The Town (15)

119 mins, Warner, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

DOUG MacRay (Ben Affleck) masterminds a four-strong team comprising best friend Jem (Jeremy Renner), Gloansy (Slaine) and Desmond (Owen Burke).

On their final job, Jem takes bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) hostage.

Fearing that the terrified woman may identify them, Doug engineers a meeting and slowly develops an attraction to Claire.

Affleck’s film may lack originality but makes up for in exhilarating action sequences and strong performances.

The director gives himself the least showy role, but behind the camera he excels, making light work of the two-hour running time and energising the set pieces.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12)

127 mins,Twentieth Century Fox, DVD £19.99/Wall Street DVD Box Set £24.99

GORDON Gekko (Michael Douglas) is released from prison in 2008 and courts success with a best-selling book and tour.

In the audience is ambitious trader Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), who is the boyfriend of Gordon’s estranged daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan).

The young man has sworn revenge on a business rival. The film bares its teeth at the banking community but ultimately doesn’t draw blood, using the current recession as a hook for a retread of the original film with some tearful father-daughter bonding.

Going The Distance (15)

98 mins, Warner Home, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray £22.99) ERIN (Drew Barrymore) is working as a newspaper intern when she meets A&R scout Garrett (Justin Long) and has a drunken one-night stand. When Erin has to return to grad school in San Francisco, they vow to continue the relationship long distance. Casting on-off real-life couple Barrymore and Long certainly adds palpable sexual tension. However, Geoff LaTulippe’s screenplay only goes the distance of A to B.

Mr Nice (12)

116 mins, Entertainment One, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

HOWARD Marks, Oxford graduate and one-time teacher, became one of the world’s most powerful and influential drug dealers.

Bernard Rose’s film charts the rise and fall of Marks (Rhys Ifans) from his teenage years to the inglorious end of two decades when he was at the height of his powers.