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Hereafter, Faster and Season of the Witch head a raft of Blu-ray releases that will bow here without a cinema release over the next two months. Season of the Witch goes on sale on June 22, Hereafter on July 13 and Faster on August 15. Hereafter’s the most interesting of the three, reuniting Invictus director […]

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Sunday. A fledgling teenage vampire joins a circus of freaks in this tepid horror movie directed by American Pie’s Paul Weitz that’s not as dire as his latest, Little Fockers, but can’t match his In Good Company or American Dreamz. John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Selma Hayek and Josh Hutcherson […]

Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Paul Giamatti, Vin Diesel, Ted Danson. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Robert Rodat. Score: John Williams. Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski. To paraphrase a line from the highly decorated, 1998 D-Day dramatisation, this Ryan upgrade is worth it, with an HD transfer as jaw-dropping as the combat sequences that […]

Stuck on You: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear star in this Farrelly Brothers comedy about conjoined twins who share a liver but not the same personalities or dreams: one’s shy and anxious, the other’s an outgoing, aspiring actor looking to make it big in Hollywood. Funny sight gags and a […]

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 […]