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There is crystal clear quality and then there is Sky Movies HD. Boasting four times the detail of regular TV, HD offers the ultimate movie watching experience: once dazzled, forever converted!

Sky Movies Premiere welcomes four favourites back to the channels with HD firsts in April.

Best of the bunch has to be Stanley Kubrick's classic horror The Shining (Friday 3rd, 10pm), which looks suitably shiny after its hi-def makeover. You can literally see the madness seeping out of Jack Nicholson's pores as he terrorises his family during one long winter in an empty hotel.

Kubrick, a director renowned for perfectionism, constructed the hotel on massive sound stages in Elstree and Pinewood studios, and the breathtaking detail in the set design bleeds off the screen.

In Indecent Proposal and Wayne's World (8pm, Friday 10th and 17th respectively) the tears and titters have never felt so good. A youthful Mike Myers' mullet takes on a life of its own in the film that added "schwing!" to the English language, and Demi Moore looks like the million dollars rascally Robert Redford offers for one night of passion with her in Adrian (Fatal Attraction) Lyne's moral conun-dram.

Action films were made for HD - and Pierce Brosnan's volcano with attitude disaster caper Dante's Peak (8pm, Friday 24th) truly erupts in high-definition. Get hot under the collar in the comfort of your own living room as volcanologist Pierce attempts to save mayor Linda (Terminator) Hamilton and her family from a red carpet you definitely don't want to walk down.

OTHER HD HIGHLIGHTS NEW IN APRIL

Patriot Games - gunning for you in HDPatriot Games - Action & Thriller - 8pm, Wednesday 19th
The Addams Family - Family - 9.30am & 4.30pm, Friday 10th
Addams Family Values - Family - 10am & 4.45pm, Sunday 12th
Babe - Family - 8.45am & 2.15pm, Monday 13th
Rattled - Sci-Fi & Horror - 9.55am, Thursday 2nd
McCabe And Mrs Miller - Modern Greats - 8pm, Monday 6th
Pale Rider - Modern Greats - 8pm, Monday 21st

To celebrate the release of Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner, we’ve teamed up with Entertainment Film Distributors to offer you and a friend an incredible trip to New York City! The Movie is out on May 1st.

Matthew McConaughey's back as a loveable rogue in the new rom-com, Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (go to www.entertainmentfilms.co.uk for more info).


This time McConaughey’s playing commitment-phobe Connor, a photographer who just wants to have fun with the women he meets. Problem is, when Connor’s antics look set to upset his brother’s wedding, he’s suddenly visited by the ghosts of his past girlfriends, all trying to find out why he’s turned into such a jerk!

To celebrate the release of Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, also starring Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas, on 1 May, we’ve teamed up with Entertainment Film Distributors to offer you and a friend an incredible trip to New York City!

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The two of you will fly to New York, where you’ll spend three nights in a central 3-star hotel. As if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also receive £200 spending money, a Macy’s discount card and travel insurance!

If you want to take a bite out of the Big Apple, now’s your chance…

Slumdog Millionaire meraih delapan penghargaan Oscar.

Di malam keberhasilan bagi Inggris, Kate Winslet merebut penghargaan aktris terbaik untuk The Reader, sekaligus puncak prestasinya
setelah enam kali dinominasikan.

Kejutan malam di Academy Awards dialami Sean Penn, dengan gelar aktor terbaik bagi perannya sebagai pegiat hak-hak gay Harvey
Milk.

Malam itu milik Slumdog Millionaire, kisah untuk menjadi jutawan yang menggetarkan para penonton di seluruh dunia.

Sutradaranya Danny Boyle, 52 tahun, ketika menerima penghargaan itu mengatakan, "Saya bersumpah (kepada anak-anak saya) jika
keajaiban ini terjadi saya akan menerimanya dengan semangat Tigger."

Film yang berlatar belakang kawasan kumuh di Mumbai, meraih delapan penghargaan termasuk skenario adaptasi terbaik, sinematografi
terbaik, mixing suara terbaik, editing film terbaik, lagu original dan lagu terbaik.

Komposer India AR Rahman, yang menerima dua Oscar, memuji Mumbai yang menginspirasikan lahirnya buku itu dan kemudian film.

Aktor pembantu terbaik

Aktor asal Australia Heath Ledger yang sudah meninggal meraih Piala Oscar untuk perannya sebagai aktor pembantu sebagai Joker
dalam film The Dark Knight.

	Heath Ledger menjadi orang kedua yang meraih Oscar setelah meninggal dunia.

Keluarganya menerima penghargaan itu atas nama Ledger yang meninggal karena overdosis di New York bulan Januari 2008.

"Kami sangat tersanjung dengan menerima penghargaan ini dan penghormatan disampaikan kepadanya untuk hadiah ini," kata ibunya.

Ledger menjadi orang kedua yang memenangkan Oscar setelah meninggal, menyusul kemenangan Peter Finch untuk Network tahun 1977.

Sebelumnya, aktris Spanyol Penelope Cruz meraih salah satu penghargaan tertinggi dalam Academy Awards ke-81 di Hollywood.

	Penelope Cruz menjadi aktris pertama Spanyol yang meraih Oscar

Bintang berusia 34 tahun itu memenangi Piala Oscar pertama untuk aktris peran pembantu sebagai karakter penuh gairah dalam
film Vicky Cristina Barcelona karya sutradara Woody Allen.

"Setiap orang tampak mukanya pucat disini. Saya mungkin salah satunya," ujar Cruz yang sebelumya pernah dinominasikan tahun
2007.

Cruz, yang menjadi aktris pertama Spanyol yang meraih Oscar, mendedikasikan penghargaan itu kepada "semua bintang film dari
negara saya".

"Terima kasih Woody karena mempercayai saya untuk karakter yang indah ini," katanya.