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The last time Snow Patrol had a new album on the shelves, it was 2011, but they return this week with new album Wildness.

In the time in between, the Northern Irish troupe have put out a ‘Greatest Hits’, scrapped an entire album that was all set to go and seen keyboardist Johnny McDaid become one of the world’s most in-demand songwriters.

Now though, it’s back to business, with Wildness, which has been produced by longtime collaborator Jacknife Lee and inspired, according to frontman Gary Lightbody, by both “the wildness of the modern age, all it's confusion, illogic and alienation and a more ancient wildness”.

Click here to read our interview with Lightbody. 

The Scottish trio follow up 2015’s acclaimed Every Open Eye with a new 13-track effort.

For their new LP, the band have drafted in hitmaker supreme Greg Kurstin, the man who has helped P!nk, Adele and Kelly Clarkson craft some of their biggest, to serve as their first outside producer.

The album includes a duet with The National’s Matt Berninger on ‘My Enemy’ as well as a collaboration as well as new single ‘Miracle’, a track produced by Olly Murs/Ed Sheeran frequent co-writer Steve Mac.

Love Is Dead sees the band embracing pop fully, as you hear on lead-off single ‘Get Out’.

Click here to read our interview with the band. 

The godfather of grime releases his 12th studio album and the second part of his Godfather series this week. 

Scratchy, Double D E and JME all lend him a hand with guest features.

Click here to read our full preview. 

Keane duo Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin unveil the second full-length effort from their Americana influenced side project Mt. Desolation. 

Click here to read our interview with Rice-Oxley. 

The hugely successful Canadian popstar releases his self-titled third album this week. 

Featuring hit singles 'In My Blood' and 'Youth', the album includes duets with Khalid and Julia Michaels.

Among the production talent on the album is key One Direction songwriter Teddy Geiger and Lorde producer Joel Little. 

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.