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One of the best months of Blu-ray releases so far this year, May gives us a dazzling array of films to provoke all manner of feelings from romantic longing, to seething rage, to quiet existential contemplation before finally landing on actual physical sickness. Twice. - ALSO Enter Competitions to win 7 of them on Blu-ray!  

UPDATED 12-MAY-2022: The big news this month is the launch of the Paramount+ streaming service which is available free to Sky Cinema subscribers and enables access to an estimated 8,000 hours of content.  

The year is now a third gone and the release schedules are settling down into familiar patterns. So with Arrow, Criterion, 88 Films, Studiocanal and even a couple of smaller studios all releasing this month, which ones are worthy of your time? Also, we've competitions to win over half of them on Blu-ray!  

It’s soon to be available as a standalone streaming product, negating the need for a satellite dish or a Sky Glass TV.  

UPDATED 06-MAY-2022: Here’s a look at the films and TV shows of note coming to Sky and NOW subscribers in May 2022 which includes sequels to two beloved movie franchises and the return of Kaley Cuoco as The Flight Attendant.  

Producer Guillermo Del Toro presents a combination of First Nations folklore and modern societal and industrial decay in Scott Cooper’s down-to-earth horror/creature feature.  

Ridley Scott's bold and audacious sci-fi series returns for a second season that gets off to a slow start but promises more wild far-future tales.  

Ironically reflecting his seeming inability to retire from action roles, Neeson plays a secret black ops cleaner with OCD by driving a really loud, distinctive Mustang and locking his door three times.  

Splitting the clearly epic Fortress Saga into a trilogy, this is but the start of a long ride to the end of Willis' career, and - oddly - not the absolute worst DTV feature he's vaguely appeared in.  

The TV spin-off nobody expected, from the soft reboot sequel nobody asked for, Peacemaker is one of the best new shows you may or may not get around to seeing in January - EDIT - but which has finally landed in the UK in March!  

Blending the body-jumping of Quantum Leap with the amnesiac operative of the Bourne movies, this high octane, high concept Korean thriller is a head-spinning blast.  

Another month of juicy 1080p Blu-ray goodies sees Criterion once again standing out but a sneaky Eureka serial killer thriller taking the top spot! Plus links to Competitions to win a slew of them!  

UPDATED 17-MAR-2022: Sky Q and Sky Glass TV owners will be able to watch live F1 action in 4K Ultra HD HDR when the 2022 season kicks off on Friday 18th March - dependent on kit and subscription of course.  

Though some eager fans will have found other avenues to watch Peacemaker in the UK, Warner’s must-see show will now be officially available to Sky and NOW viewers in just a few short weeks.  

UPDATED 06-APR-2022: Here’s a look at the films and TV shows of note coming to Sky and NOW subscribers in April.  

We take a closer look at the new Sky Glass TV. This unique proposition from Sky gives you the usual Sky channels but via streaming with no dish required. It supports Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG with a powerful soundbar offering Dolby Atmos and a VA FALD LED LCD Panel. Plus, it also features the latest streaming apps for 4K HDR content. So does it measure up as a serious AV proposition? Let's find out...  

With Bruce Willis unwilling to take this opportunity to literally phone in a performance - probably because the role required him to physically move - Naomi Watts jogs her way into a low budget high-concept piece of mediocrity.  

Potsy Ponciroli’s western spin on A History of Violence comes to Sky, crafting a solid Western, hitting all the beats of isolation and danger inherent in a frontier lifestyle but struggling against a slightly awkward script.  

Steven Soderbergh's post-COVID, Siri/Alexa tech-thriller is a wonderfully contemporary and superbly lean spin on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window.  

Kenneth Branagh's impressively framed snapshot of The Troubles revisits a painful bit of history through the wide-eyed lens of a coming of age drama.  

UPDATED 11-MAR-2022: Strap into your magnet plane and see what movies, shows and documentaries are coming to Sky this March.  

The Palm d’Or winner at Cannes last year finally debuts on streaming in the UK and it is a virtuoso tour de force of body horror, femininity, unconditional love and autophilia.  

The disaster artist who got Dark Phoenix wrong twice presses the button on a Luc Besson-trademarked generic action movie randomiser for yet another piece of shockingly directed slick trash, wasting the ensemble female cast that got it greenlit in the first place.  

Scott Adkins' One Shot at headlining a relatively mainstream action flick makes for cut above entertainment as a Sky Original.  

Joe Carnahan follows up his fun Frank Grillo live-die-repeat sci-fi actioner Boss Level with something more like Assault on Precinct 13 by way of Smokin' Aces - UPDATED: NOW AVAILABLE AS AN AMAZON EXCLUSIVE  

Sean Penn's latest directorial effort marks his first time directing himself, and it's a slight effort but thankfully his daughter Dylan shines through.  

UPDATED 28-JAN-2022: There are changes to Sky Cinema with fewer premieres going forward but big name blockbusters promised nonetheless.  

Generically titled and dripping in the trappings of a DTV effort, is the surprisingly competent See for Me worth seeing?  

Viewed as some cheap-as-chips am-dram Tarantino tribute, Sundance darling First Date is an 'interesting' debut from writer/directors Manuel Crosby and Daniel Knapp that somehow just about lands on the right side of respectful.  

Sky has officially announced the launch of Sky Cinema 4K for select subscribers of its Sky Italia service. Does this point to upcoming developments elsewhere?  

An almost unparalleled year of unmissable TV. Audiences may still be navigating their return to the cinema but let's take a look at 10 reasons to stay home.  

Dolph Lundgren returns to directing for the first time in over a decade, teaming up with Scott Adkins for some low budget thrills in a block scheduled for demolition.  

After the massive success of adapting Hamilton for Disney+, Lin-Manuel Miranda returns to adapt his first Broadway hit with foot-tapping fury.  

UPDATED 20-Dec-2021: Sky starts 2022 off with blockbuster movies and returning fan favourite shows along with the Harry Potter 20th anniversary retrospective and a brand new period drama series in the form of The Gilded Age.  

Sky Glass and Sky Q viewers in the UK and Ireland now have access to Apple TV+ while Sky Glass owners will additionally get the Global Player app plus Peacock content.  

Is Jeff Daniels the best thing about this Mare of Easttown-esque modern noir-ish crime drama from Showtime?  

Sunday’s season ending Formula 1 race in Abu Dhabi, which holds historic possibilities for Lewis Hamilton, will be a shared broadcast with the UK’s Channel 4, Sky has announced.  

Sky has given a peek at what it has planned for subscribers and NOW customers in 2022 with a host of brand new series, both home grown and from international partners, plus plenty of returning favourites as well as documentaries and original entertainment.  

Yellowjackets lands on Sky weekly for a dark look at survival horror - could this be Showtime's answer to Netflix's Squid Games?  

Matt Damon turns in an impressive performance in this atypical drama about justice and redemption but - most effectively - about living a flawed life.