Reviews

Sure, it’s only a little bit more than Two Point Hospital in a different outfit, but there’s still a fun and satisfyingly challenging sim that’s worth more than just a quick study.  

She-Hulk lands as a fully-formed super-hero in a frothily, frivolously, fun first episode that only briefly oversteps into spoiled brat territory and massively benefits from 100% Ruffalo/Hulk participation.  

Neeson continues to churn them out, with a remake of a better Belgian original that would have actually probably been a whole lot better without him blazing his guns through it.  

A full-bore folk horror revenger that isn’t afraid to take its time to ram its grue-soaked message down your unsuspecting throat...  

Thirty-five years and five sequels and spin-offs later, and finally we have a clever, original, and truly worthy Predator follow-up - UPDATED with review of the Comanche dub.  

Elac has packed the drivers that define them into a trio of elegant cabinets and is looking for a bigger share of the multichannel audio market. Can the Carinas deliver?  

Esther returns in her very own prequel revealing just exactly what happened between her leaving a mental institute in Estonia and arriving with Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard. Is it better than the first one? I think it might be better? Maybe?  

Perhaps Neil Marshall's best film gets a 4K makeover and a limited edition release from Second Sight, the results have us barking at the moon.  

Sky scoop up an interesting one in its otherwise lacklustre roster of releases for the summer. An American folk horror with a healthy dollop of metaphor... ugh, actually I think I'm full. I can't actually manage that much metaphor. Can I just get a small side salad?  

Doug Liman and Tom Cruise’s fiercely intelligent and hugely entertaining sci-fi Groundhog Day remains one of the 21st century's most effortlessly entertaining blockbusters. And now it’s on 4K… bet they never saw that coming, did they? Oh… they did, huh!  

Jordan Peele steps it up a gear in his thrilling UFO movie. Also in his bitingly satirical movie about the workings of Hollywood. Also in his horror comedy movie. It’s… they’re all… it’s the same movie.  

The Chad "John Wick" Stahelski-produced directorial debut of stuntman J.J. Perry is a pretty fun Netflix effort, with Jamie Foxx having a Blade Trinity-esque blast.  

Michelle Monaghan gets dirty in a vest for a grand total of 90 seconds of action in a 90 minute too long Sky Original where everybody armed with a gun gets inexplicably stabbed to death.  

One of the most unintentionally hilarious and stupidly entertaining nonsense movies of 2022, it certainly gets points for generating LOLS.  

Looking for some serious outdoor sound? Escape thinks it has exactly the sort of device you need for the job.  

Hammer, Cannibals and Man-Eating Space Brains sees August's release schedule seemingly warming up for this year’s Halloween. But there’s plenty to offer those non-horror fans out there this month as gritty Italian socio-realism, hard-boiled noir and amusing cowboy fare are also served up for our delicious consumption… PLUS competitions for over half of them!  

Netflix, like so many others, draws from the well of popular Vertigo Comics from the 1990s to find its next big hit and pulls up a bucket full of sand. But is Neil Gaiman’s Sandman a dream or a nightmare?  

Andy Garcia gives it his grumpy all in this reimagining of the Steve Martin classic, itself a remake of the Spencer Tracy original, with a nice new Cuban flavour and enough going for it to just about stand up as a watchable Sky flick.  

With the Momentum 4 Wireless, Sennheiser has taken a different design approach to its previous three noise-cancelling headphone models and set the cat among the pigeons with its pricing strategy too.  

One of the greatest crime movies of all time sees its 2017 4K remastered 'director's definitive edition' finally earn a full 4K release... but it's still not very definitive is it?  

The joint best film made by someone with the names ‘Paul’ and ‘Anderson’ finally gets a disc treatment worthy of its neo-cult classic status. Although there’s always something to be disappointed about... isn’t there?  

After a fun, family-friendly start, Sonic earns a solid sequel, packed with new and returning fan-favourite characters and large scale chaos.  

Stringing out a pretty fun premise to tiresomely banal extremes, Luck really does mean well, but takes 105 minutes to make an eighty minute story feel like a two hour slog.  

Detailed document of the real-life rescue of thirteen members of a junior football team from the flooded Tham Luang caves in Thailand in 2018 that does a much better job of explaining the story and the heroics of those involved than emotionally engaging the audience with it all…  

LG release the smallest screen size yet for an OLED TV and it's a belter! Will this 42-incher find its way into your living room or as a desktop monitor? It's certainly our choice for the small screen TV of the year!  

Get Carter is a bone fide classic and the 4K UHD set from the BFI is stunning and utterly unmissable.  

Naomi Watts goes above and beyond with an impressively physically demanding performance in a compelling true-life survival tale undermined by off-kilter support.  

Do you want a high end wireless speaker? Do you want it to be portable? Do you want it to work both flat and standing up? If you thought that combination couldn’t possibly exist, you need to look at the Level.  

The LG S80QR second-rung-from-the-top soundbar breaks from LG's usual tradition and bundles in physical rear speakers with the main bar and wireless subwoofer. While it loses a few channels against the flagship S95QR, it keeps plenty of other features - so does it deliver better all round value?  

The highest of high action concepts is turned into a gleefully fun romp by Brad Pitt, David Leitch and a delightfully witty MVP turn by Aaron Taylor-Johnson that still manages to work despite an overreliance on its tricksy plotting that’s never quite as clever as it thinks it is.  

Oppo’s new flagship wireless earphones look to offer an impressive bang for your buck with a special guest appearance to boot.  

Harpoons, kayaks, sisters, islands, nets and snorkels at the ready! Coming in behind “Loan” and “Card” The Reef: Stalked is a tale about the third worst kind of shark: “Actual.”  

Scott Derrickson returns to ‘real’ horror after leaving the Doctor Strange sequel over creative differences. Real horror like Sinister… The Exorcism of Emily Rose… and Hellraiser: Inferno. Oh, I think I might see a problem here.  

Is there still a need or desire to go 8K in the current TV market or are we only just hitting peak 4K? And has QLED met its match with the current 2022 high peak brightness OLED TVs? Let's find out by testing Samsung's latest QN800B 8K Neo QLED TV...  

Sizzling with the electric chemistry from its two leads, Out of Sight is the best Clooney/Soderbergh collaboration, Jennifer Lopez's best role, and one of the best adaptations of cool crime writer Elmore Leonard's works, even if Kino Lorber's 4K release is NOT cool.  

Affordable floorstanders are less and less common these days so Acoustic Energy updating its 100 Series is great news. Is this sleek tower up to the job?  

“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane[…]there may be no more potent force than religion.” So said Jon Krakauer in his book, Under the Banner of Heaven. If there’s one thing this new Disney+ show based on the book demonstrates, it’s that.  

Can the latest 4K QLED flagship TV from Samsung still offer image quality to please at a premium price point, now that QD-OLED offers the quantum dot goods, but with pixel-perfect black levels? Let's find out...  

William Petersen's Gil Grissom is back, kind-of, in this mostly blah resurrection of the endless CSI franchise.  

Joel Schumacher’s gothic disco tale of afterlife exploration is brought to 4K by Arrow and looks almost as good as its impossibly beautiful cast...