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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 14th July Premiere 15:00 The Beautiful Country (2004) Drama Starring Nick Nolte, Thu Anh, Ling Bai, Glen Bradford and Thi Hong Bui. Directed by Hans Petter Moland. One of the consequences of America's involvement in the Vietnam war, was the children of GI's by their Vietnamese wives and lovers. For years those women who were involved with Americans were social outcasts, treated as collaborators while their children, even when living with grandparents, endured taunts and abuse. This is the story of one such love child, Binh (Damien Nguyen), being forced from his village at 17, going to Saigon to find his mother, then trying to escape to America with his much younger half brother, Tam (Dang Quoc Thinh Tran), in 1990. The film lingers on the rigors of the voyage: the sampan, the Malaysian detention camps, the illegal refugee ship, and the underground economy with near slavery in New York City. It finally opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston to find his father. ************************** 17:00 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. ************************** 18:55 North Country (2005) Drama Starring Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis and Frances McDormand. Directed by Niki Caro. 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. ************************** 21:00 "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. ************************** 23:00 Torque (2004) Action / Crime / Thriller Starring John Ashker, Max Beesley, Dane Cook, John Doe 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. Regards Satdude. | ||
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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 15th July Premiere 03:00 Sin City (2005) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller Starring Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel and Powers Boothe. Directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. Sin City is a violent city where the police department is as corrupt as the streets are deadly. In this movie, we follow three stories, the central of which is Marv, a tough-as-nails and nearly impossible to kill street fighter who goes on a rampage of vengeance when a beautiful woman, Goldie (King), he sleeps with for only one night is killed while lying in bed with him. ************************** 05:00 Cypher (2002) Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller Starring Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett and Timothy Webber. Directed by Vincenzo Natali. In a near future, the ordinary man above any suspicious from the suburb Morgan Sullivan (Jeremy Northam) is hired by Digicorp, a huge corporation, to be assigned as a spy and steal secrets from their competitors, Sunways. Along his training, Morgan is brainwashed, assumes a new identity of Jack Thursby and travels to boring lectures. In one of them, he is approached by the beautiful and mysterious Rita Foster (Lucy Liu), who advises him that nothing is how it seems to be. Morgan acknowledges a new reality, where he does not know who can be trusted. ************************** 07:00 Fever Pitch (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sport Starring Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Spevack and Jack Kehler. Directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon) meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks (Drew Barrymore) she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers Ben's obsession with the Boston Red Sox. She thinks it is perfect until everything goes downhill for them, based on Nick Hornby's novel "Fever Pitch" ************************** 09:00 The Great Raid (2005) Action / Drama / War Starring Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone and Max Martini. Directed by John Dahl. Set in the Philippines in 1945, THE GREAT RAID tells the true story of the 6th Ranger Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) who undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, the 6th Ranger Battalion aims to liberate over 500 American prisoners-of-war from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever. ************************** 11:05 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... ************************** 13:00 View from the Top (2003) Comedy / Romance Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo and Candice Bergen. Directed by Bruno Barreto. Donna's a girl from a small town, who wishes to get out of it and see the world. She reads the book of Sally Weston, a flight attendant who was flown to practically everywhere. She then decides to become a flight attendant at a small commuter airline. After gaining a little experience she decides to apply to a major airline. She convinces her two co-workers, Sherry and Christine to join her. While she and Christine get in, Sherry doesn't. Now Donna is putting her heart and soul into it and after meeting Sally Weston, she is determined to be assigned to an international route. But when the asignments are posted, she is shocked to discover that she is been assigned to a commuter route in Cleveland. While she feels that her dreams have been dashed, she meets a great guy but when she decides that she's going to fight for what she wants, she has to chose between him and it. ************************** 15:00 xXx: State of the Union (2005) Action / Crime / Adventure / Thriller Starring Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman. Directed by Lee Tamahori. NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent (Ice Cube) must track a dangerous military splinter group, led by Willem Dafoe, that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation's capital. ************************** 17:00 The Forgotten (2004) Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller Starring Julianne Moore, Christopher Kovaleski, Matthew Pleszewicz and Anthony Edwards. Directed by Joseph Ruben. A grieving mother, Telly Paretta, is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of her son's friend who is having the same experience, Telly embarks on a mission to prove her son's existence and her sanity. ************************** 19:00 Shopgirl (2005) Drama / Romance Starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman and Bridgette Wilson. Directed by Anand Tucker. In her 20s, Mirabelle leaves taciturn parents in Vermont to live in L.A. She sells gloves at Saks, lives alone in a flat, and sporadically pursues her art (photography and pencil). She's so lonely she'll sleep with Jeremy, a clueless, penniless graphic artist and constant talker she meets at a laundromat. About the time Jeremy sets off on a months-long road trip as a rock band's groupie, Mirabelle meets Ray Porter, pushing 60, wealthy, charming, living in L.A. and Seattle. He thinks he's made it clear it's just an affair; she hears it's more. She's on cloud nine. Meanwhile, on the road trip, Jeremy listens to self-help tapes on relating to women. Can a shopgirl find true romance? ************************** 21:00 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller (part 2) 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. ************************** 23:00 Team America: World Police (2004) Action / Adventure / Comedy Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller and Phil Hendrie. Directed by Trey Parker. Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world? Regards Satdude. | ||
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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 16th July Premiere 01:00 Collateral (2004) Crime / Drama / Thriller Starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo. Directed by Michael Mann. For Max, the dreams of his own limo company are what keep him afloat from the mundane reminder of his real job: taxi driver, which he has been doing for over a decade. But one fateful night, Max has one cab fare that he would never expect named Vincent. He's a smooth, charismatic fellow who is sharply dressed and apparently wealthy, offering Max an excellent tip if he'll bring him to five stops throughout Los Angeles. But fate intervenes and Max soon finds out that Vincent isn't a businessman, but a contract hitman making his rounds. As the night progresses, Max finds himself under the microscope of a coldblooded killer. Meanwhile, the police and FBI are onto Max's cab while the two ultimately play a psychological cat and mouse game, that will lead to an inevitable climax neither would anticipate. ************************** 03:00 Red Eye (2005) Action / Drama / Thriller Starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox and Jayma Mays. Directed by Wes Craven. After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa (Rachel McAdams) is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner (Cillian Murphy), who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa's father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side. ************************** 05:00 The Stepford Wives (2004) Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi Starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and Glenn Close. Directed by Frank Oz. Joanna Eberhart, a wildly succesful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the ascerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a jewish writer who's also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful, and somehow... doomed. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out? ************************** 07:00 The MatchMaker (1997) Comedy / Romance Starring Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara, Milo O'Shea and Jay O. Sanders. Directed by Mark Joffe. Marcy is an assistant to Senator John McGlory, who is having problems with a re-election campaign. Desperate for Irish votes, McGlory's chief of staff Nick sends Marcy to Ireland to trace McGlory's relatives or ancestors. Marcy arrives at the village of Ballinagra when it is preparing for an annual Matchmaking Festival. A well-dressed, handsome and single young lady, she becomes the center of attention for two professional matchmakers, Dermot and Millie, as well as for bartender Sean. ************************** 09:00 A Time for Dancing (2000) Drama Starring Larisa Oleynik, Shiri Appleby, Peter Coyote and Patricia Kalember. Directed by Peter Gilbert. In some ways, Sam and Jules couldn't be more different. Sam, the only child of a hard working single mom, has somewhat of a dark outlook on life. It is hard to see the world through rose-colored glasses when you have to work an after school job at a food stand called Burgatory. On the other hand, Jules is full of hope and joy. All she ever wanted to do is dance. Her parents, her younger brother, and her best friend Sam, all know her life revolves around dancing. ************************** 11:00 Be Cool (2005) Comedy / Crime / Music Starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn and André Benjamin. Directed by F. Gary Gray. Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recording studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics. It's a dangerous business, and everyone's looking for their next big hit. ************************** 13:00 Domino (2005) Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller Starring Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez and Riz Abbasi. Directed by Tony Scott. Based on the true story of Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society LA life, Domino leaves the glittarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley (Mickey Rourke) and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a masked gang pilfer the contents of an armored car, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation. ************************** 15:00 North Country (2005) Drama Starring Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis and Frances McDormand. Directed by Niki Caro. A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go underground at Eveleth Mines in Minnesota. ************************** 17:00 Transporteur II, Le (2005) Action / Crime / Thriller Starring Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta and Kate Nauta. Directed by Louis Leterrier. Professional driver Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policymaker and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers. ************************** 19:00 The Net 2.0 (2006) (V) Action / Drama / Thriller Starring Nikki Deloach, Demet Akbag, Hayati Akbas and Sebnem Dönmez. Directed by Charles Winkler. The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil when, after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job, she finds her credit cards useless, her bank account empty, and her identity stolen. ************************** 21:00 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller (part 3) 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. ************************** 23:00 The Jacket (2005) Thriller / Drama / Fantasy Starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Directed by John Maybury. The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn't know how. Thus commences the classic race against time. Regards Satdude. | ||
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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 17th July Premiere 01:00 Where the Truth Lies (2005) Drama / Mystery Starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman and David Hayman. Directed by Atom Egoyan. A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act. ************************** 03:00 Cup of My Blood (2005) Horror / Thriller Starring Daniel Patrick Sullivan, Janina Gavankar, Allie Smith and Roger Anderson. A seemingly random acccident leaves porn photographer Jack Fender in possesion of Christianity's most Holy Relics. He must confront Evil's relentless assualt of blood soaked murder, sex, and deceit for the preservation of an entire faith, and his own soul. ************************** 05:00 American Soldiers (2005) War Starring Curtis Morgan, Zan Calabretta, Jordan Brown and Eddie Della Siepe. Directed by Sidney J. Furie. Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close quarter combat and a desperate fight for survival. ************************** 07:00 The Island (2005) Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller Starring Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou and Sean Bean. Directed by Michael Bay. Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island" - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson). Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers. ************************** 09:05 Sahara (2005) Action / Adventure / Comedy Starring Penélope Cruz, Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn. Directed by Breck Eisner. Searching for a treasure on the River Niger, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans to death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team run a gauntlet between a billionaire French industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt uncovers the truth behind his life-long quest - the fate of a Civil War ironclad. Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate stand -- in a battle the world cannot afford to lose! ************************** 11:00 Coach Carter (2005) Drama / Sport Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown, Robert Ri'chard and Rick Gonzalez. Directed by Thomas Carter. In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter's tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor in the games. However, when the overconfident team's behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class, he takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected. ************************** 13:20 View from the Top (2003) Comedy / Romance Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo and Candice Bergen. Directed by Bruno Barreto. Donna's a girl from a small town, who wishes to get out of it and see the world. She reads the book of Sally Weston, a flight attendant who was flown to practically everywhere. She then decides to become a flight attendant at a small commuter airline. After gaining a little experience she decides to apply to a major airline. She convinces her two co-workers, Sherry and Christine to join her. While she and Christine get in, Sherry doesn't. Now Donna is putting her heart and soul into it and after meeting Sally Weston, she is determined to be assigned to an international route. But when the asignments are posted, she is shocked to discover that she is been assigned to a commuter route in Cleveland. While she feels that her dreams have been dashed, she meets a great guy but when she decides that she's going to fight for what she wants, she has to chose between him and it. ************************** 15:00 Bewitched (2005) Comedy / Fantasy / Romance Starring Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. Directed by Nora Ephron. Out in California's San Fernando Valley, Isabel is trying to reinvent herself. A naïve, good-natured witch, she is determined to disavow her supernatural powers and lead a normal life. At the same time, across town, Jack Wyatt a tall, charming actor is trying to get his career back on track. He sets his sights on an updated version of the beloved 1960s situation comedy Bewitched, re-conceived as a starring vehicle for himself in the role of the mere-mortal Darrin. Fate steps in when Jack accidentally runs into Isabel. He is immediately attracted to her and her nose, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the nose of Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha in the original TV version of Bewitched. He becomes convinced she could play the witch Samantha in his new series. Isabel is also taken with Jack, seeing him as the quintessential mortal man with whom she can settle down and lead the normal life she so desires. It turns out they're both right--but in ways neither of them ever imagined. ************************** 16:35 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller 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. ************************** 21:00 The Ring Two (2005) Horror / Thriller / Drama / Mystery Starring Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman and Elizabeth Perkins. Directed by Hideo Nakata. Six months after encountering Samara and her killer video tape, Rachel Keller and her son Aiden leave the city to live in a small rural town where they think they'll be safe. Soon after they arrive, however, Rachel hears about a college student who died nearby in circumstances similar to Samara's past victims. Now it appears that Aiden's life is in danger from Samara once more, and Rachel must investigate the little girl's past if she wants to save her son. ************************** 23:00 Little Black Book (2004) Comedy / Romance / Drama Starring Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates and Ron Livingston. Directed by Nick Hurran. Stacy Holt, an associate producer for a daytime talk show, is confounded by her boyfriend Derek's unwillingness to talk about his previous relationships. Egged on by her co-worker Barb, Stacy sneaks a look at his personal digital organizer, scores the names and numbers of his exes, and sets up interviews with them--all in an effort to get closer to her man. Her plan starts to unravel, however, when she becomes friends with one of the women. Regards Satdude. | ||
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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 18th July Premiere 01:00 Alfie (2004) Comedy / Drama Starring Jude Law, Renée Taylor, Jane Krakowski and Jeff Harding. Directed by Charles Shyer. In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie (Jude Law) is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie (Marisa Tomei) is quite upset with the situation and his best friends are his colleague Marlon (Omar Epps) and his girl-friend Lonette (Nia Long). Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. ************************** 03:00 Kinsey (2004) Biography / Drama Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Bill Condon. Kinsey is a biologist and a sex researcher. He releases Kinsey report about sexual behavior of American people in 1948 and 1953. He interviews 18,000 people to take sex histories. It is sensational and controversial because it is taboo to talk about sex. And, people have little knowledge of it. No knowledge makes them worry and feel guilty. Actually, he and his wife lose their virginity after their marriage, but it is unsuccessful. From the bad experience, and as he consults with his students to give them advice about sexual problems, he gets interested in revealing people's sexual behavior. He devotes his life to sex research. His academic curiosity is amazing. He supports "diversity" and "individualism". He claims there is common or rare in sexual behavior, but we shouldn't categorize it into the two groups, normal and abnormal. He influences a lot of people. Especially, he encourages and saves homosexual people. In short, Kinsey is an influential figure who is fascinated with sex research and contributes to the society. ************************** 05:05 My Summer of Love (2004) Drama / Romance Starring Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine and Dean Andrews. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. A tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The film charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women: Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. Complete opposites, each is wary of the other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement and attraction. Adding volatility is Mona's older brother Phil, who has renounced his criminal past for religious fervor - which he tries to impose upon his sister. Mona, however, is experiencing her own rapture. "We must never be parted," Tamsin intones to Mona but can Mona completely trust her? ************************** 07:00 Guess Who (2005) Comedy / Romance Starring Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana and Judith Scott. Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. Percy Jones takes great pride in the knowledge that he is always right, especially when it comes to the welfare of his family. When his daughter Theresa brings her new boyfriend, Simon Green, home to meet Percy and his wife Marilyn, he is unaware that Simon has already proposed to Theresa and plans to announce the engagement at Percy and Marilyn's 25th anniversary party. As far as Percy's concerned,... ************************** 09:00 Elektra (2005) Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller Starring Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Kirsten Prout and Will Yun Lee. Directed by Rob Bowman. Jennifer Garner returns as Elektra, a lethal synthesis of grace and power with the mystical power known as Kimagure: a limited ability to see the future. She has purposefully severed all ties with the world and lives only for her next assignment. Elektra's latest job forces her to make a decision that can take her life in a whole new direction or destroy her. ************************** 11:00 Millions (2004) Comedy / Crime / Drama / Family Starring Alexander Nathan Etel, Lewis McGibbon and Leslie Phillips. Directed by Danny Boyle. The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. A very rare film in which ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront on this masterly-written, directed and acted, very fun, film. Don't miss this opportunity to your train to heaven! ************************** 13:00 Flight of the Phoenix (2004) Action / Adventure / Drama Starring Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi and Miranda Otto. Directed by John Moore. A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one. ************************** 15:00 Into the Blue (2005) Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller Starring Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan and Ashley Scott. Directed by John Stockwell. Sam (Jessica Alba) and Jared (Paul Walker) are a young couple in the Bahamas, divers and aspiring treasure hunters. While the arrogant salvager Bates (Josh Brolin) has loads of expensive equipment, Jared gets by with a small, battered boat. Jared and Sam find a historic wreck, but nearby is a wrecked airplane with a large quantity of cocaine. Jared and Sam want the treasure; their diving partners also want the drugs. Dangerous criminals realize the plane and cocaine are submerged somewhere in the area. When the bad guys learn that the couple has located the drugs, Jared and Sam find themselves in mortal peril. ************************** 17:00 The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War Starring Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie and Dorian Missick. Directed by Jonathan Demme. When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. ************************** 19:05 Vanity Fair (2004) Drama / Romance Starring Gabriel Byrne, Angelica Mandy, Roger Lloyd-Pack and Ruth Sheen. Directed by Mira Nair. The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible. ************************** 21:20 Constantine (2005) Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller Starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf and Djimon Hounsou. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Born with the powers to defeat demons and communicate with angels John Constantine has become tormented with the everlasting battle against Hell when evil is so prevalent on Earth. Still fighting but motivated only to release his soul from the grips of Hell by being accepted by God. His knowledge of the horrors of Hell affect his conscience and forces to continue to save peoples souls when all he wants is peace. But God demands self sacrifice as the means of his redemption. To which John responds that in doing so he will be unable to save people from Hell. A comic book that against tackles theological issues that have been gathering dust. ************************** 23:15 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller 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. Regards Satdude. | ||
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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 19th July Premiere This post is voluntary and has nothing whatever to do with Digitalb......., who ask for donations. ************************** 03:25 Stoned (2005) Biography / Drama / Music Starring Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey and Ben Whishaw. Directed by Stephen Woolley. A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones (Gregory), who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band. ************************** 05:00 Elizabethtown (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance Starring Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Cameron Crowe. After causing the Oregon shoe company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew Baylor is fired for his mistake, and promptly also dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is oddly given a new purpose in life when he is brought back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown following the death of his father, Mitch, as it falls to him to make sure that his dying wishes are fulfilled. On the way home, Drew meets a flight attendant, Claire Colburn(Dunst), with whom he falls in love, in a romance that helps his life get back on track... ************************** 07:00 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. ************************** 09:00 Hostage (2005) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller Starring Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett and Michelle Horn. Directed by Florent Emilio Siri. In a small town in California, the chief of police Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) is facing relationship problems with his teenager daughter. One year later, he was the prime police negotiator in Los Angeles, but after an unsuccessful negotiation, he gave-up his position and decided to move with his family to a calmer life. When three punks invade the house of Walter Smith (Kevin Pollak), a wealthy accountant, and jeopardize his family, holding them hostage, Jeff's family is abducted by powerful criminals to force him to retrieve a DVD with bank accountings' information kept in Walter's office. ************************** 11:00 North Country (2005) Drama Starring Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis and Frances McDormand. Directed by Niki Caro. A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go underground at Eveleth Mines in Minnesota. ************************** 13:00 The Great Raid (2005) Action / Drama / War Starring Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone and Max Martini. Directed by John Dahl. Set in the Philippines in 1945, THE GREAT RAID tells the true story of the 6th Ranger Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) who undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, the 6th Ranger Battalion aims to liberate over 500 American prisoners-of-war from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever. ************************** 15:05 Woman on Top (2000) Comedy / Romance Starring Penélope Cruz, Murilo Benício, Harold Perrineau and Mark Feuerstein. Directed by Fina Torres. Isabella is a great cook, making her husband's restaurant in Bahia, Brazil, a success. To control her motion sickness, she must do the driving and be on top during sex, which drives her macho husband, Toninho, to infidelities. Heart-broken, she leaves for San Francisco, moving in with her childhood friend, Monica, a cross-dresser. To mend her heart, she makes an offering to Yemanja, the goddess of the sea. The goddess responds: Isabella no longer loves and the fish in Bahia no longer bite. Stricken, Toninho heads north to get her back; he finds her hosting a popular TV show, Passion Food, courted by its producer. Can he learn humility? Can she find happiness without him? ************************** 17:00 Melinda and Melinda (2004) Comedy / Drama Starring Wallace Shawn, Neil Pepe, Stephanie Roth Haberle and Larry Pine. Directed by Woody Allen. Over a meal in a French restaurant, Sy poses a conundrum to his fellow diners: Is the essence of life comic or tragic? For the sake of argument, he tells a story, which the others then embellish to illustrate their takes on life. The story starts as follows: A young Manhattan couple, Park Avenue princess Laurel and tippling actor Lee, throw a dinner party to impress Lee's would-be producer when their long-lost friend Melinda appears at their front door, bedraggled and woebegone. In the tragic version of what happens next, the beautiful intruder is a disturbed woman who got bored with her Midwestern doctor-husband and dumped him for a photographer. Her husband took the children away and she spiraled into a suicidal depression that landed her straight-jacketed in a mental ward. In the comic version, Melinda is childless and a downstairs neighbor to the dinner hosts, who are ambitious Indy filmmaker Susan and under-employed actor Hobie. Back and forth the stories go, contrasting the destinies of the two Melindas. ************************** 19:00 Hide and Seek (2005) Thriller / Drama / Horror Starring Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen and Elisabeth Shue. Directed by John Polson. After his wife commits suicide, David Callway and his daughter, Emily, move upstate to find peace and "restart" their lives. But when mysterious and dangerous things start happening, and Emily makes a new friend named Charlie, David and Emily's doctor, Katherine, begin to worry. Now, David and Emily must find a way out of this mess...if they are to survive. ************************** 21:00 The Producers (2005) Comedy / Musical Starring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell. Directed by Susan Stroman. New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste... ************************** 23:10 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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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 20th July Premiere This post is done voluntary and has nothing whatever to do with Digitalb......., who ask for donations. ************************** 01:20 Dark Water (2005) Drama / Horror / Thriller Starring Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth and Dougray Scott. Directed by Walter Salles. Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment--dilapidated, cramped, and worn--seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia's world: no matter what it is that's out there, she'll stop at nothing to find it. ************************** 03:00 Red Eye (2005) Action / Drama / Thriller Starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox and Jayma Mays. Directed by Wes Craven. After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa (Rachel McAdams) is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner (Cillian Murphy), who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa's father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side. ************************** 05:00 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005) Comedy / Crime Starring Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano and William Shatner. Directed by John Pasquin. The FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is assigned to promote the FBI, touring with the brutal agent Sam Fuller (Regina King) as her bodyguard. While traveling around the country, her friend and Miss USA is kidnapped with Stan Fields (William Shatner), and Gracie decides to investigate the abduction in Las Vegas by her own and against the direct orders of local chief Collins (Treat Williams). ************************** 07:00 The Prince & Me (2004) Comedy / Romance Starring Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller and Miranda Richardson. Directed by Martha Coolidge. A fairy tale love-story about a pre-med student who falls in love with a Danish Prince who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige (Julia Stiles) and Edvard or Eddy (Luke Mably) come from two different worlds, but there's and undeniable attraction between them. ************************** 09:00 Fei ying (2004) (Silver Hawk )Action / Adventure Starring Michelle Yeoh, Richie Ren, Luke Goss and Brandon Chang. Directed by Jingle Ma. Based on the legendary Wong Ngung, a woman who fought for justice for the underdog. ************************** 11:00 Shut Up and Kiss Me! (2004) Action / Comedy Starring Brad Rowe, Christopher Daniel Barnes, and Krista Allen. Directed by Gary Brockette. Ryan and Pete are 27-year old best friends in Miami, born on the same day and each searching for the perfect woman. Ryan (Christopher Barnes "The Brady Bunch Movie") is a rookie stockbroker living with his psychic Mom (Victoria Jackson "Saturday Night Live"). Pete (Brad Rowe "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss") is a slick surfer dude yet to find commitment. Each meets the women of their dreams on the same day. Ryan knocks heads in an elevator with the gorgeous Jessica (Kristin Richardson), passing out before getting her number. Pete falls for the insatiable Tiara (Krista Allen "Anger Management"), but Tiara's Uncle is mob boss Vincent Bublione (Burt Young "Rocky", "Mickey Blue Eyes"), charged with her protection. This high-energy romantic comedy asks to what extent will you go for true love? ************************** 13:00 Four Brothers (2005) Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller Starring Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund. Directed by John Singleton. After their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery store hold-up, the Mercer brothers--hotheaded Bobby, hard-edged Angel, family man and businessman Jeremiah, and hard rocking Jack--reunite to take the matter of her death into their own hands. As they track down the killer, they quickly realize that their old ways of doing business have new consequences. Its not as predictable as you might think. ************************** 15:00 The Beautiful Country (2004) Drama Starring Nick Nolte, Thu Anh, Ling Bai, Glen Bradford and Thi Hong Bui. Directed by Hans Petter Moland. One of the consequences of America's involvement in the Vietnam war, was the children of GI's by their Vietnamese wives and lovers. For years those women who were involved with Americans were social outcasts, treated as collaborators while their children, even when living with grandparents, endured taunts and abuse. This is the story of one such love child, Binh (Damien Nguyen), being forced from his village at 17, going to Saigon to find his mother, then trying to escape to America with his much younger half brother, Tam (Dang Quoc Thinh Tran), in 1990. The film lingers on the rigors of the voyage: the sampan, the Malaysian detention camps, the illegal refugee ship, and the underground economy with near slavery in New York City. It finally opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston to find his father. ************************** 17:00 View from the Top (2003) Comedy / Romance Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo and Candice Bergen. Directed by Bruno Barreto. Donna's a girl from a small town, who wishes to get out of it and see the world. She reads the book of Sally Weston, a flight attendant who was flown to practically everywhere. She then decides to become a flight attendant at a small commuter airline. After gaining a little experience she decides to apply to a major airline. She convinces her two co-workers, Sherry and Christine to join her. While she and Christine get in, Sherry doesn't. Now Donna is putting her heart and soul into it and after meeting Sally Weston, she is determined to be assigned to an international route. But when the asignments are posted, she is shocked to discover that she is been assigned to a commuter route in Cleveland. While she feels that her dreams have been dashed, she meets a great guy but when she decides that she's going to fight for what she wants, she has to chose between him and it. ************************** 19:00 Match Point (2005) Drama / Romance / Thriller Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alexander Armstrong and Paul Kaye. Directed by Woody Allen. Tennis pro Chris Wilton takes a job as a tennis instructor and hits it off immediately with one of his students, wealthy young Tom Hewitt. Tom introduces Chris to his family and Chris falls quickly into a romance with Tom's sister Chloe. But despite the growing certainty that Chris and Chloe will marry, and the enormous professional and financial advantages that come Chris's way through his relationship with the delighted Hewitt family, Chris becomes increasingly intrigued and eventually romantically involved with Tom's fiancée, Nola Rice, a struggling American actress. Their passionate trysts leave Chris in danger of losing the wealth and position he has now come to enjoy. The only solution to the dilemma seems unthinkable... ************************** 21:00 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. ************************** 23:00 Window Theory (2004) Comedy / Drama / Romance Starring Corey Large, Jennifer O'Dell, Luke Flynn and Luke Kirby. Directed by Andrew Putschoegl. Twenty-five year old Ethan Humphries (Corey Large), unable to let go of his high school glory days, returns to his childhood home to find his high school sweetheart, Stephanie (Jennifer O'Dell), about to marry his best friend Jeff (Luke Flynn). Regards Satdude. | ||
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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 21st July Premiere This post is done voluntary and has nothing whatever to do with Digitalb......., who ask for donations. ************************** 01:00 Godsend (2004) Drama / Horror / Thriller Starring Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Robert De Niro and Cameron Bright. Directed by Nick Hamm. Following the death of their eight year old son on his birthday, Jessie (Romijn-Stamos) and Paul (Kinnear) are befriended by a doctor on the forefront of genetic research (DeNiro) at the height of their mourning. He leads the couple in a desperate attempt to reverse the rules of nature and clone their son. The experiment is successful and under Richard's watchful eye, Adam grows into a healthy and happy young boy, until his 8th birthday. As time goes by, the Duncan's gradually start to see small, subtle differences between the new Adam and the Adam they lost. At the time of the new Adam's eighth birthday, the changes in character are more pronounced. Adam grows distant and fearful as a palpable sense of menace settles within the young boy. This Adam begins to suffer from night terrors and frightening flashbacks as a sinister personality begins to emerge. Paul and Jessie cannot escape the fact that this Adam is different. Terror settles on the couple as they try to come to terms with just what they have done, or what has been done to them. ************************** 03.00 Rois et reine (2004) Kings and Queen) Drama / Comedy Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve and Maurice Garrel. Directed by Arnaud Desplechin. Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape. ************************** 05:25 Jarhead (2005) Drama / War Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx. Directed by Sam Mendes. Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit. ************************** 07:20 Man of the House (2005/I) Action / Comedy Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Cedric the Entertainer, Christina Milian and Paula Garcés. Directed by Stephen Herek. Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones) is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach and move in with the young women. ************************** 09:00 A Lot Like Love (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance Starring Amanda Peet, Ashton Kutcher, Taryn Manning and Aimee Garcia. Directed by Nigel Cole. While flying from Los Angeles to New York, the "good boy" Oliver Martin (Ashton Kutcher) meets the "bad girl" Emily Friehl (Amanda Peet) and they have sex in the toilet. They stay together along the day in New York, when Oliver discloses the planning of his life - his future career, successful job and then raising a family. He gives the phone number of his mother to Emily and asks her to call seven years later to check. For seven years, they occasionally meet each other, and in the end, their relationship becomes love. ************************** 11:00 The Legend of Zorro (2005) Action / Adventure / Western Starring Alberto Reyes, Julio Oscar Mechoso and Gustavo Sanchez-Parra. Directed by Martin Campbell. The Legendary Zorro goes off on another adventure to protect the future of California and its citizens. This time, he fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe that there's more to Armand than meets the eye, and our hero is intent on finding out what that is. Little does he know, there are others working to uncover certain truths as well. ************************** 13:05 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller 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. ************************** 17:15 Just Friends (2005) Comedy / Romance Starring Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris and Chris Klein. Directed by Roger Kumble. When he confessed his love for his best friend during their formative high school years ago, Chris was met with a broken heart and a degrading humiliation. Only adding insult to injury was his larger than life frame which became a source of ridicule for cruel classmates. But years later and things having changed, Chris is now a hotshot record producer in Hollywood and the complete physical opposite of himself in high school. He's also got an up and coming act by the name of Samantha James who has a psychotic crush on her producer. When a freak accident occurs on the way to Paris, Chris is forced to return home with her in tow. Little does he know that he would come face to face with the friend that he tried so desperately to forget. With the chance to woo her again, Chris will do what he can despite his client's violent misgivings and a competitive rival suitor against him. No matter the crazy obstacles he must overcome, Chris will do whatever it takes to be more than just friends. ************************** 19:00 King Kong (2005) Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller Starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann. Directed by Peter Jackson. Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny. ************************** 21:55 The Aviator (2004) Biography / Drama Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale and John C. Reilly. Directed by Martin Scorsese. The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn. ************************** 23:00 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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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 22nd July Premiere This post is done voluntary and has nothing whatever to do with Digitalb......., who ask for donations. ************************** 00:40 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. ************************** 02:20 North Country (2005) Drama Starring Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis and Frances McDormand. Directed by Niki Caro. A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go underground at Eveleth Mines in Minnesota. ************************** 05:00 EuroTrip (2004) Comedy / Adventure Starring Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Kristin Kreuk and Cathy Meils. Directed by Jeff Schaffer. When Scotty's German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she's gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures. ************************** 07:00 Stealth (2005) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller Starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx and Sam Shepard. Directed by Rob Cohen. In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war... ************************** 09:00 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) Romance / Drama Starring Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward and John Slattery. Directed by Guy Ferland. 18-year-old Katey Miller moves to Havana with her parents in November 1958. Her parents expect her to move within their well-to-do circles, but she defies their wishes when she falls in love with Javier, a waiter who also happens to be a fantastic dancer. Secretly meeting in a Havana nightclub, the pair practice their dance steps in preparation for a prestigious national dance competition. But the coming revolution may spell trouble for the pair's plans. ************************** 11:00 Hitch (2005/I) Comedy / Romance Starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta and Julie Ann Emery. Directed by Andy Tennant. This love drama stars Will Smith who plays Alex Hitchens, or better known as Hitch, the date doctor. The movie focuses on his latest project, Albert Brenneman, played by Kevin James who is a nerdy financial consultant who fell in love with the famous Allegra Cole, played by Amber Valetta. While Hitch helps Albert with his love life, he struggles with is own. He starts falling for work-a-holic, Sarah Melas, played by Eva Mendes. After boyfriend problems with her best friend, Sarah labels Hitch with a reputation that he didn't deserve. Hitch proves his love & goes to great lengths to win a love of his own. ************************** 13:00 Shopgirl (2005) Drama / Romance Starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman and Bridgette Wilson. Directed by Anand Tucker. The story follows Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcee Ray Porter (Steve Martin) and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them. ************************** 15:00 Empire des loups, L' (2005) Action / Drama / Thriller Starring Jean Reno, Arly Jover, Jocelyn Quivrin and Laura Morante. Directed by Chris Nahon. When the young detective Paul Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin) finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer (Jean Reno) to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes (Arly Jover) is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them. ************************** 17:00 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. ************************** 19:00 The Great Raid (2005) Action / Drama / War Starring Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone and Max Martini. Directed by John Dahl. Set in the Philippines in 1945, THE GREAT RAID tells the true story of the 6th Ranger Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) who undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, the 6th Ranger Battalion aims to liberate over 500 American prisoners-of-war from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever. ************************** 21:05 The Other Half (2005) Comedy Starring Danny Dyer, Gillian Kearney, Vinnie Jones, George Calil and Sebastian Dunn. Directed by Marlowe Fawcett and Richard Nockles. When English Mark surprises his American bride Holly with her dream honeymoon to Portugal she cant believe her luck. Mark goes to great trouble to organise everything for her. They arrive in Portugal to discover that the country is hosting a major international soccer tournament and that the English national team is playing! Whats more, the England team, and their raucous fans, seem to follow them everywhere. Soccer-loving Mark claims innocence - a complete coincidence - after all, what kind of man would lie to his new wife just to watch England play in a tournament? Gradually, Holly is forced to consider that perhaps her husband could be just such a man. Marks odd behaviour, their whirlwind romance and her fathers money (that paid for the trip) all begin to add to a terrible conclusion. The games intensify, the subterfuge deepens and cracks develop. Mark denies everything, but what has he done? How can he prove that he really loves her? The film captures the passion, drama and romance of an explosive match between the hilarious newlyweds playing the game of their lives. An international soccer cup competition, churches, beaches, castles, mountains and the winding streets of Lisbon, all play stadium to this whirlwind ride through beautiful Portugal ************************** 23:00 Sideways (2004) Comedy / Drama / Romance Starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh. Directed by Alexander Payne. Miles is a failed writer living a meager existence in San Diego as an English teacher. With his career seemingly fading and the fate of a book hinging on a publisher's decision, Miles is depressed with himself and what he hasn't achieved. Jack is a television actor whom some recognize but not many do, as if he were a minor actor who got a taste of success. With his best friend Miles, the two embark on a road trip through California's wine country. Miles wants to give his friend a nice sendoff before married life, while Jack simply wants to have a fling beforehand. As they're both nearing middle age with not much to show for it, the two will explore the vineyards while ultimately searching for their identities. Regards Satdude. | ||
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My System: N/A | Digitalb TV listings 23rd July Premiere This post is done voluntary and has nothing whatever to do with Digitalb......., who ask for donations. ************************** 01:05 Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken (2004) Love in Thoughts Drama / Romance Starring Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe and Thure Lindhardt. Directed by A |