Gone Girl

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

Did he kill his wife, or is she framing him? This adaptation starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike is as meticulous and thrilling as Gillian Flynn’s original novel.

Maps to the Stars

(E One, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

Julianne Moore heads a great cast in David Cronenberg’s typically chilly/chilling take on Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard meets The Player on really bad drugs.

In Order of Disappearance

(Metrodome, cert 15, DVD/digital)

A hugely enjoyable Scandi-noir/Kill Bill hybrid. And from the moment you see Stellan Skarsgård's snowblower you know someone is going to end up in it.

The Rewrite

(Lionsgate, Blu-ray/DVD/digital)

Anyone for a Hugh Grant rom-com? Oh, go on – he’s actually rather good here, as a washed up screenwriter forced to teach. Like Hugh, formulaic, but polished.

Violette

(Soda, cert 15, DVD/digital)

Biopics about writers generally underwhelm, but this French one about Simone de Beauvoir protégé Violette Leduc is informative, complex and nails period detail.

The Face of Love

(Signature, cert 15, DVD/digital)

A widow (Annette Bening) grooms a man (equally excellent Ed Harris) who's the spit of her husband in this 1940s-style melodrama a yodel short of bonkers magnificence.

Ganja & Hess

(Eureka, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD)

Restored to full length, cult auteur Bill Gunn's unique, beautifully composed 1973 drama avoids the clichés of the vampire and blaxploitation genres – where it's normally filed.

Box Sets

Last Tango in Halifax Series 1-3

(2entertain, cert 12, DVD/digital)

Sally Wainwright's drama about 70something childhood sweethearts Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi confirms Sunday as the most important TV night of the week.

Futurama: Season 1-8

(Fox, cert 12, DVD)

The Simpsons with a PhD – half its writers are Harvard educated – Matt Groening's other cartoon series is patchy but on form there's nothing to touch it.

Banshee Season 2

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

The latest series from Alan Ball, maverick creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood, uses softcore sex and hardcore violence to create hyperbolic entertainment.