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Three westerns — a re-make and two re-issues — contribute to a bonanza week for Blu-ray releases. The Coen Brothers’ take on True Grit scored universal “Yahoos!” for its HD audio and video specs. Blu-ray.com hailed the transfer “as faultless as the movie. Clarity is striking in every single frame, allowing detail to shine and […]

William & Kate: TV One, 8.30pm Saturday If you missed the Royal Wedding, catch up with how they met – if you dare: “So bad it’s awful, toe-curlingly, teeth-furringly, pillow-bitingly ghastly” (The Guardian); “a shoddily cast, poorly executed, badly edited and surprisingly boring account” (The Daily Mail); “it succeeds simply by not giving anyone a […]

Edward Scissorhands: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Frequently disarming and fanciful fable, a kind of Frankenstein’s Monster Meets the Avon Lady. In his first collaboration with director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp plays, with wondrous sensitivity, the creation of a benevolent inventor who gives him shears for digits. Is it any wonder that an Avon Lady’s […]

With the prospect of the first three Shrek movies being released here on Blu-ray still seeming far, far away, fans of the jolly green ogre will be delighted to see his first two movies debut in HD next month on Sky. Shrek and Shrek 2 will air April 15 and 16 on Sky Movies Greats, […]

The Brothers Bloom: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Saturday. Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo play dirty rotten siblings – globe-trotting swindlers – who get their “con”-uppance when they embark on one last scam targeting a naïve, New Jersey heiress (Rachel Weisz). Reviews ranged from the ecstatic to the execrable but most echoed Roger Ebert’s: “This movie is […]

Johnny Depp goes from playing a pirate to creating one next month on Sky Movies Greats. Making their HD debuts in October will be Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Finding Neverland. In the latter, he’s cast as the author of Peter Pan, JM Barrie, whereas the former was his third […]

Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor. Director: Tim Burton. Screenplay: Linda Woolverton. Score: Danny Elfman. Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski. You’d have to be mad as a hatter not to think Alice in Wonderland looks sensational on Blu-ray. This may not be the […]