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Mona Lisa Smile: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. This cliched, feminist life’s lessons twist on Dead Poets Society stars Julia Roberts as a radical ’50s arts teacher who inspires her pearls-and-twin set students at a posh girls’ college to see beyond motherhood and housekeeping. Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles are excellent but can’t disguise the […]

They’ll be a little late for Hallowe’en but debuting in HD next month on Sky Movies are the horror trio of Zombieland, The Final Destination and Jennifer’s Body. Zombieland is the pick of the grisly bunch but Jennifer’s Body shouldn’t be ignored, and not just because it stars Megan Fox: the screenplay is by Juno’s […]

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray. Director: Ruben Fleischer. Screenplay: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick. Score: David Sardy. Cinematography: Michael Bonvillain. Welcome to the “United States of Zombieland,” in which the home of McDonald’s has been overrun by the living dead with an appetite for “human Happy Meals”. As stylish as […]

Martin Scorsese fans should be delighted with the HD transfer of his spooky thriller, Shutter Island. Hi-Def Digest says the “exceptionally well rendered transfer makes this eerie thriller even more absorbing and immediate” than it was in cinemas while DVD Town dubbed the picture quality “the best part of the production … beautifully detailed, with […]

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 […]