DVD Releases: 2014 Round Up
BY READERS DIGEST
1st Jan 2015 Film & TV
Are you up to date on your films? Here's our round up of the absolute must see films from 2014 now available on DVD. Keep checking back as we regularly update this list!
Captain Philips
Tom Hanks stars in an Oscar-nominated role as the captain of a ship raided by Somali pirates. Nerve-shredding.
Enders Game
Aliens have attacked earth, and only one boy (Asa Butterfield) can save us. Ben Kingsley and Harrison Ford are his A-list mentors.
Gravity
The super-tense space-fest—starring an Oscar-nominated Sandra Bullock—can now stress you out in your own home. Magnificent.
Escape Plan
Schwarzenegger and Stallone look like they had a lot of fun making this. Stallone plays a prison-security expert jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. He’ll need one man’s help…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The second instalment of Peter Jackson’s trilogy sees Bilbo’s arrival at the dragon Smaug’s lair.
Grudge Match
Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone share the screen as ageing boxers stepping into the ring to slug it out one last time.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Leonardo DiCaprio chews up the scenery as rogue trader Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese’s black comedy.
The Railway Man
Lush adaptation of the acclaimed memoir by Eric Lomax (played here by Colin Firth), recounting his harrowing experiences in a Japanese POW camp.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in this good old-fashioned spy thriller, which also features Chris Pine as the latest actor to play the legendary CIA agent. Keira Knightley co-stars.
Dallas Buyers Club
Loosely based on the life and experiences of American Aids-sufferer Ron Woodroof and featuring unmissable Oscar-winning performances from Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.
Rush
Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl thrill as rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda, as both men try to win the 1976 Formula 1 Championship.
Sunshine on Leith
Dexter Fletcher directs this big-hearted love story, based on the hit musical inspired by The Proclaimers.