DVD & BluRay

THE NEST Picturehouse, cert15; Bluray £12.99 & Digital

Gordon Gekko would be twanging his braces in delight to see Jude Law as the living embodiment of his Wall Street mantra - “Greed, for a lack of a better word, is good.”

So good that Law’s character Rory O’Hara, in this portrait of a deluded man and his despairing wife tearing their marriage apart with their fingernails, just can’t satisfy his thirst for money. Problem is, he’s a loser and a faker. He looks the part, a snappy dresser, good looking, with a flash of the shady about him. But, this 1980s’ commodity dealer is all talk. Talking up his life, but his talent for making a fast buck is as threadbare as his bank balance. He’s living large in America with wife Allison (Carrie Coon), their young son and Rory’s teenage step-daughter in their luxury home, but their incomings are nowhere near the outgoings. Then Rory’s offered a job by his former boss, but the snag is a move to dreary old England. No small terraced house will

VENGEANCE IS MINE High Fliers, cert 15; DVD £7.99 & Digital

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Bronson started the vigilante movie cult with Death Wish, and still the basic template is being worked over.

In this violent Brit film Con O’Neill stars as Harry Kane who carries a weight of loss and anger after his wife and daughter were killed in a crash with a getaway car carrying a gang from a crime scene. The bad guys escape unscathed, leaving Harry harbouring thoughts of revenge. His chance comes when the PI he hired years ago finally comes up with information that leads him to the gang and a bloody showdown at a remote farm. Sadly it fails to make us care too much about Harry’s quest. do Rory of course, so they move into a rented Surrey mansion they can’t really afford - but it looks so posh and Rory sets out to impress people with real fat wallets and top positions with his glib talk, perpetual blueskies thinking, and tall tales. Meanwhile, Allison ( a brilliantly nuanced performance by Coon), who’s heard it all before, has become marooned in the mansion when she isn’t spending time with her horse, and entertains herself uttering barbs directed at bursting her hubby’s balloon at every inappropriate occasion. A darkly compelling drama.

Our rating:

(out of 10)

SEANCE Acorn/Shudder, cert 18; Blu-ray £15.99 & on Digital

If you want to conjure up the formula for a teenage horror just take a gaggle of girls from a posh boarding school who decide to hold a seance to break the boredom. What could possibly go wrong?

Only everything of course. Lenora (Jade Michael) and Bethany (Madisen Beaty) have a circle of pals who all seem to enjoy casual bitchy cruelty. Even the murder of one of their fellow pupils doesn’t really endear them to each other, and her replacement Camille (Suki Waterhouse) faces a rough initiation period resulting in detention for the gang. That’s when the creepy fun begins as they try contacting the spirit of the dead pupil. Yikes!

Our rating: (out of 10)