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ABOUT MRS. LESLIE
FOX CLASSICS 1954 Drama (PG)
August 6
Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan. A boarding
house owner recalls her secret love
affair and how it affected her life.
ABSENCE OF MALICE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1981 Drama (PG vl)
August 17, 18, 23, 31
Paul Newman, Sally Field. A reporter
wrongly implicates a businessman
in a murder before trying to prove his
innocence.
ACCUSED, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1988 Drama
(MA 15+ va) 0
August 3, 4, 9, 16, 25
Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis. There is no
such thing as an innocent bystander in
this drama about a rape victim.
ACT OF VIOLENCE
TCM 1949 Drama (PG) 0
August 9, 10
Van Heflin, Janet Leigh. An embittered
soldier stalks his former commander for
betraying his men.
ADAM AND EVELYNE
MOVIE GREATS 1949 Comedy
August 3, 14, 23
Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons. A
society playboy becomes the guardian
of a dying friend’s innocent daughter.
ADDICTED TO LOVE
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Romantic
Comedy (PG)
August 2, 12 FP
Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick. Two
jilted lovers team up to spy on their
involved exes.
TCM 1940 Romance (PG) 0
August 28, 29
Charles Boyer, Bette Davis. Traces the
upstairs-downstairs affair between a
duke and his governess.
ALL WINTER WITHOUT FIRE
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France Drama
(M av)
August 8, 9, 17, 18
Dir. Greg Zglinski, Aurélien Recoing. Set
in the beautiful Swiss Jura, the story of
a marriage plunged into crisis after a
shattering tragedy.
ALONE IN THE NEON JUNGLE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1988 Drama (M)
August 6
Danny Aiello, Suzanne Pleshette. A
police captain is pushed to her limits
when she is assigned to an inner-city
precinct.
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS
MEET FRANKENSTEIN
CARTOON NETWORK 1999 Animation
August 26
Alvin and the gang discover a castle
that may be the house of a real
Frankenstein’s monster!
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Belgium in
Flemish/Dutch/French Thriller
(MA 15+ asv)
August 13, 14
Dir. Erik Van Looy, Jan Decleir. A hired
killer, struggling with the onset of
Alzheimer’s, turns avenging angel.
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (MA 15+ s)
August 8, 9, 23, 24
Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle. Worlds
collide in this cross-cultural romance
causing concern on both sides of
the fence.
AMERICAN NINJA
AGAINST THE ROPES
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (M v) 0
August 12, 13, 24, 25
Meg Ryan, Omar Epps.
A boxing promoter tough-talks her way
into the world of big-money fights.
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S DEATH
IN THE CLOUDS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1999 Mystery (M)
August 20
David Suchet, Philip Jackson. An
ingenious murder is committed on the
Paris to London flight.
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S THE
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT
STYLES
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1990 Drama (M)
August 12, 13, 14
David Suchet, Philip Jackson. Emily
has taken control of the family fortune
after her husband’s death, much to the
dismay of her sons.
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S ONE,
TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1990 Murder/
Mystery (M)
August 27
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser. Poirot’s
dentist is murdered just minutes after
the detective leaves his surgery.
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S THE ABC
MURDERS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1990 Murder/
Mystery (M)
August 19, 20, 21
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser. Poirot is
challenged to unmask a killer who is
murdering in alphabetical order.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1985 Action
(MA 15+ v)
August 12, 22, 23, 30
Michael Dudikoff, Judie Aronson. An
American soldier must thwart an Asian
arms racket.
AMERICAN ROMANCE, AN
TCM 1944 Romance
August 31
Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards. A
European immigrant becomes a master
of industry but almost loses his family.
AMITYVILLE HORROR, THE
MOVIE ONE 2005 Horror (MA 15+ vh)
August 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, 21
Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George. A
family move into their dream home only
for it to turn into a nightmare.
ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND
OF RON BURGUNDY
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (M svl)
August 2, 3, 17, 18
Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate. Ron
Burgundy is the top-rated newsman in
a male-dominated newsroom, but all
that’s about to change.
ANCHORS AWEIGH
TCM 1945 Musical 0
August 23, 24
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra.
A sailor promises to introduce his buddy
to a starlet.
ANDY HARDY’S DOUBLE LIFE
TCM 1942 Comedy 0
August 8, 9
Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden. A man
enters college and battles an
overwhelming interest in girls.
ANGEL FROM TEXAS, AN
TCM 1940 Comedy 0
August 22, 23
Ronald Reagan, Rosemary Lane. Two
con men take advantage of an innocent
man’s generosity.
AIR FORCE
TCM 1943 War 0
August 13, 14
John Garfield, Gig Young. A rousing
portrayal of aerial combat during the
aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
ANOTHER 48HRS.
ALAMO, THE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Western (M v)
August 8, 9, 18, 23, 24, 29
Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton.
Historical drama detailing the 1835-36
Texas revolution.
ALIEN SIEGE
SHOWTIME 2004 Science Fiction
(MA 15+ v) 0
August 4, 13, 26
Brad Johnson, Carl Weathers. A dying
alien race holds Earth hostage.
WORLD MOVIES 1999 Spain Drama
(M als)
August 8, 9
Dir. Pedro Almodovar, Penélope Cruz.
Pedro Almodovar’s Academy Award
winner is a candy coloured, love-filled
ode to women.
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ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO
ALZHEIMER CASE, THE
AE FOND KISS
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1974 Drama (PG)
August 9
Anthony Hopkins, Simon Ward. A young
British veterinarian becomes assistant
to the highly eccentric Siegfried
Farnson.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1990 Action
(M vl) 0
August 1, 5, 6, 16, 17, 26
Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte. A cop
breaks a prisoner out of jail to help
solve a case.
ANTS IN THE MOUTH
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Spain Thriller
(M asv)
August 31
Dir. Mariano Barroso, Eduard
Fernández. Martin is released from
jail in right-wing 1950s Spain and
heads straight for Cuba in search of
his girlfriend.
ANYA’S BELL
W. 1999 Drama (PG)
August 5
Della Reese, Kelly Rowan.
A blind woman forms a strong bond
with a 12-year-old boy.
September 2006
ANYTHING ELSE ✪
MOVIE ONE 2003 Romantic Comedy
(MA 15+ d)
August 18, 19, 27
Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs. Woody
Allen directs a love story about Jerry, a
comedy writer, who falls for Amanda.
APPLESEED ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Japan in English
Animation (TBC)
August 3, 4, 12
Dir. Shinji Aramaki. A visually stunning,
technically brilliant anime flick with
razor-sharp 3D-CGI visual effects.
ARAHAN
WORLD MOVIES 2004 South Korea
Action (M alv)
August 19, 20, 28, 29
Dir. Seung-Wan Ryu, Seung-beom Ryu.
An urban martial arts action pic that
blends The Matrix with Jackie Chan.
AROUND THE BEND
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M lvs)
August 9, 10, 18, 19, 24, 25
Michael Caine, Christopher Walken.
A tale of four generations of men on a
journey to uncover their family past.
ASPHALT JUNGLE, THE
TCM 1950 Crime (PG)
August 19, 20
Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen. A
master criminal assembles a gang of
specialists to pull off a robbery.
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
SHOWTIME 2005 Action
(MA 15+ v) 0
August 2, 3, 19, 20, 29, 30
Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne. An
understaffed Detroit police station is
under siege from a gang of rogue cops.
ASSIGNMENT BERLIN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Drama (M)
August 7
Sammi Davis, Cliff Robertson.
California detective, Tracy Ann Garret,
becomes the target of revenge.
ASSIGNMENT, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1997 Thriller
(MA 15+ lva)
August 3, 10, 22, 23, 28
Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland. A man
impersonates a feared international
terrorist.
ASSOCIATE, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1996 Comedy (M a)
August 10, 19, 23, 29 FP
Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest. A
female finance whiz invents a male
associate in order to be taken seriously.
AT POINT BLANK
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Sweden in
Swedish/Finnish/French Thriller (M lv)
August 19
Dir. Peter Lindmark, Sofia Helin. A young
female police investigator finds herself
personally involved in a case.
AT THE MERCY OF A
STRANGER
W. 1999 Thriller (M)
August 6
Tim Matheson, Joanna Kerns. A hit man
realises his intended victim is not the
conniving woman her husband has
made her out to be.
ATTACK
MOVIE GREATS 1956 War (PG)
August 1, 10, 19 FP
Jack Palance, Eddie Albert. Captain
Cooney sends Lieutenant Costa and
his men out to battle and refuses to
reinforce them.
AUDREY ROSE
MOVIE GREATS 1977 Horror (M av)
August 2, 3, 19, 29
Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins. A
stranger tries to convince a family
that their child is a reincarnation of
his daughter.
AVENGERS, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Action (PG)
August 9, 10, 21, 22
Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman. Secret
Agent John Steed and Mrs Peel team
up again in a remake of the 1960s
television show.
AVIATOR, THE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M al)
August 5, 6, 16, 17, 25, 26, 31
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett.
Follows Howard Hughes through his
phenomenal success, contrasting with
private behaviours close to madness.
B
BAADASSSSS!
SHOWTIME 2003 Drama
(MA 15+ sl) 0
August 2, 16, 28
Paul Rodriguez, Nia Long.
A drama about the big daddy of the
blaxploitation boom.
BABY FACE
TCM 1933 Drama (PG) 0
August 1, 2
George Brent, Barbara Stanwyck. A girl
uses her allure to make it to the top of a
prestigious bank.
BABYLON DISEASE
BEETHOVEN’S 5TH
SHOWTIME 2003 Family
August 5, 19, 27
John Larroquette, Faith Ford. Another
shaggy dog story from the hit sequels
about the world’s most meddlesome
mutt.
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Sweden Drama
(MA 15+ ls)
August 22, 23, 31
Dir. Daniel Espinosa, Nina Waha. A
drama seen through the eyes of a 20year-old living in Stockholm.
BEFORE SUNSET
BACKGROUND TO DANGER
BEHAVE YOURSELF!
BAD BASCOMB
BEHIND THE SUN
TCM 1943 Thriller
August 15, 16
George Raft, Brenda Marshall. In WWII,
neutral Turkey is the battleground for
spies and agents.
TCM 1946 Western 0
August 26, 27
Wallace Beery, Margaret O’Brien. A bank
robber on the run meets a little orphan.
BAD COMPANY
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Crime (MA 15+ s)
August 3, 12, 13, 22
Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin.
A former CIA agent joins a firm that
specialises in espionage activities.
BAD EDUCATION
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Spain Thriller
(MA 15+ ads)
August 26, 27
Dir. Pedro Almodovar, Gael García
Bernal. Two young men are reunited by
their dark past.
BADLANDS
TCM 1973 Drama (PG)
August 2, 3
Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek. A young
guy and his girlfriend take off on a
killing spree.
BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE,
THE
W. 2001 Drama (PG)
August 19
Glenn Close, Jena Malone. Follows the
adventures of a family who head west to
the California gold fields.
BALLS
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Germany Comedy
(M als)
August 1, 2, 10, 11
Dir. Sherry Hormann. Football goalie
Ecky is ousted from the team for
being gay.
BAND WAGON, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1953 Musical
August 19
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse.
A pretentious artistic director is hired
for a new Broadway musical.
BANDOLERO!
FOX CLASSICS 1968 Western (M)
August 4
James Stewart, Raquel Welch. A man
disguises himself as a hangman in
order to arrange the escape of his
brother.
BARBARIAN INVASIONS, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Drama (MA 15+ d)
August 8, 16 FP
Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau. A
man dying of cancer tries to find peace
in his last moments.
BARBIE OF SWAN LAKE
CARTOON NETWORK 2003 Animation
August 12
A young baker’s daughter is
transformed into a swan by Rothbart,
an evil wizard.
BARN RED
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama
August 16, 28
Ernest Borgnine, Kimberly Norris. A man
fights land developers to keep his farm.
BARNUM
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1986 Drama (M)
August 1
Burt Lancaster, Hannah Schygulla. The
amazing biography of the legendary
circus impresario.
BATMAN BEGINS ✪
MOVIE ONE 2005 Action (M v)
August 6, 7, 11, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28
Christian Bale, Michael Caine. A young
millionaire tramatised by the murder of
his parents takes on a new persona to
battle against criminals.
BEAU BRUMMELL
MOVIE ONE 2004 Romance (M ls)
August 1
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy. Nine years
have passed since Jesse and Celine had
a chance encounter on a train to Vienna.
TCM 1951 Comedy 0
August 6, 7
Farley Granger, Shelley Winters. A young
couple’s little terrier dog gets them in
big trouble.
WORLD MOVIES 2001 Brazil Drama
(M av)
August 15, 16
Dir. Walter Salles, Rodrigo Santoro. A
sumptuous adaptation of acclaimed
novel Broken April.
BEING HUMAN
TV1 1988 Comedy (PG)
August 11, 12
Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins. A boy’s
wish to be grown up comes true with the
help of a magical wizard.
BIG AND HAIRY
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Family (PG)
August 8
Richard Thomas, Donnelly Rhodes. A
new boy in a small island community
has a hard time making friends.
BIG CUBE, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1969 Drama (M dan)
August 5, 15, 24
Lana Turner, George Chakiris. Adriana
stands in the way of her stepdaughter
Lisa’s $3,000,000 inheritance.
BIG MOMMA’S
HOUSE 2 ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (PG)
Commences August 24
Martin Lawrence,
Nia Long. An FBI agent struggles with
his undercover life as an enormous
female housekeeper.
MOVIE EXTRA 1993 Drama (M sa)
August 8, 9, 18, 29
Robin Williams, Robert Carlyle. A series
of different stories detailing a man
who goes in search of the meaning
of courage.
BIG SLEEP, THE
BELIEVER, THE
BIG SLEEP, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 2001 Drama
(MA 15+ lva)
August 1, 2, 12, 23
Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix. A
confused young adult struggles with
the conflict between his beliefs and
his heritage.
BEN-HUR
TCM 1959 Action (PG) 0
August 24, 25
Charlton Heston, Haya Harareet. The
epic tale of a man standing up against
the oppressive Roman Empire.
BETRAYAL OF TRUST
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1994 Drama (M)
August 3, 4
Judd Hirsch, Judith Light. A woman’s
battle to prove her world-famous
psychotherapist guilty of raping his
patients.
BETRAYED
MOVIE ONE 2005 Crime (M v)
August 4, 13, 14, 19, 29
Stephen Baldwin, Kristy Swanson.
Detective Max Garrett is assigned
to protect the sultry photographer
Laura Cross.
BETTER TOMORROW, A
WORLD MOVIES 1986 Hong Kong in
Cantonese/Mandarin Action
(MA 15+ av)
August 16, 17
Dir. John Woo, Leslie Cheung. The
first instalment in the high octane
cult trilogy.
BETTER TOMORROW 2, A
WORLD MOVIES 1987 Hong Kong in
Cantonese/English Action (MA 15+ alv)
August 16, 17
Dir. John Woo, Leslie Cheung. Chow
Yun Fat returns in the sequel to the box
office smash A Better Tomorrow.
BETTER TOMORROW 3, A
WORLD MOVIES 1989 Hong Kong in
Cantonese/Vietnamese Action
(MA 15+ av)
August 16, 17, 28, 29
Dir. Tsui Hark, Chow Yun Fat. A look at
how Mark became the cool, gun-toting
gangster.
BEVERLY HILLS NINJA
SHOWTIME GREATS 1997 Comedy (M v)
August 4, 7, 12, 13, 27
Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan. Chris
Farley is either the Great White Ninja of
Japanese legend or a bumbling boob
– you decide.
BEWITCHED ✪
SHOWTIME 2005 Romantic Comedy
(PG als)
August 13, 14, 19, 20
Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell. A remake of
the hit TV series in this crafty comedy
from Sleepless in Seattle director
Nora Ephron.
BEYOND ‘JFK’: THE
QUESTION OF CONSPIRACY
TCM 1954 Drama (PG) 0
August 15, 16
Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor. A
lavishly told story of George Brummel,
the brilliant wit and fashion arbiter.
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Documentary (PG)
August 3, 13
Edward Asner, Kevin Costner. Picking
up where the film left off, with more
interviews concerning the events the
day that Kennedy was killed.
BEAUTIFUL GIRL
BEYOND THE CALL
W. 2003 Comedy (PG)
August 26
Fran Drescher, Marissa Jaret Winokur. A
not so attractive teenage girl decides to
enter a beauty pageant.
BIG
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (M)
August 15, 16, 17
Sissy Spacek, Arliss Howard. A
housewife learns that a former
boyfriend is on death row.
TCM 1946 Film Noir (PG)
August 5, 6
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall. Philip
Marlowe comes to the rescue of two
wealthy sisters.
MOVIE GREATS 1978 Crime (M v)
August 7, 8 FP
Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles. A private
detective is hired by a wealthy American
who is being blackmailed.
BILLABONG ODYSSEY
SHOWTIME 2003 Adventure (PG l) 0
August 12, 13, 17
Layne Beachley, Shawn Barron. Prepare
to be amazed at this big-wave, bigbudget, big screen doco.
BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB
MOVIE GREATS 1987 Drama (M v)
August 2, 11, 20, 21
Judd Nelson, Ron Silver. A charismatic
salesman joins forces with his preppy
schoolmates to make money.
BILLY TWO HATS
MOVIE GREATS 1974 Western (M v)
August 1, 10, 19
Gregory Peck, Desi Arnaz Jr. An old
outlaw teams up with a young halfbreed for one last job.
BIO-DOME
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (M ls)
August 14, 15, 31
Pauly Shore, Kylie Minogue. Bud and
Doyle are two loser friends who get
trapped in the ‘Bio-Dome’ trying
to show their girlfriends they are
environmentally aware.
BIRDS, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1963 Thriller (PG)
August 17, 31
Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor. Birds of all
kinds suddenly begin to attack people
in increasing numbers and with
increasing viciousness.
BITE THE BULLET
FOX CLASSICS 1975 Western (PG)
August 28
Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen. An
endurance race across the badlands
draws a strange crew of contenders.
BITTER SUITE
MOVIE EXTRA 2000 Comedy (PG)
August 10, 21
Timothy Dalton, Nastassja Kinski.
Two single parents and their kids
involuntarily share a holiday house for
the summer.
BLACK HAND
TCM 1950 Crime (PG) 0
August 23, 24
Gene Kelly, Teresa Celli. A son avenges
his father’s murder by a secret society
called the ‘Black Hand’.
BLACK HOLE, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1979
Sci-Fi (PG)
August 4, 12, 13, 28
Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins.
A US expedition finds a long-lost
madman in deep space.
BLADE
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Action (MA 15+ vh)
August 19, 20, 26
Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff. Blade is
a daywalker – a man with both vampire
and human traits.
BLESSED
MOVIE ONE 2004 Thriller (M slv)
August 10, 11
Heather Graham, James Purefoy.
A woman is impregnated with the
devil’s DNA.
MOVIE GUIDE
This month’s movies are listed alphabetically,
with dates, channels and film classification.
BLIND FAITH
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Drama (M)
August 8, 9, 10
Charles S Dutton, Courtney B Vance. A
police captain’s son is wrongly accused
of the murder of a white man.
BLIND HORIZON
MOVIE ONE 2003 Thriller (M vs)
August 7, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25
Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell. Frank tries
to bring back his memory and figure out
his true identity.
BLONDE CRAZY
TCM 1931 Comedy
August 30, 31
James Cagney, Joan Blondell. A con
man and his girlfriend scam their way
to the big time.
BLOOD MONEY
MOVIE GREATS 1988 Action (M vs)
August 6, 16, 25
Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin. A small-time
smuggler is perfectly satisfied until he
discovers his brother murdered.
BLOODKNOT
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama (M)
August 13
Patrick Dempsey, Kate Vernon. A family
shattered by the death of a son is
manipulated by a woman.
BONDI TSUNAMI
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Australia in
English/Japanese Road Movie (M dl)
August 17, 18, 22, 23
Dir. Rachael Lucas, Takehiro Abe.
The adventures of four punked-up,
Japanese surfers.
BONE COLLECTOR, THE ✪
TV1 1999 Thriller (M)
August 6, 7
Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie.
A crippled forensic expert enlists the
help of a young cop to track down a
serial killer.
BOOGEYMAN ✪
MOVIE ONE 2005 Horror (M h)
August 13, 14, 18, 19, 26, 27
Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel. A
successful magazine editor is haunted
by the death of his father.
BOOGIE NIGHTS
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Drama
(MA 15+ svd)
August 6, 7, 22, 23
Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds. A porn
director discovers Eddie Adams, a wellendowed 17-year-old.
BORN TO RUN
BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST
MOVIE GREATS 1979 Family
August 26
Tom Farley, Andrew McFarlane. Boyd
Farm’s existence depends on the
outcome of an exciting harness race.
BLUE LAGOON, THE
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller (M vl) 0
August 5, 6, 14, 15, 31
Matt Damon, Franka Potente. Matt
Damon returns as the amnesiac CIA
assassin, forced back into his deadly
profession.
TCM 1941 Drama 0
August 10, 11
Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson. After
losing her own child, a woman founds
an orphanage.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1980 Adventure
(M a) 0
August 2, 14
Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins.
Romance blossoms between two
adolescent castaways.
BLUEBERRY
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France in
English/North American Indigenous
Lang/French Western
(MA 15+ nv)
August 13, 14, 18, 19
Dir. Jan Kounen, Vincent Cassel. Vincent
Cassel and Juliette Lewis feature in this
psychedelic supernatural Western.
BLUES BROTHERS 2000
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Comedy
(PG vl) 0
August 4, 5, 17, 24, 25
Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman. The Blues
are back and looking to reform the
band again.
BOA VS PYTHON
SHOWTIME 2004 Science Fiction
(MA 15+ l)
August 3, 16, 29
David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman.
A 24-metre python escapes and
terrorises a city.
BOAT TRIP ✪
MOVIE ONE 2002 Comedy (M slv)
August 25, 26
Cuba Gooding Jr, Horatio Sanz. A man
and his pal mistakenly end up on a ‘gay
cruise liner’.
BODY CONFUSION
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Spain Black
Comedy (MA 15+ dls)
August 24, 25, 30
Dir. Vincente Penarrocha, Gustavo
Salmerón. The story of a down-onhis-luck cop.
BODY DOUBLE
BOURNE SUPREMACY, THE
BOY ON A DOLPHIN
FOX CLASSICS 1957 Adventure
August 13
Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren.
A sponge-diver discovers a sunken
statue of a boy on a dolphin.
BOYS, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Drama
(MA 15+ a)
August 1, 2, 10, 25, 30
David Wenham, Toni Collette. An awardwinning drama about a violent parolee.
BREAD AND TULIPS
WORLD MOVIES 2000 Italy Romantic
Comedy (M al)
August 8, 17
Dir. Silvio Soldini, Licia Maglietta. A
housewife gets a second chance at
life and love.
BREAKIN’ ALL THE RULES
SHOWTIME 2004 Romantic Comedy
(M s) 0
August 1, 13, 14, 26
Jamie Foxx, Gabrielle Union. A writer’s
guide to getting out of relationships
proves to be an obstacle to his own.
BRIDE OF VENGEANCE
FOX CLASSICS 1949 Drama (PG)
August 12
Paulette Goddard, John Lund. A female
Borgia is sent out to live up to the family
name by killing someone.
BRIDGE OF TIME
WORLD MOVIES 2003 France in French/
German/English Melodrama (M v)
August 6, 7, 21, 22
Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Isabelle
Adjani. Parisians gather at a classy
hotel to escape the Nazis during WWII.
BON VOYAGE
MOVIE GREATS 1962 Comedy
August 5, 14, 25
Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman. A typical
American family take a holiday to Paris,
and misadventure prevails!
BUFFALO DREAMS ✪
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
BROKEN ARROW
CARLITO’S WAY: RISE TO
POWER ✪
SHOWTIME 2005 Crime
(MA 15+ lvd)
August 25
Jay Hernandez, Sean Combs. A New
York gangster’s rise to power where one
wrong move can ignite a war.
CASA DE LOS BABYS
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Drama (M a)
August 7, 8, 17, 18, 23
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden.
Six American women spend their days in
Latin America waiting to adopt children.
CASABLANCA
DISNEY CHANNEL 2005 Adventure 0
August 13, 14
Adrienne Bailon, Simon Baker. Josh
– newly relocated to New Mexico – takes
a job on a buffalo preserve.
TCM 1942 Romance (PG) 0
August 29, 30
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman.
A jaded nightclub owner meets his
treasured ex-love.
BUGSY
CASE OF DEADLY FORCE, A
SHOWTIME GREATS 1991 Crime
(MA 15+ lv)
August 9, 10, 15, 21, 28
Warren Beatty, Annette Bening.
Nominated for 11 Oscars, this lavish
gangster drama stars Warren Beatty as
racketeer Bugsy Malone.
BUNKER, THE
MOVIE ONE 2001 Mystery (MA 15+ v)
August 3, 14
Jason Flemyng, Andrew Tiernan. Seven
German soldiers are enclosed in a
bunker during WWII.
BURNING HILLS, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1956 Western (PG)
August 5, 15, 16, 24
Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood. A man on the
run from cattle thieves is sheltered by
a Mexican girl.
BUTCHER’S WIFE, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1991 Romantic
Comedy (PG la)
August 2, 3, 15, 27
Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels. Demi Moore
stars in this mystical comedy as a
starry-eyed clairvoyant.
C
CAB TO CANADA
ARENA TV 1998 Comedy (M)
August 12
Jason Beghe, Maureen O’Hara. A taxi
driver becomes the reluctant chauffeur
of a septuagenarian.
CABIN FEVER
SHOWTIME 2003 Horror
(MA 15+ lva) 0
August 17 FP
Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd.
A group of friends at a remote cabin
are picked off one-by-one by a flesh
eating virus.
CALL ME BWANA
MOVIE GREATS 1963 Comedy
August 4, 5, 14, 23 FP
Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg. An expert is
sent on an African safari by the CIA to
try and locate an American capsule.
CALL OF THE WILD
SHOWTIME 2002 Drama (M l) 0
August 31
Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons. Franco
Zeffirelli directs Fanny Ardant in this
dramatic look at the last days of opera
diva Maria Callas.
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy (M d)
August 3, 24
Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily
Mortimer. Stephen Fry’s directorial
debut focuses on flappers as you’ve
never seen them before.
BON VOYAGE
SHOWTIME 2002 Comedy (M lsv)
August 15, 16, 26
Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis. Elvis is
alive and well in a Texas rest-home,
where he battles an ancient mummy
for his soul.
BRIGADOON
BODY OF EVIDENCE
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Murder Mystery
(R 18+ ans)
August 1, 21, 22
Dir. F.A Brabec, Martin Stropnický. A sex
party spirals out of control, and a young
girl ends up dead.
BUBBA HO-TEP
MOVIE GREATS 1972 Adventure (PG)
August 1, 12, 13, 22 FP
Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier. A
loyal house dog is stolen from his home
and turned into a sled dog.
TCM 1954 Musical 0
August 23, 24
Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse. Two
Americans discover a magical Scottish
village.
BOLERO
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (PG a)
August 6, 22 FP
Lacey Chabert, Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio. A quadriplegic woman’s
struggle to graduate from Harvard is a
fitting legacy for a real superman.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Adventure
(PG)
August 5
Susan Dey, Nigel Havers.
A trio of unlikely companions are thrown
together after their plane crashes.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1984 Thriller
(MA 15+ vs)
August 6, 7, 14, 18, 28, 29
Melanie Griffith, Dennis Franz. A body
double for a beautiful dancer is caught
up in a web of voyeuristic intrigue.
MOVIE EXTRA 1993 Thriller
(MA 15+ sal)
August 3, 14, 30 FP
Madonna, Willem Dafoe. A woman is
accused of murdering her much older
husband.
BROOKE ELLISON STORY, THE
CALLAS FOREVER
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Adventure
(PG)
August 4
Robert Urich, Kenny Vadas. A spoiled
rich kid learns the meaning of an
honest day’s work.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1986 Drama (PG)
August 28, 29, 30
Richard Crenna, John Shea. A crusading
attorney’s fight to defend the honour of
a black man.
CATHOLICS
MOVIE GREATS 1975 Drama (PG)
August 4, 13, 23
Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard. A young
priest is sent to a small island to
investigate a group of monks.
CELTIC PRIDE
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (M ls)
August 16, 17
Damon Wayans, Dan Aykroyd. Mike and
Jimmy, two die-hard sports fans, will
risk anything for the Celtics to win.
CHAIN LIGHTNING
TCM 1950 Drama (PG) 0
August 1
Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker. A
veteran pilot is tempted to test pilot a
new jet plane.
CHAMP, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1979 Drama (PG)
August 8
Jon Voight, Rick Schroder.
A washed-up boxer fights to keep
his son.
CHAMP, THE
TCM 1979 Drama (PG) 0
August 31
Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway.
A washed-up boxer fights to keep
his son.
CHARLIE’S ANGELS ✪
TV1 2000 Action (M)
August 13, 14
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore. The
Angels combine to track down a bitter
rival and rescue their boss, Charlie.
CHARLY
MOVIE GREATS 1968 Drama (PG)
August 1, 11, 21 FP
Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom. A
mentally-retarded adult becomes
a genius after a life changing operation.
CHASTITY
MOVIE GREATS 1969 Drama (PG)
August 2, 11, 12, 21 FP
Cher, Barbara London. A lonely young
girl hitchhikes across the country.
CHEECH & CHONG STILL
SMOKIN
SHOWTIME GREATS 1983 Comedy
(M lda)
August 2, 3, 12
Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong. The
stoner pals get caught up in a bizarre
case of mistaken identity.
CHEECH AND CHONG’S NEXT
MOVIE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1980 Comedy
(M dls) 0
August 1, 2, 9, 19, 29
Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin. Cheech
chasing babes and Chong chasing
adventure around Hollywood in a
Ferrari.
FOX CLASSICS 1950 Western (PG)
August 1
James Stewart, Jeff Chandler. How one
man’s courage helped to bring about
peace between the Apaches and the
Arizona settlers in the 1870s.
TCM 1937 Family 0
August 24, 25
Freddie Bartholomew.
A spoilt little rich boy gets a tough
lesson in life from a salty sea dog.
BROKEN FLOWERS ✪
CAPTIVE HEARTS ✪
DISNEY CHANNEL 2003 Comedy 0
August 19, 29, 30
Raven, Lynn Whitfield. Ninth graders
will stop at nothing to become the
hippest singing sensations.
CARANDIRU ✪
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Drama (M)
August 7, 8
Sarah Lancashire, Timothy Spall. A
mother is wrongfully convicted of killing
two of her babies.
BOX OFFICE 2005 Drama (M lnd)
Commences August 24
Bill Murray, Sharon Stone.
A rich but lonely man receives an
anonymous letter telling him he
has a son.
BROKEN VOWS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1987 Murder/
Mystery (M)
August 6
Tommy Lee Jones, Annette O’Toole.
A catholic priest investigates the
mysterious death of a parishioner.
MOVIE ONE 2005 Thriller (TBC)
August 1, 2, 11, 12, 22, 23, 30
Tracey Gold, Chris Kramer. A new
executive for a company has been
kidnapped and held for ransom.
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Brazil Drama
(TBC)
August 15, 16, 22, 23
Dir. Hector Babenco, Luiz Carlos
Vasconcelos. A true story about the
Carandiru prison in São Paulo.
CHEETAH GIRLS, THE
CHERISHED
CHILD’S CRY FOR HELP, A
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1994 Drama (PG)
August 1, 2
Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber. Dr Paula
Spencer struggles against resistance
from her male colleagues.
G: General Exhibition PG: Parental Guidance recommended for persons under 15 M: Mature Audiences (15 and over) MA:
Not recommended for persons under 15 a: adult themes d: drug reference l: language n: nudity s: sex scenes v: violence
CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED
CLEARING, THE
TCM 1963 Horror (PG) 0
August 19, 20
Ian Hendry, Barbara Ferris. Six superintelligent children possess powers
capable of spreading death and
destruction.
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller (M vl) 0
August 8, 9, 22, 28, 29
Robert Redford, Helen Mirren. A
successful businessman kidnapped by
an unhinged co-worker.
CHINAMAN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1999 Biography
(M)
Pt 1 & 2: August 13
Pt 1 & 2: August 14
Billy Zane, Timothy Dalton. Chronicles
the rise and fall of Cleopatra, the great
warrior queen.
WORLD MOVIES 2005 Denmark in
Danish/Mandarin/Swedish Romantic
Drama (M l)
August 27, 28
Dir. Henrik Ruben Genz, Bjarne
Henriksen. A sweet, winsome tale of
love found in the most unlikely places.
CHOICES
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1986 Drama (M)
August 13
Jacqueline Bissett, George C Scott. A
man is faced with a moral dilemma
after forbidding his teenage daughter
to have an abortion.
CHOUCHOU
CLEOPATRA
CLIENT, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Thriller (M v)
August 17, 18
Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones. An
11-year boy finds himself in hot water
with both the Feds and the Mob.
CLINT EASTWOOD: GUT
INSTINCT
WORLD MOVIES 2003 France in French/
Arabic/English Comedy (M ls)
August 13
Dir. Merzak Allouache, Gad Elmaleh.
A young North African tries to deal
with life as an illegal immigrant and
drag queen.
SHOWTIME 2003 Documentary (M v)
August 12, 26 FP
Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese.
Highlights from films and interviews
with Clint Eastwood and his family.
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A
SHOWTIME GREATS 1984 Fantasy
August 4, 15, 21, 25
George C Scott, Frank Finlay. A miserly
humbug is visited by the three ghosts
of Christmas.
TV1 1977 Sci-Fi (PG)
August 27, 28
Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut. A
power repairman and a housewife who
have had UFO sightings are determined
to make contact.
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A
COBWEB, THE
TCM 1938 Drama
August 17, 18
Reginald Owen, Kathleen Lockhart.
Scrooge is shown the folly of his ways by
the ghosts of Christmas past, present
and future.
CHRISTMAS IN
CONNECTICUT
TCM 1945 Comedy 0
August 3, 4
Dennis Morgan, Barbara Stanwyck.
A fake home expert must celebrate
Christmas at home!
CHRISTMAS MEMORY, A
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Drama
August 16
Patty Duke, Eric Lloyd.
A young boy lives with his cousins
and three elderly spinsters in an old
farm house.
CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK,
THE
SHOWTIME 2004 Science Fiction
(M vl) 0
August 1, 12, 13, 25, 26 FP
Vin Diesel, Thandie Newton. A space
cowboy is targeted by an intergalactic
master race and chased by bounty
hunters.
CIMARRON
TCM 1960 Western (PG) 0
August 14, 15
Glenn Ford, Maria Schell. A pioneer
couple plays a major role in the settling
of Oklahoma.
CINCINNATI KID, THE
TCM 1965 Drama (PG) 0
August 12, 13
Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld. Card
sharps try to deal with personal
problems during a big game.
CINDERELLA STORY, A
MOVIE ONE 2004 Romance (PG)
August 5, 10, 15, 25
Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray. Sam
leaves her mobile phone behind where
Austin finds it, only to try and track her
down and fall in love.
CITIZEN RUTH
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy
(MA 15+ adl)
August 6, 7, 23, 24
Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz. Ruth, a
broke drug user becomes pregnant for
the fifth time.
CITY LIGHTS
WORLD MOVIES 1931 USA in Silent
Comedy
August 1
Dir. Charles Chaplin, Charles Chaplin.
Chaplin’s hapless Tramp is smitten
with a blind flower seller and risks
everything to help her see again.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE
THIRD KIND
TCM 1955 Drama (PG) 0
August 28, 29
Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall. A
doctor has difficulty coping with his
own marriage.
CODE 46 ✪
MOVIE ONE 2003 Thriller (MA 15+ n)
August 4, 5, 13, 19, 20, 31
Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton. Set
in a brave new world where in-vitro
fertilization, embryo splitting, and
cloning have become widespread.
CODE BREAKERS
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (PG)
August 9, 10, 19
Scott Glenn, Zachery Ty Bryan. A
cheating scandal rocks West Point
Academy, as 83 cadets are dismissed.
COLDITZ
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Drama (M)
Pt 1: August 25
Pt 2: August 26
Damian Lewis, Sophia Myles. Jack Rose
is held prisoner in Germany’s notorious
Colditz Castle.
COLOR OF LOVE: JACEY’S
STORY, THE
W. 2000 Drama (PG)
August 26
Gena Rowlands, Louis Gossett Jr.
A white grandmother and black
grandfather put aside their differences
in order to care for their granddaughter.
COMEDIANS, THE
TCM 1967 Drama (PG) 0
August 5, 6
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor. An
ambassador’s wife and a hotel owner
are caught in political intrigue in Haiti.
COMPANY, THE
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama (PG)
August 3, 13, 22, 23, 26
Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell.
A look at the world of ballet as only
Altman could envision it.
CONCORDE: AIRPORT ‘79,
THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1979 Adventure
(PG va)
August 6, 14
Alain Delon, George Kennedy. George
Kennedy returns in the 4th Airport film,
this time co-piloting a supersonic jet
with a bomb on board.
CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE
DRAMA QUEEN
DISNEY CHANNEL 2004 Comedy (PG)
August 27
Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia. Lola feels
her life is simply not worth living.
CLAMBAKE
CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG
BRIDE ✪
CLASS WARFARE
CONFIDENTIAL AGENT
MOVIE GREATS 1967 Musical
August 26, 27
Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares. An heir
to an oil fortune decides to trade place
with a poor water-ski instructor.
ARENA TV 2001 Thriller (M)
August 19
Lindsey McKeon, Wade Carpenter. A
teen plans to dispose of a classmate
and steal his winning lottery ticket.
SHOWTIME 2004 Comedy (M as)
August 9, 10, 23
Shannon Elizabeth, Eddie McClintock.
Shannon Elizabeth stars as a bride-tobe planning her dream wedding.
TCM 1945 Drama 0
August 20, 21
Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall. A Spanish
spy and an American heiress battle
fascists in England.
✪ = Television Premiere FP = Final Play
September 2006
2
CONNIE AND CARLA
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (PG)
August 1
Toni Collette, Nia Vardalos. A mob mixup in Chicago sends two chanteuses
screaming for LA.
CONQUEST
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Thriller
(MA 15+ s)
August 4, 5, 13, 23, 24
Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche. A middleaged politican becomes involved with
his son’s fiancée.
CONTACT
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Drama (M a)
August 3, 4, 15, 23
Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey.
An astronomer discovers an intelligent
signal from deep space.
CONVICT COWBOY
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Action (M vl)
August 7, 14, 24
Jon Voight, Kyle Chandler. A rodeo
champion continues his winning streak
on the prison rodeo circuit.
COPYCAT
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Thriller (MA 15+ v)
August 12, 13, 24, 25
Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter. A
psychiatrist who specialises in serial
killers finds herself being threatened
online.
COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO,
THE
MOVIE GREATS 1975 Adventure (PG)
August 7, 19
Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard.
Edmond Dantes’ life is on the perfect
course. He is about to become a Captain
and marry his true love.
CRIMINAL INTENT ✪
CRIMSON FORCE
SHOWTIME 2005 Sci- Fi
(MA 15+ va) 0
August 2, 15, 22
C Thomas Howell, Tony Amendola.
Earth’s survival hangs in the balance.
CROSSING GUARD, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Drama (M lvn)
August 18, 19, 31
Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Penn. Gale
finally realises he must confront his
many demons.
CRUELLEST DAY, THE ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2002 Italy in Italian/
Croatian/Serbian Drama (TBC)
August 1, 2, 5, 6
Dir. Ferdinandov Orgnani, Giovanna
Mezzogiorno. A compelling drama
based on the true story of the 1994
murder of Italian news reporter
Illaria Alpi.
DANCING LADY
TCM 1933 Romance 0
August 14, 15
Clark Gable, Joan Crawford. A starstudded cast where Fred Astaire debuts
as himself.
DANIELLE STEEL’S NO
GREATER LOVE
W. 1996 Romance (M)
August 5
Kelly Rutherford, Chris Sarandon. A
survivor of the Titanic gradually comes
out of her shell.
DARK HORSE
WORLD MOVIES 2005 Denmark in
Danish/English/French Comedy (TBC)
August 1, 22, 23, 29, 30
Dir. Dagur Kári, Jakob Cedergren. A
comedy about an irresponsible graffiti
artist and his slacker friends.
SHOWTIME 2003 Sci- Fi
(MA 15+ vh) 0
August 9, 27
Shiri Appleby, Richard Burgi. The
immortal Lilith, banished from Eden
and reincarnated as a 24-year-old
amnesiac, is recruited by an ancient
society.
DATE WITH JUDY, A
TCM 1948 Musical 0
August 9, 10
Wallace Beery, Jane Powell. Two
teenage girls struggle with love and
their parents.
DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1973 Thriller
(PG v) 0
August 3, 10, 21, 24
Edward Fox, Tony Britton. A killer
matches wits with a police inspector in
an assassination plot.
DEAD BODIES
MOVIE ONE 2003 Comedy (M vsl)
August 2, 4, 30, 31
Andrew Scott, Kelly Reilly. Tommy’s
ex-girlfriend Jean is back and he is
miserable.
CRY FREEDOM
SHOWTIME GREATS 1987 Drama
(PG lva) 0
August 9, 14, 21, 24 FP
Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline. A
white journalist befriends a black antiapartheid activist.
CUBE
WORLD MOVIES 1997 Canada Thriller
(M lv)
August 9, 10
Dir. Vincenzo Natali, Nicole de Boer.
Six ordinary strangers find themselves
trapped in a surreal prison.
CURDLED
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (MA 15+ v)
August 8, 9, 30, 31
William Baldwin, Angela Jones. Gabriela
is so fixated on death she gets a job
cleaning up crime scenes.
CYBER SEDUCTION: HIS
SECRET LIFE
SHOWTIME 2005 Drama
(MA 15+ sa) 0
August 16, 28
Jeremy Sumpter, Kelly Lynch. A
teenager’s addiction to internet porn
threatens his future.
D
SHOWTIME 2004 Action (M s) 0
August 1, 13, 14, 25
Sara Foster, Devon Aoki.
A crime-fighting unit of foxy schoolgirls.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Drama (M)
August 15, 16, 28, 29
Richard Briers, Jean Heywood. When
Larry falls and breaks an ankle, he
is no longer able to look after his
beloved wife.
3
DAMES
TCM 1934 Musical 0
August 30, 31
Dick Powell, Joan Blondell. Ezra Ounce
offers a $10 million inheritance to his
cousin if she and her family meet his
moral standards.
DARKLIGHT
MOVIE ONE 2005 Crime (TBC)
August 8, 9, 17, 27
Vanessa Angel, Sebastian Spence.
Devons’ beautiful ex-wife is found
viciously murdered, and all evidence
points to him.
DAD
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (M)
August 17
Farrah Fawcett, Peter Coyote. A woman
goes on an journey to find the son she
gave up for adoption.
DAMAGE ✪
TCM 1937 Drama 0
August 28, 29
Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo. A Polish
countess sacrifices her virtue to save
her homeland.
D.E.B.S.
DALVA
DEATH WISH II
SHOWTIME GREATS 1982 Action
(MA 15+ vl)
August 1, 5, 18, 26 FP
Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland. Charles
Bronson returns as the crusading
vigilante.
DEATH WISH V:
THE FACE OF DEATH
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Action (MA 15+ v)
August 6, 15 FP
Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down. A
man begins his assault on the mob to
avenge his lover’s death.
DEATHLANDS: HOMEWARD
BOUND
SHOWTIME 2003 Science Fiction
(MA 15+ av)
August 24
Vincent Spano, Jenya Lano. A rebel
returns home to his brother and
stepmother.
DELIVERANCE OF ELAINE,
THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 18
Lloyd Bridges, Chris Cooper. A woman’s
correspondence with a prison inmate
leads to a shocking discovery.
DELTA FORCE, THE ✪
SHOWTIME GREATS 1986 Action (M v)
August 5, 6, 14, 15, 22, 30
Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin. The bad guys
don’t stand a chance in this hostage
drama inspired by real-life events.
DEMONLOVER
WORLD MOVIES 2002 France in French/
English/Japanese Erotic (R 18+ asv)
August 17, 25
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Connie Nielsen. An
erotic cyber-thriller set in the world of
Japanese anime.
DERSU UZALA
WORLD MOVIES 1974 USSR in Russian
Adventure
August 15, 16
Dir. Akira Kurosawa, Yuri Solomin. A
story of friendship between an officer
and an elderly peasant .
DESOLATION SOUND
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (M svl)
August 9, 16, 20, 28
Laurel’s friend Elizabeth arrives in town
with a secret.
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
DINOSAUR
DINOSAUR ISLAND
DISNEY CHANNEL 2002 Animation 0
August 9
Kim Carlson, Philip Chen. Four teens
cast in a pilot for a Survivor-type TV
series end up on a hidden island home.
DIRTY DANCING: HAVANA
NIGHTS
DEALER
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (PG)
August 4, 14, 21, 22, 30, 31
Romola Garai, Diego Luna. An American
girl moves to Cuba with her parents and
falls in love with a local dancer.
DEATH BECOMES HER
MOVIE EXTRA 2002 Thriller
(MA 15+ va)
August 1
Audrey Tautou, Sergi López. An illegal
immigrant tries to make a new life
for himself.
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
DIVE BOMBER
SHOWTIME GREATS 1992 Comedy
(M va)
August 2, 3, 8, 18, 25, 26
Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep. Two divas’
surgery-enhanced rivalry goes beyond
the grave.
TCM 1941 War (PG) 0
August 1
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith.
A scientist fights to prevent pilots from
blacking out.
DEATH IN THE FAMILY, A
DIVIDED HEART, A
SHOWTIME 2000 Drama (PG a)
August 2, 19, 30
Annabeth Gish, John Slattery. A
Tennessee family’s idyllic life is rocked
by a car crash.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Drama (PG)
August 3, 4, 12, 21, 22 FP
Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich. Arthur
Miller’s classic play is brought to life.
September 2006
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Comedy
(PG la) 0
August 1, 2, 8, 16, 26, 27
Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis.
A workaholic doctor who can talk to
animals learns a thing or two about
being human.
DODGE CITY
FOX CLASSICS 1939 Western (PG)
August 12, 13
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland. A
fighting cattleman clashes with the
“boss” of Dodge City.
DOING HARD TIME
SHOWTIME 2004 Action
(MA 15+ lv) 0
August 5, 20, 29
Boris Kodjoe, Giancarlo Esposito. A
dad commits a crime to get himself
locked up with the prisoners who took
his son’s life.
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (M as)
August 1, 11, 21, 29
Susan Prior, Christopher Stollery. A
woman begins an affair with a soldier.
DIVORCEE, THE
TCM 1930 Drama 0
August 1, 2
Chester Morris, Norma Shearer. A
flirtatious husband gets what he
dishes out.
E
SHOWTIME GREATS 1979 Action (M v)
August 19, 20, 28, 29
Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan.
Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood attempts
to bust himself and two fellow convicts
out of prison.
EASY
WORLD MOVIES 2004 UK Drama
(MA 15+ lns)
August 30, 31
Dir. Richard Hawkins, Ray Winstone. A
middle-aged man’s visits to a prostitute
are not what they seem.
MOVIE GREATS 1979 Western (PG)
August 27
Martin Sheen, Harvey Keitel. A city man
becomes caught up in a life-and-death
struggle with an Indian chief.
SHOWTIME 2004 Romantic Comedy
(MA 15+ s) 0
August 3, 25 FP
Marguerite Moreau, Brian F O’Byrne.
A 20-something’s single life suddenly
gets complicated.
ED WOOD
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Comedy (M ld)
August 3, 31
Johnny Depp, Martin Landau. The true
story of the undisputed worst film
director of all time.
EDUCATING RITA
SHOWTIME GREATS 1983 Comedy
(PG l) 0
August 8, 12, 21, 22
Michael Caine, Julie Walters. A
housewife with a thirst for knowledge
enrols in a course.
EIGER SANCTION, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1975 Action (M)
August 6, 15
Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy. A
professor, once a paid killer, is lured
off campus by his former employer
to kill again.
EIGHT ON THE LAM
DON’T MOVE
11:14
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Thriller (MA 15+ a)
August 1, 11, 27 FP
Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh. A
woman must face the truth after years
of living a lie.
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Italy Drama
(MA 15+ als)
August 28, 29
Dir. Sergio Castellitto, Penélope Cruz.
A surgeon looks back on his life as his
daughter lies dying.
DONNIE BRASCO
MOVIE GREATS 1967 Comedy (PG)
August 5, 6, 14, 30
Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller. A widower with
seven children believes that his luck
is changing.
SHOWTIME 2003 Drama (MA 15+ as)
August 22, 23
Hilary Swank, Henry Thomas. Five
random, yet connected, secrets collide
in a suburban car crash at 11.14pm.
ELF
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Drama (MA 15+ vl)
August 5, 25 FP
Johnny Depp, Al Pacino.
An FBI agent integrates himself into
the mafia.
MOVIE ONE 2003 Comedy
August 29, 30
Will Ferrell, James Caan. A man that
has been raised as an elf decides to
search for his real identity.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
ELIZABETHTOWN ✪
DOWNFALL ✪
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
TCM 1941 Horror (PG) 0
August 29, 30
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman. The
classic chilling tale of the obsessed
scientist.
DR. KILDARE’S STRANGE
CASE
TCM 1940 Drama 0
August 15, 16
Lew Ayres, Laraine Day. Dr Kildare takes
a risky chance to save a man’s sanity.
DR. NO
MOVIE GREATS 1963 Action (PG)
August 20
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress. 007 is
sent to Jamaica to find a kidnapped
colleague.
DREAM TEAM, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1989 Comedy (M vl)
August 3, 8, 9, 17, 25
Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd.
Psychiatric inmates are accidentally let
loose on the streets of Manhattan.
DREAMSHIP SURPRISE:
PERIOD 1
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Germany in
German/English Comedy (M ls)
August 2, 3, 15
Dir. Michael Bully Herbig, Rick
Kavanian. When Mars attacks Earth,
the only hope for survival is a bunch of
bickering queens.
DRIVER, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1978 Crime (M va)
August 2, 8, 19, 20, 24
Bruce Dern, Ryan O’Neal.
A bullying cop is on an obsessive quest
to bring down a getaway driver.
DYING YOUNG
SHOWTIME GREATS 1991 Romantic
Drama (M l)
August 1, 4, 11, 17, 24 FP
Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott. A young
man suffering from leukaemia and his
nurse fall in love.
ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
EAGLE’S WING
DOLORES CLAIBORNE
MOVIE EXTRA 2004 Drama (MA 15+ av)
August 23, 24
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara.
Details the final days of Hitler and
his staff.
TCM 1936 Horror (PG) 0
August 21, 22
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan. A
mad Devil’s Island escapee shrinks his
victims to the size of dolls.
DEAD PRESIDENTS
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Hungary Drama
(MA 15+ adl)
August 9, 10
Dir. Benedek Fliegauf, Felician
Keresztes. The story of the final 24 hours
in the life of a drug pusher.
DOCTOR DOLITTLE
DEVIL-DOLL, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Thriller (M vs)
August 1, 2, 10, 11, 24
Jennifer Beals, Daniel Baldwin. The
Clock Killer’s past and future murders
are seen through a psychic.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Drama (M)
August 23, 24
Anne Heche, Jonathan LaPaglia.
Strange things begin to happen to Emily
Parker, a successful lawyer.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Crime (M)
Pt 1: August 29
Pt 2: August 30
Tom Conti, Samantha Bond. A former
forensic scientist discovers that he’s
the prime suspect in a murder case.
TCM 1967 Musical 0
August 16, 17
Elvis Presley, Annette Day.
A teen heiress falls for an rock singer
in London.
DISNEY CHANNEL 2000 Animation
(PG) 0
August 6, 7, 12, 31
DB Sweeney, Samuel E Wright. A group
of dinosaurs race against time to reach
a beautiful valley.
DEAD WILL TELL, THE
DNA
SHOWTIME GREATS 1995 Mystery
(M lsv)
August 11, 12, 22, 29, 30
Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals. An
unemployed war hero stumbles into
detective work.
DEAD ON SIGHT
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Action (MA 15+ v)
August 24, 25
Larenz Tate, Chris Tucker. A man returns
home from Vietnam to find that his
country has turned its back on him.
DIVORCING JACK
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Thriller
(MA 15+ slv)
August 2, 12, 22
Rachel Griffiths, David Thewlis. After
Starkey is caught by his wife in the
arms of another woman, he becomes
involved in a political fray.
EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING IS
ILLUMINATED ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (M l)
Commences August 17
Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz. The
beautifully offbeat tale of a man’s
search for his grandfather’s WWII
saviour.
EXCALIBUR
MOVIE GREATS 1981 Adventure (M vsn)
August 8, 9, 18
Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren. The classic
tale of King Arthur and his Knights of
the Round Table.
EXCUSE MY DUST
TCM 1951 Comedy 0
August 25, 26
Red Skelton, Sally Forrest.
A musical comedy about a car inventor
who almost loses his girlfriend.
EXECUTIVE ACTION
FOX CLASSICS 1973 Thriller (PG)
August 2
Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan. A
millionaire engages a professional spy
to organise the assassination of US
President Kennedy.
F
FACING WINDOWS
WORLD MOVIES 2002 Italy Drama
(M als)
August 11, 12
Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, Giovanna
Mezzogiorno. A beautiful mother of two
is at an emotional crossroads.
FAHRENHEIT 9/11
MOVIE EXTRA 2004 Documentary
(M vla)
August 10, 11, 16, 28, 29
Michael Moore. Michael Moore examines
the Bush administration’s ties to
Saudi Arabia.
BOX OFFICE 2005 Romantic Comedy
(M l)
Commences August 10
Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst. A whiz
kid returns to his birthplace for his
father’s funeral.
FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN,
THE
ELVIS ON TOUR
FAMILY STONE, THE ✪
TCM 1972 Music
August 16, 17
Elvis Presley. This documentary looks at
the King’s touring in the early ‘70s.
EMPIRE FALLS
MOVIE EXTRA 2005 Drama (M lvs)
Pt 1: August 12, 21
Pt 2: August 12, 22
Ed Harris, Paul Newman.A story about a
small town diner owner, Miles, and the
town’s misguided honest citizens.
END OF THE CENTURY: THE
STORY OF THE RAMONES
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Documentary (M ld)
August 1, 14, 27 FP
Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone. The
true story of the punk rock band.
ENEMY MINE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1985 Science
Fiction (M v)
August 7, 8, 18, 19, 29, 30
Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr. Two
enemy pilots – one alien, one human –
are forced into a close encounter when
they crash-land on the same planet.
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, AN
WORLD MOVIES 2005 Norway in
Norwegian/Cantonese Drama (M lsv)
August 10, 11
Dir. Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Jørgen Langhelle.
The story of a man torn between
loyalty to his family and the need to
tell the truth.
ENTITY, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1981 Horror
(MA 15+ vha) 0
August 8, 9
Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver. A single
mother’s tales of repeated rape by
a mysterious entity are treated with
disdain.
ENVY
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy (M va) 0
August 1
Jack Black, Ben Stiller. Funny guy Jack
Black gets rich quick and Ben Stiller’s
got a killer case of envy.
MOVIE GREATS 1984 Drama (M la)
August 5, 23, 24
Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton. Two men
are arrested on a charge of espionage.
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (M al)
Commences August 3
Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson.
The family of a career girl’s fiancé is
determined to destroy their relationship.
FAMILY UNDER SIEGE
W. 2002 Thriller (M)
August 6
Mel Harris, Daniel Baldwin. A family’s
life is turned upside down when robbers
invade their home.
FAN, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Thriller (MA 15+ vl)
August 22, 23, 30, 31
Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes. The only
thing quick-tempered salesman Will
Renard can depend on is baseball.
FANDANGO
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Comedy (PG)
August 4, 20, 30 FP
Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson. Before
graduating, a group of friends head out
of town for one last party.
FANFAN LA TULIPE
WORLD MOVIES 2003 France Adventure
(M nv)
August 12, 13, 29, 30
Dir. Gerard Krawczyk, Penélope Cruz.
Penelope Cruz stars alongside Vincent
Perez in the lavish, bodice-ripping
remake of the French classic.
FAST LANE TO MALIBU
SHOWTIME 2000 Erotic Comedy
(MA 15+ sa)
August 18 FP
Tracy Ryan, Renee Rea. Two college boys
hit the road en route to a sex party.
FASTER
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Documentary (M l)
August 11, 12, 23, 24
Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi. The
ecstasy and terror of life in the
fast lane.
FAT CITY
FOX CLASSICS 1972 Drama (M)
August 18, 19
Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges. A washed
up ex-boxer supports himself as a
fruit picker.
MOVIE GUIDE
FATAL INSTINCT
FOLLOW THAT DREAM
FATHER’S CHOICE, A
FOOTBALL FACTORY, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1993 Comedy (PG)
August 9, 26
Sean Young, Armand Assante. A
hilarious take on suspenseful movies
such as Basic Instinct and Cape Fear.
W. 2000 Drama (PG)
August 27
Peter Strauss, Mary McDonnell. A rodeo
cowboy unaccustomed to responsibility
is left to raise his daughters.
FELICITY: AN AMERICAN
GIRL ADVENTURE ✪
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (TBC)
August 6, 15, 31
John Schneider, Marcia Gay Harden.
Nine-year-old Felicity comes across a
beautiful horse.
FEMININE TOUCH, THE
TCM 1941 Comedy 0
August 14, 15
Don Ameche, Rosalind Russell. An
author, writing a book on jealousy,
discovers his wife is an expert on
the subject.
FESTIVAL EXPRESS
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Netherlands in
English Feature Documentary (M dl)
August 6
Dir. Bob Smeaton.
The longest non-stop rock ‘n’ roll
party ever.
FIERCE CREATURES
SHOWTIME GREATS 1997 Comedy
(M la)
August 4, 11, 17, 23
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis. The team
from A Fish Called Wanda are back.
54
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Drama (M dls)
August 4, 5, 16, 17, 29, 30
Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek. For four
working class wannabes, 54 was the
place to find stardom and success.
FIGHTING CHOICE, A
MOVIE GREATS 1986 Drama (PG)
August 8, 9
Beau Bridges, Patrick Dempsey. A
teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his
parents for the right to have surgery.
FIGHTING FOR MY
DAUGHTER
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama (PG)
August 7, 8, 14
Lindsay Wagner, Piper Laurie. A mother
goes undercover as a prostitute to find
her daughter.
FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS,
THE
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy (PG l) 0
August 10, 17, 18 FP
Cuba Gooding Jr, Beyoncé Knowles. A
man stands to inherit $150,000 if he
can lead a choir to gospel glory.
FINDING NEVERLAND
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (PG)
August 19, 20, 30, 31
Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet. J.M Barrie
meets a family with four young boys and
his imagination comes to life, creating
Peter Pan.
FINE MADNESS, A
MOVIE GREATS 1966 Comedy (PG)
August 5, 15, 16, 25
Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward. A
troubled poet becomes obsessed with
every woman who crosses his path.
FIRECREEK
MOVIE GREATS 1968 Western (M v)
August 7, 16, 26 FP
Henry Fonda, James Stewart. Larkin
and his vicious gang prey on backwater
towns like Firecreek.
FIRST TIME I WAS TWENTY,
THE ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France Comedy
(TBC)
August 21, 22, 26, 27
Dir. Lorraine Levy, Marilou Berry. A
sweet, charming coming-of-age
story about a feisty, 16-year-old
girl’s determination to join the school
jazz band.
FISH WITHOUT A BICYCLE
MOVIE ONE 2003 Romance (M ls)
August 3, 13, 22
Jenna Mattison, Brad Rowe. A naive
girl is caught between a lesbian, a jerk,
prince charming and a fireman.
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX ✪
SHOWTIME 2004 Action (M vl)
August 6, 7, 12, 13, 30, 31
Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi. Air
crash survivors rebuild their plane in
the desert.
FLYING FOX
MOVIE ONE 2000 Drama (PG)
August 1, 10, 30 FP
Rebecca Gibney, Gilbert Martin. A
woman returns to her home town in
Australia and tries to adapt to a new
and very different life.
MOVIE GREATS 1962 Musical
August 5, 6, 14, 23
Elvis Presley, Arthur O’Connell. A land
commissioner tries to prevent a family
from settling in.
MOVIE EXTRA 2004 Drama
(MA 15+ ldv)
August 3, 4, 19, 20, 28
Danny Dyer, Frank Harper. The English
obsession with football violence is real
yet full of painful humour.
FOR LOVE ALONE: IVANA
TRUMP
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 22
Sanna Vraa, Trevor Eve. Traces an
immigrant’s rise to the highest levels of
the American aristocracy.
FOR ME AND MY GAL
TCM 1942 Musical 0
August 17, 18
George Murphy, Judy Garland. A pair of
vaudeville performers struggle to make
the big time.
FORBIDDEN TERRITORY
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Adventure
(M)
August 2, 3
Aidan Quinn, Nigel Hawthorne. A
reporter is sent to Africa to search for
missing explorer David Livingstone.
FORCED MARCH, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Russia War
Drama (MA 15+ lv)
August 7, 8, 18
Dir. Nikolai Stambula, Vladimir Volga. A
war film that explores the relationship
between two men who enlist in a
Special Forces unit.
FOUR MINUTES
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (TBC)
August 14, 15, 26
Jamie Maclachlan, Christopher
Plummer. Mount Everest had been
climbed in 1953, and the biggest record
to break remained the four-minute mile.
FRANKENSTEIN
MOVIE ONE 2004 Fantasy (MA 15+ v)
August 14, 15, 23, 24, 30, 31
Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg. The
Doctor has sustained his creature and
himself over two centuries.
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY
MOVIE GREATS 1966 Comedy
August 19, 20, 28
Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas.
A gambler is involved with a gypsy and
a roulette wheel.
FRATERNITY VACATION
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Comedy (M nsl)
August 4, 13, 23
Tim Robbins, Stephen Geoffreys. A nerd
gains the approval of his frat brothers.
FREEBIE AND THE BEAN
FOX CLASSICS 1974 Comedy (MA 15+)
August 5
James Caan, Alan Arkin.
Two detectives, desperate to nail
a mobster, resort to playing bodyguards.
FRIDAY FOSTER
MOVIE GREATS 1975 Action (TBC)
August 22, 23
Pam Grier, Eartha Kitt.
A beautiful young journalist uncovers
a plot to kill some important political
figures.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
SHOWTIME 2004 Action (PG la) 0
August 6, 7, 19, 20, 24, 25
Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke. A
besieged high school football coach
struggles with a losing team in a
Texan town.
FRIENDS AND CROCODILES
SHOWTIME 2005 Drama (M an) 0
August 31
Damian Lewis, Jodhi May. A tale of
the shifting relationship between a
millionaire and his assistant.
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Horror (MA 15+ vh)
August 11, 12, 19, 20, 31
Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney. Two
criminals take a preacher and his two
teenage children hostage.
FULL BODY MASSAGE
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE ✪
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937
GUMBALL RALLY, THE
HAUNTED MANSION, THE
FUNKY MONKEY
GOLDENEYE
GUN GLORY
HAVANA
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (M l)
Commences August 10
Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni. After losing
everything, a married couple go on a
crime spree.
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (PG)
August 9
Seth Adkins, Matthew Modine. CIA
agent Jack McCall and Clemens the
chimpanzee attempt to be liberated
from a testing lab.
GADGETMAN
G
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Family (PG)
August 17
Martin Delaney, Peter Woodward. A
kidnapped inventor’s son employs a
detective to help him save his dad.
GALINDEZ MYSTERY, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Spain in
Spanish/English Political Drama
(M alv)
August 2, 3, 11
Dir. Gerardo Herrero, Saffron Burrows.
Explores the real-life disappearance of
an exiled Spanish nationalist.
GARFIELD
SHOWTIME 2004 Family 0
August 4, 5, 19, 20
Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Garfield, the wisecracking cartoon cat,
come to life on the big screen.
GASLIGHT
TCM 1944 Drama (PG) 0
August 29, 30
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman. A man
tries to drive his wife insane.
GEORGE MICHAEL:
A DIFFERENT STORY ✪
MOVIE EXTRA 2005 Documentary (PG)
August 16, 17, 26, 27
George Michael.
George Michael takes us back to his
childhood, reflecting on his life.
GERRY
SHOWTIME 2001 Drama (M al)
August 1, 2, 15, 28
Matt Damon, Casey Affleck. A haunting
drama about two city boys who lose
their way on a desert hiking trip.
GILLES’ WIFE
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France Drama
(M asv)
August 5, 6
Dir. Frederic Fonteyne, Emmanuelle
Devos. A woman discovers that love
comes at a terrible price.
GIRAFFE’S NECK, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France in French/
Italian/Spanish Drama (PG)
August 25, 26
Dir. Safy Nebbou, Sandrine Bonnaire. A
bittersweet tale of discovery and regret
affecting three generations.
GIRL NEXT DOOR, THE
SHOWTIME 2004 Comedy
(MA 15+ s) 0
August 4, 27, 28
Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant. A high
school geek discovers that his beautiful
neighbour is a porn star.
GIRL ON THE BRIDGE, THE
WORLD MOVIES 1999 France Romance
(M as)
August 3, 11
Dir. Patrice Leconte, Daniel Auteuil.
A fairytale about a girl and a knife
thrower.
GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, THE
TCM 1966 Romance 0
August 17, 18
Rod Taylor, Doris Day.
In order to keep his secret love near,
a computer wizard hires her as his
biographer.
GLOBAL AFFAIR, A
TCM 1964 Comedy
August 1, 2
Bob Hope, Lilo Pulver.
A United Nations officer finds an
abandoned baby.
GO FISH
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Romance (M ls)
August 25, 26
Guinevere Turner, VS Brodie. A look at
modern day lesbian relationships.
GOING TO THE MAT
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama
(MA 15+)
August 11
Bryan Brown, Mimi Rogers. A man and a
woman are brought together by chance
on a physical level.
DISNEY CHANNEL 2004 Family 0
August 8, 17, 18
Andrew Lawrence, Alessandra Toreson.
Despite being blind, Jace never let
anything stand in his way.
FULL COURT MIRACLE
GOING UNDERGROUND
DISNEY CHANNEL 2003 Drama
August 6, 15, 16, 30, 31
Alex D Linz, Richard T Jones. The winless
Jewish basketball team, the Lions, need
a miracle.
ARENA TV 1993 Drama (M)
August 27
Joanna Kerns, Tim Matheson. Fearing
for their lives, a mother and her children
assume new identities.
TCM 1936 Musical
August 30, 31
Dick Powell, Joan Blondell. The Gold
Diggers scheme to use an old man’s
insurance policy to produce a musical.
MOVIE GREATS 1995 Action (PG)
August 20
Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench. A gang of
mobsters gain access to a device that
can stop all electrical currents.
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD
LUCK ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Drama (PG)
Commences August 10
George Clooney, David Strathairn. The
true story of a journalist’s crusade for
the truth during the communist witch
hunt of the ’50s.
GOOD SHEPHERD, THE
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller (M va) 0
August 2, 3, 31
Christian Slater, Molly Parker. A priest
is assigned to the case of a young
colleague accused of murder.
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
TCM 1939 Drama 0
August 7, 8
Robert Donat, Greer Garson. A shy
school teacher shows dedication to
his students.
GOONIES, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Adventure (PG)
August 2, 11, 12, 27, 28
Sean Astin, Josh Brolin.
A band of young boys finds a treasure
map.
GORGEOUS HUSSY, THE
TCM 1936 Drama 0
August 5, 6
Robert Taylor, Joan Crawford. A woman
in 19th century America gains the
confidence of a president.
GORILLAS IN THE MIST
SHOWTIME GREATS 1988 Drama
(M la) 0
August 11, 18, 20, 26
Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown. The
true story of naturalist Dian Fossey who,
whilst living among mountain gorillas
in Africa, made the ultimate sacrifice.
THE GOSPEL ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Drama (PG)
Commences August 31
Boris Kodjoe, Idris Elba.
The son of a pastor returns home when
his dad falls ill.
GRACE OF MY HEART
SHOWTIME GREATS 1996 Drama
(M la) 0
August 9, 10, 16, 24, 25
Illeana Douglas, Matt Dillon. A singer
and songwriter journeys from heartache
to happiness and back again.
GREAT MCGONAGALL, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1974 Comedy (M la)
August 2, 11, 12
Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers. An
unemployed Scottish weaver dreams of
becoming Britain’s most famous poet.
GREAT MUPPET CAPER, THE
DISNEY CHANNEL 1981 Family
August 7, 8, 22, 23
John Cleese, Jack Warden. Gonzo, Fozzy
and Kermit are reporters off to London
to solve a jewel robbery.
GREEN ICE
MOVIE GREATS 1981 Adventure (M va)
August 1, 2, 17, 25, 26
Ryan O’Neal, Anne Archer. The scheme
is brilliant. If they succeed, they will be
rich beyond imagination, and if they
don’t, they’re dead.
GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM
SHOWTIME GREATS 1988 Thriller (M va)
August 3, 14, 24
Colin Friels, John Waters.
A killing spree brings a reporter and a
cop together.
GROSSE POINTE BLANK
FOX CLASSICS 1976 Action (PG)
August 4, 5, 16, 28
Michael Sarrazin, Gary Busey. An
assorted group of characters converge
upon New York for a non-stop car race.
TCM 1957 Western (PG)
August 18, 19
Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming.
A gunslinger is rejected by everyone.
GUNS FOR SAN SEBASTIAN
FOX CLASSICS 1968 Western (PG)
August 1
Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson. An
army deserter is mistaken for a priest.
GUNS FOR SAN SEBASTIAN
TCM 1968 Western (PG) 0
August 7, 8
Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer. A
bandit mistaken for a priest helps
Mexican villagers defeat the Yacqui
Indians.
GUY NAMED JOE, A
TCM 1943 Romance (PG) 0
August 8, 9
Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne. A downed
WWII pilot becomes the guardian angel
for his successor.
H
HACKERS
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Thriller (M l)
August 10, 11, 22, 23, 31
Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller. A group
of friends discover a plot to unleash a
dangerous computer virus.
HALF BAKED
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Drama
(MA 15+ d)
August 2, 15, 19, 26
David Chappelle, Jim Breuer. It’s all here
in Hollywood’s first stoner comedy since
Cheech And Chong.
HALLELUJAH TRAIL, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1965 Comedy
August 7, 17, 27
Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick. A wagon
train heads for Denver with a cargo of
whisky for the miners.
MOVIE ONE 2003 Comedy (PG)
August 7, 8, 20, 21 FP
Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp. A real
estate agent father wants to look at one
last job before the family holiday.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1990 Drama (M l)
August 18, 19, 30, 31
Robert Redford, Lena Olin. A
professional gambler falls for a
mysterious beauty in pre-revolutionary
Cuba.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS ✪
SHOWTIME 2003 Drama (MA 15+ vs)
August 1, 2, 21, 22
Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend. Wartorn lovers are caught between passion
and politics.
HEADRUSH
MOVIE ONE 2004 Action (MA 15+ ds)
August 7, 16, 23
Wuzza Conlon, Gavin Kelty. Two youths
hope to solve all their problems by
smuggling drugs for a local gangster.
HEARTS ADRIFT
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 20
Kathleen Noone, Nicolas Coster. A
woman feels trapped in her life spent
caring for her mother.
HEAT
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Action (MA 15+ vl)
August 5, 6, 17
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro. Directed by
Michael Mann. An LA detective is on
the trail of a high-tech, high-precision
robber and his tight-knit gang.
HELEN OF TROY
MOVIE GREATS 1956 Adventure
August 6
Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas.
Prince Paris of Troy meets and falls for
Queen Helen.
HELLBOY
SHOWTIME 2004 Action (M v) 0
August 5, 6, 17, 18, 24, 25 FP
Ron Perlman, John Hurt. A giant red
demon liberated from the Nazis during
WWII is now living in New Jersey.
HAPPINESS
HELLFIGHTERS
HARBOUR BEAT
HENRY & JUNE
WORLD MOVIES 1998 USA Satire
(R 18+ as)
August 14
Dir. Todd Solondz, Phillip Seymour
Hoffman. A shocking expose of the true
underbelly of suburban life.
MOVIE GREATS 1990 Drama (M ls)
August 24 FP
John Hannah, Gary Day. A Scottish cop
is transferred to Australia to try and
start a new life.
HARD TIMES
FOX CLASSICS 1975 Drama (PG)
August 16, 19
Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland. A
depression-era drifter turns to illegal
boxing for a living.
HARDCORE
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Greece Drama
(R 18+ asv)
August 1, 2, 12, 13
Dir. Dennis Iliadis, Katerina Tsavalou.
A raw, bleak drama about two teenage
prostitutes in modern-day Athens.
HARRY AND TONTO
SHOWTIME GREATS 1974 Drama (M as)
August 7, 15, 22, 26 FP
Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn. Art Carney
stars in an Academy Award-winning
performance as a feisty widower.
HARRY POTTER AND THE
PRISONER OF AZKABAN
MOVIE ONE 2004 Adventure (PG)
August 2, 11, 12, 24
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. Harry is
going to need all the courage, magic
and support he can get to survive the
trouble that is brewing.
HARRY’S DAUGHTERS
FOX CLASSICS 1968 Adventure (PG)
August 3, 6, 17
John Wayne, Katharine Ross. A
successful oil well firefighter faces the
fact that his daughter has fallen in love
with a firefighter.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1990 Drama
(M lsn)
August 25, 26
Uma Thurman, Fred Ward. June, wife
of raunchy writer Henry Miller, finds
herself at the centre of a steamy love
triangle in 1930s Paris.
HERBIE FULLY LOADED ✪
DISNEY CHANNEL 2005 Family
August 20, 21, 26
August 27
Lindsay Lohan, Matt Dillon. Maggie
Peyton is the new owner of Number 53
aka Herbie – a freewheelin’ Volkswagon
bug with a mind of its own.
HERCULES
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Adventure
(PG)
Pt 1 & 2: August 18
Pt 1 & 2: August 19
Paul Telfer, Elizabeth Perkins. The
most popular myth – the epic story
of Hercules.
HERO
MOVIE EXTRA 2002 Action (M l)
August 3, 9, 21, 22, 30
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai. The king
is under threat from the warriors Sky,
Broken Sword and Flying Snow.
HEROES OF DESERT STORM,
THE
MOVIE GREATS 1991 War
August 23, 24, 29
Daniel Baldwin, Angela Bassett. Looks
at the Persian Gulf War and operation
Desert Storm.
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Romantic Comedy
(M vl)
August 5, 6, 14, 15, 23
John Cusack, Minnie Driver. A burnt out
hit man returns home for his 10-year
high school reunion.
WORLD MOVIES 2005 Sweden
Drama (M a)
August 14, 15, 24, 25
Dir. Richard Hobert, Lena Endre. The
relationship between two sisters
unravels in a dramatic and frightening
series of events.
GRUDGE, THE
HARVEST OF FIRE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Action (M va)
August 5, 14, 15, 22, 23 FP
Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif. The
famous ‘Ocean Of Fire’, a dangerous
race across the Middle Eastern desert.
HARVEY
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 21
Beau Bridges, Bruce Davison. Hardworking Bill Januson is downsized out of
his job on the assembly line.
MOVIE ONE 2004 Horror (M h)
August 12, 14, 23, 24
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr. An
American nurse working in Tokyo is
exposed to a supernatural curse.
GUESS WHO
SHOWTIME 2005 Romantic Comedy
(M s) 0
August 16, 17, 27, 28
Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher. Love may
be colour-blind, but Bernie Mac is a dad
who sees red when his daughter brings
home her lily-white fiancé.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Crime (PG)
August 19
Lolita Davidovich, Patty Duke. An FBI
agent is assigned to investigate a
series of barn-burnings.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Fantasy
(PG)
August 9
Harry Anderson, Swoosie Kurtz. Elwood
P Dowd is a man with a strange friend,
an invisible two metre tall rabbit
named Harvey.
HIDALGO
HIDDEN IN AMERICA
HIDE AND SEEK
SHOWTIME 2005 Thriller (M hlv) 0
August 3, 12, 18, 19
Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning. A
widower’s fears for his daughter grow
when she develops a sinister new
friendship.
✪ = Television Premiere FP = Final Play
September 2006
4
HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT
HUMAN STAIN, THE
TCM 1980 Thriller (PG)
August 22, 23
James Caan, Jill Eikenberry. The true
story of a divorced father in search of
his children.
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama (MA 15+ l)
August 12, 22, 23 FP
Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins. A
college professor finds the secrets of his
past unravelling.
I
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL ✪
MOVIE ONE 2006 Children
August 13, 14, 25, 26
Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens.
Gabriella, a shy, new student, and Troy,
the basketball captain, both get a call
back for their school’s musical play.
HIGHWAYMEN
MOVIE ONE 2003 Action (M lv)
August 8, 9, 17, 29, 30
Jim Caviezel, Colm Feore. Since the hit
and run murder of his wife five years
earlier, Rennie is intent on exacting
revenge on her killer.
HIT THE DECK
TCM 1955 Musical
August 11, 12
Tony Martin, Jane Powell. Sailors on
leave in San Francisco get mixed up in
love and show business.
HOLLYWOOD PARTY
I LOVE YOUR WORK
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama (MA 15+ al)
August 21, 22, 30, 31
Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente. A dark
psychological drama exploring the
pressures of fame.
I’LL CRY TOMORROW
FOX CLASSICS 1955 Drama (PG)
August 5, 6
Susan Hayward, Richard Conte. The
story of alcoholic actress Lillian Roth,
who had it all before drink ruined her.
SHOWTIME 2003 Thriller
(MA 15+ av) 0
August 10, 21, 31
Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. A
reformed hoodlum returns to the streets
of London.
HOME AT THE END OF THE
WORLD, A ✪
BOX OFFICE 2004 Drama (MA 15+ dsa)
Commences August 31
Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn. Two
boyhood friends form an intimate
bond that later develops into a unique
love triangle.
HOME SONG
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 23
Lee Horsley, Polly Draper. Based on
LaVyrle Spencer’s powerful novel of
a family whose future is imperiled
by the past.
HOMECOMING
I’VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France Drama
(M l)
August 3, 12, 13
Dir. Thierry Klifa, Nathalie Baye. Alex
plans to settle down with his fiancée
when he bumps into a former flame.
IDENTITY THEFT
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Drama (M)
August 4, 5
Kimberly Williams, Annabella Sciorra. A
woman’s life spirals out of control after
she is accused of crimes committed by
another woman.
IDIOT BOX
TCM 1948 War 0
August 21, 22
Clark Gable, Lana Turner. A married
man’s wartime love affair spells
trouble.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1996 Drama
(MA 15+ lva) 0
August 3, 10, 29
Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims. Sydney
slackers plot their first bank heist.
HONEY, WE SHRUNK
OURSELVES
IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY
DISNEY CHANNEL 1997 Comedy
August 1, 2, 14, 15, 26
Rick Moranis, Eve Gordon. Inventor
Wayne Szalinski accidentally shrinks
himself, his brother and their wives.
HONEYMOON MACHINE, THE
TCM 1961 Comedy (PG) 0
August 21, 22
Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen. Two
sailors find a way to beat the roulette
tables in Venice.
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (PG al)
August 9, 10, 21 FP
Tom Selleck, Timothy Bottoms. A film
about General Dwight D Eisenhower
and his actions in the months leading
up to D-Day.
IN SEARCH OF THE
CASTAWAYS
MOVIE GREATS 1962 Adventure
August 21, 30
Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills. A
daughter of a missing sea captain
courageously sets out to search for
her father.
HOT ROCK, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1972 Comedy (PG)
August 7
Robert Redford, George Segal. Four
cat-burglars try to steal the world’s
hottest diamond.
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN
HOTEL
MOVIE ONE 2001 Comedy (MA 15+ an)
August 5, 6, 17, 18
David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek. A
sleasy documentary primadonna covers
staff sharing meals which consist of
human meat.
HOUR OF THE GUN
MOVIE GREATS 1967 Western (M v)
August 3, 14
James Garner, Jason Robards. When
Wyatt Earp’s brother is murdered he
seeks revenge on the thugs responsible.
HOUSE ARREST
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (PG)
August 4, 5, 12, 13, 23
Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak. After 18
years of marriage, their parents want
a divorce, so their kids lock them in the
basement.
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama (MA 15+ va)
August 5, 9, 10 FP
Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly. Two
different people fight for ownership of
the same house.
HOW STELLA GOT HER
GROOVE BACK
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Romance
(M l)
August 4, 5, 16, 17, 30, 31
Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs. A single
mother finds love with a hottie half
her age.
HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE
5
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Thriller (MA 15+ v)
August 8, 9, 17
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle
Gellar. Four teenagers hit a man with
their car and leave him to die.
I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD
TCM 1934 Comedy 0
August 25, 26
Stan Laurel, Polly Moran. Schnarzen
woos Baron Munchausen into selling
him aggressive tigers.
MOVIE GREATS 1965 Comedy (PG)
August 5, 14, 30, 31
Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi. A bachelor
wakes up married to the woman that
popped out of the cake.
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST
SUMMER
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France Drama
(MA 15+ av)
August 9, 10, 24, 25
Dir. Arnaud Desplechin, Sami Bouajila.
Business ethics and family conflict are
explored in Arnaud Desplechin’s daring
play adaptation.
IN THE DARK ✪
MOVIE ONE 2003 Thriller (TBC)
August 15, 16, 25
Kathleen Robertson, Michael Murphy.
Before the CIA finds her, Rachel must
prove her father was experimented on.
IN THE GOOD OLD
SUMMERTIME
TCM 1949 Musical (PG) 0
August 31
Van Johnson, Judy Garland. Feuding
co-workers are unaware that they are
secret romantic pen pals.
INSIDE I’M DANCING
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS
INTERVIEW WITH THE
VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE
CHRONICLES
SHOWTIME GREATS 1963 Adventure
(PG v)
August 4, 9, 14, 15, 27
Todd Armstrong, Honor Blackman.
Jason’s perilous search for the Golden
Fleece.
TV1 1984 Family (PG v)
August 20, 21
Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita.
A teenage wimp finds out that karate
involves using more than your fists.
JEEPERS CREEPERS 2
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Germany in
German/Turkish/Greek Comedy (M alv)
August 18, 19
Dir. Anno Saul, Dennis Moschitto.
A comedy about two rivalling fast
food joints.
KISS ME STUPID
KEEPING MUM ✪
KISS OF DEATH
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (M ls) 0
August 11, 19
James McAvoy, Steven Robertson. Two
friends leave a home for the disabled.
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Horror (MA 15+ va)
August 26, 27
Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt. A 200-year-old
vampire tells the story of his life to
a reporter.
INTIMATE STRANGERS
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (MA 15+ sl)
August 7, 13, 29
Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Duchaussoy.
A wife confuses a tax lawyer for a
therapist.
INTO THE ARMS OF
STRANGERS: STORIES OF
THE KINDERTRANSPORT
MOVIE EXTRA 2000 Documentary (PG)
August 30, 31
The rescue of 10,000 children just prior
to the outbreak of WWII.
INTO THE WEST: WHEEL TO
THE STARS ✪
SHOWTIME 2005 Drama (M)
August 28, 29
Gary Busey, Rachael Leigh Cook. The
struggles, heartache and conquests of
two inspiring families.
INTRUDER IN THE DUST
FOX CLASSICS 1949 Drama (PG)
August 5
David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr. Only
a young boy and an old woman stand
between an innocent black man and
a lynch mob.
JENNIFER 8 ✪
SHOWTIME GREATS 1992 Thriller (M l)
August 20, 21, 28
Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman. A burnt-out
cop has redemption in his sights.
JIGSAW MAN
MOVIE GREATS 1983 Thriller (M va)
August 2, 3, 15, 31
Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier. A
retired British Secret Service agent
returns to England for one last job.
JINGLE ALL THE WAY
SHOWTIME GREATS 1996 Comedy
(PG v) 0
August 7, 8, 13, 22, 26
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad. With
only hours to go before Christmas, two
desperate dads go after the one toy.
JOE’S APARTMENT
ISLAND IN THE SKY
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Action (M vl)
August 3, 4, 20, 21
Keanu Reeves, Ice-T. Pursued by Yakuza
agents and a crazed cyborg, Johnny
must deliver the data or die in 24 hours.
ISLAND IN THE SUN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama (PG)
August 5
Treat Williams, Myriam Sirois. A father
gives his daughter an unorthodox
upbringing.
MOVIE ONE 2002 Thriller (PG)
August 8, 24
Reece Dinsdale, Lochlyn Munro.
A bungled police manhunt lets a
killer loose.
FOX CLASSICS 1953 Drama (PG)
August 6
John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan.
A plane crashes and the pilot must keep
his men alive.
FOX CLASSICS 1957 Drama (M)
August 26
James Mason, Joan Fontaine. The life
of a young, charismatic and handsome
black man.
ISLAND, THE ✪
MOVIE ONE 2005 Adventure (M vl)
August 27, 28
Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson.
Two people who live in a contained
facility decide to escape to the outside
world.
JOHNNY MNEMONIC
JOHNNY’S GIRL
JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION
SHOWTIME 2004 Comedy (PG a)
August 11, 12, 24
Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa
Williams. An odyssey of misadventures
is in store for the Johnson clan.
JOLSON STORY, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1946 Drama
August 19
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes. A Jewish
boy comes up against his father to be
in showbiz.
KEBAB CONNECTION
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (M slv)
Commences August 3
Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson. A
very thorough housekeeper does her
employer’s deadly dirty work.
KICKING & SCREAMING
SHOWTIME 2005 Comedy (PG a)
August 27, 28
Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall. An overcompetitive soccer dad rallies his son’s
underdog team.
KID GALAHAD
MOVIE GREATS 1962 Musical (PG)
August 12, 13, 21, 31
Elvis Presley, Gig Young.
A sweet -natured country boy enters the
fighting world.
KIDS
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Drama
(MA 15+ als)
August 2, 11 FP
Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick. A look at
the dangerous lives of teenagers.
KILLER MCCOY
TCM 1947 Drama (PG)
August 11, 12
Mickey Rooney, Ann Blyth.
A fighter finds himself involved in
a murder.
KILLING ZOE
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Thriller
(MA 15+ vls)
August 10, 26, 27
Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy.
A safe-cracking con, has arrived in
Paris where he is to rob a bank.
KING AND FOUR QUEENS,
THE
MOVIE GREATS 1956 Western (PG)
August 10, 22, 23
Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker. Cowboy
Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by
an old widow and her four daughtersin-law.
KING ARTHUR - DIRECTOR’S
CUT
MOVIE ONE 2004 Action (MA 15+ v)
August 1, 2, 18, 28
Clive Owen, Keira Knightley. An epic tale
of one man’s destiny to become a king.
KING OF KINGS
KISS ME FIRST
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Italy Romance
(M ls)
August 4, 5, 21
Dir. Amrogio Lo Giudice, Marco Cocci.
A sweet, old-fashioned romance set in
Italy around WWII.
MOVIE GREATS 1965 Comedy (PG)
August 1, 15, 25
Dean Martin, Kim Novak.
A womanising singer stops in a small
town in Nevada.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1995 Thriller
(M vl) 0
August 3, 10, 11, 17
Nicolas Cage, David Caruso. A
dark thriller about a convict who
goes undercover to nail a notorious
crime lord.
KISSES FOR MY PRESIDENT
MOVIE GREATS 1964 Comedy
August 3, 12, 21, 28 FP
Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen. The
women of America join together to elect
a female president.
KISSING A FOOL
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Romantic
Comedy (M l)
August 5, 16, 17, 22, 31
David Schwimmer, Mili Avital. A man
agrees to seduce his buddy’s girlfriend
to test her loyalty.
KOTCH
MOVIE GREATS 1971 Comedy (PG)
August 2, 19, 20, 28, 29 FP
Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters. An
elderly man refuses to let his children
put him in a retirement home.
KRAMER VS. KRAMER
SHOWTIME GREATS 1979 Drama
(PG an) 0
August 1, 21, 29
Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep. A
workaholic adman’s priorities radically
shift as he battles for custody of
his son.
KULL THE CONQUEROR
SHOWTIME GREATS 1997 Action
(M vs) 0
August 5, 10, 14, 15, 20, 26, 27 FP
Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere. Kevin
“Hercules” Sorbo stars in this swordand-sorcery romp from the creator of
Conan The Barbarian.
L
L.A. COUNTY 187
SHOWTIME 1999 Drama (M lva)
August 8, 20
Miguel Ferrer, Elizabeth Lackey.
Detectives unravel the sleazy
conspiracy behind a strip bar fire.
LA GRANDE BOUFFE
ISLAND, THE ✪
JUBAL
FOX CLASSICS 1956 Western (PG)
August 13
Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine. A young
drifter is falsely accused of being
interested in his best friend’s wife.
TCM 1961 Drama (PG) 0
August 10, 11
Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna. An
epic retelling of Christ’s life.
ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS
JUDGE DREDD
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Denmark
Political Thriller (M al)
August 10, 11
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel, Anders W Berthelsen.
A political thriller about manipulation
and intrigue.
IVANHOE
JUNE BRIDE
SHOWTIME 2005 Action
(MA 15+ v) 0
August 9, 10, 31
Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom. A
common man is caught up in an epic
struggle in this tale of the Crusades.
LADDER 49
KINGPIN
LARCENY, INC
SHOWTIME GREATS 1980 Adventure
(MA 15+ va)
August 21, 22, 29
Michael Caine, Angela Punch McGregor.
A reporter is captured by pirates.
WORLD MOVIES 2000 Denmark Comedy
Drama (M as)
August 7, 28, 29
Dir. Lone Scherfig, Anders W Berthelsen.
A group of strangers meet regularly for
Italian lessons.
TCM 1952 Romance 0
August 1
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor. A knight
returns to England after the Crusades.
J
JACKIE BROWN
INNER SENSES
ARENA TV 2000 Drama (M)
August 5, 6
Andrew McCarthy, Frances Fisher. After
the assassination of John F Kennedy,
Jackie married Aristotle Onassis.
JACQUELINE BOUVIER
KENNEDY ONASSIS: A LIFE
WORLD MOVIES 2002 Hong Kong in
Cantonese/Mandarin Horror
(MA 15+ ahv)
August 3, 4, 20
Dir. Lo Chi-Leung, Leslie Cheung.
A relationship starts between a
psychologist and a disturbed young
woman.
JALLA! JALLA!
INNOCENT, THE ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Drama (MA 15+ vls)
Commences August 31
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx. Gulf War
I marines reach breaking point during
the endless wait for battle.
September 2006
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Drama (PG)
August 8, 9
Nick Nolte, Gwyneth Paltrow. Follows the
death of Thomas Jefferson’s wife and
his friendships with the French.
INVESTIGATION, THE
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT ✪
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Drama (TBC)
August 13, 14, 22, 31
Liam Neeson, Andrew Hawley. A boy’s
innocence is lost in an adult world.
JEFFERSON IN PARIS
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (M l)
August 10, 11, 19, 20, 29
Jerry O’Connell, Megan Ward. Joe moves
to New York and discovers that he must
share his apartment with cockroaches.
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Crime (MA 15+ ld)
August 9, 10, 19, 20, 31
Samuel L Jackson, Pam Grier. Flight
attendant Jackie Brown is caught
smuggling money into America.
FOX CLASSICS 1967 Drama (M)
August 15, 29
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger.
A Southern sheriff grudgingly accepts
help from an African American
detective.
MOVIE ONE 2003 Horror (M lvh)
August 12, 13 FP
Ray Wise, Justin Long. It’s day 22 and
the Creeper is back...
KARATE KID, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2000 Sweden Comedy
(MA 15+ ls)
August 11, 12
Dir. Josef Fares, Fares Fares. A comedy
about cultural clashes and sexual
crises.
JARHEAD ✪
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Action (M vl)
August 16, 17, 27
Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane. With
Judge Dredd convicted of a murder,
who will help the citizens of the 22nd
century?
TCM 1948 Comedy 0
August 21, 22
Robert Montgomery, Bette Davis. A New
York editor sends her aide and her former
fiancé to cover a wedding.
JUNIOR BONNER
MOVIE GREATS 1972 Western
August 3, 4, 26
Steve McQueen, Robert Preston. All
that a rodeo pro wants is to stay on a
bucking bull for eight seconds.
JUNK MAIL
WORLD MOVIES 1997 Norway Black
Comedy (M av)
August 14, 15
Dir. Pal Sletaune, Robert Skjaerstad. A
black comedy that exposes a dark slice
of life in Norway.
KING’S GAME
WORLD MOVIES 1973 France Drama
(MA 15+ ans)
August 16
Dir. Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni.
Four men decide to eat themselves
to death.
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
WORLD MOVIES 1995 Drama
(MA 15+ lv)
August 5, 6, 31
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz, Vincent Cassel.
Class and race clash violently in this
account of hatred in Paris.
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (M sd)
August 2, 14, 21, 22
Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid. A
comedy about an ex-bowler and an
Amish man.
KINGS AND QUEEN ✪
LA HAINE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M al)
August 4, 5, 10, 11
Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta.
Firefighter Jack becomes trapped inside
a building.
TCM 1942 Comedy 0
August 10, 11
Edward G Robinson, Jane Wyman. A
comedy about ex-cons using a luggage
store as a front for shady activities.
LAST BOY SCOUT, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2003 France Drama
(TBC)
August 9, 10, 15, 16
Dir. Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuelle
Devos. A solid, intelligent drama about
a troubled, single mother.
MOVIE GREATS 1991 Action
(MA 15+ vl)
August 10, 11, 19, 29
Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans. A retired
Secret Service agent hits rock bottom.
WORLD MOVIES 2005 France in French/
Spanish/Korean Comedy (TBC)
August 27, 28
Dir. Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache,
Gérard Depardieu. A sweet comedy
about two men looking for love.
KINGS ROW
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France Comedy
(MA 15+ lns)
August 11, 12, 30
Dir. Marie-Anne Chazel, Giovanna
Mezzogiorno. Three childhood friends
move to Paris.
KANGAROO PALACE
KISS HER GOODBYE ✪
JUST FRIENDS
K
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Drama (M)
Pt 1 & 2: August 26
Jacqueline McKenzie, John Polson. The
story of four young Australians trying
their luck in 1960s London.
TCM 1942 Drama 0
August 6, 7
Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan. Five
childhood friends live through the
intrigues of their seemingly tranquil
Midwestern town.
TCM 1959 Drama
August 5, 6
Steven Hill, Elaine Stritch. Orphans gets
into trouble when they happen upon a
small seaside town.
LAST CHANCE SALOON
LAST DAYS OF DISCO, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Drama
(M a) 0
August 3, 4, 12, 25
Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale. A group
of friends make the most of the city’s
hottest club.
MOVIE GUIDE
LAST OF THE BLONDE
BOMBSHELLS, THE
W. 2000 Drama (PG)
August 12, 20
Judi Dench, Ian Holm. After her
husband’s death, a widow decides she
wants to rekindle her musical roots.
LAST SHOT, THE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (M lsv)
August 1, 7, 8, 15, 16, 26
Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin.
Straight shooter agent Joe Devine has
been assigned to cook up an elaborate
scheme.
LAST SUNSET, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1961 Western (PG)
August 14, 20, 28
Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas. Three men
vie for the love of a woman.
LAST VALLEY, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1971 Action (M)
August 6, 16
Michael Caine, Omar Sharif. An army of
mercenaries discover a peaceful town
hidden in a valley.
LATHAM ENTERTAINMENT
PRESENTS
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy (MA 15+ dls)
August 6, 14, 23
DL Hughley, Bruce Bruce. Anthony
Brown. Top African-American comics
tell it like it is in this stand-up
concert film.
LATTER DAYS
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Comedy
(MA 15+ sal)
August 20, 21
Wes Ramsey, Jacqueline Bisset. A young
gay man tries to seduce a Mormon.
LAWLESS HEART
SHOWTIME 2001 Comedy Drama
(MA 15+ ls) 0
August 2, 15 FP
Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander.
A bittersweet comedy about a funeral in
a seaside resort.
LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN’S
APOCALYPSE, THE ✪
SHOWTIME 2005 Comedy (M vls)
August 18
Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton. The
fictional world of Royston Vasey is
facing apocalypse.
LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1959 Crime
August 8, 18, 28
Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough.
A war veteran recruits a group of
disgraced colleagues to perform a
bank robbery.
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
FOX CLASSICS 1945
Film Noir (PG)
August 20
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde. A wife will
stop at nothing to monopolise the
attention of her husband.
LEGEND
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Fantasy (PG)
August 8, 18, 28
Tom Cruise, Mia Sara.
A demon seeks to create eternal night.
LEGEND OF GATOR FACE,
THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Adventure
(PG)
August 15
John White, Dan Warry-Smith. Danny
and Phil dread another long, hot
summer in boring Vernon, Mississippi.
LEGEND OF THE LOST TOMB
LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE
ZISSOU, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 2004 Comedy (M v)
August 2, 3, 18, 19, 27, 28
Bill Murray, Owen Wilson. Steve Zissou
rallies a crew to exact revenge.
LIFE IS RUFF
DISNEY CHANNEL 2005 Comedy 0
August 2, 3, 24, 25
Kyle Massey, Kay Panabaker. Calvin
recruits his friends to train a dog to
win a prize.
LIGHT OF DAY
SHOWTIME GREATS 1987 Drama (M la)
August 2, 7, 22
Michael J Fox, Joan Jett. Rock ‘n’
roll siblings struggle to keep their
dreams alive.
LILO & STITCH 2:
STITCH HAS A GLITCH
DISNEY CHANNEL 2005 Animation
August 12, 13
Life is good now that Stitch, Jumba
and Pleakley have settled into life with
Lilo and Nani.
LILY DALE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 30
Stockard Channing, Mary Stuart
Masterson. Young Horace Robedaux
reunites with his mother and his sister.
LINK
SHOWTIME GREATS 1986 Horror (M v)
August 8, 12, 18, 23
Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp. A
young scientist is trapped in a Victorian
mansion with a homicidal orang-utan.
LISA
MOVIE GREATS 1990 Thriller (M v)
August 8, 17, 18, 27 FP
Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd. A boy-crazed
teen, whose mother refuses to let her
date, invites trouble into her life.
LIST OF ADRIAN
MESSENGER, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1963 Mystery (PG)
August 14, 20
George C Scott, Kirk Douglas. An
Englishman’s list of people whom he
believes are marked for murder leads to
an investigation.
LITTLE BIG LEAGUE
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Family (PG)
August 9, 21 FP
Luke Edwards, Jason Robards. A boy
inherits ownership of a baseball team.
LITTLE BLACK BOOK
SHOWTIME 2004 Romantic Comedy
(PG sl) 0
August 2, 3, 13, 27
Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter. An
aspiring TV journalist does a segment
on men’s address books.
LITTLE WOMEN
SHOWTIME GREATS 1994 Family 0
August 1, 12, 27, 28
Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon. A tale
about four sisters raised by their mother
during the civil war.
LITTLE WOMEN
TCM 1949 Family 0
August 31
Peter Lawford, June Allyson. Four New
England sisters grow up during the
American Civil War.
LIVE AND LET DIE
MOVIE GREATS 1973 Action (PG)
August 20
Roger Moore, Jane Seymour. Bond must
prevent a dignitary from dumping drugs
into the American market.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Adventure
(PG)
August 12
Stacy Keach, Brock Pierce. Teenagers
Karen Lacey and John Robie brave the
forbidding Egyptian desert.
LIVING DAYLIGHTS, THE
LEMONY SNICKET’S A
SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE
EVENTS
LOCUSTS: DAY OF
DESTRUCTION
MOVIE GREATS 1987 Action (PG)
August 20
Timothy Dalton, John Rhys-Davies.
Agent 007 is assigned to protect a
Russian defector.
MOVIE ONE 2004 Family (PG)
August 2, 3
Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep. Count Olaf
takes in his three wealthy relatives
when their parents are killed in a fire.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Action (M)
August 11, 12
Lucy Lawless, John Heard.
A scientist joins forces with her
estranged husband in a race to save
millions of lives.
LIE WITH ME
LOGAN’S RUN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Drama
(MA 15+)
Pt 1 & 2: August 1, 16, 17
Andrew Lincoln, Eve Best. Ros wakes
from a drugged sleep with no memory of
the previous night.
LIES MY MOTHER TOLD ME
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M av)
August 6, 11, 24, 30
Joely Richardson, Hayden Panettiere.
A young girl and her mother steal the
identities of other women.
FOX CLASSICS 1976
Sci-Fi (PG)
August 29
Michael York, Richard Jordan. After a
holocaust, a new society is built and
resides in a domed city.
LONELY ARE THE BRAVE
FOX CLASSICS 1962 Western (PG)
August 20
Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands. A cowboy
who escapes from jail heads for the
mountains.
LONELYHEARTS
MOVIE GREATS 1959 Drama (PG)
August 1, 21, 22, 30
Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy. A young
reporter is hired to write the lonely
hearts column at the newspaper.
LONG GOOD FRIDAY, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1981 Thriller
(MA 15+ vl)
August 3, 25, 26
Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren. A ruthless
crime boss fights for his turf.
LONGEST YARD, THE
SHOWTIME 2005 Comedy (M vls) 0
August 5, 6, 15, 16, 30, 31
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock. A jailed
quarterback puts together a team of
inmates to take on the wardens.
LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
TCM 1949 Musical 0
August 22, 23
Ray Bolger, June Haver.
The life of musical comedy star
Marilyn Miller.
LOOPHOLE
MOVIE GREATS 1980 Crime (PG)
August 12, 21, 30
Albert Finney, Martin Sheen. An out-ofwork American architect plans to rob an
English bank.
LOSING CHASE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (M)
August 2
Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick. The story
of a relationship between a woman
recovering from a nervous breakdown
and her aide.
LOST ANGEL
TCM 1943 Family 0
August 11, 12
James Craig, Margaret O’Brien. A
reporter teaches a child prodigy
about life.
LOST JUNCTION
MOVIE ONE 2003 Thriller (M alv)
August 4, 15, 28
Neve Campbell, Billy Burke. A woman
suspected of killing her husband runs
off with his money to New Orleans.
LOST THINGS
SHOWTIME 2003 Thriller (M vls)
August 18, 26 FP
Lenka Kripac, Leon Ford.
Four teenagers set off on a surfing
holiday, but get a weekend of terror.
LOVE CRIMES
MOVIE GREATS 1991 Thriller (M sl)
August 4, 13, 30, 31 FP
Sean Young, Patrick Bergin. A man
posing as a famous photographer lures
women into his bed.
LOVE IS BETTER THAN EVER
TCM 1952 Romantic Comedy 0
August 21, 22
Larry Parks, Elizabeth Taylor. A dance
teacher goes to New York City and falls
for a talent agent.
LOVE LETTERS
W. 1999 Romance (M)
August 19
Laura Linney, Steven Weber. A US
senator reflects back on his life after
the death of a woman whom he loved.
LOVE THE HARD WAY
SHOWTIME 2001 Romantic Drama
(MA 15+ sa) 0
August 9
Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna. A
small-time hood takes a naively needy
student for a walk on the wild side.
LOVED ONE, THE
TCM 1965 Comedy (PG) 0
August 7, 8
Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer. A
spoof on morticians, funerals and the
dearly-departed.
LOVERBOY
SHOWTIME GREATS 1989 Comedy (M l)
August 1, 2, 11, 15, 23, 24, 31 FP
Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson. A pizza
boy delivers romance to frustrated
Beverley Hills housewives.
LUCKY 13
MOVIE ONE 2001 Comedy (M sl)
August 7, 14, 18, 29
Brad Hunt, Lauren Graham. A man
revisits previous girlfriends in his life.
LUCKY ME
MOVIE GREATS 1954 Musical
August 5, 21, 30 FP
Doris Day, Robert Cummings. A theatre
troupe comes to the attention of a
successful Broadway songwriter.
LUSTY MEN, THE
TCM 1952 Western (PG) 0
August 7, 8
Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward. A
faded rodeo star mentors a younger
rider, but falls for his wife.
M
MA VIE EN ROSE
WORLD MOVIES 1997 Drama (M al)
August 7, 8, 28, 29
Dir. Alain Berliner, Georges Du Fresne. A
drama about a boy’s dream to be a girl.
MAC
MOVIE EXTRA 1992 Drama (M lv)
August 6, 7, 18
Nicholas Turturro, Matthew Sussman.
The eldest of three brothers leads them
in the family trade of building.
MAD LOVE
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Romance (M al)
August 1, 2, 13, 20
Drew Barrymore, Chris O’Donnell. Matt
and Casey are madly in love. Running
away guarantees they will be together
forever.
MADELINE: LOST IN PARIS
CARTOON NETWORK 1999 Animation
August 19
Madeline is a little French girl who lives
in a Paris boarding school.
MADNESS OF KING GEORGE,
THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Drama (PG)
August 8, 19, 20, 28
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren. King
George III does some very odd things,
but then who is to argue with the king?
MALENA
WORLD MOVIES 2000 Italy Drama
(M asv)
August 1, 2
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, Monica
Bellucci. A tale of an adolescent’s
obsession with a small town siren in
WWII Sicily.
MAMBO ITALIANO
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy (M lsa) 0
August 3 FP
Luke Kirby, Paul Sorvino.
A closeted son of Italian immigrants
moves in with his lover.
MAN CALLED SLEDGE, A
FOX CLASSICS 1970 Western (M)
August 11, 13
James Garner, Dennis Weaver. A
gunman and his cohorts steal a fortune
in gold from a prison in the desert.
MAN OF THE HOUSE
SHOWTIME 2005 Comedy (M vs) 0
August 26, 27
Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Archer. Five
college cheerleaders witness the
murder of a drug informant.
MAN ON THE TRAIN, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2002 France Comedy
Drama (M vsl)
August 5, 15, 16
Dir. Patrice Leconte, Jean Rochefort. Two
men form an unlikely friendship.
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE,
THE
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller
(MA 15+ v) 0
August 6, 7, 17, 31
Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep. An
American platoon is used by shadowy
forces for sinister ends.
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS
TCM 1955 Western 0
August 4, 5
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker. A pioneer
woman sets her sights on a trapper.
MANY TRIALS OF ONE JANE
DOE, THE
MOVIE ONE 2002 Drama (M a)
August 20, 21, 31
Wendy Crewson, Steven Mackintosh.
After a traumatising rape, a woman
refuses to become a victim.
MARIA FULL OF GRACE ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Colombia
Drama (M lda)
August 31
Dir. Joshua Marston, Catalina Sandino
Moreno. A pregnant 17-year-old
girl tries to break free of rural life in
Colombia.
MARIAN AGAIN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Drama
(M vl)
August 30, 31
Stephen Tompkinson, Owen Teale.
Marian’s missing past is more bizarre
than anyone could ever have imagined.
MARK OF THE VAMPIRE
TCM 1935 Horror (PG) 0
August 13, 14
Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan.
The tale of a vampire terrorising a
rural village.
MARNIE
FOX CLASSICS 1964 Thriller (M)
August 31
Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery. A woman’s
life leads her to become a compulsive
thief.
MARPLE: A MURDER IS
ANNOUNCED
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Mystery
(M) 0
August 10, 11
Geraldine McEwan, Zoë Wanamaker.
An advertisement announcing a
forthcoming murder has a village
buzzing with curiosity.
MARPLE: 4.50 FROM
PADDINGTON
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Murder/
Mystery (M) 0
August 31
Geraldine McEwan, Niamh Cusack.
Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a man in a
passing carriage strangling a woman.
MARPLE: THE BODY IN THE
LIBRARY
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Mystery
(M) 0
August 17, 18
Geraldine McEwan, Joanna Lumley.
Miss Marple’s friend enlists her help
after she finds the body of a woman.
MARPLE: THE MURDER AT
THE VICARAGE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Murder/
Mystery (M) 0
August 24, 25
Geraldine McEwan, Derek Jacobi.
Colonel Prothero’s death throws up a
long list of potential murderers.
MARQUISE
WORLD MOVIES 1996 France Period
Drama (M ans)
August 4
Dir. Vera Belmont, Sophie Marceau. A
tale of lust and desire.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK’S LET
ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Drama (PG)
August 10, 11
Meredith Baxter, Victor Garber. A lawyer
sees someone who was supposedly
murdered a decade ago.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK’S:
MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Mystery
(PG)
August 17, 18, 19
Donna Mills, David Beecroft.
A successful photographer is
unexpectedly reunited with her
stepmother.
MAX HAVOC: CURSE OF THE
DRAGON
MOVIE ONE 2004 Action (TBC)
August 11
Mickey Hardt, David Carradine. An exkickboxing champion meets two sisters
who have a rare jade dragon.
MAX IS MISSING
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Adventure
(PG)
August 2
Toran Caudell, Victor Rojas. The
archeological field trip of 13-year-old
Max Blake turns into a hair-raising
adventure.
MAYFLOWER MADAM
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1987 Drama (M)
August 7
Candice Bergen, Chris Sarandon. The
true-life story of Sydney Biddle Barrows,
the blue-blooded socialite.
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
MOVIE GREATS 1971 Drama
(MA 15+ vl)
August 10, 19, 29
Warren Beatty, Julie Christie. A gambler
and a madam open a brothel and
gaming house.
MEDICINE MAN
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Drama (PG)
August 16, 17, 25, 26
Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco. A
scientist must race against time to find
a cure for cancer.
MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS
TCM 1956 Comedy 0
August 4, 5
Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse. A ballerina
becomes a gambler’s lucky charm.
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
TCM 1944 Musical 0
August 3, 4
Tom Drake, Judy Garland.
A musical about the joys of a St
Louis family during the year of the
World’s Fair.
MEET THE DEEDLES
DISNEY CHANNEL 1998 Comedy
August 1
Paul Walker, Steve Van Wormer. Two
troublemaking surfers are sent to camp
by their disappointed father.
MELINDA AND MELINDA
SHOWTIME 2004 Comedy (M sa) 0
August 7, 8, 19, 20, 28, 29
Radha Mitchell, Will Ferrell.
A strung-out New Yorker’s life would be
tragic, if it weren’t so comic.
MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Hong Kong in
Cantonese/Mandarin Comedy (M als)
August 2, 3, 10, 11
Dir. Edmond Pang, Eric Tsang. A highlyentertaining tale about philandering
husbands.
MERLIN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Adventure
(PG)
Pt 1: August 28
Pt 2: August 29
Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter. A
retelling of the life of the wizard Merlin.
MESSENGER OF DEATH ✪
SHOWTIME GREATS 1988 Action (M vl)
August 26, 27
Charles Bronson, Trish van Devere. A
crime reporter investigates the murder
of a polygamous Mormon family.
METAL SKIN
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Action (MA 15+ va)
August 8 FP
Aden Young, Ben Mendelsohn. Two
mates share an interest in old cars.
METHOD ✪
MOVIE ONE 2004 Thriller (MA 15+ vs)
August 11, 12, 20, 21, 26, 27
Elizabeth Hurley, Jeremy Sisto. When
Rebecka takes on the role of a killer,
she becomes obsessive.
MIAMI RHAPSODY
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Comedy (M la)
August 6, 7, 16, 25
Sarah Jessica Parker, Antonio Banderas.
A woman’s boyfriend casually asks her
to marry him.
MIDAS TOUCH
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Drama (PG)
August 3
Trever O’Brien, Ashley Cafagna-Tesoro.
Billy Straight opts for enough gold to
get his grandmother a new heart.
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
SHOWTIME GREATS 1978 Drama
(MA 15+ vl) 0
August 7, 8, 13, 16, 28
Brad Davis, John Hurt. A prison drama
about a naive traveller caught in a
nightmare of his own making.
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN
OF GOOD AND EVIL
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Drama (M vla)
August 4, 14, 15, 30
Kevin Spacey, John Cusack. Jim Kelso is
a New Yorker reporter assigned to cover
Jim William’s A-list Christmas party.
MIGHTY APHRODITE
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Comedy (M sl)
August 2, 13, 28 FP
Woody Allen, Mira Sorvino. A father
becomes obsessed with finding the real
parents of his adopted son.
MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID
TCM 1952 Musical 0
August 8, 9
Victor Mature, Esther Williams. Williams
portrays swimming star Annette
Kellerman and her rise to fame.
MIND OF THE CRIME
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Drama (PG)
August 19, 20
Lauren Holly, Max Martini. A wife
suspects that her husband is being
unfaithful.
MIRACLE
DISNEY CHANNEL 2004 Drama (PG)
August 5, 16, 20
Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson. A
ragtag squad of college kids take on
the awesome juggernaut from the
Soviet Union.
MIRACLE ACCORDING TO
SALOME, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Portugal Period
Drama (M lnv)
August 4, 5, 17
Dir. Mario Barroso, Ana Bandeira. A
prostitute catches the eye of a wealthy
banker.
MIRACLE OF BERN, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Germany
Drama (PG)
August 4, 5, 16
Dir. Sonke Wortmann, Louis Klamroth.
A touching family drama set against
the background of West Germany’s
miraculous World Cup soccer victory
in 1954.
MISCHIEF
SHOWTIME GREATS 1985 Comedy
(M sa)
August 6, 14, 23
Doug McKeon, Chris Nash. The cool kid
and the class nerd have just one thing
on their minds – mischief!
MISSION, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1986 Drama (PG)
August 6, 15, 25, 26, 31
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons. A priest
and a hunter build a missionary colony.
✪ = Television Premiere FP = Final Play
September 2006
6
MONSIEUR IBRAHIM AND
THE FLOWERS OF THE
KORAN ✪
MY BABY’S DADDY
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (M lsd)
August 5, 22
Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson.
A trio of guys are forced to become
responsible.
WORLD MOVIES 2003 France Drama
(TBC)
August 27, 28
Dir. Francois Dupeyron, Omar Sharif.
A delightfully warm and affectionate
relationship drama about friendship.
MY BOSS’S DAUGHTER
MOONWALKER
MOVIE GREATS 1988 Musical (PG)
August 27, 28
Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci. A musical
extravaganza featuring some of Michael
Jackson’s most popular hits.
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE,
THE
MOVIE GREATS 1986 Drama (PG)
August 8, 22, 23
Judy Morris, Barry Otto.
A husband and wife employ a pregnant
child minder.
MOTHER KNOWS BEST
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Thriller (M)
August 19
Joanna Kerns, Grant Show.
A woman hires a hitman to kill her
son-in-law.
MOTHER, JUGS & SPEED
FOX CLASSICS 1976 Comedy (PG)
August 5
Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby. The story of
hair-raising events, kooky employees
and a nearly bankrupt ambulance.
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Argentina
Adventure Drama (TBC)
August 20, 21, 26, 27
Dir. Walter Salles, Gael García Bernal.
An adventure based on the journals of
Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
MR 3000
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (PG)
August 2, 3, 10, 11, 27, 28
Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett. Mr 3000
comes out of retirement at age 47 to try
and reach his goal.
MR SKEFFINGTON
TCM 1944 Drama 0
August 12, 13
Claude Rains, Bette Davis. To save her
brother, Davis marries a banker who
discovers the scam.
MR. & MRS. LOVING
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 24
Timothy Hutton, Lela Rochon. Richard
Loving falls in love with Bean Jeter, a
young black woman.
MR. MAGOO
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Comedy (PG)
August 1, 10, 20
Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch. Based on the
famous cartoon character, Mr Magoo.
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS
✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (M nl)
Commences August 31
Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins.
A widow smashes taboos in 1940s
London when she buys a theatre and
begins staging saucy revues.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1979 Romantic
Drama
August 5, 14
Judy Davis, Sam Neill.
A headstrong lassie thwarts convention.
MY FELLOW AMERICANS
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (M lv)
August 3, 4, 20, 29 FP
Jack Lemmon, James Garner. Two expresidents are forced to become allies.
MY JEALOUS BARBER
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Norway in
Norwegian/Danish/English Black
Comedy (PG)
August 18, 19, 25
Dir. Annette Sjursen, Gard B Eidsvold. A
comedy about the misplaced affections
of a middle-aged barber.
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama (M la)
August 1, 16, 17, 27, 31
Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo. A young
woman learns she does not have
long to live.
MY SISTER EILEEN
FOX CLASSICS 1955 Musical
August 6
Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon. The
adventures of two sisters from Ohio
seeking to further their careers in
New York.
MY SUMMER OF LOVE
SHOWTIME 2005 Romantic Drama
(MA 15+ asdl) 0
August 1, 9, 10, 21
Emily Blunt, Nathalie Press. Two young
women from opposite ends of society
meet one summer in the Yorkshire
countryside and discover that they have
a lot in common.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF NINA
CHEREAU, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1988 Drama (M)
August 10
Maud Adams, Scott Renderer. A
psychiatrist becomes infatuated with
a patient.
NAPOLEON
N
DISNEY CHANNEL 1996 Adventure
August 3, 4, 13, 28, 29
Jamie Croft, Philip Quast. The
adventures of a puppy who heads
out into the big wide world to join the
wild dogs.
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S
EUROPEAN VACATION
MRS LAMBERT REMEMBERS
LOVE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1991 Drama
August 21, 22, 23
Ellen Burstyn, Walter Matthau. An ailing
woman fights to retain custody of her
grandson.
MRS. PARKINGTON
TCM 1944 Romance 0
August 24, 25
Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson. A lady
pushes her way into society.
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Comedy (M s)
August 6, 7, 15, 16, 31
Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo. The
Griswold family wins a trip to Europe.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Action (MA 15+ vl)
August 15, 16, 24
Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis. A satire
about Mickey and Mallory: outcasts,
lovers and serial killers.
NEVER DIE ALONE
MRS. SOFFEL ✪
TCM 1984 Drama (PG) 0
August 12, 13
Mel Gibson, Diane Keaton.
A prison warden’s wife helps a notorious
killer escape.
MULAN II
DISNEY CHANNEL 2004 Animation 0
August 5, 6, 27, 28
Lucy Liu. The spirited Mulan gets the
surprise of her young life.
MURDER IN THE FIRST
SHOWTIME GREATS 1994 Drama
(MA 15+ va)
August 6, 9, 20, 30
Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon. An
Alcatraz prisoner spends three years in
solitary confinement.
WORLD MOVIES 2005 Denmark
Psychological Thriller (TBC)
August 29, 30
Dir. Jannik Johansen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas. A
gripping psychological thriller.
7
MY BRILLIANT CAREER
MY LIFE WITHOUT ME
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES,
THE ✪
MURK ✪
MOVIE ONE 2003 Comedy (M ls)
August 8, 9, 19
Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid.
A junior executive thinks he’s been
asked out on a date by his boss’s
daughter.
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller
(MA 15+ ldsv) 0
August 7, 23
DMX, David Arquette. A thriller about
a journalist whose life is changed by a
chance encounter.
NEW ADVENTURES OF
PINOCCHIO, THE
DISNEY CHANNEL 1999 Family
August 10
Martin Landau, Gabriel Thomson.
Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet
himself after drinking an elixer.
NEW YORK MINUTE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Family (PG)
August 2, 11, 20 FP
Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen. Two
twins couldn’t be more different,
though for them to achieve their goals
they must join forces.
NEWTON BOYS, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1997 Action (M v)
August 8, 12, 13, 23, 28
Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey.
The Newton boys embark on a crime
spree.
September 2006
NEXT DOOR
WORLD MOVIES 2005 Norway
Psychological Thriller (MA 15+ av)
August 18
Dir. Pal Sletaune, Kristoffer Joner. A
man’s ex-girlfriend arrives to collect her
belongings from his apartment.
OFF LIMITS
NIGHT CROSSING
SHOWTIME GREATS 1988 Action
(MA 15+ lva)
August 10, 11, 19, 28, 29
Willem Dafoe, Scott Glenn. Saigon,
1968. Plain-clothes military police hunt
down the top brass suspected of brutal
prostitute murders.
NIGHTJOHN
FOX CLASSICS 1973 Drama (M)
August 30
George C Scott, Faye Dunaway. It’s oil
boom time in Oklahoma and a hardbitten feminist has a fight on her hand.
MOVIE GREATS 1981 Drama
August 15
John Hurt, Jane Alexander. Two men
want to escape from East Germany but
will not leave without their families.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 24
Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly.
Nightjohn takes Sarny under his wing
and teaches her to read and write.
NIGHTMARE IN THE
DAYLIGHT ✪
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Thriller (M v)
August 13, 14, 23, 31
Jaclyn Smith, Christopher Reeve. A
teacher is pursued by a lawyer who
mistakes her for his long-lost wife.
NINTH DAY, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Germany
Drama (M av)
August 4, 23, 24
Dir. Volker Schlondorff, Ulrich Matthes.
A priest and a young Gestapo officer go
head to head in a battle of wills.
NO ONE WOULD TELL
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 25
Fred Savage, Candace Cameron. Puppy
love becomes a nightmare for 16-yearold Stacy.
NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS
MOVIE GREATS 1958 Comedy
August 3, 19
Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick. A
funny army comedy based on Ira Levin’s
Broadway play.
NOBODY’S FOOL
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Drama (M la)
August 7, 22, 23, 30 FP
Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy. A free
spirited 60-year-old man starts to come
to grips with his past and face up to his
responsibilities.
NOI THE ALBINO
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Iceland Drama
(M al)
August 1
Dir. Dagur Kari, Tomas Lemarquis. A
comedic portrait of a gifted teenager
rebelling against life’s limits in a frozen
coastal village.
NOISES OFF
MOVIE EXTRA 1992 Comedy (M l)
August 8, 21 FP
Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve. A
travelling theatre group almost ruin
their performances.
NORMAN ROCKWELL’S:
BREAKING HOME TIES
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1987 Drama (PG)
August 25
Eva Marie Saint, Jason Robards. A
young man’s coming-of-age is played
out in a small Texas town.
NOW YOU SEE HIM, NOW
YOU DON’T
MOVIE GREATS 1972 Comedy
August 13, 22
Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero. A chemistry
student invents a spray that makes its
wearer invisible.
NUN’S STORY, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1959 Drama
August 1, 12, 25
Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch. A devoted
nun begins to doubt her sacrificial
vows.
O
OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION,
THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1997 Romantic
Comedy (M la) 0
August 7, 12, 31
Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd. A comedy
about a romance between a pregnant
New Yorker and her gay roommate.
OBJECTIVE, BURMA!
TCM 1945 War 0
August 6, 7
Errol Flynn. An American platoon
parachutes into Burma to take out a
strategic Japanese outpost.
OCEAN’S TWELVE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Crime (M l)
August 3, 4, 15, 16, 21, 22, 28, 29
George Clooney, Brad Pitt. Daniel Ocean
recruits one more team member so he
can pull off three major heists.
ODD MAN OUT
MOVIE GREATS 1947 Crime (PG)
August 15, 22
James Mason, Kathleen Ryan. A leader
of a political organisation is released
from prison.
OKLAHOMA CRUDE
OKLAHOMA KID, THE
TCM 1939 Historical (PG) 0
August 13, 14
James Cagney, Rosemary Lane. A
cowboy must avenge the unjust
lynching of his father.
OLD MAN AND THE SEA, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1958 Adventure
August 1
Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos. An old man,
a life-long fisherman, has not had a
decent catch for over three months.
When he loses his only companion, a
small Cuban boy, he sets out to find
himself.
OLDBOY ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2003 South Korea
Thriller (TBC)
August 29
Dir. Park Chan-Wook, Choi Min-Sik.
An imprisoned man is mysteriously
released. Intense, unpredictable and
at times brutally violent, this is the
ultimate revenge thriller.
OLEANNA
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Drama (M lv)
August 5, 17
William H Macy, Debra Eisenstadt. He
said it was a lesson. She said it was
sexual harassment.
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET
SERVICE
MOVIE GREATS 1969 Action (PG)
August 20
George Lazenby, Diana Rigg. A crime
boss asks Bond to marry his daughter in
return for Bond’s archenemy.
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
DISNEY CHANNEL 2005 Comedy
August 9, 10, 21, 22
Carol Burnett, Tracey Ullman. A queen
decrees that no one may wed until her
son finds a true princess.
ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.
MOVIE GREATS 1967 Adventure (PG)
August 14
Raquel Welch, John Richardson. A
member of a gentle prehistoric tribe
leaves her peaceful home.
ONE PERFECT DAY
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M lvd)
August 7, 13, 23, 24
Dan Spielman, Kerry Armstrong. A
young composer leaves his family and
girlfriend to further his studies at the
Royal Academy of Music in London.
ONG-BAK
SHOWTIME 2003 Action (MA 15+ vd)
August 4, 15, 16, 22
Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao. A
country boy is sent to the city to retrieve
his village’s precious stolen Buddha.
OPERATION DUMBO DROP
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Adventure (PG)
August 8, 18, 19, 22, 28
Danny Glover, Ray Liotta. During the
Vietnam War, an army deliver an
elephant to villagers.
OPPOSITE OF SEX, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Comedy
(M lva) 0
August 2, 13, 23, 31
Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan. A
white trash trouble turns her gay
brother’s life upside down by stealing
his boyfriend.
ORIGINAL LATIN KINGS OF
COMEDY, THE
SHOWTIME 2002 Comedy (MA 15+ ls)
August 3, 19
Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez. There’s
nothing like a good laugh to bridge the
gap between cultures.
OUR VINES HAVE TENDER
GRAPES
PENTAGON WARS, THE
TCM 1945 Drama (PG) 0
August 25, 26
Edward G Robinson, Margaret O’Brien.
A look at life in a Wisconsin town
inhabited by immigrant Norwegians.
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Comedy (M l)
August 14, 15
Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes. A military
man is assigned to evaluate the
usefulness of the Bradley Infantry
Fighting Vehicle.
OUT FOR JUSTICE
PEOPLE WILL TALK
MOVIE GREATS 1991 Action
(MA 15+ vl)
August 9, 10, 18, 27
Steven Seagal, William Forsythe.
When his partner and best friend are
murdered, a maverick cop will stop at
nothing to avenge the death.
OUT OF AFRICA
TV1 1985 Drama (M)
August 11
Robert Redford, Meryl Streep. Arriving
in Africa, a woman endures many
hardships and tragedies.
SHOWTIME 2005 Comedy (PG a)
August 20, 21, 26, 27
Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear. A
teenager embarks on a mission to find
her single mum the perfect man.
PERFECT OPPOSITES
OUTRAGE, THE
PERFECT SCORE, THE
TCM 1941 Thriller (PG) 0
August 13, 14
John Garfield, Ida Lupino.
A Brooklyn girl falls in love with a
racketeer.
TCM 1964 Western (PG) 0
August 20, 21
Paul Newman, Claire Bloom. A bandit’s
crimes receive different interpretations
from four witnesses.
OWNING MAHOWNY
SHOWTIME 2002 Crime (M la) 0
August 7, 8, 30
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie
Driver. A seemingly ordinary bank
employee has a dark side that nobody
knows about.
P
PACK OF LIES
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1987 Thriller (M)
August 31
Ellen Burstyn, Teri Garr.
The story of a British counterintelligence agent living in a suburban
neighbourhood.
PAID IN FULL
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M ls)
August 6, 15, 26
Martin Henderson, Piper Perabo. The
story of two college graduates in the
Midwest who move to Los Angeles.
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy Drama
(M ld) 0
August 7, 17, 22, 23 FP
Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen.
A heist comedy about a crack team of
underachieving teens.
PERFECT STRANGERS
MOVIE GREATS 1950 Drama
August 2, 11, 21 FP
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan. Two jury
members who are brought together by a
court case fall in love.
PERSONAL EFFECTS
MOVIE ONE 2005 Thriller (M v)
August 8, 18, 28
Penelope Ann Miller, Casper Van
Dien. While trying to find out about
the disappearance of her brother, a
woman’s new friend goes missing.
PETER BENCHLEY’S
CREATURE
MOVIE ONE 2002 Action
(MA 15+ lvs)
August 9, 17, 26, 27
Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer. A young man
struggles with his conscience when
he embarks on an illegal career on the
streets of Harlem.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Horror (M)
Pt 1: August 21
Pt 2: August 22
Kim Cattrall, Craig T Nelson. On a small
island, two marine biologists join forces
to stop a sea monster.
PALLBEARER, THE
FOX CLASSICS 1957 Drama (M)
August 12
Lana Turner, Lloyd Nolan. Adultery, rape
and murder are all part of the secret life
of a small community.
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (M sl)
August 13, 14, 25, 26
David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow. At
an old classmates funeral service Tom
bumps into his high school crush Julie.
PALMETTO
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Mystery (M vls)
August 6, 21, 26
Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue. A
recently-released prisoner agrees to
participate in a bogus kidnapping plot.
PEYTON PLACE
PHAR LAP
MOVIE GREATS 1983 Drama
August 17, 18
Tom Burlinson. The true story of Phar
Lap, a sickly colt that went on to win
over 30 races.
PANAMA HATTIE
PICNIC
PANIC ✪
PIECES OF APRIL
PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, THE
PLAIN TRUTH
TCM 1942 Comedy
August 22, 23
Red Skelton, Ann Sothern.
A nightclub owner in Panama takes
on Nazi spies.
SHOWTIME 2000 Sport (MA 15+ s)
August 29, 30
William H Macy, Neve Campbell. A
middle-aged hitman is so desperate to
escape the family business that he goes
into therapy.
W. 2000 Drama (PG)
August 20
Josh Brolin, Gretchen Mol. A drifter
changes the lives of people in a
small town.
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama (M la)
August 1, 10
Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt. April, the
black sheep of the family, tries to
reconnect with her family by inviting
them for Thanksgiving.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1971 Drama
(MA 15+ dl) 0
August 7, 16, 22, 30 FP
Al Pacino, Kitty Winn. An addict falls
in love with an aimless artist during a
heroin drought in New York City.
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M a)
August 6, 15, 26
Mariska Hargitay, Alison Pill. A small
child is found dead in an Amish
community.
PARADISE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1971 Thriller (M sv)
August 4, 13, 20, 21, 28
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter. A thriller
about a DJ stalked by a female fan.
MOVIE GREATS 1991 Drama (PG)
August 9, 10, 24, 25
Melanie Griffith, Elijah Wood. A couple
loses the spark in their marriage after
their little boy dies.
PARTNERS
OTHER SIDE OF LOVE, THE
OUR MUSIC
TCM 1944 War (PG) 0
August 13, 14
Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains. Brave
Allied soldiers attempt an escape from
the formidable Devil’s Island.
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France in French/
Bosnian/Arabic Drama (M av)
August 12, 21, 22
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Sarah Adler.
A tantalising and finely-crafted
meditation on war and peace.
PERFECT MAN, THE
OUT OF THE FOG
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Comedy
(PG)
August 12, 13
Jay Harrington, Julie Bowen. An
enterprising lawyer plays up the
established rumour that he’s gay.
ARENA TV 1991 Drama (M)
August 26
Cheryl Ladd, Jean Smart.
A mother of three struggles to prove
her innocence.
FOX CLASSICS 1951 Comedy (PG)
August 20
Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain.
A physician becomes romantically
involved with a girl he discovers is
pregnant.
PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE
PASSION AND PREJUDICE
ARENA TV 2001 Drama (M)
August 20
Frances Fisher, Derwin Jordan. A
professor hires a handsome prison
inmate to tend to her yard.
PLAY MISTY FOR ME
POETIC JUSTICE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1993 Drama
(MA 15+ l)
August 1, 11, 24, 27
Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur. A young
African-American poet skips college
and becomes a hairdresser.
POLAR EXPRESS, THE ✪
MOVIE ONE 2004 Fantasy
August 20, 21, 25, 26
Tom Hanks, Michael Jeter.
A disillusioned little boy has an
adventure of a lifetime.
POLICE ACADEMY 2:
THEIR FIRST ASSIGNMENT
MOVIE GREATS 1985 Comedy (M lsv)
August 8, 9 FP
Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith. The
Academy graduates must stop a gang
of spray painters.
MOVIE GUIDE
POLICE ACADEMY 3:
BACK IN TRAINING
MOVIE GREATS 1986 Comedy (PG)
August 11, 20, 29 FP
Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith. The
wacky alumni return to save the Police
Academy from closure.
POLTERGEIST
TCM 1982 Horror (PG) 0
August 1, 2
Craig T Nelson, JoBeth Williams. A
happy suburban family has their life
turned upside-down.
PURSUED
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M lv)
August 6, 7, 12, 24, 25
Christian Slater, Gil Bellows. A fastrising executive must protect his
career and family from a corporate
headhunter.
QUO VADIS?
TCM 1951 Drama (PG) 0
August 17, 18
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr. A grand
Roman tale about love, power and faith.
R
POP ROCKS ✪
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (TBC)
August 4, 10, 16, 17, 25
Gary Cole, Sherilyn Fenn.
Do one hit wonder bands from the
‘80s die?
POPEYE
MOVIE GREATS 1980 Comedy
August 6, 22, 31
Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall. The
live-action adventures of Popeye the
Sailor Man.
PORNOGRAPHIC AFFAIR, A
WORLD MOVIES 1999 France Romance
(MA 15+ as)
August 6, 14
Dir. Frederic Fonteyne, Sergi López. Two
strangers meet to fulfil a sexual fantasy
and fall in love.
POWER, THE
TCM 1968 Sci-Fi 0
August 27, 28
George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette.
Members of a scientific research group
are being killed off one-by-one .
PRÊT-À-PORTER
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Comedy (M ln)
August 4, 15, 24, 25 FP
Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren.
A behind-the-scenes look at a Paris
fashion show.
PRIMARY COLORS
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Drama (M la)
August 7, 8, 25
John Travolta, Emma Thompson. A
young man is seduced into managing
the political campaign of a Southern
governor.
PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL
ENGAGEMENT, THE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy
August 10, 23
Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews. Mia’s
complicated princess life is turned
upside down again.
PRODUCERS, THE ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (M sl)
Commences August 24
Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick. A
Broadway producer and his accountant
try to con investors by staging a
huge flop.
PROMISE HER ANYTHING
MOVIE GREATS 1966 Comedy (PG)
August 12, 28, 29 FP
Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron. A widow
leaves her baby with the neighbour
while she tries to romance her boss.
PROTOCOL
MOVIE GREATS 1984 Comedy (PG)
August 4, 14, 15, 30
Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon. A naive
cocktail waitress is mixed up in the
world of political diplomacy.
PROZAC NATION
SHOWTIME 2001 Drama
(MA 15+ ad) 0
August 15, 28 FP
Christina Ricci, Anne Heche. Drama
about a young woman’s mental illness
and her loved ones who struggle to
deal with it.
PUBLIC ENEMY, THE
TCM 1931 Crime (PG) 0
August 30, 31
James Cagney, Jean Harlow. A powerful
story of the rise and fall of a prohibition
gangster.
PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE
✪
MOVIE ONE 2004 Action (MA 15+ vs)
August 8, 9, 18, 19, 31
Harvey Keitel, Scott Glenn. Two
travellers help an American government
hit man on the run.
PUMPING IRON
MOVIE GREATS 1977 Documentary (PG)
August 9, 10 FP
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno.
The documentary film Pumping Iron
forever changed the world’s perceptions
of body building.
PUPS
MOVIE EXTRA 1999 Drama
(MA 15+ avl)
August 13
Mischa Barton, Cameron Van Hoy. Two
teens decide to rob a bank, but find
themselves in over their heads.
Q
RACING STRIPES
MOVIE ONE 2005 Family
August 2, 10, 19, 28, 29
Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood.
A zebra grows up believing he is a
racehorse.
RAISING ARIZONA
SHOWTIME GREATS 1987 Comedy
(M vl) 0
August 4, 5, 20, 30, 31
Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter.
A hapless criminal marries his mugshot
photographer.
RAISING HELEN
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (PG)
August 5, 12, 20, 21, 29, 30
Kate Hudson, John Corbett. After her
sister and brother-in-law die in a car
accident, a young woman becomes the
guardian of their children.
RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD
PART II
TV1 1985 Action (M lva)
August 18, 19
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna.
Rambo undertakes a special army
mission in Vietnam.
RAMBO III
TV1 1988 Action (M lva)
August 25, 26
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna.
Rambo invades Soviet-occupied
Afghanistan, trying to save his
imprisoned friend.
RANDOM HARVEST
FOX CLASSICS 1942 Romance
August 26, 27
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson. An
amnesiac veteran of WWI marries and
settles into a humble life.
RANSOM
SHOWTIME GREATS 1974 Thriller (M v)
August 1, 11, 29
Sean Connery, Ian McShane. A thriller
about a group of hijackers that seize
a plane.
RANSOM OF RED CHIEF, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Comedy
August 3
Christopher Lloyd, Michael Jeter. Two
hoboes strike on a get-rich quick
scheme.
RANSOM!
TCM 1956 Drama (PG)
August 19, 20
Glenn Ford, Donna Reed. A wealthy
couple tries to cope when their son is
kidnapped.
READY WHEN YOU ARE, MR.
MCGILL
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy (M sl) 0
August 6, 8, 22
Tom Courtenay, Bill Nighy.
A look at the lives of a film crew and
the chaos that ensues when they fall
behind schedule.
REAL LIFE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1978 Comedy (M a)
August 13, 29 FP
Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin. A
mockumentary about the “reel” life of
an average American family.
RECESS: TAKING THE FIFTH
GRADE
DISNEY CHANNEL 2003 Animation 0
August 4, 5, 19, 20, 23, 24
In this sequel to Recess, Miss Finster
has moved up to the fifth grade with
the kids.
RED-HEADED WOMAN
ROGER & ME
SANGAREE
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
REDEEMER, THE
ROGUE COP
SATURDAY NIGHT AND
SUNDAY MORNING
SENSUAL FRIENDS
TCM 1932 Comedy (PG) 0
August 28, 29
Chester Morris, Jean Harlow. Not
satisfied in breaking up the marriage of
her boss, a determined redhead wants
even more.
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Brazil Comedy
Drama (M alv)
August 3, 4, 14, 15
Dir. Claudio Torres, Pedro Cardaso.
A contemporary black comedy that
exposes Brazil’s rich-poor divide.
REDEMPTION
SHOWTIME 2003 Drama
(MA 15+ va) 0
August 2, 11, 24
Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield. A fact-based
drama about the notorious Cripps
gang leader.
REQUIEM FOR A
HEAVYWEIGHT
FOX CLASSICS 1962 Drama (PG)
August 19
Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason. A
honest boxer almost reaches the top in
his 17 years in the ring.
RESIDENT EVIL:
APOCALYPSE
SHOWTIME 2004 Horror (M vl) 0
August 4, 5, 15, 16
Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory. A zombie
killer fights to stay alive in a city full of
the living dead.
RETURN, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Russia Drama
(M al)
August 24, 25, 30, 31
Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Vladimir Gairin.
The lives of two brothers are disrupted
by the unexpected return of their father.
REUNION
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1994 Drama (PG)
August 19
Marlo Thomas, Peter Strauss. The
undying bond between a mother and
her beloved son nearly destroys the lives
of an entire family.
REVENGE
MOVIE GREATS 1971 Thriller (M v)
August 16 FP
Joan Collins, James Booth.
A family takes the law into their own
hands after their child is brutally
murdered.
REVENGE OF THE MIDDLEAGED WOMAN
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (M a)
August 4, 12, 23
Christine Lahti, Bryan Brown. A middleaged woman’s life is turned upset down
when her husband leaves her for a
younger woman.
RIDING GIANTS
SHOWTIME 2004 Documentary
(M l) 0
August 17, 18, 30, 31
Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton. A story about
big wave surfers with rare ‘50s and
‘60s footage.
RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT,
THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (M)
August 11, 12, 31
Lea Thompson, Patrick Dempsey.
A rookie cop is assigned to process
incoming suspects.
RING TWO, THE
MOVIE ONE 2005 Horror (M lh)
August 6, 7, 18, 19
Naomi Watts, Simon Baker. Six months
after the incidents involving the
videotape, clues prove there is a new
evil lurking in the darkness.
RIVALS: THE STALKING OF
LAURIE SHOW
ARENA TV 2000 Drama (M)
August 13
Mary-Margaret Humes, Jennifer
Finnigan. A teenage girl becomes
entangled in a volatile relationship with
a pair of high school lovers.
RECKLESS
ROBIN COOK’S TERMINAL
RECKONING, THE
ROBOTS
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Comedy (M v)
August 22, 31
Mia Farrow, Tony Goldwyn.
A woman’s life becomes bizarre when
her husband tells her he hired a hit
man to kill her.
SHOWTIME 2001 Drama (M sl) 0
August 2, 11, 21
Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe. A medieval
mystery about a disgraced priest who
joins a troupe of travelling actors.
RED BEARD
WORLD MOVIES 1965 Japan Epic
Drama (M asv)
August 23
Dir. Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune.
An arrogant medical student is taught
humility and humanity by a doctor.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (M)
August 1
Doug Savant, Nia Peeples. A young
researcher learns that the hospital
he works for has discovered a cure
for cancer.
SHOWTIME 2005 Animation 0
August 26, 27
Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry. An
ambitious young inventor travels to the
big city to join his dream company.
ROCKET MAN
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Comedy
August 11, 12, 30
Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy. When
one of the astronauts on a manned
space mission becomes ill, a computer
geek gets his chance to fly into space.
MOVIE GREATS 1989 Comedy (M a)
August 6, 24
Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan. The
controversial Michael Moore attempts
to get an interview with the head of
General Motors.
TCM 1954 Film Noir 0
August 11, 12, 25, 26
Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh. A cop on
the mob’s payroll must track down his
brother’s killers.
ROLLOVER ✪
MOVIE GREATS 1981 Drama (TBC)
August 27, 28
Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson. A former
film star must team up with a financial
troubleshooter.
ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGE,
THE
TCM 1947 Comedy 0
August 18, 19
Van Johnson, Janet Leigh. A farmer’s
daughter falls in love with a man who
fought against her family during the
American Civil War.
RONNIE AND JULIE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Drama (PG)
August 27
Terri Garr, Joshua Jackson. Two starcrossed teenagers attempt a lasting
romance.
ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, A
WORLD MOVIES 1999 UK Drama (M lsv)
August 6, 7
Dir. Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine.
The friendship between two boys are
tested when a stranger befriends them.
ROUND TRIP TO HEAVEN
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Comedy (M ln)
August 17
Corey Feldman, Zach Galligan. Two
college students travel to Palm Springs
for their summer vacation.
ROXANNE: THE PRIZE
PULITZER
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1989 Drama (M)
August 5
Chynna Phillips, Perry King. The story of
an innocent beauty and a globetrotting
millionaire in a whirlwind romance.
RULES OF THE GAME, THE
WORLD MOVIES 1939 France Drama
August 2, 3, 28, 29
Dir. Jean Renoir, Nora Gregor. A social
comedy about the ironies of the preWWII French class system.
RUMOUR HAS IT ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Romantic Comedy
(M s)
Commences August 17
Jennifer Aniston, Shirley MacLaine. A
young woman unravels the remarkable
history of her family.
RUNAWAY TRAIN
SHOWTIME GREATS 1985 Action
(M vl) 0
August 2, 10, 11, 20
Jon Voight, Eric Roberts. Heffner.
Two escaped convicts hop on a train
and speed through the icy Alaskan
wilderness.
RUSSIAN ROULETTE
MOVIE GREATS 1975 Drama (PG)
August 3, 4, 19, 29 FP
George Segal, Denholm Elliott. It’s up to
the Canadian Mounties to prevent an
assasination.
RUTH RENDELL: AN
UNWANTED WOMAN
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Crime (PG)
August 2, 11, 20, 21 FP
George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft.
Someone is attacking cyclists as they
ride past and Wexford must catch
the killer.
RUTH RENDELL: KISSING THE
GUNNER’S DAUGHTER
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Crime (PG)
August 7, 16, 17, 26 FP
George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft.
When a father confiscates a gun from
his son’s school bag, he triggers a chain
of events.
S
SABRINA, THE TEENAGE
WITCH: FRIENDS FOREVER!
DISNEY CHANNEL 2002 Animation
August 17
Britt McKillip, Tina Bush. Sabrina is off
to Witch Academy but with a secret:
she’s half-mortal.
SAINTS AND SOLDIERS
MOVIE ONE 2003 War (M v)
August 3, 14, 28
Corbin Allred, Peter Holden. A group
of allied soldiers are trapped behind
enemy lines during WWII.
FOX CLASSICS 1953 Drama (PG)
August 27
Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl. A
doctor comes to manage his deceased
benefactor’s estate.
MOVIE GREATS 1960 Drama (M a)
August 1, 22, 23
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field. A
young man trapped in a dead-end job
spends his Saturday nights getting
drunk.
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
SHOWTIME GREATS 1977 Drama
(MA 15+ ls) 0
August 13
John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney. A
dance-floor king enters a disco contest
with the girl of his dreams.
SAVED!
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (M sl)
August 6
Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin. A
girl attending a Baptist high school
becomes pregnant and finds herself
ostracised.
TV1 1995 Romantic Comedy
August 4
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson. Two
sisters must cope with the realities of
love in early 19th century England.
SHOWTIME 2001 Adult (MA 15+ s)
August 11 FP
Brandy Davis, Doria. Three couples take
their friendship to a whole new level.
SERGEANT YORK
TCM 1941 War 0
August 26, 27
Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie.
A pacifist is drafted into WWI and
becomes a war hero.
SERPICO
SHOWTIME GREATS 1973 Crime
(MA 15+ ls)
August 3, 4, 7, 15, 16, 20, 27 FP
Al Pacino, Jack Kehoe.
A real-life hippie cop refuses to play ball
with the corrupt NYPD.
SET UP, THE
SCARECROW, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Action (MA 15+ sv)
August 7, 8, 19, 29
Billy Zane, James Coburn. A security
systems expert is hired by a bank owner
to design a foolproof system.
SCARLETT
TCM 1958 Drama 0
August 4, 5
Mario Lanza, Peggie Castle. A television
star finds love while trying to get away
from it all in Rome.
MOVIE ONE 2000 Animation
August 1, 14, 24
Belinda Montgomery, Ray Porter. A
scarecrow comes to life with the help of
a feather in his cap.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1994 Drama (PG)
Pt 1: August 28
Pt 2: August 29
Pt 3: August 30
Pt 4: August 31
Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Timothy Dalton.
The sequel to an American masterpiece,
Gone With The Wind.
SCHOOL OF LIFE
SHOWTIME 2005 Comedy Drama
(PG l) 0
August 10, 11, 21
Ryan Reynolds, David Paymer. A cool
new teacher has it all, including a dark
secret uncovered by a bitter rival.
SCOOBY-DOO AND THE LOCH
NESS MONSTER
SEVEN HILLS OF ROME
SEVEN SAMURAI, THE
WORLD MOVIES 1954 Japan Action (PG)
August 9, 10
Dir. Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune.
In 16th century Japan, villagers hire
a samurai to defend their lives and
homes.
SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Drama (M v)
August 3, 4, 7, 15, 16, 26
Brad Pitt, David Thewlis.
A Nazi sympathiser captured by
the British escapes and becomes a
confidante of the Dalai Lama.
SEVENTH SEAL, THE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Animation
August 9, 16, 27
Frank Welker, Casey Kasem. The
Scooby-Doo crew travel to Scotland and
take on the Loch Ness Monster.
WORLD MOVIES 1957 Sweden
Drama (PG)
August 26
Dir. Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow.
A knight returning from the Crusades
searches for answers as he challenges
Death to a game of chess for his soul.
SCREAM
‘70S, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Horror (MA 15+ vh)
August 17, 18
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox. A
teenage girl becomes the target of a
killer who has stalked and killed one of
her classmates.
SEA INSIDE, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 2004 Drama (M a)
August 5, 6, 15, 16, 20, 21
Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda. Should
life be cut short for a dignified death?
This is the true story of a man’s fight for
the right to die.
SEA WOLF, THE
TCM 1941 Drama 0
August 2, 3
Edward G Robinson, Ida Lupino.
Survivors from a shipwreck are rescued
by a cruel and brutal captain.
SEARCHING FOR DAVID’S
HEART
W. 2004 Action (PG)
August 19, 27
Danielle Panabaker, Jayne Brook. A
woman searches for the recipient of
her brother’s heart after he is killed in a
car accident.
SECONDHAND LIONS
MOVIE ONE 2003 Drama (PG)
August 8, 20, 25
Michael Caine, Robert Duvall. A
14-year-old boy is forced to spend his
summer on a farm with his eccentric
uncles.
SECRET AGENTS
WORLD MOVIES 2004 France in French/
English/Spanish Thriller (M dlv)
August 19
Dir. Frederic Schoendoerffer, Monica
Bellucci. A spy thriller about agents in
the French secret service.
SECRETS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama (M)
August 20
Veronica Hamel, Richard Kiley. A wife,
unable to have her own children, vows
to take her maid’s child.
SELENA
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Drama (M a)
August 6, 7
Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos.
The story of Latin singer QuintanillaPerez, through her concerts, family
struggles and her secret marriage.
W. 2000 Drama (PG)
August 13, 19
Brad Rowe, Guy Torry.
Traces the lives of four friends from
their senior year at Kent State.
SEX AND LUCIA
WORLD MOVIES 2001 Spain in
Spanish/English Drama (R 18+ ans)
August 28
Dir. Julio Medem, Paz Vega. A Madrid
waitress retreats to a Mediterranean
island to confront her grief.
SEX COURT, THE MOVIE
SHOWTIME 2002 Erotic Drama
(MA 15+ sa)
August 25 FP
Julie Strain, Skye Ashton. Judge Julie’s
solution to her plaintiff’s sexual
problems is to set up a courtroom in
her boudoir.
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama (M)
August 11
Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia. A lawyer
defends the daughter of a woman he
once loved.
SHADOW ZONE: MY TEACHER
ATE MY HOMEWORK
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Comedy
(PG)
August 6
Gregory Smith, Shelley Duvall. A 13year-old’s doll looks more and more like
his school teacher.
SHAFT
TCM 1971 Crime
(MA 15+) 0
August 26, 27
Richard Roundtree. A private
investigator is hired to find the
kidnapped daughter of a ruthless
gang lord.
SHAGGY D.A., THE
MOVIE GREATS 1976 Comedy
August 7, 23, 31
Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette.
A successful lawyer is suddenly
transformed into a sheepdog.
SHALL WE DANCE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Romance (M l)
August 1, 2, 11, 12, 21, 22, 31
Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez. After
seeing a beautiful woman in a dance
studio window, a man decides to take
dance lessons.
✪ = Television Premiere FP = Final Play
September 2006
8
SHANE
SLANDER
FOX CLASSICS 1953 Western
August 27
Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur.
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle
down with a homestead family.
TCM 1956 Drama
August 18, 19
Van Johnson, Ann Blyth.
A TV star almost loses his career and
his marriage over a tabloid story.
SHANGHAI SURPRISE
SLEEPERS
MOVIE GREATS 1986 Adventure (M sv)
August 9, 18, 27 FP
Madonna, Sean Penn. A missionary
hires an adventurer to capture a cache
of stolen opium.
SHAOLIN SOCCER
MOVIE EXTRA 2001 Comedy (PG)
August 11, 12, 25, 31
Stephen Chow, Vicki Zhao. A young
Shaolin reunites with his brothers to
form a soccer team.
SLEUTH
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION,
THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Drama (MA 15+ vl)
August 1 FP
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman. Sent to
prison for a crime he didn’t commit, a
man must learn to get by in a brutal,
cutthroat world.
SHOW BOAT
TCM 1951 Musical 0
August 14, 15
Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson. A
romantic musical about life on
a showboat cruising down the
Mississippi.
MOVIE GREATS 1991 Action
(MA 15+ lv)
August 11, 12, 17, 18, 26, 27
Brandon Lee, Dolph Lundgren. Two
cops join forces to take on the Japanese
Yakuza.
SHOWGIRLS
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Drama
(MA 15+ nlv)
August 10, 16, 17, 28, 29
Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan. A
young drifter arrives in Las Vegas to
become a dancer.
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Action (M ls)
August 6, 15, 24
Nicollette Sheridan, Gil Bellows. A Navy
SEAL cadet has his work cut out for him
when he begins training.
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
TCM 1952 Musical 0
August 23, 24
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds. A movie
star falls in love and makes the
transition to sound in the roaring ‘20s.
SIOUX CITY
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1994 Drama (PG)
August 12
Lou Diamond Phillips, Ralph Waite. A
young Lakota Sioux gets in touch with
his cultural roots.
16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL
WORLD MOVIES 2003 UK Drama
(MA 15+ alv)
August 7, 8, 27, 28
Dir. Richard Jobson, Kevin McKidd. An
intimate account of one man’s struggle
with alcohol, violence and himself.
’60S, THE
W. 1999 Drama (PG)
August 12
Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles. The Herlihys
are a working class family in the
1960s, whose three children take wildly
divergent paths.
SKETCH ARTIST II: HANDS
THAT SEE
MOVIE EXTRA 1993 Drama (MA 15+ v)
August 13
Courteney Cox, Jeff Fahey.
A police sketch artist helps a blind
victim who is trying to run away from
a killer.
SKIRTS AHOY!
TCM 1952 Comedy 0
August 8, 9
Barry Sullivan, Esther Williams. Three
women join the navy, but discover that
life is not so smooth sailing.
SHOWTIME 2004 Adventure
(PG va) 0
August 9, 10, 29, 30
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law. A fearless
flying duo must thwart a diabolical plan
to destroy Earth.
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Drama
(MA 15+ dls)
August 4, 5, 14, 25, 26
Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn. A man
is arrested when his drug dealer is
gunned down while talking to him.
9
SLIDING DOORS
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Romantic
Comedy (M sl)
August 6, 7, 20, 29, 30
Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah. A
Londoner’s life unfolds in very different
ways, depending on whether she
catches or misses her train.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Comedy
(M lda)
August 6, 7, 15, 23, 24
Marisa Tomei, Natasha Lyonne. A dark
coming-of-age comedy about a teenage
girl in the 1970s.
SMALL CLAIMS 3:
THE REUNION
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Drama (M)
August 26, 27
Claudia Karvan, Rebecca Gibney.
Chrissy and Jo reunite to reveal the
true identity of a friend’s husband’s
murderer.
SNIPER 3
SILVER STRAND
SLAM
SHOWTIME GREATS 1972 Mystery
(M a) 0
August 2, 7, 16, 21
Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine. A
mystery about a writer visited in his
house by his wife’s brash lover.
SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS
SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE
TOKYO
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE
WORLD OF TOMORROW
SHOWTIME GREATS 1996 Thriller
(MA 15+ va) 0
August 5, 11, 17, 25
Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt. Four
estranged friends reunite to take
revenge on the reform-school guards
who abused them.
SHOWTIME 2004 Action
(MA 15+ v) 0
August 6, 18, 27 FP
Tom Berenger, Denis Arndt. A sniper
is hired by NSA officials to eliminate a
suspected terrorist.
SNOW WONDER ✪
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (TBC)
August 5, 14, 24
Mary Tyler Moore, Jason Priestley. A
Christmas Eve snowstorm blows some
small miracles into the lives of people
around the world.
SOLARIS
WORLD MOVIES 1972 Russia Science
Fiction (PG)
August 12, 13
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, Natalya
Bondarchuk.
A brilliant series of encounters between
humans and their fears, fantasies
and faiths.
SOMERSAULT
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (M sa) 0
August 7, 8, 16, 23, 24
Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington. A
teenage girl’s sensual journey takes her
to an uncertain destination.
SON OF FURY
FOX CLASSICS 1942 Adventure (PG)
August 19, 20
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney. The story of
Benjamin Blake, from his boyhood to
the hardships of manhood.
SON OF THE MASK
MOVIE ONE 2005 Comedy (PG)
August 16, 25
Alan Cumming, Jamie Kennedy. Otis
the dog starts to feel left out when the
family he lives with has a baby.
SONG REMAINS THE SAME,
THE
FOX CLASSICS 1976 Music (PG)
August 18
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant.
A profile of Led Zeppelin, with concert
footage of their 1973 performance at
Madison Square Garden.
SOUL PLANE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (MA 15+ sl)
August 8, 14, 19, 20, 28, 29
Tom Arnold, Snoop Dogg.
The maiden flight of an African
American-owned airline gives “fly” a
whole new meaning.
SOUND OF THUNDER, A ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005
Sci-Fi (M v)
Commences August 3
Ben Kingsley, Ed Burns.
Time travellers upset history when they
accidentally kill a butterfly 65 million
years ago.
September 2006
SPANGLISH
SHOWTIME 2004 Romantic Comedy
(M l) 0
August 10, 11, 20, 21, 30
Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni.
A decent patriarch of a chaotic
LA family is drawn to his Mexican
housekeeper.
SPARTACUS
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (M v) 0
August 24
Goran Visnjic, Alan Bates. An Emmy
Award-winning story of the slave who
leads a revolt against the Roman
Empire.
SPECIES III
MOVIE ONE 2004 Sci-Fi
(MA 15+ hvs)
August 4, 17, 27
Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper. An alien
in a woman’s body begins her mission
to mate with humans.
SPEED 2:
CRUISE CONTROL
SHOWTIME GREATS 1997 Action
(M v) 0
August 1
Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric. A
maniacal jewellery thief takes over a
cruise ship.
SPINOUT
TCM 1966 Musical (PG) 0
August 16, 17
Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares. A
carefree singer agrees to race an
experimental car.
SPRINGTIME IN A SMALL
TOWN
WORLD MOVIES 2002 China Romantic
Drama (PG)
August 4, 5, 16, 17
Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang, Hu Jing Fan.
A subtle and emotional period drama
about longing and desire.
STAGE BEAUTY
MOVIE EXTRA 2004 Drama (M svl)
August 11, 12, 28, 29
Billy Crudup, Claire Danes. When
Charles II bans men from performing
women’s roles in plays, these men
suddenly find themselves without a
livelihood.
STAR CHAMBER, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1983 Drama (M vl)
August 4, 22, 23
Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook. A
disenchanted young judge joins a
secret society that hands down its own
form of justice.
STARSHIP TROOPERS 2:
HERO OF THE FEDERATION
SHOWTIME 2004 Science Fiction
(MA 15+ v)
August 8, 31 FP
Billy Brown, Richard Burgi. Gung-ho
soldiers battle man-eating bugs from
outer space while awaiting rescue on a
distant planet.
STARSKY & HUTCH
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (M ld)
August 6, 7, 13 FP
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson. Two
mismatched undercover crime fighters
use their street smarts and good looks
to solve crime.
STATE PROPERTY 2:
BLOOD ON THE STREETS ✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Action
(MA 15+ vla)
Commences August 17
Beanie Sigel, Noreaga.
Alliances are formed and friendships
shattered as gangs fight to the death.
STAY AWAY, JOE
TCM 1968 Comedy (PG) 0
August 30, 31
Elvis Presley, Joan Blondell. A young
Indian tries to save his failing
reservation by selling grazing rights to
a corrupt tycoon.
STAYING ALIVE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1983 Drama (PG a)
August 13, 14, 31
John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes. A man’s
sizzling affair with a beautiful dancer
sparks a bitter romantic triangle.
STEAL
SHOWTIME 2002 Action (M lsv)
August 12, 18
Stephen Dorff, Natasha Henstridge. A
heist drama about a gang of athletic
thieves whose stylish getaways are
half the fun.
STEALING CHRISTMAS
SHOWTIME 2003 Family (PG v)
August 9, 25
Tony Danza, Lea Thompson. A thief lies
low in a small town where he takes a job
as their local Santa.
STEALING HOME ✪
TCM 1988 Drama (PG)
August 3, 4
Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster. A downand-out athlete reminisces about
his past.
STEEL
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Action (M v)
August 5, 22, 29
Shaquille O’Neal, Richard Roundtree.
When the owner of a construction
company dies in the middle of a project,
his daughter takes over the enterprise.
STELLA
MOVIE GREATS 1990 Drama (M al)
August 6, 7, 18, 30, 31 FP
Bette Midler, John Goodman. A mother
makes the ultimate sacrifice for her
daughter.
STONE KILLER, THE
SUMMER OF FEAR
TALL TALE
SUNSET
TALL TARGET, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (M)
August 26
Gregory Harrison, Corin Nemec. A
workaholic executive reluctantly brings
his family to an inherited Florida
bay house.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1988 Crime (M vl)
August 3, 11, 19, 20, 27
Bruce Willis, James Garner. A what-if
mystery about two Western legends
– Wyatt Earp and Tom Mix – who team
up to solve a Hollywood murder mystery.
SURVIVAL ON THE MOUNTAIN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Drama (M)
August 13
Markie Post, Dennis Boutsikaris. A
couple faces an avalanche in Nepal and
struggle to survive.
FOX CLASSICS 1973 Action (MA 15+)
August 16, 30
Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam. A
tough New York cop discovers that a
gangster is planning a massacre as
revenge for a 40-year-old shoot-out.
SURVIVOR’S CLUB, THE
STOP! OR MY MOM WILL
SHOOT
SUSAN SLEPT HERE
TV1 1992 Comedy (PG)
August 4, 5
Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty. A visit
by a detective’s meddlesome mother
turns into a prolonged adventure in
aggravation.
THE STORY OF SEA BISCUIT
MOVIE GREATS 1949 Family
August 1, 9, 19
Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald. When
her brother dies in a horse racing
accident, a young woman insists that
her fiancé gives up racing.
STORY OF THE WEEPING
CAMEL, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2003 Germany in
Mongolian Documentary (PG)
August 4, 5, 18
Dir. Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni,
Ikhbayar Amgaabazar. A nomadic
family of shepherds call on a musical
healer to reunite one of the herd with
her new-born colt.
STRAIGHT TALK
MOVIE GREATS 1992 Comedy (PG)
August 3, 18, 19, 28
Dolly Parton, James Woods. A smalltown gal leaves everything behind and
heads to Chicago.
STRANGER BESIDE ME, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama (PG)
August 14, 15
Eric Close, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen.
A young navy wife faces a nightmare
when she fears that her own husband is
a peeping tom and rapist.
STRANGER TO LOVE, A
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 21, 22
Beau Bridges, Billy Forester. A family
man is attacked and loses his memory.
His family believes he is dead when a
body is found in the river.
STRAWBERRY BLONDE, THE
TCM 1941 Comedy 0
August 20, 21
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland. A
turn-of-the-century dentist more than
meets his match.
STRIP SEARCH
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (M an)
August 3, 13
Glenn Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal. A
film about several parallel stories that
examine the difficult balance between
personal freedoms and national
security in the aftermath of 9/11.
STRIP, THE ✪
TCM 1951 Film Noir 0
August 26, 27
Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest. A
nightclub drummer gets mixed up with
an actress and mobsters on Hollywood’s
Sunset Strip.
SUBJECT WAS ROSES, THE
TCM 1968 Drama (PG) 0
August 2, 3
Martin Sheen, Patricia Neal. A WWII
veteran comes home and realises that
his parents’ relationship is collapsing.
SUBTERRANEANS, THE
TCM 1960 Drama
August 15, 16
George Peppard, Leslie Caron. A writer
seeks love and the meaning of life
amongst San Francisco’s beatniks.
SUMMER OF ‘42
FOX CLASSICS 1971 Drama (M)
August 10, 30
Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes. A youth
awaiting his first sexual encounter
finds himself developing an innocent
love for a young woman.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Thriller (M)
August 1, 2
Roma Downey, Jacqueline Bisset. Three
women get together to testify against a
man accused of raping them all.
TCM 1954 Drama 0
August 10, 11
Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds. A
Hollywood screenwriter takes in a
runaway girl, who is more than he
can handle.
SUSPECT ZERO
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller
(MA 15+ va) 0
August 4, 22, 23
Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley. A
disgraced cop is on the trail of a
mysterious vigilante who appears to be
targeting serial killers.
SWAN, THE
TCM 1956 Romance 0
August 9, 10
Louis Jourdan, Grace Kelly.
A noblewoman’s family wants to marry
her off to the crown prince.
SWEETEST GIFT, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Drama (PG)
August 30, 31
Helen Shaver, Tisha Campbell. Rural
African American and Caucasian
families overcome racial prejudice in
their small town.
SWIMMING POOL
WORLD MOVIES 2003 France in
English/French Thriller (MA 15+ nsv)
August 25, 26, 31
Dir. Francois Ozon, Charlotte Rampling.
A successful British mystery writer finds
her getaway in the French countryside
disturbed when she meets her
publisher’s young and sexy daughter.
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS
MOVIE EXTRA 1994 Comedy (MA 15+ l)
August 4, 5, 13, 14, 25, 26
Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley. An easily
intimidated assistant to an egomaniacal
movie mogul decides to turn the tables
and kidnap his boss.
SYLVIA
SHOWTIME 2003 Drama
(M als) 0
August 8, 28
Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig. A
sensitive portrayal of iconic American
poet Sylvia Plath, whose turbulent
marriage to dashing English scribe Ted
Hughes ended in tragedy.
TAIS TOI!
T
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Comedy (M lv)
August 7, 25
Jean Reno, Gérard Depardieu. Two
convicts escape from prison to try and
retrieve a large sum of money.
TAKING LIVES
MOVIE ONE 2004 Crime (MA 15+ v)
August 1
Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke. An FBI
profiler investigates and hunts down a
serial killer who assumes the lives and
identities of his victims.
TALES OF ORDINARY
MADNESS
WORLD MOVIES 1981
Italy in English Cult Drama
(R 18+ av)
August 7, 8, 30, 31
Dir. Marco Ferreri, Ben Gazzara. An
adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions And
General Tales Of Ordinary Madness.
TALES OF THE KAMA SUTRA
SHOWTIME 1998 Erotic Drama
(MA 15+ ns)
August 4 FP
Ivan Baccarat, Amy Lindsay. A sensual
drama about a couple who stumbles
upon an erotic Indian statue.
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Adventure (PG)
August 11
Patrick Swayze, Catherine O’Hara. A
young boy draws on the inspiration of
legendary Western characters to find
the strength to fight an evil land baron.
TCM 1951 Thriller (PG) 0
August 2, 3
Dick Powell, Paula Raymond.
A detective tries to prevent the
assassination of President Lincoln
during a train ride.
TANGO LESSON, THE
WORLD MOVIES 1997 England in
English/French/Spanish Drama (PG)
August 13, 14
Dir. Sally Potter, Pablo Verón. A filmmaker breaks away from her work and
steps into a life of tango with renowned
Argentine dancer Pablo Verón.
TAPS
SHOWTIME GREATS 1981 Drama
(PG vl) 0
August 5, 14, 19, 29 FP
Timothy Hutton, Tom Cruise. Scott. Boys
at an elite military academy prepare to
do real battle with greedy real-estate
developers.
TARZAN AND HIS MATE
MOVIE GREATS 1934 Adventure
August 6, 16, 28
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen
O’Sullivan.
A group of English adventurers try
and convince Jane to leave Tarzan and
return to civilisation.
TEAM AMERICA: WORLD
POLICE
SHOWTIME 2004 Comedy
(MA 15+ s) 0
August 5, 16, 17
Trey Parker, Matt Stone.
An outrageous satire about a team of
puppet heroes who police the world for
terrorists, getting it hilariously wrong
at every turn.
TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER
WORLD MOVIES 2001 Thailand Musical
Western (MA 15+ v)
August 18, 19
Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng, Chartchai
Ngamsan.
A girl from the right side of the tracks
falls in love with the most feared bandit
in the country.
TELL ME NO SECRETS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Drama (M)
August 23, 24
Lori Loughlin, Bruce Greenwood. A
district attorney thinks that she is being
stalked by an accused rapist she is
prosecuting.
TELL THEM WILLIE BOY
IS HERE
FOX CLASSICS 1969 Drama (PG)
August 9, 13
Robert Redford, Katharine Ross. An
American Indian desperately searches
for an identity that the white man’s
world refuses to grant.
TEMPEST, THE ✪
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Drama (TBC)
August 4, 5, 16, 24
Peter Fonda, John Glover. A playful
adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest
set in the Mississippi bayous during the
American Civil War.
TEMPTATION OF A MONK
WORLD MOVIES 1993 Epic Drama
(MA 15+ sv)
August 1
Dir. Clara Law, Joan Chen.
An epic saga about two imperial princes
scheming for succession to the throne.
TERMINAL, THE
MOVIE ONE 2004 Drama (PG)
August 3, 4, 25
Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones. A
visitor to New York becomes a resident
of the airport when his country is
erased.
TERROR IN THE FAMILY
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (M)
August 4, 5, 6
Hilary Swank, Dan Lauria. 15-yearold Deena wants the same freedom
every teenager craves. But when she
can’t have her way, her rebellious
temperament erupts in violence.
THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
MOVIE GREATS 1941 Drama (PG)
August 7, 8, 16, 26, 27
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier. A woman
raises herself from poverty to become
the scandalous mistress of a member of
the British Navy.
MOVIE GUIDE
THEIR EYES WERE
WATCHING GOD
TIN CUP
TRADE OFF
TWIN SISTERS
THESE WILDER YEARS
TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS,
THE
TRAUMA
TWINS EFFECT, THE
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (M v)
August 7, 11, 17, 18, 29, 30
Halle Berry, Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
A woman’s search for happiness leads
her to meet a drifter.
TCM 1956 Drama (PG) 0
August 18, 19
James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck. A
wealthy businessman sets out to find
his long-lost illegitimate son.
THEY MET IN THE DARK
MOVIE GREATS 1943 Thriller (TBC)
August 2, 11
James Mason, Joyce Howard. A navy
commander is tricked into revealing
military secrets to the Nazis.
THEY WERE SISTERS
MOVIE GREATS 1945 Drama
August 8, 9, 17, 28 FP
James Mason, Phyllis Calvert. The story
of three very different sisters and the
men that they marry.
THICK AS THIEVES
MOVIE EXTRA 1999 Crime (MA 15+ vld)
August 12, 18, 27, 28
Alec Baldwin, Rebecca De Mornay.
Two master thieves go at odds with
one another.
THIN MAN, THE
TCM 1934 Romantic Comedy 0
August 6, 7
William Powell, Myrna Loy.
A former detective and his wife are
hired to find the killer of an inventor.
THIRD WHEEL, THE
MOVIE ONE 2002 Comedy (PG)
August 10, 22, 23, 27
Luke Wilson, Denise Richards. When
a man summons the courage to ask
a woman out on a date, everything
goes wrong.
THIRTY SECONDS OVER
TOKYO
TCM 1944 War (PG) 0
August 9, 10
Van Johnson, Phyllis Thaxter. General
Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops
for the first airborne attacks on Japan.
THREE COLOURS: RED
WORLD MOVIES 1994 France Drama
(M s)
August 1, 2
Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Irène Jacob.
A fashion model’s life changes forever
after a chance encounter.
THREE COLOURS: WHITE
WORLD MOVIES 1994 France in Polish/
French Drama (M ls)
August 23, 24
Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Julie Delpy. A
romantic man risks everything to win
back his wife.
THREE GODFATHERS
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Comedy (M l)
August 11, 17, 18, 27 FP
Kevin Costner, Rene Russo. A smalltown failed golf pro gets one more
chance to prove he is a winner on the
golf circuit.
TCM 1950 Musical 0
August 1, 2
Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson. A simple
fisherman becomes New Orleans’s
most-loved opera singer.
TOGETHER
WORLD MOVIES 2000 Sweden Comedy
Drama (M ans)
August 24, 25
Dir. Lukas Moodysson, Lisa Lindgren. A
look at the commune life of a group of
hippies in ‘70s Stockholm.
TOM AND HUCK
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Family (PG)
August 3, 15, 27 FP
Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro.
Tom Sawyer and his best friend
Huckleberry Finn encounter all sorts
of adventures when they try to solve a
murder investigation.
TOM THUMB
TCM 1958 Musical 0
August 27, 28
Russ Tamblyn, Jessie Matthews. The
adventures of a boy the size of a thumb
who is taken in by a kindly couple.
TOM WHITE
SHOWTIME 2003 Drama
(M lva) 0
August 8, 9, 15, 23
Colin Friels, Rachael Blake. An uptight
exec drifts into street-life after a stressinduced nervous breakdown.
TOMMY BOY
SHOWTIME GREATS 1995 Comedy
(M a) 0
August 1, 6, 12, 13, 26, 30 FP
David Spade, Chris Farley.
A dim-witted son must save his
dad’s floundering company from evil
schemers.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2003 Drama (M)
Pt 1 & 2: August 5, 6
Niamh Cusack, Peter Davison. A
man cannot deal with his ex-wife’s
new boyfriend and her new-found
confidence.
TORCH SONG
TCM 1953 Romance
August 12, 13
Michael Wilding, Joan Crawford. A
musical star falls for a blind pianist.
TORNADO!
TCM 1948 Western 0
August 1
John Wayne, Mildred Natwick. Three
bandits are entrusted with the welfare
of a small baby.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Action (M)
August 27
Bruce Campbell, Shannon Sturges. A
thrilling adventure centered around the
bravest photographers on the planet
– tornado chasers.
THUMBSUCKER ✪
TOUCH OF PINK
BOX OFFICE 2005 Comedy (M dls)
Commences August 3
Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn. A 17year-old boy still sucking his thumb
turns to adults for help quitting.
THUNDERBIRDS
SHOWTIME 2004 Adventure (PG v) 0
August 12, 13, 26, 27
Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley.
The intergalactic exploits of cult TV
puppets are brought to life when an
evil mastermind tries to take over their
secret island.
TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW
LION
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Documentary (M a)
August 1
Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon. A
visually-stunning feature-length
documentary about tyranny and
oppression.
TICKETS ✪
MOVIE EXTRA 2005 Comedy (MA 15+ l)
August 9, 10, 18, 19
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach,
Ermanno Olmi. Three stories of human
interaction aboard a single train trip
from Eastern Europe to Rome.
TIGER BAY
MOVIE GREATS 1959 Crime (PG)
August 13
John Mills, Hayley Mills. A young
girl accidentally witnesses a sailor
murdering his mistress.
TIME MACHINE, THE
TCM 1960 Sci-Fi 0
August 27, 28
Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux. A scientist
travels to different eras in this film
based on the classic HG Wells tale.
SHOWTIME 2004 Romantic Comedy
(M ls) 0
August 5, 16, 17
Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan. A gay
Pakistani man in London with a Cary
Grant fixation must face up to the worst
when his traditionally-minded mum
shows up to find him a proper Muslim
girlfriend.
TOUCHING THE VOID
MOVIE EXTRA 2003 Documentary (M l)
August 24
Joe Simpson, Simon Yates. The true
story of two young climbers and their
attempt to conquer the summit of Siula
Grande in Peru.
TOWER OF THE FIRST BORN
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1998 Drama (PG)
Pt 1: August 14
Pt 2: August 15
Ben Cross, Peter Weller.
In a mystery surrounding the Vatican,
a young woman searches for her father
and a lost treasure.
TOWERING INFERNO, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1974 Action (PG)
August 6, 18, 24, 29, 30
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman. At the
official opening of an office building, a
massive fire breaks out.
TOWN WITHOUT
CHRISTMAS, A
SHOWTIME 2001 Family (PG al)
August 11, 27
Peter Falk, Patricia Heaton. When a
young boy tells Santa that he’s going to
kill himself to unburden his divorcing
parents, the media and the nation
go wild.
MOVIE EXTRA 1996 Romance (M slv)
August 25, 26
Adam Baldwin, Theresa Russell. When
Tom’s marriage falls into trouble,
Tom goes to a bar and meets another
woman, who seduces him into killing
their partners.
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller (M lv)
August 31
Colin Firth, Mena Suvari.
A man wakes from a coma to discover
his wife has been killed in a car crash.
TREASURE ISLAND
DISNEY CHANNEL 2002 Animation
August 11
The high seas adventure tale of an
orphaned boy, a map, an island and
buried treasure.
TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE,
THE
SHOWTIME 2003 Animation (PG va)
August 3, 20 FP
Beatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreault.
An animated feature about a cyclist,
his dog and a grandma who collide
with mobsters.
TRIPPING WIRE
MOVIE ONE 2005 Mystery (M vs)
August 7, 17, 29
Clark Johnson, Benz Antoine. A story
about loyalty, betrayal and the secrets
people will die – or kill – to protect.
TROIS 3: THE ESCORT
SHOWTIME 2004 Thriller (M vls)
August 6, 12, 20
Brian J White, Patrice Fisher. White.
A music promoter turns to the oldest
profession to pay off his debts.
TROJAN WAR
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Comedy (M s)
August 9, 18, 27
Will Friedle, Jennifer Love Hewitt. A
man meets the girl of his dreams but
faces many hurdles when he tries to get
together with her.
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1989 Romance
(M)
August 10
Jack Thompson, Raquel Welch. In
this tale of shipwrecks, identities
and smuggling, a woman finds that
surviving on a desert island is the
easy part.
TRUMAN SHOW, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Comedy
Drama (PG la) 0
August 11, 12, 19, 23, 24
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney. A man finds
out that his whole life is actually a
reality television show.
TRUMP UNAUTHORISED
MOVIE ONE 2005 Drama (PG)
August 5, 21
Justin Louis, Katheryn Winnick. The life of
Donald Trump – real estate king, media
mogul and reality TV star.
TRUTH AND OTHER LIES,
THE ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Spain Comedy
(TBC)
August 23, 24, 26
Dir. Alvaro Fernandez Armero, Tristán
Ulloa. A fun, light-hearted romp about
couple-swapping and hidden sexual
desires.
TUNE IN TOMORROW...
MOVIE GREATS 1990 Comedy (M la)
August 1, 2, 10, 11, 25
Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey. A local
radio station hires a scriptwriter with a
reputation for drama.
TUPAC: RESURRECTION
SHOWTIME 2003 Documentary
(MA 15+ dsa)
August 13, 29 FP
Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls. A look at
the life and death of notorious rapper
Tupac Shakur.
TURTLES CAN FLY ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2002 Netherlands in
Dutch/German/English Drama (M asv)
August 20
Dir. Ben Sombogaart, Thekla Reuten.
The epic tale of two sisters separated as
children who find each other, only to be
separated again by WWII.
SHOWTIME 2003 Action (M vh)
August 8, 18, 29 FP
Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi. Two
women battle an ancient vampire and
his bloodsucking legions.
TWISTED
SHOWTIME 2003 Thriller
(MA 15+ vl) 0
August 1, 2, 14, 15, 29
Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia. A troubled
police detective discovers that she
has dated all the victims in a serial
murder case.
TWO JAKES, THE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1990 Crime (M vl)
August 1, 8, 15, 16
Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel. Detective
Jake Gittes returns and gets involved
in a case that leads to some shady oil
deals and a past he just can’t escape.
TWO MEN WENT TO WAR
SHOWTIME 2002 Comedy (PG vl) 0
August 1, 14, 25
Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill. Two
dentists take on the Third Reich in this
fact-based British comedy.
TWO MOON JUNCTION
MOVIE GREATS 1988 Drama (M sla)
August 9, 24, 25
Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson. A
beautiful Southern debutante is
about to marry a handsome man as
privileged as she. But one day, she
meets a carnival worker and falls in
love with him.
TWO RODE TOGETHER
FOX CLASSICS 1961 Western (PG)
August 3
James Stewart, Richard Widmark.
Two adventurers attempt to enter a
Comanche camp and peacefully bring
back people captured by Indian raids.
TWO WEEKS: WITH LOVE
TCM 1950 Musical (PG) 0
August 4, 5, 18, 19
Ricardo Montalban, Jane Powell. A
daughter on holiday with her family is
determined to prove she’s not a little
girl anymore.
TWO-FACED WOMAN
TCM 1941 Comedy 0
August 2, 3
Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo. A woman
pretends to be her own twin sister to win
back her straying husband.
20 CENTIMETRES
WORLD MOVIES 2005 Spain in
Spanish/French/English Comedy
(R 18+ ans)
August 23, 24
Dir. Ramon Salazar, Mónica Cervera. A
musical comedy about a transsexual
prostitute facing the chop.
2046
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Hong Kong
in Cantonese/Mandarin/Japanese
Drama (TBC)
August 5, 6
Dir. Wong Kar Wai, Tony Leung. A
visually-sumptuous reverie on memory,
regret and lost love.
24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE
WORLD MOVIES 2002 UK Docu Drama
(MA 15+ dls)
August 30, 31
Dir. Michael Winterbottom, Steve
Coogan. An in-your-face rockin’ docudrama that celebrates the birth of rave
culture in Manchester.
U
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Iran in Kurdish
Drama (TBC)
August 8, 9, 19, 20
Dir. Bahman Ghobadi, Soran Ebrahim.
A harrowing and timely tale about war
and the survival of the human spirit.
U.S. MARSHALS
12 DAYS OF TERROR
UN CHIEN ANDALOU
SHOWTIME 2003 Drama (M av)
August 9, 20, 30
John Rhys-Davies, Jamie Bartlett. A
shark terrorised New Jersey swimmers
for two weeks in 1916, causing
widespread panic.
TWILIGHT
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Thriller
(M lva)
August 8, 9, 17, 18, 25
Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon. A
world-weary detective gets involved
in the murky past of his dying moviestar friend.
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Action (M vl)
August 5, 13, 18, 19, 29, 30
Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes. A US
Marshal is assigned to track down an
escaped murderer.
WORLD MOVIES 1928 France in No
Dialogue Drama (M av)
August 17
Dir. Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel. A
subversive masterpiece featuring 17
minutes of bizarre images.
UNCONSCIOUS ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Spain in
Spanish/German Comedy (TBC)
August 6, 7, 12, 13
Dir. Joaquin Oristrell, Luis Tosar. A witty,
good-looking farce about the early years
of psychoanalysis in 1913 Barcelona.
UNDER THE RADAR
VIVA MARIA!
UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
SHOWTIME 2003 Comedy (M vld) 0
August 6, 18, 23
Nathan Phillips, Chloe Maxwell. A surfcrazy rebel leads two patients astray
and runs afoul of local gangs.
✪
BOX OFFICE 2005 Action (MA vs)
Commences August 17
Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman. A
bloodsucker is caught in a war between
vampires and werewolves.
UNDERWORLD U.S.A.
FOX CLASSICS 1961 Drama (PG)
August 5
Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn. A man
plans revenge on the murderers of
his father.
UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2004 Drama (PG)
August 8, 9
Mary Louise Parker, Aidan Quinn. A
heart-warming story about love found
in unexpected places.
UNMARRIED WOMAN, AN
SHOWTIME GREATS 1978 Romantic
Comedy (M s)
August 10
Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates.
A woman struggles to take control of her
life after her marriage crumbles.
UNSTRUNG HEROES
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Drama (PG)
August 1
Andie MacDowell, John Turturro. When
his mother becomes sick, a boy goes to
live with his two crazy uncles.
UPSIDE OF ANGER, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1965 Comedy
August 7, 17, 27 FP
Jean Moreau, Brigitte Bardot. Two
gun-slinging showgirls find themselves
leading a revolution.
MOVIE GREATS 1976 Drama (M va)
August 29, 30
Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner. Jewish
refugees attempt to escape Nazi Germany
by boarding an ocean liner.
W
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN
MOVIE EXTRA 1997 Comedy (M l)
August 13, 14
Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy. This
mock documentary, set in a fictional
town, chronicles the attempts of
its talentless residents to put on a
show celebrating the burg’s 150th
anniversary.
WAKING NED DEVINE ✪
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Comedy (PG)
August 20, 21, 29, 30
Ian Bannen, David Kelly.
In an Irish village, someone has won
the national lottery and two elderly
best friends are determined to find
out who it is.
WALK ON WATER
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (M als)
August 7, 20, 21
Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger. Determined
to hunt down a surviving Nazi officer,
a hit man develops a friendship that
challenges his attitudes.
WALK, THE
SHOWTIME 2005 Romantic Drama
(M als) 0
August 1
Joan Allen, Kevin Costner.
A wife’s husband disappears, leaving
her to find comfort with another
lost soul.
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Drama
(M) 0
August 14, 15
Nicola Stephenson, Philip Glenister. Ten
people from different walks of life are
thrown together for a hike across the
Sahara desert.
URBAN COWBOY
WALKER
SHOWTIME GREATS 1980 Drama (M va)
August 13
John Travolta, Debra Winger. A
modern-day cowboy learns there is
more to being a man than riding a
mechanical bull.
VA SAVOIR
V
WORLD MOVIES 2001 France Romantic
Comedy (PG)
August 21, 22
Dir. Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar. A
delightful romantic comedy about love,
jealousy and animal attraction.
VALENTIN
WORLD MOVIES 2002 Argentina
Comedy Drama (PG)
August 25, 26
Dir. Alejandro Agresti, Rodrigo Noya.
In 1960s Buenos Aires, nine-year-old
Valentin peers out at the world through
enormous glasses.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1987 Action
(MA 15+ v)
August 5, 6, 13, 17, 26
Ed Harris, Marlee Matlin. A 19th century
soldier-of-fortune marches a motley
crew into Nicaragua and sets himself
up as ruler of the war-torn nation.
WARRIORS OF HEAVEN AND
EARTH ✪
WORLD MOVIES 2003 China Action
(TBC)
August 13, 14, 19, 20
Dir. He Ping, Nakai Kiichi.
This earthy epic set in 8th century China
is a visually-stunning tribute to the
Noodle Western.
WATCH IT
VANISHING, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1993 Comedy (M ls)
August 3, 14 FP
Peter Gallagher, Suzy Amis. Four
commitment-phobic men share a house
and spend their time playing pranks on
each other and womanising.
VERDICT, THE
MOVIE ONE 2005 Comedy (M s)
August 5, 6, 13, 14, 23, 24
Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney.
When a woman’s ex-fiancé is invited to
her sister’s wedding, she hires a male
escort to pose as her boyfriend.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1993 Thriller (M vl)
August 9, 13, 20, 21
Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges. A man is
so obsessed with finding his abducted
wife that he enters into an agreement
with her kidnapper.
SHOWTIME GREATS 1982 Drama
(M la) 0
August 17, 18, 19, 30
Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling.
A lawyer is given one last chance to
redeem himself with a case.
VERTICAL RAY OF THE
SUN, THE
WORLD MOVIES 2000 Vietnam
Drama (PG)
August 8, 9
Dir. Tran Anh Hung, Tran Nu Yen Khe.
The lives of three Hanoi sisters threaten
to unravel after the anniversary of their
mother’s death.
WEDDING DATE, THE
WEDDING SINGER, THE
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Comedy (M ls)
August 1
Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore. A
wedding singer’s life is shattered after
he is stood up at the altar.
WELCOME HOME ROXY
CARMICHAEL
MOVIE GREATS 1990 Drama (PG)
August 2, 10, 11, 27
Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels.
A class loner believes that Roxy
Carmichael, the sexy Hollywood star
from her hometown, is her real mother.
VERTIGO
WELCOME TO HARD TIMES
FOX CLASSICS 1958 Thriller (PG)
August 2
James Stewart, Kim Novak.
A detective with a neurotic fear of
heights becomes involved with a
beautiful but unhappy young wife.
TCM 1967 Western
August 15, 16
Henry Fonda, Janice Rule. Victimised by
an outlaw, a run-down Western town is
saved by an unlikely hero.
VICTOR/VICTORIA
SHOWTIME 2004 Comedy (PG lsn) 0
August 3, 4, 18, 19 FP
Gene Hackman, Ray Romano. A smalltown plumber runs for mayor against a
former US president.
TCM 1982 Romantic Comedy (PG) 0
August 19, 20
James Garner, Julie Andrews. A night
club owner falls for a performer at a
Parisian hot spot.
VIVA LAS VEGAS
TCM 1964 Musical 0
August 16, 17
Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret. A singing
racecar driver falls for a gorgeous
redhead in crazy Las Vegas.
WELCOME TO MOOSEPORT
WHARF RAT, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Action (M)
August 16
Lou Diamond Phillips, Judge Reinhold.
Two brothers lead lives that are worlds
apart. One is a “wharf rat” and the
other is a police officer.
✪ = Television Premiere FP = Final Play
September 2006
10
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Fantasy
(M la) 0
August 6, 9, 10, 18, 19, 27
Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. A man
discovers there are no tears in heaven
and that the afterlife can be whatever
you want it to be.
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE
KNOW!? ✪
WILLENBROCK
WIMBLEDON
WHAT THE DEAF MAN HEARD
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Comedy
(PG)
August 4
Matthew Modine, Tom Skerritt. A 10year-old boy suddenly finds himself all
alone in a strange town. Pretending
to be deaf, he wins the hearts of the
townspeople.
WHAT’S UP, TIGER LILY?
MOVIE GREATS 1966 Comedy (M v)
August 10, 15, 31
Tatsuya Mihashi, Mie Hama. Woody
Allen takes a Japanese action film and
redubs it to make the main plot revolve
around a secret egg salad recipe.
WHEN ANGELS COME TO
TOWN
SHOWTIME 2004 Family (PG a)
August 8, 19
Peter Falk, Katey Sagal. An angel’s
job is at stake when he helps two
very different families who may be
connected.
SHOWTIME 2004 Romantic Comedy
(M ls) 0
August 5, 10, 11, 26, 27 FP
Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst. A lowlyranked Wimbledon contender’s romance
with a feisty American champ gives him
new-found confidence.
WINNING SEASON, THE
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama (PG al) 0
August 10, 23
Shawn Hatosy, Matthew Modine. A man
gets his hands on a magical baseball
card that transports him back in time to
the 1909 World Series.
WITCH’S DAUGHTER, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1996 Drama (PG)
August 18
Patrick Bergin, Samantha Glenn. An
orphaned girl is banned from school
and branded by the community as a
witch’s daughter.
WITHOUT A PADDLE
WHEN TIME EXPIRES
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Sci-Fi (PG)
August 7
Richard Grieco, Cynthia Geary. A
functionary from deep space arrives
in a small Texas town to calibrate
the future.
WHEN WE WERE KINGS
SHOWTIME GREATS 1996 Documentary
(PG v) 0
August 6, 12, 26
Muhammed Ali, George Foreman. A
documentary about Muhammed Ali’s
1974 comeback against champion
George Foreman.
WHERE THE BOYS ARE
TCM 1960 Comedy 0
August 22, 23
George Hamilton, Dolores Hart. College
girls go to Florida to look for love and a
good tan during spring break.
WHILE MY PRETTY ONE
SLEEPS
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1997 Mystery
(PG)
August 24, 25, 26
Connie Selleca, Beau Starr. Delve into
the rivalries and undercurrents in the
world of high fashion.
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
MOVIE EXTRA 1995 Romantic
Comedy (PG)
August 5, 16
Sandra Bullock, Peter Gallagher. A
hopeless romantic falls in love with a
man she has never met.
SHOWTIME 2004 Comedy (M ldsv) 0
August 3, 4, 13, 14, 25, 26
Matthew Lillard, Seth Green. Three city
friends find themselves in deep water
when they head out on a weekend
canoe trip.
WITHOUT LIMITS
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Drama (M l)
August 27, 28
Donald Sutherland, Matthew Lillard.
The life story of famous 1970s runner
Steve Prefontaine.
WITNESS TO THE MOB
MOVIE EXTRA 1998 Crime (M vd)
August 9, 10
Nicholas Turturro, Tom Sizemore. The
true story of a mobster who turned
state’s evidence against his boss,
mafia kingpin John Gotti.
WOMAN’S WORLD
FOX CLASSICS 1954 Drama (PG)
August 26
June Allyson, Van Heflin.
An automobile tycoon, seeking a
successor to his general manager,
brings three of the company’s top
men and their wives to New York for
observation.
WOMEN IN LOVE
MOVIE GREATS 1969 Drama (M sn)
August 1
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed. An exploration
of the relationships, personalities and
philosophies of two men and women of
high society in the early 1900s.
WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE
BROTHERS GRIMM, THE
WHISKEY ECHO
HALLMARK CHANNEL 2005 Drama (M)
Pt 1 & 2: August 22, 23
Joanne Kelly, Callum Keith Rennie. An
international team struggles to deliver
humanitarian aid to a swelling refugee
population.
WHITE DAWN, THE
MOVIE GREATS 1974 Drama (M v)
August 4, 13, 14, 23
Timothy Bottoms, Warren Oates. In
1896, three whalers stranded in the
Canadian Arctic are rescued by a group
of Eskimos.
WHITE PALACE
SHOWTIME GREATS 1990 Drama (M ls)
August 27, 28
Susan Sarandon, James Spader. Two
lovers discover that age difference is
just one of the barriers to their romance.
WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
SHOWTIME 2002 Comedy (MA 15+ a)
August 11, 17 FP
Brandon Davis, Colleen Camp. An
adopted teenager becomes popular on
campus when he finds out that his real
father was a porn king.
MOVIE ONE 2004 Comedy (M vs)
August 4, 12, 21, 22, 29, 30
Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry. A hit man’s
tranquil life is disturbed when an old
friend comes to him for help after his
wife is kidnapped.
11
SHOWTIME 2003 Thriller (M vls) 0
August 11, 19 FP
Susan Ward, Isaiah Washington. Two
teenagers go on a killing spree to get
their hands on a Florida millionaire’s
assets.
WORLD MOVIES 2004 Germany in
German/Russian Drama (MA 15+ asv)
August 9, 10
Dir. Andreas Dresen, Axel Prahl. A
look at a middle class car dealer’s
disintegrating personal life in East
Germany.
MOVIE EXTRA 2004 Comedy (M sl)
August 2, 3, 27, 28
Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix. A story
that takes you to the very heart of
human existence and the meaning
of life.
WHOLE TEN YARDS, THE
WILD THINGS 2
TCM 1962 Fantasy 0
August 27, 28
Karl Boehm, Barbara Eden. The fanciful
biography of the German fairytale
collectors.
WOUNDED HEART
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Drama (M)
August 23
Paula Devicq, Jon Hensley. A
businesswoman returns to her
childhood home in Texas after hearing
that her father has suffered a stroke.
THE X-FILES:
THE MOVIE
X
SHOWTIME GREATS 1998 Science
Fiction (M v) 0
August 6, 15, 16, 18
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson.
Two FBI agents’ investigations into
the paranormal lead them to a secret
government.
Y
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
WORLD MOVIES 2001 Mexico Drama
(R 18+ as)
August 26, 27
Dir. Alfonso Cuaron, Gael García Bernal.
A hot-blooded yet sensitive film about a
road trip across modern Mexico.
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
TCM 1942 Musical 0
August 20, 21
James Cagney, Joan Leslie.
A gala musical about vaudeville star
George Cohen.
September 2006
YASMIN
SHOWTIME 2004 Drama
(M als) 0
August 9, 16, 17
Archie Panjabi, Renu Setna. A Muslim
woman is forced to re-evaluate her
faith when her husband is suspected of
being a terrorist.
YEARLING, THE
TCM 1946 Family 0
August 3, 4
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman. A film about
the touching friendship between a
young country boy and his pet fawn.
YEARLING, THE
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1994 Family (PG)
August 8
Peter Strauss, Jean Smart.
A boy from a poor rural family adopts an
orphaned fawn.
THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE
TCM 1964 Romance (PG) 0
August 29, 30
Rex Harrison, Ingrid Bergman. A yellow
Rolls Royce dramatically changes the
lives of three disparate owners.
YOUNG ADAM
SHOWTIME 2002 Drama
(MA 15+ ns) 0
August 8, 14, 28
Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton. A
barge worker knows more about a body
dragged out of the river than he lets on.
ZOOMAN
Z
HALLMARK CHANNEL 1995 Action (M)
August 1
Louis Gossett Jr, Charles S Dutton. A
young woman is killed by a stray bullet
during an exchange between rival gang
members.