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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 […]

Someone Like You: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Bland romantic-comedy starring Ashley Judd as a talkshow talent scout who vents her spleen on men by writing a sexist magazine column about their mating habits. Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear, Ellen Barkin and Marisa Tomei co-star while Judd’s mother, Naomi, has a cameo as a make-up artist. Dexter vet […]

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 […]