astro highlights

LITTLE MAN (FOX MOVIES, 2.30PM)

After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewellery for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards’s house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back. Starring : Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Kerry Washington

POSEIDON (HBO, 7.20PM)

It’s New Year’s Eve, and over 2000 people are celebrating the moment onboard a luxury cruise liner, Poseidon. At the stroke of midnight, a huge rogue wave hits the ship and rolls it upside down. Against the captain’s orders to stay put and wait for rescue, a group of survivors make their way out of the wreckage, determined to save themselves from imminent death. Starring: Kurt Russell, Joshua Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss

THE VILLAgE (MAX, 9.15PM)

Created by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan, the story tells of a village which seems picture perfect, but its close-knit community lives with the frightening knowledge that creatures reside in the surrounding woods. The evil and foreboding force is so unnerving that none dare venture beyond the borders of the village and into the woods. When curious, headstrong Lucious Hunt plans to step beyond the boundaries of the town and into the unknown, his bold move threatens to forever change the future of the village. Starring: Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix

My Lucky STAr (cELESTIAL MOVIES, 5.05PM)

A lively romantic comedy containing elements of mistaken identity and an international crime caper that takes our star, Zhang Ziyi, on a glamorous adventure from Beijing to Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau.

cAugHT IN THE AcT: PSycHO DEEr (NAT gEO wILD, 5PM)

Relive rare experiences of incredible animal behaviour caught on tape by eyewitnesses. An overly curious dog is wounded by an overprotective deer.

BOrDEr wArS: cArTEL cASH STASH (NATIONAL gEOgrAPHIc,2PM)

Along the southern Arizona border at the port of entry, agents detain two families within a 24-hour period, driving similar SUVs and carrying a combined total of nearly US$1 million in cash and drugs.