Where The Wild Things Are (PG)

97 mins

Warner Home Video, DVD £15.99/Blu-ray & DVD Combi-pack £22.99.

Stars: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo and the voices of James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O’Hara, Paul Dano

LONELY youngster Max (Records) has a furious row with his single mother (Keener) after she brings home her new boyfriend (Ruffalo).

He finds a sailboat which transports him to the island home of the Wild Things.

Horned-nose Judith (voiced by O’Hara) threatens to eat Max but he wins over the group’s unofficial leader Carol (Gandolfini) by pretending to be an exiled king.

The furry friends anoint Max leader and the boy decrees they build a fort.

Max quickly learns that harmony isn’t always possible. Based on Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s story, Spike Jonze’s visually-stunning adaptation unfolds through the eyes of an awkward nine-year-old boy, whose formative years are riddled with despair and miscommunication.

It’s Complicated (15)

115 mins

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99

Stars: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Hunter Parrish, Zoe Kazan, Lake Bell, Rita Wilson

JANE Adler (Streep) runs a bakery/restaurant in Santa Barbara. Her grown-up kids – Lauren (Fitzgerald), Luke (Parrish) and Gabby (Kazan) – have all moved out, leaving Jane to her own devices with gal pals. During a trip to New York, Jane gets drunk at the hotel bar with attorney ex-husband Jake (Baldwin) and the pair end up in bed. Jane feels guilty since Jake is now married to a younger woman, Agness (Bell). Then she develops feelings for divorced architect Adam (Martin).

Nowhere Boy (15)

93 mins

Icon, DVD/Blu-ray £17.99.

Stars: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, Thomas Sangster, Sam Bell, David Threlfall, James Johnson

SAM Taylor-Wood’s valentine to the formative years of John Lennon opens in 1955 Liverpool with 15-year-old John (Aaron Johnson) at odds with his emotionally repressed aunt, Mimi (Scott Thomas). John seeks out his biological mother Julia (Duff) and the pair bond while her common-law husband Bobby (Morrissey) watches with mounting concern. Shot on location in Merseyside, the film reveals the personal anguish that led to Lennon meeting the young Paul McCartney (Sangster) and George Harrison (Bell), and forming his first band.