YOU LEISURE TV MOVIES: THURS 29 JUNE – WED 5 JULY

THURSDAY

KUNG FU PANDA 3 ★★★★ 2016, 95 min, PG, M-Net Satellite 08:00, M-Net Decoder 08:30. Animated adventure. A warrior panda finds out where he comes from when he meets his longlost father, but their reunion is interrupted by the arrival of an evil spirit warrior, who wants to steal all kung fu masters’ life force.

THINK LIKE A MAN TOO ★★ 2014, 106 min, PG13, e.tv, 20:30 & 02:25. Comedy. The sequel to Think Like A Man. A group of friends head to Las Vegas for a wedding, only for their various misadventures to threaten the big day. Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara.

THE 51ST STATE ★★ 2001, 93 min, 16VSNL, e.tv, 22:40. Crime comedy. An American chemist designs a new drug and tries to sell it to British criminals. Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle.

INTERCEPTOR FORCE ★★ 1999, 97 min, 16, e.tv, 00:35. Sci-fi action. A team of soldiers from around the world are recruited to form a team who must protect Earth from an alien invasion. Mark Adair-Rios, William Zabka.

REMEMBER ★★★★ 2015, 94 min, 16, M-Net, 02:55. Thriller. An elderly man with dementia goes in search of the Nazi who murdered his family in a World War 2 concentration camp. Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau.

LOVE’S LAST RESORT ★★ 2017, 90 min, PG, M-Net, 04:35. Romantic drama. A woman gets the manager of the hotel where she’s staying to pretend to be her boyfriend to make her ex jealous. Alix Angelis, Thomas Beaudoin.

FRIDAY

FANTASTIC FOUR ★ 2015, 100 min, PG13, M-Net Sat 08:00, M-Net Dec 09:20. Sci-fi thriller. A group of young scientists are brought together to work on a teleporting device, but when the government threatens to take over the project they use it and travel to another dimension where they’re imbued with strange powers. Miles Teller, Kate Mara.

THE LAST AIRBENDER ★ 2010, 103 min, PG, e.tv, 14:30. Fantasy adventure. In a world divided into four kingdoms where each can control a different element, a young boy with the ability to control all four elements must stop the Fire nation from enslaving everyone else. Noah Ringer.

CATCH AND RELEASE ★★ 2006, 124 min, PG13, SABC3, 20:00. Romantic drama. After the death of her fiancé, a woman finds out about the many things he hid from her while she gets to know his friends better. Jennifer Garner.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS ★★★ 2011, 129 min, PG13, e.tv, 20:30. Adventure. The sequel to Sherlock Holmes. In the late 19th century an English detective tries to outwit a cunning adversary. Robert Downey Jnr, Jude Law.

ROBOCOP: CRASH & BURN ★★ 2001, 90 min, 16, e.tv, 23:10 & 02:55. Sci-fi action. In the future a cyborg cop in Detroit, USA, has to stop criminals from releasing a flesh-eating virus. Page Fletcher, Maurice Dean Wint.

INTERCEPTOR FORCE 2 ★★ 2002, 90 min, 16, e.tv, 01:05. Sci-fi action. A special task force try to stop a seemingly invincible alien from blowing up a nuclear power plant in Russia. Olivier Gruner, Roger R Cross.

TRIPLE 9 ★★★ 2016, 115 min, 16VL, M-Net, 02:03. Crime drama. A group of criminals and corrupt cops plot to murder a detective so they can pull of a heist. Casey Affleck.

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH ★★★★ 2014, 129 min, PG13, M-Net, 03:55. Biopic. Englishwoman Vera Brittain comes of age during World War 1. Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington.

SATURDAY

YELLOWBIRD ★★★ 2014, 90 min, PG, M-Net Sat, 06:00. Animated adventure. A tiny orphaned bird becomes an unlikely hero as he leads a flock of birds migrating south for the winter. Voices: Seth Green, Dakota Fanning.

SNOW QUEEN ★★★ 2012, 80 min, PG, M-Net Sat 07:30, M-Net Dec 08:10. Animated adventure. A young girl sets out to save her brother from the snow queen, who’s plunged the world into eternal winter.

ACCIDENTLY ENGAGED ★★★ 2016, 86 min, A, e.tv, 14:10. Romantic comedy. While visiting her hometown to attend a wedding, a failed actress lies about dating a big star to impress her friends, only for the A-lister to show up in town to hide from the press. Lexi Giovagnoli.

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON ★★★★ 2015, 141 min, PG13, M-Net Sat, 14:40. Sci-fi adventure. The sequel to The Avengers. Superhero team the Avengers now work together like a well-oiled machine, but when two of them try to create a global-defence system, evil artificial intelligence Ultron is born and decides the only way to keep peace on Earth is to eradicate humans. Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Hemsworth.

STUART LITTLE 2 ★★★ 2002, 77 min, PG, SABC2, 16:00. Fantasy adventure. A mouse and a cat set out to rescue their friend, a canary, from a falcon. Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie.

HIGH NOON ★★★ 2009, 90 min, PG, SABC3, 19:00. Thriller. An expert hostage negotiator juggles her demanding career with raising her young daughter and helping her agoraphobic mother. Emilie de Ravin, Ivan Sergei.

THE INCREDIBLES ★★★★ 2004, 115 min, PG, e.tv, 19:30. Animated sci-fi. Years after he was forced to retire, a superhero bored with suburban family life is lured back into action by a mysterious message. Voices: Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter.

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA ★★ 2015, 97 min, 16VSNL, M-Net, 21:30. Action. A talented marksman takes part in an underground tournament. Ryan Kwanten, Freida Pinto.

SCREAM ★★★★ 1996, 111 min, 16, e.tv, 21:55 & 02:05. Horror. A year after her mother’s murder, a high school teen and her friends are stalked by a masked killer obsessed with horror movies. David Arquette, Neve Campbell.

THE KANE FILES: LIFE OF TRIAL ★★★ 2010, 86 min, 16, e.tv, 00:15. Action. A man trying to leave his shady past behind is forced to ask a crime lord for help with his ailing son. Drew Fuller, Ethan Embry.

INFAMOUS ★★★ 2017, 90 min, PG13, M-Net, 03:30. Drama. After a popular teenage girl dies, her best friend enjoys all the social-media attention while their rival tries to uncover the truth of what really happened. Caitlin Carver.

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING ★★★ 2016, 98 min, 13NL, M-Net, 05:15. Comedy drama. A struggling American salesman travels to Saudi Arabia hoping to sell his company’s product to a wealthy ruler. Tom Hanks, Alexander Black.

SUNDAY

ANNABELLE HOOPER AND THE GHOSTS OF NANTUCKET ★★★ 2016, 92 min, A, M-Net Sat, 07:05. Adventure. While on holiday, a teenage mystery writer and her friends must outsmart two thieves to solve a 200-year-old mystery. Bailee Madison, Mavrick Moreno.

MY GIRL ★★★ 1991, 102 min, PG13, e.tv, 12:55. Comedy drama. In 1972 in Pennsylvania, USA, the 11-year-old daughter of a widowed funeral director grows up obsessed with death and believes she killed her mother, who died in childbirth. When her father and his new assistant fall in love she’s outraged and tries her best to break them up. Anna Chlumsky.

NORTHPOLE: OPEN FOR CHRISTMAS ★★★ 2015, 81 min, PG, M-Net, 13:30. Fantasy adventure. The sequel to Northpole. A businesswoman learns the true meaning of Christmas from a group of elves who help her restore her family inn. Lori Loughlin, Bailee Madison.

VAAYAI MOOD PESAVUM ★★★ 2014, 140 min, PG, SABC3, 15:00. Comedy. A man falls for a woman who’s from a town where a virus has caused the inhabitants to become mute. Duluquer Salmaan, Nazriya Nazim.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ★★★★ 2012, 136 min, PG13, e.tv, 20:00 & 02:25. Sci-fi action. While trying to find out what happened to his parents, a nerdy high school student gets bitten by a radioactive spider and develops superpowers. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone.

BRIDGET JONES’S BABY ★★★★ 2016, 118 min, 16SL, M-Net, 20:05. Romantic comedy. The third film in the series. A single 30-something discovers she’s pregnant but she’s not sure if her ex or a fling is the father. Renée Zellweger.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN ★★ 2016, 128 min, PG, M-Net, 22:35. Comedy. In the ’50s a movie star returns home to Spain to work on a big-budget American movie. Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines.

DIARY OF A HITMAN ★★★ 1992, 90 min, 16VL, e.tv, 22:50. Crime drama. An assassin starts having misgivings while out on his last job. Forest Whitaker, James Belushi.

KOMODO ★★ 1999, 90 min, PG13, e.tv, 00:45. Horror. A young boy tries to come to grips with the death of his parents by facing the deadly creatures that allegedly killed them. Billy Burke.

MR. RIGHT ★★★ 2015, 95 min, 16, M-Net, 02:40. Action comedy. A girl falls for the perfect guy, but he has one major flaw: he’s a hitman on the run from the drug cartel who employs him. Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick.

MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN ★★★ 2016, 109 min, PG, M-Net, 04:15. Drama. A girl with a rare digestive disorder is miraculously cured after an accident. Jennifer Garner.

MONDAY

TIMBER THE TREASURE DOG ★★★ 2016, 89 min, PG, M-Net Sat 08:00, M-Net Dec 09:20. Adventure. A boy and his dog search for buried treasure to save his family’s ranch from being sold. Wilford Brimley, JD Hoppe.

GLOBAL EFFECT ★★ 2002, 92 min, 16VL, e.tv, 22:30 & 02:20. Action. A deadly virus is unleashed in Africa and terrorists have the only anecdote. Mädchen Amick, Daniel Bernhardt.

LAYIN’ LOW ★★ 1996, 96 min, 16VL, e.tv, 00:30. Comedy. An unemployed man’s life is turned upside down when a drug deal goes

wrong and he’s the number-one suspect in the police investigation. Jeremy Piven, Edie Falco.

WAR ROOM ★★★ 2015, 120 min, PG, M-Net, 04:04. Drama. A well-off, seemingly perfect couple’s marriage is heading for divorce until a wise elderly woman enters their lives. Alex Kendrick.

TUESDAY

JUSTICE LEAGUE VS TEEN TITANS ★★★★ 2016, 78 min, PG13, M-Net Sat 08:00, M-Net Dec 08:30. Animated action. A team of superheroes are possessed by a powerful alien who wants to take over the world.

28 WEEKS LATER ★★★★ 2007, 100 min, 16V, e.tv, 22:30. Horror thriller. The sequel to 28 Days Later. Six months after the outbreak of the Rage virus in Britain, the US army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. Jeremy Renner.

LOSING CHASE ★★★ 1996, 98 min, 16SNL, e.tv, 00:35. Drama. A man tries to help his clinically depressed wife by hiring a housekeeper. Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick.

LOST VALLEY ★★ 1998, 96 min, PG13V, e.tv, 02:20. Action adventure. Two American women and their teen daughters are taking a trip through New Zealand’s countryside when they’re kidnapped by poachers. Meg Foster.

SAVAGE DOG ★★ 2017, 94 min, 16VL, M-Net, 02:25. Action. In 1959 Indochina a European boxing champion interred at a labour camp has sur-

vived by taking part in tournaments run by corrupt officials. But when he’s due for release they’ll do everything in their power to stop it. Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING ★★★★ 2014, 123 min, PG13L, M-Net, 04:00. Biopic. A look at the life of English physicist Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and his relationship with his first wife, Jane. Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones.

WEDNESDAY

FINDING DORY ★★★★ 2016, 97 min, PG, M-Net Sat 08:00, M-Net Dec 08:30. Animated adventure. The sequel to Finding Nemo. A fish with amnesia suddenly remembers her parents and goes in search of them.

OVER/UNDER ★★★ 2013, 87 min, PG13, e.tv, 22:35 & 02:10. Drama. A disgraced hedge-fund manager with a gambling problem and his wife move to Brooklyn, New York, where they befriend a young maths prodigy. Steven Pasquale.

LOST VOYAGE ★★ 2001, 96 min, 16, e.tv, 00:25. Horror. A ship reappears 25 years after being lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Judd Nelson.

LARRY GAYE: RENEGADE MALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT ★★ 2015, 99 min, 16, M-Net, 02:25. Comedy. A quirky male flight attendant must save the day when he discovers his company is firing employees to save costs. Danny Pudi.

WAR ROOM ★★★ M-Net, 04:00. See Monday.