THURSDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2007
e-tv 20:00 First Knight (****)
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Gere (1995)
Director: Jerry Zucker
Sorry guys, this is defs a chick flick only - It is sooo romantic and it has lots of drama and fight sequences to keep everyone happy. The scene where Richard go through the gauntlett was done in the first take. The director didn't want to press his luck so he just said that's a wrap. It's the retelling of the love triangle of King Athur, Guinnevere and Lancelot. It's truly beautifully done and will defs be on my schedule to watch.
FRIDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2007
The movie line-up doesn't look too good for Friday, my advice rather rent a decent movie or two (Underworld 2 or 16 Blocks).
SABC1 22:00 Forbidden Secrets
Starring: Kristy Swanson, David Keeley (2005)
Director: Richard Roy
Returning to the family home is meant to be a new start for beautiful art dealer Alexandra Kent. However, she starts having horrific visions of that fateful night her aunt was murdered.
SABC3 22:20 Goodbye Lover
Starring: Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney (1999)
Director: Roland Joff
A sexy blonde, two brothers and a cynical female cop become involved in sex, betrayal and murder.
e-tv 20:00 The Base
Starring: Mark Dacascos, Tim Abell (1999)
Director: Mark L Lester
An investigator in the US army has to infiltrate a drug-dealing scheme run from a military base.
e-tv 22:15 The Base II: Guilty As Charged
Starring: Antonio Sabato Jr, James Remar (2000)
Director: Mark L Lester
An investigator in the US army discovers that a high-ranking officer and his crack team have become vigilantes and assassins who run their own military tribunals.
M-Net 22:15 Sin City (***)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke (2005)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
If you are a fan of Quentin Tarrantino's style of directing, then you might like this movie as it will not be in everyone's taste (my sister and husband didn't think too much of it). It's not a bad movie, it's just different in the way it's portrayed. It has lots of storylines intertwined with one another so you have to keep all your varkies together - it is brutal, grusome and very graphic in some places and I won't recommend it for sensitive viewers. It's also shot in black and white with some colour here and there, mostly red. An entertaining tale of interweaving storylines which paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity through the eyes of the roughest characters.
SATURDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2007
SABC1 20:00 Mr. And Mrs. Loving
Starring: Lela Rochen, Timothy Hutton (1996)
Director: Richard Friedenberg
An interracial Virginia couple petitions the Supreme Court against the state's miscegenation laws in order to legalise their marriage.
SABC1 22:00 Dream Man
Starring: Patsy Kensit, Bruce Greenwood (1995)
Director: Rene Bonniere
A cop with psychic abilities works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case is innocent. But is someone else controlling her visions?
SABC2 20:00 Joe Somebody
Starring: Tim Allen, Kelly Lynch (2001)
Director: John Pasquin
A man who is humiliated by the office bully decides to defend himself by taking martial arts lessons from a B-grade action star.
SABC2 22:00 Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit (***)
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, James Coburn (1993)
Director: Bill Duke
The sequal to Sister Act is not as good as the first one, but it still has a decent storyline and the nuns are up to their same old shenanigans. A lounge singer goes undercover to save a school from closure and to coax the blues out of everyone's souls.
SABC3 20:00 Life or Something Like It
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns (2002)
Director: Stephen Herek
A street prophet tells an ambitious young journalist she interviews she will die in a week's time. She now has to take a serious look at her life.
SABC3 22:00 Color Of Night (***)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jane March (1994)
Director: Richard Rush
I quite liked the Colour of Night. It has a decent storyline with lots of drama, suspense and a nice twist at the end. It's also quite a graphic sort of movie - especially at the end. It made me cringe at some places. A psychologist who gives up his practice after a patient commits suicide is suddenly involved with murder and a mysterious woman.
e-tv 20:00 Romancing The Stone
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner (1984)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
I saw this movie many moons ago and really can't remember it all. A romantic novelist travels to Columbia to find her kidnapped sister. Along the way she meets a wicked soldier of fortune and the two have some smashing adventures together.
e-tv 22:10 9 1/2 Weeks (***1/2)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger (1986)
Director: Adrian Lyne
Believe it or not I only saw this movie last year sometime (If I remember correctly it was shown on a Monday night) and I wasn't disappointed. It's excellent, but strictly for adults only. An assistant in an art gallery begins an impersonal affair with a stranger but it's not long before the sexual games stop and their relationship gets complicated.
M-Net 21:15 The Punisher (****)
Starring: Thomas Jane, John Travolta (2004)
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
I think this movie was seriously underrated - I thought it was excellent from the acting to the storyline. It's a good old no holds bar revenge movie with lots of action, drama and suspense and very bloody and very sad - just imagine losing everyone you love in one day (they would have to put me in the looney bin) - when I mean everyone, I mean everyone from uncles, aunts, grandparents to parents, wife, children etc. It's defs not for the faint hearted. When a retired FBI agent's family is wiped out he takes vengeance on the mob boss and group of thugs responsible for the murderous deed.
M-Net 23:20 Runaway Jury (****)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz and John Cusack
Director: Gary Fleder (2003)
Another good suspense/drama movie with some great actors, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz and John Cusack. My fingernails were munched to the bone and it will defs keep you on the edge of your seat. It's also the first movie that Gene and Dustin share a scene together - they've never worked together before - imagine that two veteran actors playing opposite one another for the first time - brilliant!! A clever young juror is prepared to rig the verdict in a controversial civil case between a widow and a gun manufacturer for a hefty bribe.
SUNDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2007
SABC1 20:00 Daylight (***)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman (1996)
Director: Rob Cohen
This is defs one of Sly's better action movies. It has a decent storyline and enought drama, suspense and action to keep even the toughest critic happy. A disgraced emergency services expert risks his own life to save several people trapped in a tunnel under New York's Hudson River.
SABC2 22:00 Everybody's All American
Starring: Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid (1988)
Director: Taylor Hackford
The 25-year saga of a college football hero and his homecoming queen who find a rocky road living happily ever after.
SABC3 21:00 Roots: The Gift
Starring: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr (1988)
Director: Kevin Hooks
Two slaves accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time. There they learn how the son of the owner helps slaves escape.
SABC3 22:45 Coming To America (**1/2)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall (1988)
Director: John Landis
This is not one of Eddie's best movies, but it is watchable. African Prince Akeem rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. His retainer goes with him. To avoid fortune hunters, they conceal their identities.
e-tv 20:00 The One
Starring: Jet Li, Carla Gugino (2001)
Director: James Wong
I'm really looking forward to watch this movie as I've heard quite good things about it. So hopefully I won't be disappointed. A police agent who exists in other versions of himself in a multiverse discovers that killing his counterparts makes him invincible.
M-Net 20:00 The Island (****)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson (2005)
Director: Michael Bay
Okay, the critics ripped this movie to pieces, but I thought it was one of the best action/sci-fi/suspense/drama movies I've seen in a long time. The director said that he wanted to limit the movie with CGI effects, so most of the stunts were genuinely done. I for one thought in one scene where Scarlett and Ewan are jumping from a sign (quite high) that it must've been an effect - wrong - they actually did the stunt - I couldn't believe it and off course there's THE CAR!! I LOOOOVED the car which's introduced near the ending - I'll watch that scene over and over again. If you don't want to watch the movie then watch it just for that - it's truly a beauty. A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a 'harvested being' and is being kept along with others in a utopian facility.