Reviews

The flagship of NAD’s Classic Series is a very sophisticated piece of kit indeed. Can it harness its potential and deliver everything you need in a single box?  

Netflix's hottest original animated property returns for a third year of awesome anthology episodes.  

Stephen King’s anthology film bears all the hallmarks of the writer’s cinematic output at the time and remains a baffling set of stories that entertain almost by accident. And perhaps even more baffling, Studiocanal now grace us with a 4K release, which I’m confident to say no-one really was crying out for…  

The original and the best; Candyman comes to 4K UHD looking sweet and sounding better thanks to a Dolby Atmos upgrade  

Top Gun gets the Blade Runner 2049 / Doctor Sleep treatment, with a decades-in-the-making follow up, which proves faithful, warmly fan-driven, gloriously nostalgic and surprisingly organic, showing there may very well still be a need for speed.  

Michael Mann sets the tone for this slick crime drama, with echoes of The Insider meets Miami Vice, and a welcome authenticity partly thanks to Ansel Elgort's predominantly Japanese dialogue - Updated for full season review, now available in the UK.  

The Denon DHT-S517 is an affordable Dolby Atmos soundbar that comes with up-firing drivers and its own wireless subwoofer. It can now be found for under £300, so is it worth hunting down for a 3D audio experience with your telly?  

We take a look through some classic and some not so classic Hitchcock in the new native 4K set from Universal.  

Eddie Murphy and Tony Scott in their primes deliver one of the most underrated sequels of the 1980s. And now that two-hour long magic hour looks absolutely stunning in glorious 4K…  

Netflix launches a pretty entertaining new David E. Kelley lawyer thingy, which is as slick as it gets, but enjoys a charismatic lead in Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.  

Mission’s new flagship takes inspiration from where it all began for the company. Is this the way to audio greatness or shameless nostalgia?  

John McNaughton's lewd and delicious Wild Things comes to 4K UHD looking hot and will no doubt wear your pause button out.  

Dizzying and imaginative absurdism meets profound and heartfelt ode to the family in this utterly charming, joyous and clinically insane crowd pleaser.  

Apple's adaptation of Sarah Parry's 2016 novel The Essex Serpent is a slow-drawn but well-drawn period mystery enjoying the welcome dual leads of Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston.  

We take an early look at what could be the best new Trek in decades, boasting Original Series vibes with a charismatic Captain and a welcomly refreshing episodic format, hoping to put things back on course.  

The movie that was adapted from a videogame that stole wholesale from a fistful of movies… the cycle is now complete, and cinema has actually started to eat itself with this damp squib of an actioner from Sony and their new PlayStation Productions.  

This one-step-down soundbar for 2022 features 9.1.4 channels, 17 drivers and a wireless subwoofer with, for the first time at this level, rear speakers included. Largely matching its flagship sibling in features, does the Q930B represent Samsung’s soundbar sweet spot?  

DALI’s funky and unreasonably talented portable speaker gets a second series. Is it better than the strong debut and do you still need one in your life?  

More Raimi than Marvel; more WandaVision than Doctor Strange, Multiverse of Madness is as close to horror as the MCU is likely to get - Updated for 3D IMAX  

Joe Carnahan’s insanely schizophrenic actioner that’s part freak show, part roller coaster, part everything else, scrubs up nicer than you’d imagine on 4K from Universal…  

Far from the DTV action flick you might expect from the generic title and more a commendable third reunion for Hell or High Water brothers-in-arms Chris Pine and Ben Foster, The Contractor delivers low-key indie thrills.  

If you’ve achieved the dream of home office working but you still need headphones, McIntosh has something that might be the last piece of that particular puzzle.  

Elisabeth Moss finds another show to look permanently disgusted in, whilst Apple stretches a pilot plot out over three long episodes in this new serial killer thriller-with-a-twist, which could live up to its David Fincher vibes if it could just get going.  

JBL’s latest wireless speaker is quite unlike anything else you can buy at the price point. Is this a good thing and is it exactly what you need?  

Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker saw the director and her two young stars doing some of the best work of their careers, oft overlooked now, and never more so than with this elusive US 4K Best Buy Steelbook exclusive release.  

Time, love, apocalypse, insanity all this and more can be found in 12 Monkeys, newly scanned in native 4K by Arrow  

Gene Kelly’s cinematic equivalent of joy personified is given a spiffing new 4K transfer ready for us all to fall in love with it all over again…  

In desperate need of Adam "Vice" McKay's satirical wit, Julia Roberts' Gaslit still has a huge ensemble of wild stars, all thoroughly enjoying colouring in the backdrop to the Watergate scandal.  

We have produced a video review for the Philips OLED+986 flagship audiophile TV with Bowers & Wilkins sound. Click here to view the video and leave a comment.  

Cronenberg reunites with star Viggo Mortensen for a perfect crime companion piece to their preceding History of Violence, now on US 4K disc from Kino.  

Everyone's favourite on-screen nutcase, Nicolas Cage, is so game to be lovingly skewered in this odd movie mash-up. But is the movie weird enough?  

HBO Max's dystopian Rosario Dawson vehicle, based on the Vertigo comic run, loses much of its socio-political bite in favour of derivative gang warfare and undercooked family drama.  

Samsung's premium soundbar for 2022 features 11.1.4 channels, 22 drivers and a wireless subwoofer with rear speakers. While the specs remain largely the same as last year's flagship, there's a host of enhancements and refinements to consider before dismissing this as just another high end soundbar.  

The OLED+986 is a unique flagship TV offering a stunning design, superb two-channel audio from Bowers & Wilkins and excellent OLED image quality to match the competition. But, does this niche TV fit within your niche requirements? Let's find out...  

The smallest member of the Eclipse factory gets a complete reworking. Is this exactly what your work from home lifestyle was crying out for?  

So far, Philips headphones have enjoyed a fair bit of success on AVForums. Does this extend to their true wireless in ear models too?  

Josh Brolin commands this intriguing blend of Yellowstone and The OA - an unlikely union that yields frequently surprisingly compelling mystery drama results.  

John McNaughton’s infamous treatise on the mundanity of true ‘horror’ is brought to grubby life in all its 4K glory from Arrow… and finally answers the question of how good can 16mm look in 4K?  

Following creepy success in The Witch and stark madness in The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers's Viking saga is a masterfully crafted, full-throated berserker roar.  

We’ve established that the latest 800 Series is quite something in stereo but does that ability translate to multichannel? There’s only one way to find out.