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Sky Movies Greats Premiere: Reign of Fire (Sky 22, 8.30, 5.1) Action-thriller about fire-breathing beasts that fuses a medieval past with a post-apocalyptic future. US reviews ranged from, “Loads of fun. It has a jamming B-picture buzz — the kind of swift filmmaking and high spirits that have been missing from movies for a while” (New York [...]

SoHo Highlight: Hell on Wheels (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) After a rickety premiere, hopefully this revenge Western will deliver on its potential, as Cullen fights for his life, Lily struggles in the wilderness and Durant attempts to spin tragedy for political gain. As The AV Club aptly observed, “Two episodes in, Hell On Wheels promises to be the [...]

SoHo Highlight: The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Can this HBO look back at the law that for decades prevented America’s gay and lesbian service men and women from living openly in the military at last set the record straight? ”Despite the title, though, DADT’s ’strange history’ really isn’t all that unusual; rather, it’s a [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Antoine decides to form a band; Vincent Abreu drops a suspicious death case on Toni; Hidalgo makes lucrative connections; Sonny realises playing music on the street is a dead end. “We’re now 15 months after the storm, and the consequences keep rolling in,” the AV Club said of the post-Katrina New Orleans [...]

SoHo Highlight: Weeds (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Nancy and Silas argue about who’s in charge of their drug business; Doug takes his best shot at distracting an SEC agent from his hedge fund scam; Nancy’s sister returns; and Shane becomes a cop. The shocking cliffhanger sets up new plot twists for the eighth and final season while Shane’s thin blue [...]

Last night’s HD clash of the critters was largely a draw. TV2’s G-Force was tops with 18-39 and 18-49 year-olds: respectively 7.7% vs 7.3% for TV3′s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and 7.1% vs 6.4%. But the Madagascar sequel was much more popular among household shoppers with kids: 8.2% vs 6%. With 25-54 year-olds, each movie premiere rated [...]

SoHo Highlight: Dexter (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) To catch the Doomsday Killers, Dexter must follow in their footsteps and create a macabre tableau of his own; Debra’s battle with LaGuerta over the case of the dead call girl boils over. The AV Club labelled season seven’s penultimate episode ”the lowest point of a terrible season. I don’t even think that [...]

Sky’s SoHo channel next month will screen in HD the HBO documentary, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. Made in 2011, it’s touted as being “the complete inside story” of the West Memphis Three who were wrongfully imprisoned for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas in 1994. It completes a trilogy of documentaries on the [...]

Sky Movies Premiere: Faster (Sky 20, 8.30, 5.1) Vengeful ex-con Dwayne Johnson hits the road in his 40-year-old bad-ass Chev to pay back his brother’s killers, with junkie cop Billy Bob Thornton in hot pursuit. Faster is an edge-of-the-front seat thriller with fantastic stunts, premium production values, and writing of a higher calibre than you’d expect for [...]

SoHo Highlight: Hell on Wheels (Sky 10, 8.30 Sunday, 5.1) In post-Civil War America, a former confederate soldier seeking vengeance travels to the transcontinental railway – a breeding ground for greed, corruption, and violence. From the home of Mad Men and The Walking Dead comes what Newsday called “another winner” for AMC, with Wild Bunch overtones: “Sam Peckinpah would very much approve of [...]