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Up: Sky Movies, 4.55pm Saturday. Toon titan Pixar is on the up and up with this funny and touching fantasy about a cranky old man and an eager-beaver boy scout who float off to a mystical South American jungle in a house held aloft by thousands of balloons. It seems you’re never too old or […]

Avatar: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Sunday. The sizzling Blu-ray of James Cameron’s latest titanic blockbuster is the closest you’ll get to viewing it in 3D on a 2D TV. It will be interesting to see how Sky’s 1080i broadcast compares with the exceptionally high bit rate of the 1080p transfer that made the depth and detail […]

Budget-priced Blu-rays abound next month with Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox joining Universal in making $15 the new benchmark for back-catalogue titles. Fox is re-issuing the first two Ice Age and Garfield movies, Robots, Eragon and Edward Scissorhands for $14.99 each (complete with digital copies). The Blu-ray of Ice Age 3 is being saved […]

New chapters in the Twilight, Ice Age and Harry Potter franchises will premiere in HD next month on Sky Movies. Twilight Saga: New Moon will screen on September 19, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince a week later. An earlier Potter adventure, The Prisoner of Azkaban, also will […]