DVDs of the week

THE GOOD PLACE – SEASON TWO (CERT 15) £9.99

Kristen Bell reprises her role as a deceased saleswoman who is wrongly granted entry to a utopian afterlife called The Good Place and hides past misdeeds from designer Michael (Ted Danson) and the other residents, in 13 episodes of the award-winning comedy. This series, Michael conducts experiments with Eleanor (Bell) and fellow humans Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) in The Bad Place until his subjects uncover his underhand scheme.

A STORK’S JOURNEY (CERT U) £9.99

A computer-animated adventure which has been dubbed for viewers on this side of the English Channel. Richard (voiced by Cooper Kelly Kramer) is a sparrow who is orphaned before he hatches. When he emerges from his egg, Richard is greeted by the sight of his adopted mother, a stork called Aurora (Maud Ackermann). She raises Richard as a stork with her husband Claudius (Todd Garbeil) and son Max (Jason Griffith). When the time comes for the birds to migrate south for the winter, the flock takes flight but Richard is left behind. Convinced that he is a stork too, Richard gives chase and he heads south via unconventional means.

ONE NATION, ONE KING (CERT 15) £9.99

Pierre Schoeller directs a sweeping French history lesson covering the years 1789 to 1793 when Louis XVI was beheaded, sounding the death knell for the monarchy during the French Revolution. Intellectuals including Marat (Denis Lavant) and Robespierre (Louis Garrel) use their finely crafted words to galvanise the National Assembly while an enraged mob of thousands gathers for the Women’s March on Versailles. Laundry woman Francoise (Adele Haenel) is compelled to become an activist and embroils her lover Basile (Gaspard Ulliel) in the uproar. As the winds of change sweep through France, Louis XVI (Laurent Lafitte) staggers unwittingly towards his grim fate.

TIDES (CERT 15) £9.99

Shot in black and white in real time against the backdrop of southern England’s waterways, Tides is a naturalistic portrait of friendship written and directed by Tupaq Felber. Jon (Jon Foster) welcomes his three friends aboard a narrowboat for a boozy weekend reunion. In the claustrophobic confine of the floating home, the fortysomething pals rediscover the rhythms of their youth and settle back into old roles. However, there is unspoken tension bubbling beneath the surface and as Jon takes charge of steering the narrowboat, he charts a haphazard course towards pain and redemption.