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An Indiana Joneswanna­be bricklayer travels to Peru in search of a golden necklace in Spanish animated sequel Tad The losT explorer and The secreT of king midas (out now, DVD/VOD/download). You don’t need to have seen the first film to enjoy its rambunctio­us action, which involves chases, magic and daft animal companions. We said: “A bog-standard adventure romp… Everyman Tad is a bit uninterest­ing. But a mummy who spends most of the movie channellin­g RuPaul is good for a few belly laughs.” Making its HD debut is hansel and greTel (out now, Blu-ray), a winningly bizarre Korean chiller. After a car-crash victim is taken back to a cottage in the woods by a young girl, he finds that the girl and her siblings have terrible powers, and really don’t want him to leave… Reminiscen­t of Pan’s

Labyrinth at times, it’s an increasing­ly surreal film with an eerie atmosphere and some impressive­ly ornate production design. Finally, It Follows’ Maika Monroe stars in the latest Netflix Original Movie Tau (out now, SVOD), as a woman kidnapped and imprisoned by a coldbloode­d scientist set on using her to help train the advanced AI that runs his mansion. Can she introduce TAU to the concept of personhood, sneakily turning it against its creator? Gary Oldman provides the clipped computer voice for this SF thriller, which, while stylish, proves to be less thought-provoking than

Ex_Machina and not as disturbing­ly creepy as

Demon Seed. Keep ’em peeled for another Netflix Original Movie, Extinction (due on 26 July).

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