiaoping and, as the years pass, the dancers’ fortunes become tightly entwined with the shifting landscape of the country as a whole.

ACTS OF VENGEANCE (CERT 15) £15.99

Workaholic defence lawyer Frank Valera (Antonio Banderas) has achieved celebrity status by representing the worst of humanity in court. He breaks a promise to his daughter Olivia (Lillian Blankenship) to attend her talent show recital and that night, on the way home, Olivia and her mother Sue (Cristina Serafini) are murdered. Frank is consumed with guilt and turns to alcohol to numb the pain. Soon after, he takes a vow of silence until the killers are unmasked. Tough-talking cop Hank Strode (Karl Urban), ER nurse Alma (Paz Vega) and a homeless man known as Mr Shivers (Clint Dyer) become vital allies in Frank’s quest for justice. Acts of Vengeance is a clunky, implausible thriller that verges on the risible as Banderas is transformed from a suited man of the law to a stoic killing machine with a heightened sense of hearing thanks to his vow of silence. The lack of attention to detail is excruciating: the theatre marquee for Olivia’s recital is misspelt Tallent and a lingering close-up of a newspaper cutting about the murder has an opening paragraph in typo-laden English and the rest of the page is faux-Latin nonsense.