Check out this week’s DVD picks from Sicario 2: Soldado to An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn — one of the worst films ever made

SICARIO 2: Soldado leads the charge in this week's Sun DVDs, alongside more drug crime capers in Gangsta.

Rupert Everett's Oscar Wilde drama The Happy Prince, feelgood Sheila Hancock film Edie and Andrea Bocelli biopic The Music Of Silence offer gentler pleasures, as does Elvis documentary The King. Meanwhile there's slaying aplenty in Vikings, Candyman and Clue, as well as one of the worst films ever made. Read on...

Sicario 2: Soldado

(15) Out Oct 29

Disappointingly not a film about the goal-shy former Tottenham striker Robert Soldado, this is instead a thriller about a US taskforce's battle with Mexican drug cartels.
And very good it is too.

Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are back as a grizzled federal agent and his attack dog, not that you need to have seen the first instalment.

They're ordered to foment war between the various cartels to disrupt the trafficking of terrorists across the US border.

Their plan involves kidnapping a kingpin's spoilt daughter but you won't be surprised to hear things don't go smoothly.

This is visceral, meaty, grown-up stuff which, unlike its Spurs striker namesake, comes with a top score.

If you like mafia films like The Departed or military blockbusters like Black Hawk Down, there's plenty to chew on here.

Some of the violent scenes make this a very generous 15 rating though. And look out for one of the stupidest parenting decisions you'll ever see at the start.

★★★★★
Jayme Bryla

Edie

(12) Out Oct 29

Sheila Hancock plays newly widowed Edie, an 80-something woman who has sacrificed her life caring for a controlling husband who suffered a stroke 30 years earlier.
And just as she's finally granted some freedom, her daughter tries to put her in a home.

Horrified, Edie decides to fulfil a lifetime ambition of climbing a Scottish mountain, and enlists the help of a local guide, played by Kevin Guthrie (Sunshine On Leith, Dunkirk).

With laughs and adventure on the way, this heartfelt film proving that it's never too late will appeal to all ages.

★★★★☆
Patricia Bryla

The Happy Prince

(15) Out now

Rupert Everett gives a nuanced, compelling performance as a dying Oscar Wilde reflecting on his life.
The flashbacks are handled elegantly and Everett, who also directs, offers an unsparing look at the writer and the film is all the better for it.

While the episodic structure isn’t wholly satisfying, there are a host of strong supporting performances.

Cinema is not short of takes on Wilde but Everett’s is a worthy addition to the canon.

★★★☆☆

Ben Martyn

An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn

(15) Out Oct 29

Sometimes, two wonderful things mixed together create something truly awful.

Take this oddball (alleged) comedy, surely a contender for one of the worst movies ever made.

It's like Twin Peaks director David Lynch remade Dumb And Dumber.

And it stars Jemaine Clement (Flight Of The Conchords), Matt Berry (The IT Crowd), Aubrey Plaza (Parks And Recreation) and, in the title role, Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine).

All great raw ingredients but the resulting cake is inedible.

The baffling plot revolves around Plaza as a dissatisfied woman who teams up with a shady bloke (Clement) to run away from her husband and see a performance of some sort by the mysterious Beverly Luff Linn, who struggles terribly with trapped wind and only communicates through growling.

From the discordant score to the quirky characters and deliberately stilted dialogue, there's far too much Lynchian style here to be accidental rather than homage from writer/director Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler).

But while Lynch can do oddball comedy well, Hosking seems only to equate comedy with strangeness, rather than timing or good writing.

The result is an appalling, wasteful mess that's a chore to watch, and is so bad it leaves you wondering if there's something you've missed that would let you in on the joke.

If you ever find out what that is, please do share.

☆☆☆☆☆
Jayme Bryla

Gangsta

(18) Out Oct 29

Four childhood friends from the backstreets of Antwerp decide to enter a world of crime after stealing cocaine from a top Amsterdam drug lord.

What ensues is sheer chaos between rival drug cartels with only one group coming out alive.

Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Gangsta brings the genre into 2018. From gripping shootouts to video game-inspired special effects, it is clear to see why the pair have been chosen to direct the next Bad Boys film.

There is always a worry with foreign films that the story and humour won't translate well, but with Gangsta this could not be further from the truth. Narrated brilliantly by main character Adamo (Matteo Simoni), it will have you in suspense as this unusual group of friends dodge death and crack jokes along the way.

★★★★☆
Michael Bolter

The King

(15) Out now

Finding something new to say about Elvis Presley 40 years after his death is an impossible task.

But that’s what director Eugene Jarecki tries to do by taking the music icon's Rolls-Royce on an odyssey across America.

An eclectic cast of talking heads including actor Ethan Hawke, rapper Chuck D, Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick and members of the infamous Memphis Mafia come along for the ride, their comments deftly stitched together with sparkling clips of the Hillbilly Cat in all his hip-shaking glory.

The film succeeds as a rambling travelogue-style documentary but is less sure-footed when painting Elvis as the embodiment of the American dream.

But there's still plenty here to leave the King’s devotees all shook up.

★★★☆☆

Clive Andrews

Vikings, Season 5: Vol 1

(18) Out now

Series creator Michael Hirst pulled off a masterstroke by giving Jonathan Rhys Meyers a central role in the fifth season of this hack 'n' slash romp.

The carnage and pillaging needed a shot in the arm. Meyers brings the same maniacal energy to his role as bloodthirsty warrior bishop Heahmund that made The Tudors such must-watch TV with him as the primary focus.

Season 5 is all about shock deaths and monumental power shifts - not to mention some interesting alliances. Nowhere near Game Of Thrones levels of blood, guts and intrigue but definitely a worthy watch before the second part of the season airs next month.

★★★☆☆
Ray Dyer

The Music Of Silence

(PG) Out Oct 29

Covering his loss of vision as a child, to his first ever performance, this drama inspired by the life of Andrea Bocelli is a moving watch for any fan of the classical singer.

A star-studded cast including Toby Sebastian (Trystane Martell in Game Of Thrones) as the Bocelli character Amos Bardi and Antonio Banderas as his singing tutor sets the acting standard high.

Set beautifully in Tuscan Italy, Michael Radford's film is easy on the eye throughout, while Amos's wittiness as a child making his character extremely endearing. However, you cannot help but want more in the closing stages, which isn’t helped by the late arrival of Banderas' character.

Even the most avid Bocelli fans may finish feeling slightly disappointed, as the film's focus on his rise to fame means that viewers wanting to hear his most famous songs have to wait until it’s Time To Say Goodbye and the credits roll.

★★★☆☆
Michael Bolter

Clue: The Movie

(PG) Out Oct 29

You don't have to love Cluedo to appreciate this riotous 1985 whodunit based on the board game (Clue being the game's American name).

It's now been rereleased in the second wave of HMV's exclusive set of novelty classics, which also features An American Werewolf In London, Crocodile Dundee, Flashdance, The Frighteners, Grease, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Scarface, Trading Places, Tremors and Up In Smoke.

Each release comes with DVD and Blu-ray versions, a mini-poster, sticker and bubblegum card, and is packaged in a VHS-style retro casing, making it a great novelty gift.

Clue still punches its weight, with Tim Curry giving a marvellous turn as butler Wadsworth, aided by Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum, as the bodies pile up in a 1950s mansion.

It's hammy and zany with Naked Gun-style deadpan silliness aplenty, and there aren't many films you can watch twice and still not know how it's going to end.

That's because there's the option on the title screen to randomly select from the three alternate endings, meaning that just like when cinemagoers went to see it, there's a different killer each time.

★★★★☆
Jayme Bryla

Candyman

(18) Out Oct 29

The film that ruined bathroom mirrors for a whole generation is back and, like its demonic villain, it's still capable of keeping you hooked.

Virginia Madsen stars in this 1992 horror classic as a university researcher investigating urban myths and folklore.

She looks into the belief - centred on a series of grisly murders - that if you stand in front of a mirror and say his name five times, a hook-handed killer called Candyman will magically appear and gut you like a fish.

Her investigation takes her into a deprived Chicago housing estate, and then to the limits of her sanity.

With a fabulous gothic choral soundtrack, this 1992 film gave cinema an iconic villain, hypnotically brought to life by Tony Todd, and it remains a bum-clenchingly tense ride.

It's gory but never truly bone-chilling, so might make a good introduction to horror for the scaredy cats out there.

As well as new interviews with Madsen and Todd, this limited-edition Blu-ray release includes a thought-provoking discussion by a pair of black film critics on the film's handling of a potentially racially charged storyline, as well as a piece on horror author Clive Barker, on whose work Candyman is based.

And if Candyman is real and is reading, please note that I've only used your name FOUR times in this review. Phew!

★★★★☆
Jayme Bryla