LEISURE TV MOVIES: THURS 12 DEC – WED 18 DEC
THURSDAY
ANIMAL ★★★ 2005, 93 min, 16VL, e.tv, 00:00. Crime drama. A violent convict is rehabilitated while in prison, but when he’s released he realises his son is following in his criminal footsteps . Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard. LEGO DC SUPER HERO GIRLS: SUPER-VILLAIN HIGH ★★ 2018, 78 min, A, M-Net, 04:35. Animated fantasy. Based on the comics. A group of female superhero teens discover a new school has opened in town, but it’s for supervillains only.
FRIDAY
CLEO ★★★ 2016, 90 min, PG, e.tv, 14:30. Animated comedy. At the start of winter break, a boy and his friends are joined by the new girl in town for a drawn-out snowball fight.
JERUSALEMA ★★★ 2008, 119 min, 16VSL, e.tv, 22:00 & 03:00. Local crime drama. A look at a man’s rise from thief to crime lord during the years before and after the fall of apartheid. Rapulana Seiphemo, Kenneth Nkosi.
TIGER THEORY ★★★★ 2016, 107 min, PG, SABC3, 22:00. Adventure. An old Czech man decides to go on a journey of self-discovery in the wilderness. Jirí Bartoska, Eliska Balzerová.
DISASTER WARS: EARTHQUAKE VS TSUNAMI ★ 2013, 85 min, 13VL, e.tv, 01:25. Scifi action. With a tsunami threatening the western coast of North and South America, a university student suggests creating an earthquake to neutralise it. Joe Estevez.
HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U ★★★ 2019, 100 min, 16VL, M-Net, 02:20. Horror comedy. The sequel to Happy Death Day. After breaking the cycle of reliving the same day and being repeatedly murdered, a university student learns her friends are now experiencing the same thing. Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard. JULIET, NAKED ★★★ 2018, 97 min, 16, M-Net, 04:20. Comedy drama. A British woman stuck in an unhappy relationship befriends the obscure American musician whom her boyfriend idolises. Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke.
SATURDAY
FLY AWAY HOME ★★★★ 1996, 107 min, PG, SABC2, 11:00. Adventure. With the help of her father and a small airplane, a girl teaches orphaned geese to migrate south for the winter. Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels. KINDERGARTEN COP 2 ★★ 2016, 100 min, PG13, e.tv, 14:00. Action comedy. A grumpy FBI agent goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to recover sensitive stolen data. Dolph Lundgren, Bill Bellamy. A.R.C.H.I.E. 2 ★★ 2018, 82 min, PG, M-Net, 15:30. Sci-fi comedy. A robotic dog helps the son of a carnival owner find a thief. Farrah Aviva, Sheldon Bergstrom. THE AMAZING WIZARD OF PAWS ★★ 2015, 96 min, PG, SABC2, 16:00. Fantasy adventure. A young boy discovers that his family dog is really hundreds of years old and was once the pet of a powerful wizard. Little Bear, Will Spencer. BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS ★★★ 2004, 106 min, PG13, e.tv, 16:00. Comedy. A traditional barbershop is threatened when a trendy, well-financed hair-salon chain opens next door. Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer. MR BONES 2: BACK FROM THE PAST ★★ 2008, 101 min, PG, e.tv, 19:30. Local fantasy comedy. A royal witch doctor must return a cursed stone to its rightful owner to save his king. Leon Schuster, Leeanda Reddy. RAISING HELEN ★★★ 2004, 119 min, PG13, SABC2, 21:00. Comedy. A carefree young woman becomes the guardian of her two nieces and nephew after their parents die in a car accident. Kate Hudson, John Corbett. THE NIGHT BEFORE ★★★ 2015, 101 min, 16SLN, e.tv, 21:40. Comedy. After 10 years of spending every Christmas Eve together, three friends decide to end the tradition with the wildest night possible. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen. IN THE MIX ★ 2005, 95 min, PG13VL, e.tv, 23:50. Crime comedy. A DJ saves the life of a powerful mobster, who then asks the DJ to protect his daughter. Usher, Chazz Palminteri. SUPREME CHAMPION ★ 2010, 86 min, 16SNVL, e.tv, 01:35. Action. A mixed martial artist must win nine fights to the death to save his kidnapped girlfriend. Stephan Bonnar, Daniel Bernhardt. ANIMAL AMONG US ★★ 2019, 90 min, 16V, M-Net, 02:55. Horror. Fifteen years after the death of two teenagers at a campsite was ruled an animal attack, the camp is set to reopen. Larisa Oleynik, Erin Daniels. PUPPY SWAP LOVE UNLEASHED ★★★ 2019, 90 min, PG, M-Net, 04:25. Comedy. Two dogs try to get their owners, who’ve just split up, back together. Rib Hillis, Sara Fletcher.
SUNDAY
ROLL BOUNCE ★★★ 2005, 112 min, PG13, e.tv, 12:30. Sport comedy. In ’70s Chicago, USA, a group of working-class teens skate at a fancy roller-skating rink after their local one closes down. Tired of being looked down on by the rich kids, the working-class teens enter a roller-skating competition to prove their worth. Bow Wow, Nick Cannon. THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS ★★★ 2018, 99 min, PG13V, M-Net, 13:00. Fantasy adventure. Based on the fairytale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by ETA Hoffman. A young girl is transported to a magical world in search of a key that will unlock a box containing a gift from her late mother. Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley. BAJIRAO MASTANI ★★★ 2015, 158 min, PG13, SABC3, 14:30. True-life drama. A look at the relationship between the 18th-century Indian army general Baji Rao and his second wife, Mastani, a warrior princess. Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone. MR BONES 2: BACK FROM THE PAST ★★ e.tv, 14:50. See Saturday.
SAINT STREET ★★★ 2012, 90 min, PG, SABC2, 16:00. Drama. A workaholic realises what’s important in life after losing everything. Mark Webb, Jarrod Phillips.
THE EXPENDABLES ★★★ 2010, 103 min, 16VL, e.tv, 20:00. Action. A team of misfit mercenaries are sent to an island to stop a dictator and a renegade CIA agent. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham. FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD ★★★ 2018, 134 min, PG13, M-Net, 20:05. Fantasy adventure. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. In ’20s London a powerful wizard enlists the help of a former student to stop his nemesis’ plans to rule the world. Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston. A ROYAL CHRISTMAS BALL ★★ 2017, 86 min, PG, SABC3, 21:30. Romantic comedy. A bachelor king tracks down his American college sweetheart and discover she’s still single and has a daughter. Tara Reid, Ingo Rademacher. A WEDDING ★★★ 2016, 98 min, PG, M-Net, 22:20. Drama. In Belgium a young woman is torn between her family’s Pakistani tradition of arranged marriages and her Western lifestyle. Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani. BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS ★★ e.tv, 23:05. See Saturday.
THE ASSASSIN’S CODE ★★★★ 2018, 95 min, 16VSL, M-Net, 02:40. Action. A rookie detective who’s the son of disgraced cop tries to prove himself by investigating when drugs go missing from police custody. Justin Chatwin, Peter Stormare.
FLIGHT 313: THE CONSPIRACY ★★ 2016, 104 min, 13VL, e.tv, 03:05. Thriller. A journalist uncovers a disturbing succession of airline coverups dating back to 1954. Georgina Sutcliffe, Rita Ramnani. PEGASUS: PONY WITH A BROKEN WING ★★ 2019, 86 min, PG, M-Net, 04:20. Fantasy adventure. While trying to stop her family’s ranch from being sold to developers, a teenage girl and her neighbour find a magical pony with a broken wing. Jonathan Silverman.
TUESDAY MONDAY
IN THE NAME OF THE KING: TWO WORLDS ★★ 2011, 96 min, 16V, e.tv, 22:00. Fantasy adventure. The sequel to In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. A former special forces soldier is thrown back in time to the Middle Ages to fulfil an ancient prophecy. Dolph Lundgren, Natassia Malthe. ASSASSINS TALE ★★ 2013, 92 min, 16, e.tv, 00:45. Action. Three assassins try to work together to find a better life. Michael Beach, Anna Silk.
THE NUN ★★ 2018, 96 min, 16V, M-Net, 02:50. Horror. A spinoff from The Conjuring. A priest with a troubled past and a novice nun are sent to investigate the mysterious death of a young nun in Romania. Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga.
SMALLFOOT ★★★ 2018, 96 min, PG, M-Net, 04:25. Animated fantasy. A yeti sets out to prove to his tribe that humans exist. Voices: Channing Tatum, James Corden. THE EXPENDABLES ★★★ e.tv, 22:00. See Sunday. BOUND & BABYSITTING ★★★ 2014, 90 min, PG13, e.tv, 00:50. Comedy. A woman and her archenemy from college are forced to babysit a mutual friend’s kids. Tammin Sursok, Travis Van Winkle. DOE ★★★ 2018, 98 min, 16, M-Net, 03:00. Thriller. A man decides to start a new life after waking up with no recollection of his past but with the ability to speak many languages. Years later he’s shocked to learn there are other people like him and tries to discover their origin. Timothy Davis, Tatyana Ali. SCOOBY-DOO & THE GOURMET GHOST ★★★ 2018, 77 min, A, M-Net, 04:40. Animated comedy. A team of amateur sleuths investigate the haunting of a historic inn that’s been converted into a restaurant. Voices: Frank Welker, Grey Griffin.
WEDNESDAY
THE NIGHT BEFORE ★★★ e.tv, 00:00. See Saturday. A WEDDING ★★★ M-Net, 02:30. See Sunday.
NOT CINDERELLA’S TYPE ★★★ 2018, 97 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:20. Romantic comedy. Based on the book by Jenni James. A teenage girl who lives with her mean aunt is befriended by the most popular guy in school who tries to make amends for running over her cat. Paris Warner, Tim Flynn.