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Re-makes and sequels abound among the HD premieres on Sky’s movie channels next month. Along with the latest in the Die Hard and Ice Age franchises, there are reboots of Django, Judge Dredd, Evil Dead and Red Dawn, and sequels to Nim’s Island, Spy Kids, The Prince & Me and even The Wizard of Oz. Sky also […]

The re-make of Evil Dead looks wickedly good on Blu-ray. “Evil Dead debuts unto Blu-ray with a fantastic, blood-splattered 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 encode that shows some stylised cinematography as well as a couple, mostly minor artifacts.” “There’s no real visual flaws to speak of and the cinematography is pretty exceptional.” “The English DTS-HD 5.1 track on […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Johnny Depp is the Bugs Bunny of buccaneers in this pirates-parrots-and-pearls romp that nearly won him his first Oscar. His goofy, roguish classic trickster owes more to the Looney Tunes gang and Groucho Marx than Long John Silver. Hence, this […]