TV, music, movies, and books we're into this week

The holiday season is winding downwardly, and 2022 is just getting started. Whether or non you lot've put away the decorations and recycled the tree, yous can enjoy a bit of time to yourself (or with the family) with some great tunes, a quality movie, or a existent page turner. Need a proffer? Here's what Team Windows Central is enjoying.

TV and movies

Here are some of the movies and Television receiver shows Windows Central is enjoying this week.

The Emoji Movie

Recommended by Zac Bowden, senior editor

This week I recommend The Emoji Movie. Not because information technology's a skillful motion picture, but because it's so bad you lot just have to come across it. It'southward a groundless movie that has no reason to exist. Yet here it is.

See at Microsoft Store

Fight Gild

Recommended past Richard Devine, reviews editor

Fight Club is one of my all-time favorite movies, and not in any way because of the complimentary violence. It's an incredibly clever tale with an ENORMOUS twist and one that shows y'all more and more every time you re-watch it. The first rule of Fight Club is, you don't talk nearly Fight Club.

See at Microsoft Store

Black Mirror Season 4

Recommended by Matt Brown, Xbox editor

Late final twelvemonth, Netflix finally dropped the next long-awaited entries to its Black Mirror series — a bear witness that takes a dive into the twisted hereafter of applied science, and its impact on order. For those who've watched previous seasons of the series, the contents of the quaternary flavor are familiar, though establish new storylines around different technological environments.

Coming off a potent cord of episodes last season, the vi new entries accept compelling stories to tell. While certain episodes in earlier seasons still stick out as favorites, I couldn't have asked for much this latest installment. If you're in for thrilling short stories that go out their mark, await no farther than Black Mirror.

Run across at Netflix

Terminator 2 (Digital Remaster 2022)

Recommended by Jez Corden, senior Xbox editor

Most of y'all have (hopefully) seen Terminator ii, but recently, the legendary action movie's digital remaster hitting the Microsoft Store for a totally solid cost.

If y'all haven't seen Terminator 2 earlier, know that information technology is essential movie theatre viewing. It is arguably the greatest action movie of all fourth dimension, telling a foreboding tale of bogus intelligence gone wrong.

T2 is pure joy from start to finish, and certainly isn't something you'll soon forget. The digital remaster sharpens the 90s movie's picture quality, making it the best version yet. Ideally you should get the 4K bluray, but if you lot oasis't jumped on that train all the same, the Hard disk drive version on the Microsoft Store is still an essential purchase.

See at Microsoft Store

Amazon Prime Video

Recommended by Rich Edmonds, staff reviewer

My recommendation isn't technically a product, only access to products. It's a new year, which makes it the perfect opportunity to treat oneself (or a significant other) with access to Amazon Prime. Unlimited next-day delivery on select products, music, video, and much more make the $5.99 well worth information technology.

Encounter at Amazon

Music

Here'south some of the music the Windows Central team is listening to this calendar week.

Buddy Holly — Greatest Hits

Recommended past Al Sacco, managing editor

I hate land music. Or most land music. But I dear Buddy Holly, a country musician who rose to fame in just a few short years and so died in a 1959 aeroplane crash at the tender age of 22.

Every single Buddy Holly melody — literally every ane — has the potential to get stuck in your caput for days. Seriously, this dude knew how to write catchy songs. Virtually of the lyrics feel kind of silly and prudish by today's standards. But those choruses and riffs and everything else that tie them together are evidently old special.

I was visiting family in Lubbock, Texas, a few years ago, and I visited the Buddy Holly Museum. (Holly was from Lubbock, and, yeah, that museum is actually a thing.) Before so, I was sort of familiar with his piece of work, but there is null to do in Lubbock, Texas, except eat, drink and become to the Buddy Holly Museum. And so later eating (a lot) and drinking (even more), I went to that museum. And I've listened to Holly frequently always since. For a 22-year-sometime guy, he created a decent amount of music, and his greatest hits album is a good identify to familiarize yourself with his piece of work.

• See on Amazon
• Run into on iTunes

The Basement Tapes — Bob Dylan & The Band

Recommended past Cale Chase, staff writer

I'k kind of obsessed with Bob Dylan and his backing band at the time, which eventually came to be known simply every bit "The Band." Songs on The Basement Tapes were recorded waaaaay dorsum in '67 at the recording studio known as "Big Pink" in New York. This was while Dylan was on the mend from his motorcycle accident.

These songs are part of what is supposedly a collection of over 100 cuts, and while a few of them are meandering and of poor quality, there are a number that stand the test of time.

"Ain't No More than Cane," "Crash on the Levee," "This Bike's On Burn," and "Goin' to Acapulco" are personal favorites that are fun to play around the campfire when the whiskey's flowing and an acoustic is nearby.

• Encounter at Amazon
• Meet at iTunes

Books

Here are the books we're reading this week!

The Collectors — David Baldacci

Recommended by Al Sacco, managing editor

A few weeks ago, I recommended the start book in author David Baldacci's "Camel Club" series, called simply The Camel Social club. I liked it so much that I quickly sought out the 2d function of the story, "The Collectors", picks upwardly with the same ragtag bunch of conspiracy theorists in Washington, D.C. The leader, who calls himself 'Olive Stone,' and his crew are trying to get to the bottom of the murder of a rare volume collector, who may have witnessed the murder of a authorities official wrapped upwards in a plot to leak secrets to terrorist.

I know, information technology kind of sounds cliche. And it kind of is. But the execution of the story, and the lovable band of misfits that make upwards the cast of characters make this a serial worth coming dorsum to. If y'all're looking for a calorie-free only thoughtful and well-written mystery, you'll find a friend in "The Collectors". But you'll definitely desire to read the first volume first.

• Run across at Microsoft Store
• Come across Kindle Book at Amazon
• See Audible audiobook at Amazon

11/22/63 — Stephen King

Recommended by Cale Hunt, staff writer

The last Rex book I read was Under the Dome, and this was years agone when information technology was get-go published. I however remember not being able to set it down until I'd turned the last page.

The same holds true for 11/22/63. I grabbed it from my parents' place post-obit the vacation break, and couldn't put it downwards until about four days later when I finally found out what happened to Jake/George.

The plot is all nearly a time travel chimera that takes people back to the late '50s. What do you do in this era? Stop the Kennedy assassination! There are all sorts of subplots and twists, and holding true to King's style, he keeps you lot hooked. Seriously hooked.

• See at Microsoft Shop
• See Kindle book at Amazon
• See Audible audio volume at Amazon

Your favorites?

What have you lot been watching, reading, and listening to this calendar week? We desire to know, and then drop a comment and share your recommendations.

If none of these recommendations strike your fancy, bank check out a list of all of our by recommendations. We promise you'll observe something you'll like.

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