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New on DVD and to download: Westworld Season 2, 13 Reasons Why, Kodachrome

Evan Rachel Wood and James Marsden in Westworld
Evan Rachel Wood and James Marsden in Westworld

WESTWORLD – Season 2 (10 episodes, starts streaming from April 23 exclusively on NOW TV, Sci-Fi/Western/Fantasy/Action/Thriller)

HBO's award-winning fantasy drama, adapted from the novel by Michael Crichton, returns with a flourish this week as android hosts violently rebel against their human masters in a malfunctioning Wild West-themed park.

When we left this fantastical world, hostess Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) had pulled the trigger on Westworld co-founder Robert Ford (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and madam Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton) made the bold decision to track down her daughter.

In the second series, Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) comes to terms with the realisation that he isn't human, the Man in Black (Ed Harris) discovers if his vision of a brave new world is realistic, and characters venture outside of the Westworld park to discover alternative universes of wish-fulfilment and subjugation.

13 REASONS WHY – Season 1 (Cert 18, 715 mins, Universal Pictures (UK), available now exclusively on Netflix, available from April 23 on DVD £29.99, Drama/Romance)

The compulsive Netflix original drama, based on the best-selling books by Jay Asher, arrives on DVD. Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) returns home from school to discover a box on his porch with his name on it.

Inside the mysterious package, Clay discovers cassette tapes recorded by his crush Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), who took her own life two weeks earlier, devastating her parents (Brian D'Arcy James, Kate Walsh) and the local community.

Mournfully listening to the first tape, Clay discovers that Hannah will use the recordings to detail the 13 reasons why she decided to end her life.

Fearful that he might be mentioned on the tapes, Clay listens intently to each emotionally raw diary confession, and the two teenagers' stories unfold in dual narratives.

The four-disc box set includes all 13 episodes.

KODACHROME (Cert 15, 105 mins, streaming and available to download from April 20 exclusively on Netflix, Drama/Comedy/Romance)

Record company A&R executive Matt (Jason Sudeikis) is gradually losing interest in his job and when one of his key acts defects to a rival label, his future hinges on signing hot new band Spare Sevens.

As Matt sets about arranging a meeting with the group, a nurse called Zooey (Elizabeth Olsen) arrives unexpectedly with grim news.

Matt's estranged father Ben (Ed Harris), a famed photojournalist, has been diagnosed with cancer and has just three months to live.

The old coot has requested that Matt join him on his final road trip to Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas, the last laboratory in America capable of developing rolls of Kodachrome film.

Ben has four precious rolls that need to be developed before the lab closes for good and he is terrified that the pictures could be lost in the post.

Reluctantly, Matt agrees to accompany Ben and Zooey on the cross-country odyssey with the express understanding that he can make a detour for a meeting with Spare Sevens to save his faltering career.