Released on Mon Dec 15

Lucy

(Universal, cert 15, digital)

Luc Besson’s frequently awesome film about a woman gaining access to the full potential of her brain confirms Scarlett Johansson as the Keanu of 21st-century sci-fi.

Into the Storm

(Warner, cert 12, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

The sort of film you build a drinking game around, an actioner about stormchasers hit by the mother of all tornados. Fabulous – the storms not the actors.

Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For

(Lionsgate, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

Josh Brolin and Eva Green do the hard work in the star-stuffed second dose of Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s visually arresting but humourless film noir spoof.

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

(Dogwoof, cert E, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

Pegged to the 20th anniversary of the release of the genre-changing album Illmatic, this portrait of fluid, uplifting rapper Nas informs, educates and entertains.

Hockney

(4DVD, cert 15, DVD/digital)

There are a lot of docs about David Hockney – he gives good quote – but this one functioning as a career retrospective gets the work/life balance just about right.

The Nut Job

(Warner, cert U, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

Ice Age-style animals do cute things in a US/South Korea co-production – the Americans supplying the duff script, the Koreans the beautiful, noir-tinged visuals.

Intolerance

(Eureka, cert PG, Blu-ray)

Blu-ray debut of DW Griffith’s self-consciously epic three-hour marathon about human frailty down the ages. Just off a century old, an important, magnificent bore.

Box Sets

Toast of London Series 1&2

(4DVD, cert 15, DVD/digital)

13 episodes of glorious, ridiculous, hilarious sitcom featuring Matt Berry’s outrageously fruity thespian, voiceover artist and trainee knight of the realm.

Mork & Mindy Complete Collection

(Paramount, cert 12, DVD)

A spin-off from Happy Days, this TV sitcom broadcast between 1978 and 1982 gave the frequently ad-libbing and rarely better Robin Williams his big break.

The François Truffaut Collection

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

Jules et Jim and Shoot the Pianist are the standouts in this eight-film collection by the eclectic, ironic and most entertainment-focused of the French New Wavers.