Pixar are renowned for stretching the conceptual boundaries of family entertainment, demanding that kids (and trickier still, adults) keep up: a lonesome robot clears up trash on a desolate future Earth in WALL*E; a little girl’s conflicted emotions wage abstract war in Inside Out; and a jazz musician’s tremulous spirit …
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“Boring is always best,” bemoans Ryan Reynolds’ sensitive protector Michael Bryce in Patrick Hughes’ sequel to his 2017 action comedy, The Hitman’s Bodyguard. But with a body count higher than peak Rambo, explosions on every corner, vehicle wrecks and some fruity language from co-star Salma Hayek, there isn’t much time …
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Sometimes you gotta give your head a break and swap in a pair of PC speakers instead of one of the best gaming headsets or PC headsets for gaming. When that time comes, you may want to snag the Edifier G2000 PC speakers, which pack a pint-sized audio punch without …
Read More »Cruella review: “Emma Stones audacious performance makes this a deliciously rowdy ride”
How do you solve a problem like Cruella? Disney’s dastardly, Dalmation-napping designer doesn’t seem a natural fit for a family-friendly, live-action origin story. Yet this witty, zesty, high-energy prequel succeeds by creating its own wild world – one in which we follow Cruella on a darkly comic quest from cradle …
Read More »The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It review: “Ed and Lorraine Warren have got some of their mojo back”
After one sequel, three Annabelles, and two more so-so spin-offs, the Conjuring universe kicked off by James Wan’s effectively old-school original was beginning to run out of road. The good news for Michael Chaves’ core-film continuer is that supernatural sleuths Ed and Lorraine Warren have got some of their mojo …
Read More »Alienware m15 R4 review: “A faster-than-fast, premium 1080p gaming laptop”
The Alienware m15 R4 marks the point at which another big boy gaming laptop maker enters the fold. Given the change, and the fresh excitement that a new generation of the best graphics card and best CPUs for gaming brings, we’re starting to see the effect it’s having on the …
Read More »Spiral: From the Book of Saw review: “The most political horror movie since Get Out”
Too often dismissed as the poster child of the noughties ‘torture porn’ horror wave, there was always more to Saw than senseless sadism. Series spin-off Spiral fully embraces Saw’s widely overlooked strengths, emerging, perhaps surprisingly, as the most political horror movie since Get Out. Unlikely star Chris Rock is largely …
Read More »EPOS H3 review: “Simultaneously impressive and a little lackluster”
Since Epos and Sennheiser transitioned from collaborators to separate entities, the sets that were once Sennheiser headsets for gaming now carry only the Scandinavian company Epos’ logo, and seem pitched more towards a luxury consumer goods market than Sennheiser’s previous positioning, which might mostly aptly have been described as ‘gaming …
Read More »Thunder Force on Netflix review: “The Melissa McCarthy-verse falls flat at Phase One”
Maybe too many superhero movies don’t take themselves seriously enough for a parody to work, or maybe it’s just that Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone aren’t the right people to do it. Either way, the MCU is safe from Thunder Force – a flimsy Fantastic Four spoof with heart but …
Read More »It Takes Two review: “A co-op experience unlike any other”
It takes a bold man to risk thousands of dollars on the promise that no-one will find their game boring. But Josef Fares is just that brazen. After watching the credits roll on his latest co-op adventure, it’s clear that his confidence was well placed (and plentiful), as It Takes …
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