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M-NET ACTION HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 2012
Please note: This line-up is subject to change.
MONDAY PREMIERES
CURSEDMonday 03 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg and Joshua Jackson. (1995)
Young TV PR executive, Ellie, has been taking care of both herself and her socially inept brother Jimmy ever since her parent’s untimely death. While driving him home from a party, they’re involved in a car accident that will change their fates forever.
An encounter with a Werewolf leads to the pair exhibiting mysterious behaviour and becoming increasingly alluring to the opposite sex - an asset which will work nicely in their favour as their intentions get more sinister. DISASTER ZONE: VOLCANO IN NEW YORK
Monday 10 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Robert Lee. Starring Costas Mandylor, Michael Ironside and Alexandra Paul (2006)
In the bustling city of New York, residents go about their day unaware that a natural and deadly phenomenon could soon rock their worlds. A scientist’s secret geothermal experiments have triggered volcanic activity beneath the surface – but it won’t stay beneath the surface for long.
When a tunnel digger and his team spot lava seeping into the city’s aqueduct system, all they have are some dynamite and a hope that they can keep New York from suffering a volcanic meltdown.LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
Monday 17 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Paul Schneider. Starring Alexandra Paul, Shannon Lawson and Gary Hudson (2006)
Laura Benson is a woman tortured by the memories of a traumatic home invasion. On the brink of a nervous breakdown, she and her husband sell the home now plagued by bad memories, and move into a new house in a charming suburb.
However, Laura starts to suspect that her seemingly angelic neighbour may, in fact, be evil. But with her fragile mental state, is she really just being paranoid? ROUNDERS
Monday 24 September 2012 at 20:30 Directed by John Dahl. Starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton and John Malkovich (1998)
Mike, a law student who’s lost all his savings in a private Russian poker club, decides to settle down with his girlfriend and focus on his studies. But when Mike’s former gambling buddy, Worm is released from jail, it doesn’t take long for him to convince Mike to get back into poker.
With a debt hanging over Worm and a threatening loan shark on his tail, Worm and Mike delve into an unrelenting gambling binge that can only end badly.
TUESDAY PREMIERES
EQUILIBRIUM
Tuesday 04 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Kurt Wimmer. Starring Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson (2002) In a future where feeling emotion is outlawed, a man becomes aware of rebels who refuse to obey. He soon finds himself becoming infatuated with one of their members and questioning his existence.KISS OF DEATH
Tuesday 11 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Starring David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage (1995)
A convict can’t say no to one last deal - the chance at an early release from prison if he agrees to go undercover and gather evidence on a notorious crime lordTHE SKELETON KEY
Tuesday 18 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Iain Softley. Starring Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant (2005)
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
DERAILED
Tuesday 25 September 2012 at 20:00 Directed by Mikael Hafstrom. Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel (2005)
Charles meets the attractive Lucinda on a train and the two begin an affair. When they are violently attacked by a dangerous criminal, Charles find himself in a living hell.
WEDNESDAY PREMIERES
THE CORE
Wednesday 05 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Jon Amiel. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Hillary Swank and Stanley Tucci (2003)
The Earth’s electromagnetic forces begin to fail when the core of the earth suddenly stops spinning. The entire planet is now vulnerable to cosmic radiation, leading to catastrophic storms and inexplicable natural phenomena.
The only way to save Earth is to jump start the core. Dr. John Keyes and his expert team are tasked with drilling down to the core and using tons of nuclear explosives to hopefully give it the boost it needs. But as the crew gets deeper into the earth, they learn the truth about what caused this event in the first place.
FAIR GAME (1995)
Wednesday 12 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Andrew Sipes. Starring William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford and Steven Berkoff (1995)
Kate is an attorney in the wrong place at the wrong time. Kate, in the course of a divorce proceeding, tries to seize a freighter.
Little does she know that it’s the base of an international money laundering expert and terrorist, and he’s not happy about this possible eviction. Kate soon becomes aware that she’s stumbled onto something big and is now a marked woman in desperate need of protection.
Enter police detective Max Kilpatric, who is assigned to protect Kate. Amidst the chaos a romance blooms for the pair.
INDECENT PROPOSAL
Wednesday 19 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Adrian Lyne. Starring Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Robert Redford (1993)
Diana and David Murphy have a happy marriage, successful careers and a dream house on the beach. But when a recession hits, David loses his job and the couple runs into dismal financial troubles.
On a whim, they travel to Vegas with a borrowed $5000 and a hope that they can make some money. Their luck soon runs out, and when billionaire John Gage spots Diana at a casino, he is instantly drawn to her.
He makes her and David an indecent proposal that could just save them - $1 million for a night with Diana.
DEADLY PLEDGE
Wednesday 26 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Bert Kish. Starring Leighton Meester, Kailin See and Lisa Marie Caruk (2007)
Samantha Willows is a bright young college freshman eager to pledge to a sorority. She thinks she’s found the perfect one for her but she’s oblivious to the supernatural secret this sorority contains.
Through investigation she learns that there is a dark secret in this house, and it has to do with a pledge who disappeared from there a year ago.
THURSDAY PREMIERES
RED PLANET
Thursday 06 September 2012 at 20:30 Directed by Antony Hoffman. Starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore (2000)
In the year 2050, our planet is poised to become uninhabitable. Our only hope is to find a way to build and sustain a liveable habitat on our neighbouring planet Mars.
The Mars Terraforming Project is underway but when it hits a major snag a tough female astronaut is put in charge of a rescue mission to put things back on the proper course. But the crew run into a snag of their own when their craft crash lands on Mars and leaves them without communications.
Complicating matters is the robot that was designed to protect them, which has malfunctioned and is now hunting them down.
COBRA
Thursday 13 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by George P. Cosmatos. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen and Reni Santoni (1986)
Marion Cobretti is the cop they call in when all ‘regular’ police methods have failed to achieve the desired effect. When a cult of Charles Manson-like serial killers commit a murder, the only witness is the beautiful Ingrid who will now have to testify against them.
Cobra, who’s sent in to protect her, deposits her in a quiet town for safekeeping. But a police mole leaks her whereabouts to the cult and soon they’re coming for her - but so is Cobra.
CANNONBALL RUN II
Thursday 20 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Hal Needham. Starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Dean Martin (1984)
J.J. McClure once again takes off on a mad cross-country journey when a sheik offers $1,000,000 to the first person who can drive from Connecticut to California. BAIT
Thursday 27 September 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Jamie Foxx, David Morse and Robert Pastorelli (2000)
Two criminals, Jasper and Bristol, pull off a $40 million heist that leaves a trail of dead cops in their wake. Detective Edgar Clenteen will stop at nothing to get both men behind bars but succeeds in netting just Jasper.
While in his cell, Jasper suffers a fatal heart attack, but has just enough time to ask his cell mate Alvin Sanders to pass along a message to his wife. Seeing this as an opportunity to track down Bristol and the missing gold, Clenteen has Alvin secretly implanted with an experimental tracking device, and then lets him go free. Unaware that he’s being tracked, and trying to get a fresh start, Alvin soon realises that he’s been nothing more than bait.
SATURDAY PREMIERES
MAD MAXSaturday 01 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by George Miller. Starring Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel and Hugh Keays-Byrne (1979)
Set in the future, the earth has been ravaged by an apocalypse, leaving it a lawless shell. Policeman Max, has seen far too much bloodshed on the barren highways of the Australian outback by inhumane, brutish biker gangs, leaving him fed up of his job.
While on a long overdue vacation with his family, his happiness is ripped away when a gang murders his family in a revenge killing. Now this cop becomes a hardened, apathetic man who climbs into a racing machine of his own, and gets revenge.MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR
Saturday 08 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by George Miller. Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence and Michael Presto (1981)
Disillusioned and still struggling to deal with the death of his wife and child years ago, Max has become a wanderer and alienated himself from everyone. He survives every day in an Australian outback that has fallen into tribal warfare conducted from scattered armed camps. An encounter with a man called Gyro Captain sees him being taken into the camp of a sympathetic group also trying to survive. While he initially wants to rob the camp, he eventually joins them to fight a band of particularly vicious raiders. MAD MAX 3: BEYOND THUNDERDOME
Saturday 15 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by George Miller. Starring Mel Gibson, Tina Turner and Bruce Spence (1985)
It’s been 15 years since the events of the second Mad Max and nuclear war has decimated what little was left of a post-apocalyptic earth. An older and more hardened Max wanders the Australian outback with the few possessions he has - till it’s stolen by a father son team.
A hopeless Max ends up in Bartertown, a corrupt place where warring factions fight for control. Max finds himself the right hand of one of these overlords, Aunty Entity, who wants him to kill her opponents. When he refuses, he’s strapped to the back of an animal and sent out into the dessert to fend for himself.
He’s rescued by a band of tribal children and teens that look upon him as their saviour. But those who don’t, decide to wander out in search of civilisation and soon fall into the clutches of Aunty Entity, forcing Max to search for and rescue them.
FOREVER YOUNG
Saturday 22 September 2012 at 20:00Directed by Steve Miner. Starring Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood (1992)
In 1939, Daniel, a brilliant young pilot thinks he’s got courage to spare. But when the love of his life is involved in an accident, his world shatters. Not sure whether she’s going to come out of this alive, he realises he doesn’t have the strength to face it.
He offers himself as a guinea pig to a friend experimenting with cryogenics, and asks to be frozen for a year. At first reluctant, they go ahead with the experiment and it works. But the project is shut down and Daniel is forgotten. Fifty years later he is discovered by two young boys who thaw him out.
Daniel is bewildered by how much the world has changed, but is helped with the transition thanks to one of the boy’s mothers – whom he forms a romantic connection with.MAVERICK (1994)
Saturday 29 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood (1994)
Bret Maverick, a cocky but charming con man is eager to enter a major poker competition on a Louisiana steam boat. To make it in though, he needs $3000 - time to call in favours, and take advantage of a few small town poker players. But the deceptively sweet Annabelle is not so easily beaten and Maverick soon finds himself on a steamboat with a bunch of people he’s got to outwit and outmuscle.
SUNDAY PREMIERES
ABOVE THE LAW
Sunday 02 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by Andrew Davis. Starring Steven Seagal, Pam Grier and Henry Silva (1988)
The FBI instructs a martial arts specialist and Chicago policeman to ignore the massive shipment of military explosives they’ve just seized. But Nico Toscani is not so easily deterred, and boldly investigates the matter anyhow. Together with his tough female partner, Nico uncovers colossal corruption in the CIA.
FIRE DOWN BELOW
Sunday 09 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá. Starring Steven Seagal, Kris Kristofferson and Marg Helgenberger (1997)
Jack Taggart is an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). When an EPA rep is murdered in a small community, Jack is sent in to find his killers.
He poses as a handyman in an effort to find out what happened. He learns a ruthless businessman has been dumping toxic waste in the area, leading to serious health problems for the residents – and the murdered EPA agent was asking too many questions for the businessman’s liking.
NEXT OF KIN
Sunday 16 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by John Irvin. Starring Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson and Adam Baldwin (1989)
Truman comes from a small mountain town and has worked hard to get out and become a police officer in Chicago. When his brother is tragically killed by a gangster, Truman will do all he can to see that justice is done - the legal way. His other brother however, is livid and travels to Chicago to seek old fashioned street justice. Truman is left to choose between his brother’s way, or taking the lawful path.
SOLDIER
Sunday 23 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Starring Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee and Jason Isaacs (1998)
Some people are chosen from birth to become emotionless killing machines. One of these such soldiers is now a seasoned veteran and is pitted against a new breed of younger and even more brutal soldiers.
The encounter does not go in the favour of the vet who - believed to be dead - is dumped on a colonial planet. Here he discovers that you can live a life of peace and feel emotion, but is forced to call on his old self to defend his new home.
THE KILLING FIELDS
Sunday 30 September 2012 at 20:00
Directed by Roland Jofferson. Starring Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor and John Malkovich (1984)
Based on the harrowing true story of New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg’s coverage of the 1975 U.S pullout from Vietnam. His greatest ally and friend is Dith Pran, a Cambodian who acts as his translator and ‘man on the inside’.
Although Dith has an opportunity to escape when the U.S. army evacuates all Cambodian citizens, including his family, he is co-erced by Schanberg into staying behind and providing further information. It turns out to be decision that has disastrous consequences when Dith is captured by the dreaded Khmer Rouge.
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