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A character-based psychological thriller starring Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter will open its exclusive Lightbox run on March 4 with a double-episode. The Enemy Within stars Carpenter as a brilliant former CIA operative serving life in a Supermax prison for treason who’s recruited to track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. It […]

The Frankenstein Chronicles | Netflix, from Tuesday ➢ “The Frankenstein Chronicles does have Sean Bean, and for that we should be thankful. The legendary Yorkshireman is the star copper of this beguiling and very dark period drama, which takes as its inspiration Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic about the fictional monster … The imagery is bleak, windswept and […]

TV’s Ripper Street heads a ripper week of Blu-ray releases. “Ripper Street was shot (by several cinematographers) with the Arri Alexa. “The image throughout is clean, detailed and noiseless, with a colour palette that has been desaturated in post-production to de-emphasize primary colours and leave numerous shades of brown, rust and ochre, with an occasional […]

Here’s ripping good news ahead of Sherlock’s belated third-season premiere on Saturday: the BBC is reviving the axed Victorian crime drama Ripper Street. Both series, coincidentally, will be released on Blu-ray over the next few weeks: Ripper Street on March 12 and Sherlock on March 26. Ripper Street’s revival is a joint initiative between the […]

As one top cop show starts, another ends. FX has announced season six of Justified will be its last. Season three went to air here only last night, on the second half of a SoHo double-bill with True Detective and a week after season five’s US premiere. If SoHo continues to air the remaining seasons […]

Sky is looking to run more HD mini-series on one of its movie channels. Two undistinguished dramas are scheduled for next month on Movies Extra — Coma and Bag of Bones – while slated for soon after is The Great Train Robbery. The BBC dramatisation of the 1963 heist that made Ronnie Biggs famous has […]

Network Movie Premiere: The A-Team (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) There’s something absurdly compelling about this outrageously ludicrous update of the dopey ‘80s TV hit. The original was named after four hired guns who were veterans of the Vietnam war on the run from the military for a crime they didn’t commit. Fast-forward 25 years and the set-up’s the same, […]