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Early reviews for the Blu-ray of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey are, as expected, brilliant. The 2D and 3D Blu-rays go on sale tomorrow in the US — six weeks earlier than here — and have US critics more excited about the HD specs than the content. “It’s a splendid, demo-worthy high-def presentation fans […]

Warner Bros will release The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Blu-ray six weeks earlier in the US than in NZ. The 2D and 3D editions of the theatrical cut are scheduled for March 19 in the US but won’t go on sale here until May 1. It’s unclear why there will be such a delay when the […]

Warner Bros in the US today announced two Blu-ray editions of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey would go on sale in the US on March 19 and tipped an extended cut was in the works.  A NZ date has still to be confirmed for the theatrical Blu-ray but given the global roll-out of the movie, […]

Amid a mixed reception for Peter Jackson’s new Hobbit film format, Universal Pictures, Weta and SkyCity will this weekend celebrate the New Zealand Blu-ray launch of The Adventures of Tintin at Weta Cave events in Wellington and Auckland. Tintin was released today on disc and should be one of the year’s biggest sellers given the Peter […]

Sky’s SoHo channel next month will screen in HD the HBO documentary, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. Made in 2011, it’s touted as being “the complete inside story” of the West Memphis Three who were wrongfully imprisoned for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas in 1994. It completes a trilogy of documentaries on the […]

Blistering barnacles! The first Adventures of Tintin 3D poster has been officially released for publication. The Secret of the Unicorn is the first in a planned Peter Jackson-Steven Spielberg produced trilogy; it was directed by Spielberg and will open here on Boxing Day, with the Blu-ray release a good bet for Easter. The screenplay was […]

The extended editions of the The Lord of the Rings movies will be released in a 15-disc Blu-ray collection in late June. Although distributor Roadshow Entertainment’s press release cites June 29 for NZ, this may change. Here are the edited highlights of the announcement: Following last year’s successful Blu-ray premiere of the original theatrical versions […]

The Sentinel: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Kiefer Sutherland shouldn’t have given up his day job – TV’s 24 was far more compelling and convincing than this feeble conspiracy thriller about a Secret Service plot to kill the President of the United States (you can guess the enemy within just from the casting). Michael Douglas and Kim […]

Despite its low budget, the direct-to-BD release, Solomon Kane, is said to look “gorgeous” in HD. It stars James Purefoy as a 17th century troubleshooter and is based on the novels of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E Howard. “In addition to the carefully lensed panoramic vistas, there are also a variety of beyond impressive […]

Sky Movies will run a mini-George Clooney festival next month when it premieres three of his foxiest films in HD. The aptly named Fantastic Mr Fox will air on January 2 for the first time, the covert intelligence satire, The Men Who Stare at Goats, on January 15, and the exquisitely funny Oscar-nominee, Up in […]