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It's almost the weekend and time to relax! Hither are the movies, music, and books the Windows Central squad is enjoying this week. 
The weekend is just around the corner, and y'all're probably nifty to put your anxiety upwards and enjoy some downtime. What improve way to relax than with some great tunes, a slap-up movie, or a real page turner? If you're looking for some suggestions, we put together a collection of some of the best stuff out there right now.
Movies and Tv set
Hither are some of the movies and Idiot box shows the Windows Cardinal team is enjoying this week.
Hot Fuzz
Recommended by Zac Bowden, senior editor
After watching Edgar Wright's new movie, Baby Driver, I really wanted to go on an Edgar Wright picture spree. So, I picked up Hot Fuzz, i of his legendary movies starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It's 2 hours of comedy gilt!
Come across at Microsoft Store
Ghost in the Shell
Recommended by Jez Corden, Xbox editor
Ghost in the Shell is a brief simply explosive archetype anime, recently remastered in Hard disk drive for its 20-fifth anniversary, and information technology's available on the Microsoft Shop.
In a future where the entire world is connected via brain implants and other cybernetic enhancements, a hacker known only every bit the 'Puppet Primary' has become a huge terrorist threat, due to his ability to hack into people'southward minds.
The cyborg officers of Section 9 pursue the Puppet Master across a futuristic Tokyo, but their encounters atomic number 82 at least one of them, Major Motoko, to question the very nature of her robotic existence.
Ghost in the Beat is an utter archetype that remains a staple of whatsoever anime fan'south library to this twenty-four hour period. But fifty-fifty if you're non a fan of the medium, fans of deep sci-fi should definitely check this one out.
Come across at Microsoft Store
Keeping Upwards with the Joneses
Recommended by Al Sacco, managing editor
I'll start by maxim Keeping upwardly with the Joneses is Not a adept movie. In fact, it's really quite bad. Now that that'southward out of the way, I like the flick. It's light and empty-headed and full of awkward jokes. And the leading bandage is composed of 3 very proficient-looking folks (Gal Gadot, a.1000.a., Wonder Woman; Isla Fisher; and Jon Hamm) and one very schlubby-all the same-funny dude (Zach Galifianakis).
The moving picture's premise is also dumb: a new couple moves into an idyllic suburban neighbor, quickly bonds with another stereotypically ho-hum 'burbs couple, and hilarity ensues when it turns out the new couple has ulterior motives. More specifically, they're spies. Really aesthetically-pleasing spies.
I'm a big fan of Fisher, Hamm and Galifianakis, and having recently watched the new Wonder Adult female motion picture, I was interested in seeing what else Gadot could do. And so I spent a couple of hours with the Joneses. It's not a movie I'll likely sentinel again, but I also enjoyed it. If you're looking for a mindless comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously, you'll capeesh Keeping upwards with the Joneses — but don't go into information technology with unrealistic expectations.
Encounter at Microsoft Store
The Bourne Ultimate Collection
Recommended by Daniel Rubino, executive editor
When it comes to international espionage and government conspiracy, there is none amend than Jason Bourne. The Ultimate Collection, which includes all five films, is receiving an excellent 39 percent discount to just $39.99 dropping from the usual $66 toll tag.
As a huge fan of the series — well, almost of it — what I love most the Bourne movies is their re-watch-power. Due to the intricacies and complexities of the serial, remembering who did what to whom and when is something you'll forget the details of, making the serial ever fun to spotter.
The first of the films — The Bourne Identity directed by Doug Liman — sets the scene, but it's the next two in the serial – the back-to-back The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum directed past Paul Greengrass that make these movies an heady thrill ride of badassness. With the philharmonic of Filpino Kali and Jeet Kune Do paw-to-mitt combat and edge of your seat car chases, parts two and three are some of the best activeness cinema around.
The Bourne Legacy, while impressive, falls short of the series and 2016's Jason Bourne (which sees Greengrass and Matt Damon return) was exciting but repeated a chip too much of the past. Still, the entire Bourne series is still improve than annihilation James Bond. Yeah, I went there.
See at Microsoft
Alien: Covenant
Recommended by Cale Hunt, staff author
Ridley Scott's previous sci-fi motion picture, Prometheus, seems to separate fans into love it or hate information technology, but I sit down in the former camp. I didn't heed the slower pacing, the backstory, or the cliffhanger catastrophe.
Now, Alien: Covenant attempts to recapture the magic from the original Alien movies, delivering upwards a buttload of long-limbed, salivating monsters and a coiffure of infinite-faring folk to fall victim
I haven't yet seen Conflicting: Covenant, but that'due south well-nigh to change this weekend. I have a feeling I might be jumping back into Alien: Isolation when I'k done.
See at Microsoft Shop
Music
Here'due south some of the music the Windows Central squad is listening to this week.
American Iii: Solitary Homo — Johnny Cash
Recommended by Richard Devine, reviews editor
One of my absolute favorite artists is Johnny Cash, and some of his finest work came at the very terminate of his life. Of the six-part American Recordings series, volume No. 3 is my favorite, with epic covers like Solitary Man and One being made entirely his own. It's a swell work past a great musician.
See at Microsoft Store
Whatsoever People Say I Am, That's What I'yard Not — Chill Monkeys
Recommended by Dan Thorp-Lancaster, staff author
Ever since I got my showtime sense of taste of the Arctic Monkeys in 2007 (man, I feel old), I've been hooked. The band's whole discography is an gamble, and nearly every album takes on a whole different sonic mood. That said, I still find myself returning to where information technology all started with Whatsoever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. While it's known for a handful of tracks that received quite a flake of radio play at the time, the whole album is chock full of solid, catchy riffs and lyrics that but struck a chord with me — and nonetheless do to this solar day.
Run into at Microsoft Shop
All Yours — Widowspeak
Recommended by Cale Hunt, staff writer
Widowspeak was originally formed in Brooklyn by a couple of old friends from Tacoma, Washington. They brought on guitarist Robert E. Thomas, and after a few member changes, the band is notwithstanding playing today. I'd heard them hither and at that place — songs played by friends or on the radio — and finally saw them perform live at a festival terminal weekend.
All Yours, released in 2015, shows how easily the band can motion between genres as they move between songs, offering up state twang one infinitesimal, classic rock the next, and finally some psychedelic feelings to superlative it all off. Robert Earl Thomas's guitar playing is second just to Molly Hamilton's beautiful vocalism.
See at Microsoft Shop
Books
Hither are the books we're reading this week!
Set Player One — Ernest Cline
Recommended by Mark Guim, video editor
I've been wanting to read Ready Player One for a long fourth dimension, but haven't institute the time to do it. Now that I've seen the picture show trailer for it, I'chiliad more determined to read the novel before heading to the movie theater next year.
Ready Actor 1 follows teenager Wade Watts, who devotes his life to studying the puzzles hidden within a virtual utopia known as the Oasis. The creator of the Haven promises massive ability and fortune to whoever can unlock the puzzles.
- Download the Kindle book from Amazon
- Download the Audible audio volume from Amazon
The Savage Detective — Roberto Bolaño
Recommended past Cale Hunt, staff writer
I discovered Bolaño years ago when his terminal masterpiece, 2666 received an English translation. It took me a long time to read 2666, and I was left with a sense of dread for months later on. I wondered when I'd accept the stomach to read more Bolaño.
Along comes The Roughshod Detective, a novel he published in 1998 with an English translation in 2007. The book is divided into iii unequal parts. The first is told through an aspiring poet and college dropout named Juan Garcia Madero; the second is told through a series of interviews with people living all over the globe (this is also past far the largest portion of the book); and the third section is told through the eyes of Madero.
No matter who's telling the story, the focus is mainly on the two poets who are the concluding of a dying motion. This is a volume that makes you experience lone, that makes you experience similar you can't fit in anywhere. It'southward likewise full of 18-carat human interactions, love, poverty, and glimpses of the lives of people who have nothing to lose. If you lot similar a book that you lot have to put together similar a puzzle, requite The Savage Detectives a try.
- Download the Kindle volume from Amazon
- Download the Audible audio book from Amazon
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