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Anton van Beek  |  Sep 26, 2015  |  0 comments

Having already conquered the small screen, Gerry Anderson's iconic puppet show targeted cinemas with two feature film outings. Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) has International Rescue called in to oversee the launch of the Zero-X spacecraft due to fears of sabotage. Following this, Thunderbird 6 (1968) involves The Hood gaining control of a futuristic airship as part of yet another plan to acquire the secrets of the Thunderbird vehicles.

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 24, 2015  |  0 comments

Issue #252 of Home Cinema Choice is now on sale – and as usual it's packed with AV goodness...

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 24, 2015  |  0 comments

Washed-up former hitman Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) finds himself going head-to-head with his best friend, Irish mob boss Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), when he kills Shawn's son in order to save the life of his own estranged son Mike (Joel Kinnaman). With the mob, corrupt cops and a hired killer hot on their trail, Jimmy and Mike must go on the run in order to stay alive…

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 22, 2015  |  0 comments

Reviewing LEGO videogames can be pretty tricky. After all, they follow the exact same formula: take one popular film franchise, give it a LEGO makeover and let gamers play their way through key scenes, bashing blocks and collecting studs as they go.

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 21, 2015  |  0 comments

Our good friends at Pure Theatre have been in touch to let us know that they'll be offering home cinema fans the chance to experience Epson's revolutionary EH-LS10000 laser projector (reviewed here) at the Grand Designs Live show at the Birmingham NEC between October 8-11.

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 20, 2015  |  0 comments

Ambitious young drummer Andrew Nayman (Miles Teller) thinks he's finally on the path to greatness when he's invited to join the top jazz ensemble at the elite music conservatory he attends. But in order to stay there, Andrew will have to prove himself to the band's ruthless instructor Terrence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), a man who will stop at nothing when it comes to pushing his students to the limit…

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 18, 2015  |  0 comments

Eight years ago black ops specialist Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) had to flee the Democratic Republic of the Congo after being involved in the assassination of the Minister of Mining. However, the past has finally caught up with Terrier and somebody from his old organisation appears to want him dead. Forced to go on the run across Europe, he tries to discover who is out to get him while unexpectedly reconnecting with the lover (Jasmine Trinca) he was forced to abandon all those years ago. 

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 16, 2015  |  0 comments

Short Circuit crashes headlong into RoboCop in Neill (District 9) Blomkamp's latest sci-fi thriller. In a near future version of Johannesburg where state-of-the-art robots are used to police the streets, rogue police 'bot Chappie is given true artificial intelligence by his creator (Dev Patel), only to end up being raised on the streets by a group of gangsters.

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 14, 2015  |  0 comments

Hailed today as one of the greatest shows in the history of TV, David Simon's The Wire rewrote the rule book for serialised crime drama over the course of its five seasons. From its debut on HBO in 2002, the show eschewed the usual formula of individual episodic narratives in its favour of following a single Baltimore police investigation aimed at bringing down a major drug dealing organisation.

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 12, 2015  |  0 comments

Most manga fans' idea of heaven, this beat 'em-up brings together an extensive roster of 52 characters (39 of whom are playable) from 32 different stories that have been serialised in the best-selling Weekly Shonen Jump anthology magazine in Japan. So, if you're the sort of person who lies awake at night wondering who would win in a fight between Dragon Ball's Son Goku and Fist of the North Star's Ken Shiro, then this is surely the next-gen arena brawler you've been waiting for.

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