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Watchmen | SoHo, 2.00/9.30 Mondays, Neon (weekly) ☆☆☆☆ “HBO’s drop-dead fantastic new series Watchmen is many things at once — a righteously topical, thrillingly conceived riff on race and criminal justice set in an allegorical USA of vigilante cops, shady superheroes and subversive domestic terrorists. It’s fabulous and flammable and feels exactly right …  The show […]

Nancy Drew is one of three exclusive series that will stream next month on Neon (express weekly from October 10). It stars Kennedy McMann in the teenage sleuth’s third TV series, this time for The CW. New York magazine dubbed this darker update “your new horny mystery show”: We won’t spoil any of the actual […]

Sky’s SoHo channel will premiere Watchmen the same time it screens on HBO in the US. The latest take on the graphic novel will screen 2pm and 8.30 Mondays from October 21. The series is set in an alternate reality, where superheroes are treated as outlaws, and claims to embrace “the nostalgia of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ […]

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Next month Universal Pictures Video will cut the price of select back-catalogue Blu-ray movies to under $15. The August 4-September 15 promotion will include 12 Monkeys, Shaun of the Dead, Cliffhanger, Twister, Children of Men, The Hulk, The Unborn, Untraceable, Land of the Dead, 8 Mile, Doom, Basic Instinct and Raw Deal. Over the same period, […]

Superheroes, space cadets and Holocaust horrors dominate the state of play next month on Sky Movies. The HD premieres of Watchmen (May 2) and Star Trek (May 30) bookend an eclectic line-up that includes two Final Solution dramas that weren’t released here on Blu-ray: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (8th) and The Reader (22nd), which […]