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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach. Director: Sergio Leone. Screenplay: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone. Score: Ennio Morricone. Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli. The spaghetti western that completed Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy with epic panache has Clint Eastwood’s enigmatic gunslinger on the trail of buried Civil War booty. All three movies have just been released on Blu-ray [...]

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Anna Chlumsky, David Rasche, Steve Coogan. Director: Armando Iannucci. Screenplay: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche. Score: Adem Ilhan. Cinematography: Jamie Cairney. What Yes, Minister might have been to the Falklands War, In the Loop is to the Iraq War. Spun off TV’s The [...]

Cast: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloe Moretz, Nicolas Cage. Director: Matthew Vaughn. Screenplay: Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn. Score: Marius De Vries, Ilan Eshkeri, Henry Jackman, John Murphy. Cinematography: Ben Davis, Mac Kenny. Rarely has a title summed up a movie’s exuberance as perfectly as Kick-Ass, a wildly kinetic superhero spoof with a dark and bloody sensibility [...]

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker. Director: Breck Eisner. Screenplay: Scott Kosar, Ray Wright. Score: Mark Isham. Cinematography: Maxime Alexandre. This is a riveting re-make of George A Romero’s 1973 horror movie of the same name, about the citizens of a small town in Iowa who are quarantined by the military after [...]

Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor. Director: Tim Burton. Screenplay: Linda Woolverton. Score: Danny Elfman. Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski. You’d have to be mad as a hatter not to think Alice in Wonderland looks sensational on Blu-ray. This may not be the [...]

Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. Director: Lee Daniels. Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher. Score: Mario Grigorov. Cinematography: Andrew Dunn. This is an extraordinarily thought-provoking, heart-breaking account of an obese, abused, illiterate teenager’s bid to triumph over tragedy and prejudice. Precious is incredibly bleak and oppressive, and although it occasionally flirts with sentimentality, remains true [...]

Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Paul Giamatti, Vin Diesel, Ted Danson. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Robert Rodat. Score: John Williams. Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski. To paraphrase a line from the highly decorated, 1998 D-Day dramatisation, this Ryan upgrade is worth it, with an HD transfer as jaw-dropping as the combat sequences that [...]

This week’s Blu-ray releases of The Road and World War II in HD Colour have been delayed. The DVDs of each went on sale Wednesday but the Blu-ray of the post-apocalyptic drama starring Viggo Mortensen won’t land until next week while World War II in HD Colour has been postponed until September 13. Next month is when the [...]

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse. Director: Kathryn Bigelow. Screenplay: Mark Boal. Score: Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders. Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd. The winner of six Oscars, including best picture and director, dramatises the hair-trigger tensions within a US Army bomb disposal squad in Iraq when an adrenalin junkie reports [...]

Voices: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Joan Cusack, Annie Potts. Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich. Screenplays: Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb. Scores: Randy Newman. Cinematography: Sharon Calahan. The original hi-tech ‘toon about an old-school cowboy doll that gets pushed off [...]