99 Homes (Blu-Ray)

In this timely thriller, hard-working single father Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) and his mother (Academy Award® nominee Laura Dern) are cruelly evicted from their home. Desperate to get his house back, Nash goes to work for the wealthy and ruthless businessman Rick Carver (Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon) the very man who repossessed Nash's home. It is a deal-with-the-devil that comes with an increasingly high cost on Carver's orders, Nash must evict families from their homes; in return, Nash is promised a lifestyle of wealth and glamour. As Nash falls deeper into Carver's web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.

Directed by Ramin Bahrani.

"'Importance' is such a loaded, off-putting word, but it's the right one in this context, because while Bahrani's filmmaking skill and the excellent performances convincingly sell the experience of the film almost as a genre thriller or a Scorsese-esque, descent-into-madness gangster picture, those of us not directly affected by the housing collapse will nonetheless emerge with a better understanding of its terrible human toll." - Jessica Kiang, The Playlist

"A timely, terrifically acted moral nail-biter… Carver's nihilistic state-of-the-nation rants recall Tony Montana in his self-actualising pomp, and Shannon delivers them with Tyrannosaur charisma." - Robbie Collin, The Telegraph