Awesome Leisure

Pixar follows up its 2003 classic Finding Nemo, as fan favorite forgetful fish Dory heads off on a quest to find her family. The star-packed cast includes Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy, Dominic West, Diane Keaton and Idris Elba.

“You don’t find the Institute. The Institute finds you.” The launch trailer for Fallout 4 hints that MIT’s post-nuclear incarnation will play a significant role in the game, with its androids being a particularly significant concern among survivors.

Jazz virtuosos The Bad Plus perform their cover of Aphex Twin’s Flim live. It’s not our favorite cover song by The Bad Plus, but the video is definitive proof that drummer Dave King has a sequencer in his brain.

The 12th volume of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg series, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 features unreleased songs and outtakes from that miraculous 14-month period in which Dylan recorded Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. Also on digital.

Hot Toys lives up to its reputation for detail and precision with this 1/6th-scale collectible figure of The Force Awakens’ amazon woman First Order trooper, sporting her shiny, well-worn armor, and black cape. This might be our favorite Star Wars action figure ever.

The Japanese trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens contains a surprising amount of new footage, including Finn, Rey and BB-8’s first moments together, the First Order’s troops and a potential reason for Finn’s showdown with Kylo Ren. Still barely any Luke though.

A proposal for a LEGO model of the legendary Land Rover Series III by LEGO Ideas member Dadandlad. It has opening doors and bonnet, a removable hard top and a detailed engine that’s also removable. Even Land Rover itself is impressed.

In 1977, then 18-year-old Peter “Stoney” Emshwiller recorded hours of footage of him interviewing his future self. Now that he’s 56, he’s ready willing to have the conversation. It’s not a unique idea, but it promises to be a funny, sincere and no-nonsense memoir.

As part of its 48-state road trip, Chevrolet put us behind the wheel of the new 2016 Camaro SS, packing a 455 hp V8, and a 6-speed manual, and let us loose on Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. The scenery was epic, and the car equally impressive – even in the snow and rain.

On her latest album, Claire Boucher aka Grimes goes for a seemingly more radio-friendly approach than her past tracks. But give it a chance and you’ll find it to be as fresh as her previous efforts, loaded with jabs at critics and the music industry itself.

The human realm of Azeroth is on the brink of war against Orcs who attempt to recolonize in the face of extinction. The CGI-heavy Warcraft is a decided departure for director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), and the jury’s still out, given how most video game movies suck.

“I’m taking this woman to hang. The reward is $10,000.” Not the smartest thing to announce when you’re stranded in a house full of questionable gun-toting folks. And a cow puncher. Bullets and one-liners will fly in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.

Awesomer readers, enter now for a chance to win one of three copies of the Game of Thrones Season 1 and Season 2 Steelbook Blu-ray sets, recorded with #DolbyAtmos audio – the most immersive way to hear your movies and now your favorite TV shows. (Ends 11/7/15)

Microsoft is giving away a Fallout 4-themed custom Xbox One console along with an Xbox One copy of the sold out Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition. Details on Major Nelson’s website. Skip to 2:43 to view the “Pip-Box One.”

Skateboard fanatic and filmmaker Dillon Buss envisions a world in which all television programming has been replaced with shows about skateboarding. A fun combination of parody and genuinely awesome skateboarding footage.

Robert Sikoryak turned the iTunes Terms and Conditions into a two-volume comic starring Steve Jobs. Each page is drawn in the style of an influential comic artist, from Steve Ditko to Allie Brosh. His Craig Thompson facsimile is freakin’ perfect.

If you enjoy scented designer candles but dislike their hefty pricetags, Fenix West is where it’s at. Their generous 9 oz candles are hand-poured with high quality soy-based waxes, and a multitude of individual scents create elegant complexity, for about half the price of their fancy counterparts.

(PG-13) Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq is a satire that takes on the gang violence in Chicago through a modern retelling of the Greek comedy Lysistrata, in which the eponymous heroine rallied the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges to men unless they stop going to war.

A minimalist compass for people who like to wander. While Haize and its mobile app can provide turn-by-turn navigation, its main feature is a free roam mode that shows the general direction and distance of your destination. How you get there is up to you.

The Retro Freak console plays cartridges from 11 classic systems. Best of all, it lets you rip games from cartridges to a connected SD card. It works with USB controllers and has a controller adapter for classic gamepads. English menus available. More on Technabob.

Some truly immersive rear-view camera footage captured from the Replay XD action camera on the bumper of Paul “The Dude” Morris’ stadium super truck as Matt Brabham attempts to pass him. The jumps and the 3-wheel action are especially awesome.

It’s not the fridge you need, nor the one you deserve. Haier’s officially licensed life-size R2-D2 scale model zips around via remote control, has a hidden mini refrigerator with room for six cans, and emits Artoo’s lights and sounds.

A magical looking stop-motion animated film, written by enigmatic auteur Charlie Kaufman who co-directed the film with Duke Johnson, described as “a film about a man crippled by the mundanity of his life.” You may remember it from its Kickstarter campaign.