Somewhat insanely, Guy Ritchie's created/written/directed TV spin-off to his 2019 movie of the same name is great fun, chock full of colourful characters, bursting with witty dialogue, and utterly bingeworthy.
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Gaming
Baldur’s Gate 3 leads the BAFTA Games Awards 2024 nominees
by Ian Collen
Larian Studios excellent RPG is in the running for 10 categories, including Best Game, with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor also in for a potentially busy night.
Updating the original planar magnetic closed-back design, the new-gen model integrates a Quarter Wavelength Resonator Mask and enhanced Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver.
First announced last year, the floor-standing model finally takes its place as the biggest and most powerful loudspeaker solution within the 5000 series.
Astell & Kern has taken the company's considerable knowledge of digital and separated it from its portable players. Is the HC4 the best way to enjoy the A&K sound?
This long-awaited sequel to the 2020 remake of the original classic RPG adds a fresh twist, both in terms of its storyline and gameplay, but can it live up to the weight of expectation?
A loose adaptation of Alasdair Gray's novel, Poor Things is a perfect confluence of art and message, idea and execution, writing and design, Yorgos Lanthimos follows up his Oscar winning film 'The Favourite' with a bona fide masterpiece. UPDATE - Now on Disney+ in 4KDV/DA
This week Ed reports back on all the new Hi-Fi products launched at the Bristol Show and we discuss how to get started building a Hi-Fi System in 2024 and what you need.
Want to know how to transport highly explosive nitro-glycerine over treacherous terrain safely? BFI's wonderful native 4K restoration of The Wages of Fear shows you how (not to).
The Q Acoustics M40 speaker system could be described as 'Big', 'Wireless’ and 'Affordable'. Of course, these are all relative terms - so what is the company's specific take on how they should all be interpreted and combined. We find out...
Left to languish on Netflix’s shelves for three years after its completion, Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan’s trip to just a couple of clicks on past Solaris is an admirable failure that may find a second life as a cure for arachnophobia…
At least avoiding the lowest-hanging fruit, Ridley Scott’s breathtaking command of scenes of historical warfare distract from but don’t negate the core problem with the depiction of the French emperor: that he is ultimately unknowable. UPDATE: Available now on AppleTV+
AVForums 4K and Blu-ray Podcast: 29th February 2024
by AVForums
This month Cas and the movies team bring you the Top 10 4K discs and Blu-rays to watch in February and take a look at video and audio restorations and the balancing act when giving classic films a new lease of life in 4K.
After holding back on a few specifics at CES, a recent German showcase introduced some further details on its OLED and QLED ranges, along with some quoted (but TBC) European prices.
Decades in the making and still somewhat late out of the gate, Michael Mann's Ferrari is all about the characters and the drama, but are valiantly Award-baiting performances enough?
The freshly posted listings on its US store for the new 2024 OLEDs point to a late March arrival with prices starting from $2,599 and $1,499 respectively.
Francis Ford Coppola’s audacious musical failure still doesn’t right all of its wrongs after over 40 years… but there’s no failure like a Coppola failure, especially now in a dazzling 4K restoration from Studiocanal, complete with a huge number of extras to at least soften the blow somewhat… 4K COMPETITION LINK ADDED.
The AX3120G soundbar/subwoofer combo doesn't sport any impressive nicknames like Hisense's HS2100 'The Beast' soundbar yet it comes across well on paper and price wise. So, does the 3.1.2 channel AX3120G prove to have its own set of audio teeth... we shall see.
Disney+’s lavish and brutal new adaptation of the James Clavell novel hits our screens with its beautiful sense of blood-soaked intrigue and fog-shrouded mystery apparent from the very first frames…
Perlisten Audio tells the T-Rex to move over. It is time for the next apex predator, the Dominus Rex, to take shape in the form of the Perlisten D15s subwoofer. Read on to find out how Perlisten’s nature found a way.
AVForums Podcast: Movie & TV Show Edition - 26th Feb 2024
by AVForums
This month Cas and the movies team bring you the Top 10 films and TV shows to watch in February and take a look at how we best like to consume our films and TV shows and the balancing act between quality and convenience.
A Holiday Special of a Marvel movie, it's unsurprising to find the 33rd MCU entry amidst the three lowest rated, and once again Disney display a complete disdain towards the very physical media that might help this flop break even, releasing it on 4K HDR after its streaming bow, and without the Disney+ trappings of Dolby Vision and IMAX Enhancement.
Indie director John Sayles' finest feature, the Neo-Western, Lone Star, is a richly crafted mystery drama, and a fine addition to the Criterion Collection.
Launching as a Gravity-esque space survival flick, this new Apple TV+ Noomi Rapace sci-fi vehicle soon flashes its mystery box teeth with heady notions of quantum physics and a lot more going on under the hood than you might expect.
Like a weird seasonal migration with speakers, the audio industry once again descended on Bristol to show off their wares and Ed was there to take notes.
The Spinner BT takes the functionality we might reasonably expect from an affordable turntable… and adds a massive dollop of JBL design language. How does that work out?
New analysis and previous history point to a late Q3 or Q4 launch window, but just what we can expect from an upgraded PlayStation 5? And what could Microsoft and Nintendo have in response?
Frank ‘Basket Case’ Henenlotter’s first film in 17 years takes his penchant for the scuzzy extreme but sadly removes any of the emotional pathos that became his trademark. Doesn’t stop Severin from pulling out all the stops though with a new 4K rebuild and solid set of extras for its new UHD Blu-ray release…
Leema Neutron and Graviton Pre and Power Amp Review
by Ed Selley
For its latest range, Leema Acoustics has refined its production and design processes to produce a pre/power duo that, on paper at least, looks to offer huge bang for your buck. Does it pan out?
Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2024: All you need to know about this year's event
by Ian Collen
The UK’s longest-running Hi-Fi event returns for another packed three days from 23-25 February, featuring some of the hottest products and plenty of big names to tempt audio enthusiasts along for a look and listen.
Romano Scavolini’s grindhouse slasher with delusions of grandeur drags itself out of video nasty infamy and bizarrely onto 4K from genre boutique extraordinaire Severin for their first UHD blu-ray release in the UK. And it looks exactly as it should…grotty.
All five models feature the company’s Digital Signal Processing algorithm and Music Integrity Engine, ready to work in harmony with your home cinema, gaming, or Hi-Fi systems.
In this week’s podcast, we have show reports from ISE, the largest home integration show on the planet which took place in Barcelona at the end of January, Plus, what are the big trends in home theater for 2024 and are the trends of audio downsizing and large screen TVs threatening the traditional ideas of home cinema?