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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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

My expectations were fairly low going into “One More”. An entire 50 minutes focused on the adventures of Gabriel and Aaron as they scavenge for more food around Alexandria? Hard pass, thank you very much. And yet, despite that seemingly mundane premise, “One More” offers up one of season 10’s …