Digitalb TV listings 24th July
Eutelsat W2 - 16.0E
Available on 11.092V SYM:32000 FEC 5/6
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01:00 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller (part 1)
Starring Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Bruce Davison. Directed by Craig R. Baxley.
With his crews and cargo ships disappearing at an alarming rate around the Bermuda Triangle, a billionaire hires a crew full of specialists to understand why. Hand picked by the man himself, the crew consists of a skeptical journalist, an ocean engineer, a scientist, and a psychic. With an attractive financial offer made to each of them, the crew will investigate the legendary, and very mysterious Bermuda Triangle to find answers. But as their findings deepen, the crew finds themselves surrounded by bizarre occurrences that only become all the more nightmarish. The offers made to them may have seem ideal at the time, but now they may have gotten in over their heads against something they may not understand.
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05:10 Running Scared (2006) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Starring Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga and Karel Roden. Directed by Wayne Kramer.
Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) is a low level mob flunkie who get told to dispose of a gun used for killing some dirty cops. Joey however, hides the gun in the drywall of his basement instead of tossing them in the river. When Joey's 10 year-old son (Alex Neuberger) and his best friend, Oleg (Cameron Bright), witness Joey hiding some guns from a botched drug deal, Oleg steals the gun -- a snub-nosed .38 -- and shoots his abusive stepfather (Karel Roden) with it. Things would be bad enough if the stepfather didn't happen to be the nephew of a psychotic Russian mob boss (John Noble)... who happens to be in business with Joey's crew on a gasoline scam. But now Joey's also got the surviving dirty cop (Chazz Palminteri) from the botched drug deal on his case... and that hot .38 out there on the street, changing hands in an underworld of freaks, pimps, hookers and pedophiles. As well as Oleg, who can connect Joey to the gun. And even if Joey can make it through the night, he's still got to answer to his wife (Vera Farmiga)...
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07:05 Intrus, L' (2004) ''The Intruder'' Drama
Starring Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, and Yekaterina Golubeva. Directed by Claire Denis.
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see Louis as possibly heartless, ignoring a son who lives nearby who is himself an attentive father to two young children, one named for Louis. He leaves his bed one night - and his lover - to kill an intruder; he dreams, usually of violence. Will his body accept his heart? Will his son accept his offer?
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09:05 The Constant Gardener (2005) Drama / Thriller
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé and Danny Huston. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.
After his wife is murdered in Kenya, Justin Quayle, a mild, low-level diplomat and a constant gardener, must investigate his wife's death, their relationship, and his own heart. In flashbacks, we see them meet, marry, and fall in love; we follow her in the teeming streets and clinics of Nairobi, usually accompanying Arnold Bluhm, a Black doctor with whom she spent the night before her murder, and who, after robbers, is the prime suspect. In his own investigation, Justin must not quail as he faces his memories, his colleagues, local police, hired thugs, and a nasty corporate CEO. Help and connections, as well as conspiracies, come from unexpected places. Murder will out.
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11:05 Happy Endings (2005) Drama / Comedy
Starring Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford and Bobby Cannavale. Directed by Don Roos.
Mamie Toll (Lisa Kudrow) is an abortion clinic counselor with a massage therapist lover, Javier (Bobby Cannavale), and a secret: when she was younger, she and her gay stepbrother, Charley Peppitone (Steve Coogan), had a child she gave up for adoption. One day, Nicky Kunitz (Jesse Bradford), a sleazy filmmaker, shows up and plans to blackmail her with information on her child's whereabouts so that he can film the reunion and use it to get into the AFI. Charley now runs his father's restaurant with his lover, Gil (David Sutcliffe), and suspects that their lesbian friends, Pam (Laura Dern) and Diane (Sarah Clarke), lied about using Gil's sperm to create a child so that they wouldn't have to share him with them. Jude (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has been kicked out of her cousin's house and is now living with the latent Otis (Jason Ritter), who lives with his widower father, Frank McKee (Tom Arnold), who has become infatuated with Jude. What Jude didn't count on was actually falling in love with Frank. In the end, will anyone have a happy ending?
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13:15 Oliver Twist (2005) Drama / Family
Starring Barney Clark, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice and Richard Durden. Directed by Roman Polanski.
Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boys of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape to the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin (Sir Ben Kingsley) - the mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets. Director Roman Polanski and writer Ronal Harwood re-imagine Charles Dickens' classic story.
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15:20 Æon Flux (2005) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Starring Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller and Sophie Okonedo. Directed by Karyn Kusama.
In the Century XXV, a virus exterminated most of the population of Earth, and the last city is Bregna, which is ruled by Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas) and protected by wall from the outside world. The women are sterile, and the population is cloned living many lives. A resistance group entitled Monicans and led by The Handler (Frances McDormand), assigns the assassin Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) to kill Trevor and overthrow the government. However, Aeon Flux discloses a scheme plotted by Oren Goodchild (Jonny Lee Miller) against his brother Trevor and she resolves to protect Trevor instead of killing him.
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17:00 The Other Half (2005) Comedy
Starring Danny Dyer, Gillian Kearney, Vinnie Jones and George Calil. Directed by Marlowe Fawcett and Richard Nockles.
A woman who finds herself on her honeymoon in Lisbon during an international football competition, must decide whether her new husband manipulated her and the situation, just to be there for the England game... or not....
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19:00 To Kill a King (2003) Drama
Starring Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams and James Bolam. Directed by Mike Barker.
Set in 17th century England in the aftermath of the First Civil War, this is the story of the post-war relationship between General Fairfax (Scott), who led the Parliamentary forces to victory against the army of King Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell (Roth), the leader of the Parliament and "Lord Protector of England". Friends during the war, their political differences drive them apart as they're forced to decide how to build a new England, like what to do with King Charles I...
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21:00 Brokeback Mountain (2005) Drama / Romance
Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid and Valerie Planche. Directed by Ang Lee.
In the Summer of 1963 Wyoming, two young men, Ennis a ranch hand and Jack an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, and what had otherwise been anticipated to be a rather uneventful venture, will soon turn into an affair of love, of lust, and complications that will spand through 19 years of their lives. Through marriage, through children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines and the expectations of what it is to be a man.
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23:10 Chat gim (2005) ''Seven Swords'' Action / Drama
Starring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung and Liwu Dai. Directed by Hark Tsui.
In the early 1600's, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. While many nationalist revolts still brew within the martial artists' community, the newly set-up government immediately imposes a Martial Arts Ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control and order. Wind Fire (Sun Hong-Lei), a surrendered military official from the previous dynasty, sees this as an opportunity to make a fortune for himself by helping to execute the new law. Greedy, cruel, and immoral, Wind Fire ravages the North-western China, and his next goal is to attack the final frontier, Martial Village. Fu Qingzhu, a retired executioner from the previous dynasty, feels the need to put a stop to this brutality and sets out to save Bowei Fortress. He brings Wu Yuanyin and Han Zhiban from the village with him to Mount Heaven to seek help from Master Shadow-Glow, a hermit who is a master of swords and leads a group of disciples of great swordsmanship. Master Shadow-Glow agrees to help, and orders four of his best disciples to go. Together with Chu Zhaonan, Yang Yunchong, Mulong, and Xin Longzi, the SEVEN SWORDS is formed and their heroic journey begins. As they lead the entire village to the road of a safer place, they begin to encounter mysterious confusion. Food and water is poisoned, and trails of escape are marked with signs leading the enemy to them. They soon realize that there is an undercover spy, and the SEVEN SWORDS must identify him/her before Wind Fire's army gets to them. Between this narrow gap of life and death, the situation is further complicated by the blossoms of love.
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