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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).