DVD and Blu-Ray releases

The Imposter

(Revolver, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

One of the most gripping films of 2012, this is a semi-documentary about how a twentysomething Frenchman managed to pass himself off as a missing 16-year-old from Texas — and why the family bought it. Unmissable.

Berberian Sound Studio

(Artificial Eye, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

“A dangerously aroused goblin prowls the dormitory” — a line from the never-seen film that soundman Toby Jones is working on in Peter Strickland’s follow-up to the brilliant, Romanian-set Katalin Varga. A brilliantly overheated, Italian-set homage to Seventies “giallo” horror.

Grabbers

(Sony, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

If you could cross Father Ted with a big-budget Hollywood monster movie, this no-budget Irish tale of locals having a close encounter of the absurd kind would be it. Superbly cast and directed, a real cult gem.

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

(StudioCanal, cert PG, DVD)

Anyone with a love of the arch and the theatrical will love Alain Resnais’s masterly retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story as a play within a play within a play. It embraces a stack of interesting themes, not least the ageing of the boomer generation, one self-defined by youth.

Take This Waltz

(StudioCanal, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)

Dithery Michelle Williams and house-husband Seth Rogen are tested in a drama from director Sarah Polley, examining a relationship under stress.

Jackpot

(Metrodome, cert 15, DVD)

This is more Joe Orton than Jo Nesbø, who wrote the original book, a jokey oompah-oompah about a bunch of criminals who win the lottery and then start killing each other. It’s Scandinavian, it’s bloody and if you’ve not OD’d on Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, it’s fun.

Box Sets

Inspector Montalbano Collection Three

(Acorn, cert 12, DVD £19.99)

A welcome dollop of sunshine. Four more cases for the courteous Sicilian cop who divides his time between crime-fighting, his tempestuous girlfriend Livia and eating handsomely.

Suburgatory Season 1

(Warner, cert 12, DVD £24.99)

The “urban teenager in the burbs” series is more Clueless than Fresh Prince of Bel Air — smart anthropological comedy delivered by a choice cast who know how to crack wise. Definitely worth catching up on.