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Sky will kick ass next month when it premieres in HD the comic book sensation, Kiss-Ass, and the apocalyptic horrors The Book of Eli and Daybreakers. Fantasy also will be to the fore in Alice in Wonderland and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus while the sports fans can choose from Invictus and Cinderella Man. And […]

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgorge, Patrick Mofokeng. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Anthony Peckham. Score: Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens. Cinematography: Tom Stern. At age 80, Clint Eastwood must be Hollywood’s most invincible filmmaker – and with this stirring dramatisation of South Africa’s bid to win the 1995 World Cup, he’s clearly not ready to […]

Close encounters of the furred kind don’t come loonier than The Wolfman. The dark re-make of the 1941 original earned mixed reviews in its theatrical release but its reincarnation on Blu-ray looks awesome. As well as a director’s cut that’s 17 minutes longer, it includes nearly an hour of HD behind-the-screams shorts, five deleted and […]

Four TV shows that screen here in SD are this week being released on Blu-ray. Season three of Heroes arrives eight months overdue because of a broadcasting holdback while the third season of Mad Men lands here two months after its US bow. Also new from Wednesday are the latest instalments of two BBC staples: […]

Warner Bros NZ and Sky TV will celebrate Clint Eastwood’s 80th birthday with only half the HD gusto it deserves. The veteran filmmaker becomes an octogenarian on May 31, two days before the Blu-ray release of the most recent movie he’s directed, Invictus. June also is when Warner Bros will release for the first time […]