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Team HCC  |  Jul 10, 2014  |  0 comments

Streaming service Wuaki.tv has announced a swathe of British movie titles are to join its on-demand catalogue, with represented directors including Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Noel Clark and Edgar Wright.

Danny Phillips  |  Jul 09, 2014  |  0 comments

Monitor Audio’s Radius range has already proved a firm favourite thanks to its living room-friendly looks and spine-tingling sound quality. Yet the British brand isn’t resting on its laurels, recently updating the product stable with a crop of new designs. This 5.1 package brings together some of these new additions, including a reboot of the Radius 90 compact speaker (here on front and surround duties) and the brand-new Radius 200 centre speaker. Providing the low-end grunt is the Radius 390, the pricier of two freshly-minted subwoofers. Monitor Audio has styled every speaker in this system with effortless panache. The gleaming gloss-white finish that adorns our sample is pure disco, but the swanky black version is equally dapper.  Each speaker is a solid, impenetrable box with no joins or seams aside from the grooved HiVe II port on the back, which appears for the first time on the Radius range. This, says Monitor Audio, accelerates the flow of air and reduces turbulence for a more dynamic bass response, having the same effect on airflow as a gun barrel on a bullet.

Anton van Beek  |  Jul 01, 2014  |  0 comments

After barely surviving an invasion by insect-like aliens called the Formic 50 years ago, Earth's military leaders have taken the idea that 'the children are our future' to their hearts. Realising that young minds are the most malleable and adaptable, the military now recruits and trains young children to fight and command the space armada that is massing for the inevitable rematch with the Formic forces.

Anton van Beek  |  Jul 01, 2014  |  0 comments

Universal Pictures International Entertainment has revealed that it will be releasing a new eight-film Steven Spielberg Blu-ray boxset in the UK on October 13.

Mark Craven  |  Jun 30, 2014  |  0 comments

Priced at £650, the SB-2000 is targeted at those eager to sample the delights of serious subwoofer technology without breaking the bank, or rearranging their furniture. A sealed design (SVS has a new ported woofer, too, the PB-2000), the American manufacturer claims it's 'compact'. I'd take that with a pinch of salt – it's not massive, but it's hardly dinky.

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 30, 2014  |  0 comments

Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) spends a lot of his time in jail, but not because he's a criminal. Rather, he's a prison break specialist, hired to go undercover in maximum security institutions to find the flaws in their security systems.

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 30, 2014  |  0 comments

If there's one thing that sets this latest Spider-Man spin-off above all the others that followed in the wake of 2004's superb Spider-Man 2, it's the way in which it gets the web-swinging mechanism spot-on. Mapping the web shooters to their corresponding shoulder buttons makes swinging through the streets of the game's virtual Big Apple an absolute joy. Sadly, the rest of the experience falls a little short.

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 29, 2014  |  0 comments
BFI restoration maestro Ben Thompson reveals how the 1945 Ealing Studios classic Dead of Night was brought back to life on Blu-ray...

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 29, 2014  |  0 comments

These days Ealing Studios is synonymous with comedies such as Whisky Galore! and The Man in the White Suit. However, the studio also found success in the 1940s with more serious fare, including a run of war films and this influential chiller.

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