hmv Music & Film News

The beloved compilation series reaches triple figures this week. 

To commemorate the 100th compilation, the makers of NOW! are changing things up a little. The first half of the compilation will be a regular NOW! rundown of the biggest hits, including smashes from Calvin Harris/Dua Lipa, Clean Bandit, George Ezra and more.

The second CD will include 21 classics, including megahits from Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran, Spice Girls and more. You can find full details here. 

Click here to take our special NOW! anniversary quiz...

The controversial rapper follows up 2015's The Life Of Pablo with his eighth LP. 

Consisting of seven tracks, the album includes collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla Sign and PARTYNEXTDOOR as well as production assistance from Tame Impala's Kevin Parker and Francis and the Lights. 

The Dutch symphonic metallers cover eight tracks from the soundtrack to celebrated anime series Attack On Titan. 

The beloved country songstress makes it 10 albums and counting this week with the release of new LP The Tree. 

The Ohio extreme metallers unveil their sixth studio album, their first since 2013's Serpents Unleashed. 

It’s been 15 years since we last saw Lara Croft on the big screen, but she returns in style in the brand new reboot of Tomb Raider.

Oscar winner Alicia Vikander takes over from Angelina Jolie in the starring role, with The Wire's Dominic West in the role of her father, archaeologist Lord Richard Croft, the Earl of Abingdon, in the new reboot, which also stars Walton Goggins and Daniel Wu.

The film has been directed by Roar Uthuag, the director behind the Norwegian disaster drama The Wave.

The reboot finds Croft aged 21 and working as a bike courier in East London and refusing to take the reins of her father's global empire. But, still haunted by his disappearance, she then leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad's last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan...

Click here to watch our interview with Uthuag.

Benedict Cumberbatch leads the way in this five-part series, based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn.

The series tracks Patrick Melrose from his privileged but deeply traumatic childhood in the South of France as he battles severe substance abuse in his twenties in New York and tries to recover back in his native Britain.

Holliday Grainger, Jessica Raine, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Blythe Danner co-star.

The fifth series of the hit Channel 4 comedy arrives on DVD shelves this week. 

As we have for 25 glorious episodes, we follow The Goodmans as they host their weekly dinner on Friday night, where something always manages to go wrong.

Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Mark Heap all return to star, with Unforgotten star Rosie Cavaliero joining the cast for this new run.

Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton and David Oyelowo team up for this knockabout comedy. 

Oyelowo plays Harold Soyinka, a hapless businessman who is forced to travel to Mexico to oversee the manufacturing of his company's revolutionary new medical marijuana pill.

However, whilst there, Harold is kidnapped by members of a fearsome cartel and becomes the centre of a situation that quickly spins out of control...

Click here to read our full preview. 

Justin Salinger stars in this intimate biopic of Donald Crowhurst, the inexperienced yachtsman who set off from England bidding to be the fastest to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe. 

Crowhurst's plan didn't exactly go off without a hitch...