hmv Music & Film News

The Welsh trio make it 13 albums and counting this week with Resistance Is Futile.

Recorded at the band’s new studio in Newport with long-time collaborator Dave Eringa producing, the album returns to the anthemic sweeping rock of Everything Must Go, with the band channelling Born To Run-era Bruce Springsteen on many of the tracks.

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The R&B superstar returns with a six-track EP, French techno artist Gesaffelstein guests on a number of tracks, while Mike Will Made It, Skrillex and Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo all contribute production. 

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The bigselling US arena rockers return with their sixth full-length effort, an album produced by singer Benjamin Burley and featuring a guest appearance from Derek Hough. 

The sultry singer drops her full third studio album this week, complete with hit single 'No Drama'. 

Future, Little Dragon, Offset, Ty Dolla $ign and French Montana all offer up guest slots. 

The second soundtrack album for Edgar Wright's 2017 car-chase film features selections from the movie's score by Steven Price, as well as bits of dialogue, songs from the original soundtrack, remixes, and songs that were left off the first album. 

An all-star voice cast come together for this animated adventure, which quite literally tells the story of a bull in a china shop. 

The film features the voices of John Cena, Kate McKinnon, David Tennant, Sally Phillips, Gabriel Iglesias, Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Anderson and Bobby Cannavale.

It has been directed by Carlos Saldanha, best known for his 2011 movie Rio and is best on Munro Leaf's beloved children's book The Story Of Ferdinand. 

Ferdinand tells the story of a giant bull with a big heart, who, after being mistaken for a dangerous beast, is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure. 

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After Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm, the final (so far) of J. K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike novels hits the small screen.

Tom Burke, star of The Musketeers and War and Peace, is once again in the title role, with Holliday Grainger playing his assistant Robin Ellacott.

In this mystery, which goes out in two parts, things get personal for Strike. It all starts when a severed human leg arrives, a leg belonging to a girl Strike once knew, leading him to draw up a list of suspects who have a vendetta against him. It turns out to be quite a lengthy list...

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Saturday Night Live key men Dave McCary and Kyle Mooney team up for this acclaimed comedy, which sees McCary directing Mooney’s script.

The story follows James Pope, a man obsessed with a bizarre children's TV show titled Brigsby Bear Adventures. When the series abruptly ends, Pope's life changes forever as he sets out to finish the storyline himself.

Mooney also stars alongside Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Andy Samberg and Matt Walsh.

Anna Friel returns to star as troubled detective Marcella Buckland in the second season of the ITV drama. In this run, Marcella is tasked with investigating a series of very unpleasant child murders, all the while her own personal life continues to fall apart. 

All six episodes from the eighth series of the revived BBC sitcom, written by and starring Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan, arrive on DVD this week.