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Neds DVD & Blu-ray, Entertainment One As seen in movies such as Attack The Block and Anuvahood, British cinema’s current obsession with painting our youths as less than saintly continues with director Peter Mullan’s latest. Unlike the above titles, this one is set in early-70s Glasgow and attempts to tackle the causes of such wayward behaviour. In confining events mostly to a housing estate and neighbouring school, the consequences of violence are always there, up close, to remind the perpetrators of their actions. Starting off as an impossibly apple-cheeked class swot, John McGill (played as an older boy by Connor McCarron) seems to be the kid with the most potential. We quickly learn he’s been plagued with huge negative influences, such as an abusive, alcoholic father (played by Mullan), a big brother who is a legendary local hard man, and the endless turf wars the neighbourhood teens ruck over. McGill’s fall becomes inevitable; it just remains to see how far he’ll plummet as he succumbs to the circles of pointless violence that loop around the estate. Mullan’s hard-hitting film has been criticised for its seemingly aimless ending but any definitive conclusion to this – happy or sad – would have come off as trite; it’s more about the journey than the destination. For the cast, Mullan employs a great selection of untried talent, making the self-destructive characters all the more unpredictable and realistic. Disc includes a Mullan masterclass. Tangled Disney returns to classic form with its beautiful-looking take on Rapunzel. DVD & Blu-ray, Walt Disney Alice Jan Švankmajer’s classic, surrealistic and nightmarish animated take on Lewis Carroll. DVD & Blu-ray, BFI Tracker Or “Trekka”, as Ray Winstone’s Boer war vet says while man-hunting in New Zealand. DVD & Blu-ray, Kaleidoscope The Hustler Extras-stuffed remaster of the Paul Newman classic. Blu-ray, 20th Century Fox Route Irish Ken Loach’s sharp thriller with Mark Womack investigating the death of a fellow defence contractor in Iraq. DVD & Blu-ray, Artificial Eye