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3 Days to Kill (Extended Cut) | Value for money: $$  Directed by McG. Written by Luc Bresson.  Starring Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld. You just know an action movie isn’t doing what should be when halfway through it you pick up the back of the movie case to see the movie is 122 minutes long […]

Sky Movies Premiere: True Grit (Sky 20, 8.30, 5.1)  True Grit is true bliss in HD. The transfer does breathtaking justice to the autumnal, painterly compositions that grace the Coen Brothers’ darker, more sophisticated – but not necessarily superior – spin on the 1969 western that won John Wayne his first Oscar. Leaner and meaner, but […]

Yahoo! A couple of rootin’-toootin’ westerns will saddle up in HD for the first time on NZ TV next month when Sky Movies premieres the re-make of True Grit and the Oscar-winning ‘toon Rango. The Coen Brothers take on the John Wayne classic will kick off the month, on April 1, with the animated frontier […]

Three westerns — a re-make and two re-issues — contribute to a bonanza week for Blu-ray releases. The Coen Brothers’ take on True Grit scored universal “Yahoos!” for its HD audio and video specs. Blu-ray.com hailed the transfer “as faultless as the movie. Clarity is striking in every single frame, allowing detail to shine and […]

The 45th anniversary edition of The Sound of Music at last lands here on Blu-ray – just in time for its 46th anniversary. It’s one of a slew of back-catalogue classics coming out this week but has taken nearly six months longer to go on sale here than in the US or UK. Moreover, only […]

Yahoo! Jeff Bridges may have missed out on an Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn but you’ll be able to see why John Wayne won his when Paramount Pictures releases the original True Grit on Blu-ray next month. A date has yet to be confirmed for the Coen Brothers version, either in NZ or the US. […]

This year’s Oscars will offer a hi-tech blast from the past. Sky Movies will broadcast the 83rd annual Academy Awards ceremony live in HD from 2.30pm on February 28. Producers Don Mischer and Bruce Cohen have told The Hollywood Reporter the show will use digital projections instead of a traditional set to reflect Tinseltown’s history. […]