“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” (Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz)
Digital television is the best thing that has happened to film fans since the Native American Indians discovered popcorn. The choice of films has mushroomed, picture quality has improved substantially and the advent of surround sound systems makes a trip to the cinema quite a redundant proposition.
The latest box-office hits march out onto the digital airwaves with only a brief interlude after their introduction to cinemas, meaning that you can be enjoying cutting-edge cinema from Box Office service providers within weeks of an official release. As the number of channels has duplicated, so has the range of films that are available; action, horror, thrillers, comedies and documentaries all abound, as do foreign films that happily for the first time are finding their voice in British broadcasting.
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“Louis, I think that this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca)
Around five million customers can testify to the quality and scope of the Sky Movies channel. An original member of the initial cluster of Sky channels, Sky Movies has emerged over the past two decades as the leading digital film broadcaster.
A plethora of channels are available through Sky network. Generally these channels correspond to genre, making the film selection process an easy one for the subscriber. High-definition television embellishes the output, giving unprecedented picture quality characterised by vivid colours and augmented with polyphonic surround sound.
“Sky premieres more than 300 films a year, from Hollywood blockbusters to world-cinema gems.“ and many of the others are drawn from emerging film markets around the world. In some cases, foreign language films that are not even available at the cinema in the United Kingdom can be enjoyed on some of the more eclectic Sky Movie channels.
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“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” (Vito Corleone, The Godfather)
Film4 remains the only film channel that is free for digital viewers, and it is certainly worth a night of anyone’s time. Originally known as Film Four, the channel has been a mainstay of the digital network since its inception during the mid 1990s. Harnessing the independent ethic that has fused much of Channel 4’s output during the past thirty years, Film4 is twinned with a film production company that often creates dazzling works of cinema.
Whereas Sky Movies is the smartly dressed, successful elder brother, Film4 smacks more of the shabbily attired rebellious younger sibling –still capable of providing exceptional broadcasting with much lower budgets. Spiced into a variety of different seasons, the Film4 channel offers viewers a wide range of different films to enjoy: forthcoming seasons concern Korea, comedy, science-fiction, thrillers and New Hollywood.
For families who are undecided upon subscribing to a premium movie package, but are inspired to test the array of films that are broadcast on digital television daily will find no better starting place than Film4.
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Select Digital Top Film Quotes
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The Select Digital Wall of Quotes
- 'One point twenty-one gigawatts!' (Dr Emmett Brown, Back to the Future)
- 'Speed. To be able to control it. To know that I can control something that's out of control.' (Cole Trickle, Days of Thunder)
- 'I'm not a smart man... but I know what love is. ' (Forest Gump, Forest Gump)
- ‘The first rule of fight club is “you do not talk about Fightclub”. The second rule of Fightclub is “YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHTCLUB!”' (Tyler Durden, Fightclub)
- ‘I’ll be back.’ (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator)
- ‘I see dead people.’ (Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense)
- ‘Houston we have a problem.’ (Jim Lovell, Apollo 13)
- ‘At my signal unleash hell.’ (Maximus Decimus Meridus, Gladiator)
- ‘Say hello to my little friend’ (Tony Montana, Scarface)
- ‘Take me to bed, or lose me forever.’ (Mrs Goose, Topgun)
- ‘With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift, my curse.’ (Peter Parker, Spiderman)
- ‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.’ (Timo Cruz, Coach Carter)
- ‘What is "real"? How do you define "real"?’ (Morpheus, The Matrix)
- 'My precious!' (Gollum, Lord of the Rings)
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Marlon Brando, Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks, Sylvester Stallone, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe...
Who do you dream of being? Well, at Sky Movies you can be whoever you want to be, with different seasons kicking off throughout the year – it could be action one week, comedy the next, then maybe a Western or a horror movie. The choice is as big as your imagination.
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