We're all spending a lot more time at home these days, and for many of us, that means a lot more time in front of the TV. Whether for gaming, family movie night, or simply vegging out in front of our favorite streaming service, if you're staring into an antiquated TV or listening to weak and tinny sound, you probably already know what we're going to say: It's time for an upgrade. Movie theaters are not an option for most of us at the moment, so the only way to get some cinematic wow factor in your life is to bring the theater to you. Luckily, you don't have to dip into that college fund to upgrade to features like 4K, HDR, or spine-tingling sound. Our guide will show you how to spend light--or go large--on a new home theater without ever leaving the house.

Well, this is certainly a surprise. Xbox has been the bumbling underdog of the eighth console generation, playing catch-up to Sony's PlayStation 4 and watching from a distance as the Nintendo Switch reignited the passion of video game fans worldwide. However, over the past five years, Microsoft has doggedly climbed its way out of a PR and reputation pit with items like the Xbox One X and the Adaptive Controller as well as its public support of cross-console play. Today, Microsoft is better positioned than any other video game company to take control of the coming hardware cycle, which is expected to kick off in 2020. First, let's appreciate how deep that Xbox pit really was.

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine noticed that Amazon didn't appear to have plans to sell Blu-rays of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the most popular movie of 2017; only a digital version was up for presale. He thought he'd noticed something similar recently "with a couple of big geek films"--a "weird war against Blu-rays" that seemed to cut against the entire point of the everything store. Amazon would be foolish not to use its platform to advance its position vis-à-vis its competitors. Searching for a Google Home on the site, for example, takes you to listings of Amazon's own smart speaker, the Echo; the closest you'll get to Google's product is a self-published manual on setting up your Home that you can skim on your Kindle. Yes, it was a bit curious that Amazon was willing to cut into its own sales of Last Jedi DVDs, but perhaps blackballing the product to boost digital purchases on its video platform was worth it. Naively, I assumed Amazon's "weird war" was against itself.

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It's not as delightfully inventive or surprisingly philosophical as "The Lego Movie," but the Batman-themed spinoff is every bit as funny and a lot more action-packed. "The Lego Batman Movie" gets some added zing from a cast of characters that includes not just the "Bat family" of Robin (Michael Cera) and Batgirl (Rosario Dawson) but also the Justice League, a fair number of DC villains and -- just for the heck of it -- King Kong, Sauron and Lord Voldemort. So far, this is the most "anything can happen" comedy of 2017. "Kill Switch" (available June 16) Dan Stevens continues his evolution from "Downton Abbey" hunk into science-fiction/fantasy star here, where he plays an ex-NASA pilot who takes a job with a private company exploring a mirror Earth. The film's big gimmick is the whenever the hero is in the world known as "The Echo," the perspective shifts to first-person, replicating the feel of a video game.

It was almost one year ago that writer-director-producer-star Nate Parker premiered his Nat Turner biopic at Sundance to a rapturous reception and talk of Oscars. Then Parker's past legal troubles cast a shadow over the release, and the movie faded quickly at the box office. But festival audiences didn't get this one wrong. The movie bluntly depicts the horrors of slavery and uses the details of a famous 1831 slave rebellion to tell a stirring story of radical self-determination, pointing to the larger historical tragedy of American bigotry and human exploitation. Though the low budget and pulpy violence are a hindrance, this is ultimately the kind of bracingly personal project that indie cinema could use more of, with a complex perspective on how slaves experienced the Christian Gospels first as a chain forged by their masters and then as a weapon they could learn to wield.

At Sundance earlier this year, the absurdist comedy "Swiss Army Man" rubbed so many critics and audience members the wrong way that it provoked mass walkouts and angry pans. But once the film moved from the festival circuit to the arthouse, it found an audience much more receptive to writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan's gently twisted sense of humor. A combination of Robert Bresson and "Weekend at Bernie's," "Swiss Army Man" stars Paul Dano as a suicidal castaway who finds a flatulent corpse (played by Daniel Radcliffe) on the shore of a deserted island. He uses the dead man as a tool, a companion and an inspiration to survive. Filled with raunchy jokes and positive vibes, this is a movie that'll baffle some viewers, but it's such an original that it's hard not to admire.

Journeyman director Stephen Hopkins doesn't try to pep up the bland biopic formula with his Jesse Owens drama "Race," but he does deliver a reasonably stirring version of a story that bears retelling. Stephan James gives an engaging performance as Owens, who overcomes prejudice and intense national pressure to compete and win at the 1936 Olympic Games. The movie leans heavily on a simplistic heroes-and-villains narrative, but that's hard to fault too much when the main bad guy is, y'know, Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, "Race" is broad but effective, reminding viewers of an important moment in the history of American sports and patriotism -- which was also one more step down the long, seemingly unending road toward eliminating bigotry. Cult animator Bill Plympton has made one of his oddest and most entertaining feature films with the mockumentary "Hitler's Folly," which uses some of the Nazi leader's real artwork and early biographical details to imagine an alternate history where Hitler aimed to be a rival to Walt Disney as well as a genocidal dictator. While Hitler steers the Reich's resources into making one unwieldy epic, Disney responds by putting all of his studio's visionary technicians to work on the American war effort, employing animatronic robots to fool the enemy.