1Fortitude
Addictive is the only way to describe this 12 part Icelandic thriller.
With murder, trysts and strange illnesses, once you start watching you cannot switch it off.
Set in the Arctic and filmed in Iceland, watch as a community and relationships smash apart as suspicion absorbs the town after a violent murder.
And just when you think you have it worked out another mysterious link and another possible murderer unfolds.
It all comes together with an ending you will not forget.
Thankfully a second series has been announced but it can’t be released soon enough.
Cast includes Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci and Christopher Eccleston.
Out now on DVD and Blu-ray.
– Review by Robyn Molloy
2Jupiter Ascending
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things.
Now grown Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an endless run of bad breaks.
Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse her fate.
Starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis.
Out now on DVD and Blu-ray.
3The Secret River
Based on Kate Grenville’s multi-award-winning bestselling novel, the two part mini-series The Secret River tells the deeply personal story of Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and Sal Thornhill (Sarah Snook), early convict colonists in 19th-century NSW.
This epic tragedy dramatises the British colonisation of Australia in microcosm, with the dispossession of indigenous Australians made comprehensible and ultimately heart-breaking as Thornhill’s claim over a piece of land he titles ‘Thornhill’s Point’ brings his family and neighbours into conflict with the traditional owners of the land.
Thornhill is driven by an oppressed, impoverished past and a desperate need to provide a safe home for his beloved family in a strange, foreboding land.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD.
4A Most Violent Year
This gangster-filled crime-thriller is set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous in the city’s history.
It is the gripping story of Abel Morales, an immigrant entrepreneur determined to climb up a morally crooked ladder, where simmering rivalries and unprovoked attacks threaten his business, family, and his unwavering belief in the righteousness of his own path.
Morales struggles to stay on the right side of the law as his fledgling heating oil company is subjected to a spate of hijackings with the city’s authorities unable or unwilling to help.
Out now on Bluray and DVD.
