Digitalb TV listings 28th July
Eutelsat W2 - 16.0E
Available on 11.092V SYM:32000 FEC 5/6
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01:00 Closer (2004/I) Drama / Romance
Starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Directed by Mike Nichols.
Set in London, England, good Samaritan Dan Woolf (Jude Law), a struggling writer, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time stripper, to the hospital when she's hit by a car, and they fall in love. One year later, Dan meets photographer Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) and tries to pick her up, but she rebuffs him. In revenge, Dan sets Anna up for an embarrassing encounter with sex-addicted dermatologist Larry Gray (Clive Owen), but the two end up seeing each other. Then another year later, Dan and Anna begin an affair of their own, and relationships between the four collapse. Over the next year, all of them become obsessed with hurting each other and wreak some heavy emotional damage. Will any of them be strong enough to put this destructive sequence of events to a stop?
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03:00 Die xue jie tou (1990) (Bullet in the Head) Drama / Thriller / War
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee and Simon Yam. Directed by John Woo.
In 1967, on the way to the wedding of a friend a young man is accosted by a local gang member. Later, the three friends administer justice, in the process of which the gang member is killed, so they leave Hong Kong to avoid the police and the gang. They run black market supplies to Saigon and get embroiled in the war, being arrested as Viet Cong, then later captured by the Viet Cong, and find that their friendship is tested to the limits as they try to escape.
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05:10 The New World (2005) Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Romance
Starring Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale and August Schellenberg. Directed by Terrence Malick.
"The New World" is a drama about explorer John Smith (played by Colin Farrell) and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century. It is the story of two strong-willed characters: a passionate and noble young native woman and an ambitious soldier of fortune-torn between the undeniable requirements of their civic duty and the inescapable demands of the human heart.
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07:20 When Saturday Comes (1996) Drama / Sport
Starring Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite and Craig Kelly. Directed by Maria Giese.
Jimmy Muir is a hard-drinking brewery worker in the city of Sheffield, with an arrogant lack of respect for authority. His entire life has been orientated by football and he possesses the potential, but has never had the courage or discipline to make anything of it. Jimmy is spotted by Ken Jackson, whilst playing for his pub team. Ken is the manager of Hallam football club, a local non-league team. After continually playing brilliantly for Hallam, Jimmy gets offered a trial at Sheffield United. The evening before the trial he gets drunk, and wakes up feeling very rough. Consequently he fails to impress the Sheffield United manager. Jimmy then has to consider his future and his choices and if he has the self discipline to succeed!
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09:00 Torque (2004) Action / Crime / Thriller
Starring John Ashker, Max Beesley, Dane Cook and Ice Cube. Directed by Joseph Kahn.
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey (Ice Cube), leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.
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11:00 Rumor Has It... (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance
Starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine and Mark Ruffalo. Directed by Rob Reiner.
Sarah Huttington, recently engaged, goes home to Pasadena with fiancé Jeff for a family wedding. She hears a rumor that "The Graduate" (book and movie) are based on her family. Did her grandmother and her mom have flings with the same man just before her parents married? Is she a strange man's child; does this explain why she doesn't fit in? Was her mother happy? Is she too facing a loveless marriage? Where can she seek answers: her mother's dead, her father's a pleasant naïf. Ask her salty grandma? Better to ask the man in the triangle, the real Benjamin Braddock. With Jeff's blessing, Sarah heads for San Francisco, looking for the key to her past and to her future.
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13:00 Serenity (2005) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Starring Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin. Directed by Joss Whedon.
The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River's safety. She then mutters "Miranda" and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what "Miranda" is and what the Alliance is hiding.
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15:00 MirrorMask (2005) Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
Starring Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Stephanie Leonidas and Gina McKee. Directed by Dave McKean.
MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.
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17:00 Last Holiday (2006) Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Starring Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton and Giancarlo Esposito. Directed by Wayne Wang.
In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when an MRI discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?
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19:00 Chat gim (2005) (Seven Swords) Action / Drama
Starring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung and Liwu Dai. Directed by Hark Tsui.
Set in seventeenth century China. The inhabitants of Manchuria, under the Qing dynasty, have extended their dominion over the entire Country. While the masters of martial arts gather to prepare nationalist revolts, the new government--seeking to maintain order --emits a decree prohibiting martial arts. Wind of Fire, an official in the previous dynasty, hopes to take advantage of this situation by contributing...
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21:15 G (2002) Drama / Romance
Starring Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood, Chenoa Maxwell and Andre Royo. Directed by Christopher Scott Cherot.
A young Great Gatsbyish Hip Hopper named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the object of his affections.
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23:00 Freak Out (2004) Action / Comedy / Horror
Starring James Heathcote, Dan Palmer, Nicola Connell and Yazz Fetto. Directed by Christian James.
Merv Doody (James Heathcote) is a true horror aficionado. He's seen it all. That's when fate delivers an inept psycho killer to his doorstep. At first, Merv is interested in not getting killed, but then it becomes something more. He must transform this bumbling reject from the local asylum into the ultimate killing machine. Enlisting the aid of his best friend Onkey (Dan Palmer), they set about making the best slasher in the world. Forget Jason and Freddy. They're losers. The man with the spatula (that's right, I said spatula. You wanna make something of it, Sissy?) learns his lessons too well. It isn't long before the man with the hockey mask and orange jumper is carving a path of destruction through the sleepy town of Redwater Cove. Merv and Onkey find that they are the only two who can stop the murderous rampage of their own creation. The only question is how do you destroy an unstoppable machine of utter madness?
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