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Sunday’s network HD premiere of Sherlock Holmes easily won its slot but suffered an extraordinary fall-off in viewing – the reasons for which even the master sleuth would struggle to deduce. It averaged 7.6%-9.3% of the key demographics but fell from opening peaks of 11.9%-15.4% to lows of 3.1%-4.0%. The steepest drop was among household […]

Sky Movies Premiere: Limitless (Sky Movies, 8.30, 5.1) Bradley Cooper has the hangover from hell in this boundlessly entertaining satirical thriller from Neil Burger, the writer/director of The Illusionist. He plays a struggling scribe who’s at his wits’ end with writer’s block when he takes an experimental drug that gives him a quadruple-digit IQ – but with lethal […]

Batman: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Michael Keaton’s “winged freak terroriser” was a muddle of motivation — neither Dirty Harry with a cape nor a nocturnal Indiana Jones but an unsatisfactory, unconvincing compromise that betrayed Dark Knight revisionism for Hollywood expediency. Tim Burton’s Gothic spin on the Gotham hero sometimes soars but what should have […]

Martin Scorsese fans can look forward to seeing two of the maestro’s movies in HD next month for the first time on Sky TV. Shutter Island will screen on Sky Movies on February 20 and Casino on Sky Movies Greats a week earlier. Sky Movies will be putting the frighteners on in February with the […]

There’s nothing elementary about the HD extras on this week’s biggest Blu-ray release, Sherlock Holmes. As well as a segmented making-of half-hour, there’s a highly recommended “Maximum Movie Mode” in which director Guy Ritchie deconstructs his Victorian roller-coaster romp, using clips, storyboards and concept art on a giant monitor, as the movie unfolds. The rest […]

A BBC re-make of a sci-fi classic that TV2 screened in SD will bow next month on Blu-ray. The Day of the Triffids miniseries will be released on May 5, along with Blu-ray editions of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Amelia, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Nine, Old Dogs, the first two Garfield […]