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The Soloist: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Saturday. In this restrained true-life dramatisation, an unusually sympathetic Robert Downey Jr plays a Los Angeles Times columnist who befriends a mentally-ill homeless man who was a classical music prodigy (a virtuosic Jamie Foxx). What starts as fodder for his readers turns into a test of endurance, commitment and understanding […]

The animated Monsters vs Aliens, Coraline and even more cartoon-ish Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen head the HD heavyweights Sky Movies will roll out in July. They’re among the channel’s 19 HD premieres for the month, with many of the rest also being drawn from the fantasy/horror genre (District 9, Inkheart, Joy Ride 2, Night […]