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Now shorn of his long hair and done with his beloved hat, James Bay looks a whole different man as he returns with a second full-length effort Electric Light.

Recorded in East London’s Baltic Studios, Bay has turned to Paul Epworth, the man who helped Adele, Florence + The Machine and Coldplay turn in hugely successful records, for production.

Click here to read our interview with James. 

The eccentric songstress scored worldwide acclaim for her 2015 debut Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit and now moves on to her second LP.

Produced once again by Burke Reid, the album finds Barnett once again in a typically blunt mood with her lyrics, with songs like 'Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence' and 'I'm Not Your Mother, I'm Not Your B**ch'.

The hard-working metallers roar back with their seventh full-length effort this week, an album that features covers of The Offspring's hit 'Gone Away' and Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 'Blue On Black'. 

Click here to read our interview with the band. 

The Northern Irish indie stalwarts unveil their seventh studio album this week, their first since 2015's Kablammo!

Click here to read our interview with the band. 

Lamb Of God revisit their early days by covering the likes of Ministry, Bad Brains and Melvins under the name of Burn The Priest, the name they once went by. 

Click here to read our interview with guitarist Mark Morton. 

Already a smash hit in the US and South America, Pixar’s latest adventure arrives in UK cinemas next month.

Coco features the voices of Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Renée Victor and newcomer Adrian Gonzalez and has been directed by Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo's Lee Unkrich. Unkrich works from a script from The Good Dinosaur writer Adrian Molina.

The story follows 12-year-old Miguel, who has grown up in a family that has banned music. Despite the ban, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent and make a life in music, Miguel, after a series of misadventures finds himself in the Land of the Dead.

Click here to watch our interview with Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson. 

Steven Spielberg assembles an all-star cast for this new drama, which is set in June 1971 and retells the saga of the Pentagon Papers, the massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four US Presidents.

We follow The Washington Post’s Katherine Graham, who was still finding her footing as the country’s first female newspaper publisher, and Ben Bradlee, the paper’s volatile, driven editor, who was trying to enhance the stature of the struggling paper. Meryl Streep plays Graham with Tom Hanks playing Bradlee.

Click here to read our full preview. 

Writer/director Martin McDonagh, directs this hugely acclaimed drama which picked up Oscars for stars Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell. 

Starring McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Rockwell, John Hawkes, and Peter Dinklage, the movie follows Mildred Hayes, a mother who takes matters into her own hands after the police in her town are unable to find a suspect in her daughter's murder.

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Liam Neeson has a very bad journey to work in this mysterious new action thriller.

The movie stars Neeson as Michael, an insurance salesman who is on his daily commute home when it quickly becomes anything but routine. After being contacted by a mysterious stranger, Michael is forced to uncover the identity of a hidden passenger on his train before the last stop.

As he works against the clock to solve the puzzle, he realizes a deadly plan is unfolding and is unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy.

Click here to watch our interview with Neeson. 

In the fourth instalment of the hit horror franchise, this time we follow Elise Rainier as goes on to investigate the recent supernatural disturbances occurring in a family's home in New Mexico, a house in which she used to live in her youth, diving her deeper into The Further...

 Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Josh Stewart and Caitlin Gerard star, while Adam Robitel directs.