Satdude

Films on TV Cabo 09th / 15th July

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Satellite: Hispasat Position: 30.0 west Frequency: 11811H

July 9 to July 15

Please note change of name

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Video-On-Demand 1

Alexander (NEW) 2004 Adventure / Biography / Drama / War

Starring Anthony Hopkins, David Bedella, Jessie Kamm, and Angelina Jolie. Directed by Oliver Stone

Conquering 90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great (Farrell) led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaestion. Alexander died young, of illness, at 33. Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody, yet unifying, conquest.

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Video-On-Demand 2

Frostbite (NEW) 2005 Comedy

Starring Peter Jason, Traci Lords, Adam Grimes, Phil Morris, and Carmen Nicole. Directed by Jonathan Schwartz

Slacker Billy Wagstaff leaves his Venice Beach home and travels to Pine Mountain after being accepted into a snowboarding academy. Upon arriving, Billy and his childhood friend, Casey, find themselves in the middle of a local feud between the egotistical mountain owner, Colonel Jaffe, and the misfit locals led by activist J.P. Millhouse and coffee show owner Naomi Bucks. Billy sets his signs on snowboarding, but when he's booted from the academy he teams up with the so-called "poorees" to get even with Colonel Jaffe's group of "richies."

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Video-On-Demand 3

The Singing Detective 2003 Comedy / Musical / Mystery / Drama

Starring Robert Downey Jr, Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson, and Jeremy Northam. Directed by Keith Gordon

While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark (Downey Jr.) reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with the his protagonist, a detective investigating the muder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles.

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2046 (2004) Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi

China, 2004. Starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Li Gong and Takuya Kimura. Directed by Kar Wai Wong

He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.

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Video-On-Demand 4

Never Die Alone 2004 Thriller / Crime / Drama

Starring DMX, Michael Ealy, Drew Sidora and Robby Robinson. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson

A film noir centering around a hard-boiled, stylish kingpin drug dealer, called King David, who returns to his hometown seeking redemption--but ends up only finding violent death. King David's final moments are spent with Paul, an aspiring journalist who knew him for just a few minutes; yet King David would forever more have an impact on Paul's life. Half preacher, half Satan, and all street smarts, King David had recorded the story of his exploits on audiotape, leaving behind an often-poetic sermon on villainy and its consequences. The tapes reveal that the cycle of violence and retribution, which his actions have spawned, has come back to him, full circle, as he suspected they might all along.

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Azumi (Azumi A Assassina) 2003 Action / Adventure / Drama / War

Starring Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Hiroki Narimiya, Kenji Kohashi and Takatoshi Kaneko. Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura

Azumi begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji, a gray-bearded samurai. One day, Jiji tells them they must pass a final test before they embark on the mission they have prepared for all these years. He pairs them up, and, only five survive, including Azumi. Led by Jiji, this small band descends from the mountain that is the only world they know. Their mission, we learn, is to stop a nefarious plot to unseat the current shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, by the supporters of Hideyori, the son of deceased warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In other words, they are out to prevent a civil war of the kind that devastated their own families before Ieyasy wrested power from his rivals at the battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and imposed peace...

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