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Gangsters abound on Blu-ray, with the past week witnessing the release of the Bonnie & Clyde reboot, season four of Boardwalk Empire and the complete Sopranos collection. “Bonnie & Clyde’s rather glossy and ultra-clean digitally photographed 1080p transfer looks nice, but it also doesn’t feel right for the material. “The throwback period picture lacks even […]

Sky’s movie programmers are forecasting an exceptionally sunny February. How else do you explain their digging so deep into the bargain bin next month for their premium movie channels? On Premiere, only four of the 12 HD premieres had theatrical releases in NZ, and the best of these is the visually stunning but dramatically middling […]

The latest mini-series to screen in HD on Sky Movies’ Extra channel is Bonnie & Clyde. Part one of two will premiere on February 6 and is the first of two mini-series the channel will air next month. The second is a Sky UK commission called Falcon, in which Kiwi Marton Csokas (Rain, The Lord […]

Sky’s squandered another opportunity to improve its HD service by rebranding its MGM channel to offer more vintage classics – but only in SD. MGM will relaunch as Sky Movies Classics on June 1. Hopefully, the programming will be more imaginative than the new ID, which opens up the channel to vintage and modern classics […]