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New in Town: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Renee Zellweger, JK Simmons and Harry Connick Jr star in a romantic-comedy about a hotshot city-slicker consultant from Miami who finds herself stranded in small-town Minnesota mid-winter. The Hollywood Reporter thought it “strictly old hat — and a poorly assembled hat at that.” The Wall Street Journal was even […]

Next month Sky TV will debut more than 40 movies in HD. But few will have you switching over from SoHo’s first, free month to view, given its sterling selection of HBO movies in HD (the latest to be confirmed, for November 18, is Cinema Verite). Sky Movies’ HD premieres range from direct-to-video and made-for-TV […]

Two romantic-comedies come highly recommended for their love-at-first-sight HD transfers. “Seriously good,” is how The Digital Bits described the presentation of the broadcast news comedy, Morning Glory. “Sharp, very nicely detailed … richly film-like feel throughout. All the positives that go along with that – light grain, natural colour, excellent contrast – and none of […]