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Netflix’s oppressively moody Anna Faris thriller, Marcella, will have its NZ TV premiere screen next month on Sky Box Sets instead of the previously scheduled Fargo. Series one will screen in quasi-HD whereas series one and two can be streamed in 4K on Netflix. Also new to SBS will be the season two premiere of Happy!, […]

Good news at last for Breaking Bad fans: season three goes on sale today on both Blu-ray and DVD and industry-wide rather than exclusively to JB Hi-Fi, as happened belatedly with previous seasons. It coincides with season four’s 10.15pm Thursday premiere on Four (albeit in SD), which was released last month on Blu-ray in the […]

Next month SoHo will premiere in HD a Nicole Kidman movie screening in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Hemingway & Gellhorn dramatises the relationship between war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Kidman) and novelist Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) over the course of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Directed by Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff, The […]

Early reviews for Mad Men, which resumes next month on SoHo (along with Game of Thrones and The Killing), suggest season five is as sharp as dapper Don Draper’s wardrobe. Entertainment Weekly said the two-hour premiere — the first new Mad Man episode in 17 months and the first to be directed by star Jon […]

SoHo Highlight: Bored to Death (Sky 10, 8.00, 5.1) Season premiere: the creator of this whimsical, “noir-otic” HBO comedy series is its protagonist: a struggling novelist who moonlights as a private eye. Quirky and deadpan, it will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson – star Jason Schwartzman is an Anderson collaborator – Larry David, Jim Jarmusch (who […]

Two of this week’s releases sum up the joy and frustration of watching TV shows on Blu-ray. The final season of Heroes bows here months after being on sale elsewhere because of a TV holdback while Bored to Death goes straight to Blu-ray because Kiwi broadcasters shunned it. US cable shows can be a tough […]