LEISURETV MOVIES: THURS 19 JULY – WED 25 JULY
THURSDAY
MAKE IT HAPPEN ★★ 2008, 90 min, PG13, e.tv, 23:00. Dance movie. A dancer discovers a new style after starting work at a burlesque club. Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
LOVE’S UNFOLDING DREAM ★★★★ 2007, 87 min, PG, e.tv, 00:50. Drama. In 19th-century America a woman dedicated to becoming a doctor falls for a lawyer who wants a more traditional wife. Erin Cottrell, Scout Taylor-Compton.
THE PUFFY CHAIR ★★★★ 2005, 85 min, 16L, e.tv, 02:30. Comedy drama. A man, his girlfriend and his brother drive across America to deliver his father’s birthday gift. Mark Duplass.
ENTER THE WARRIOR’S GATE ★★★ 2016, 108 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:10. Fantasy action. A teen is magically transported to ancient China where his videogame skills are converted into those of a kung fu warrior. Mark Chao, Ni Ni.
FRIDAY
COWGIRLS ‘N ANGELS ★★★ 2012, 92 min, PG, e.tv, 14:30. Adventure. A rebellious girl is recruited by female rodeo riders. Bailee Madison. WANTED ★★★ 2008, 110 min, 16VL, SABC1, 21:00. Action fantasy. A frustrated office worker is recruited by a secret society of assassins. James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman. BURIED SECRETS ★★★ 2015, 110 min, PG13, SABC3, 21:30. Thriller. A cop-turnedwriter becomes a suspect when she publishes a book containing secrets from a real murder case. Sarah Carter, Teach Grant. HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS ★★ 2013, 88 min, 16V, e.tv, 22:00. Action fantasy. A brother and sister who escaped the clutches of a witch grow up to become bounty hunters who track and kill witches. When 11 children go missing from a village, the siblings are enlisted to find them. Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton. AZTEC REX ★★ 2007, 120 min, 16V, e.tv, 23:50. Sci-fi action. Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés discovers a small tribe of Aztecs who offer sacrifices to a giant lizard. Ian Ziering. MAKE IT HAPPEN ★★ e.tv, 01:40. See Thursday. BEFORE I FALL ★★★ 2017, 98 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:15. Fantasy drama. A teen with the perfect life tries to find out why she’s continually reliving her last day on Earth. Zoey Deutch.
SATURDAY
ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE JR. ★ 2009, 93 min, PG, M-Net, 06:00. Comedy. A detective’s son tries to prove his mom’s innocence when she’s accused of stealing a panda. Josh Flitter. LEGO DC SUPER HEROES JUSTICE LEAGUE: GOTHAM CITY BREAKOUT ★★★ 78 min, PG, M-Net, 07:35. Animated comedy. While Batman is on holiday, Gotham is overrun by criminals. COWGIRLS ’N ANGELS 2: DAKOTA’S SUMMER ★★★ 2014, 92 min, PG, e.tv, 14:15 & 01:15. Adventure. After discovering she’s adopted, a teenage rodeo rider puts her dream to become a champion on hold to go in search of her birth parents. Haley Ramm. COCO ★★★★★ 2017, 105 min, PG, M-Net, 14:30. Animated fantasy. A boy who dreams of being a musician tries to find out why his family are forbidden from making music by travelling to the land of the dead to find his greatgreat-grandfather, a legendary singer. GREAT EXPECTATIONS ★★★ 2012, 128 min, PG13, SABC2, 16:00. Drama. In 19th-century England a poor orphan becomes a rich gentleman
thanks to a mysterious benefactor. This makes it possible for him to pursue the hard-hearted but ravishing adopted daughter of a wealthy spinster. Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter.
DESPICABLE ME ★★★★ 2010, 95 min, PG, e.tv, 16:05. Animated comedy. When a criminal mastermind decides to use three orphans in a grand scheme, they start to have a profound effect on him. Voices: Steve Carell, Jason Segel.
WHEN IN ROME ★★ 2010, 91 min, PG13, SABC3, 19:00. Romantic comedy. An American tourist unlucky in love steals coins from the Fountain of Love in Rome and finds herself pursued by many suitors. Kristen Bell.
THE GOOD DINOSAUR ★★★★ 2015, 93 min, PG, e.tv, 19:30. Animated adventure. In a world where the asteroid never hit Earth and dinosaurs didn’t go extinct a wimpy dinosaur and a wild human boy have to rely on each other to find their way back home.
ACCIDENT ★★ 2017, 95 min, 16VL, M-Net, 21:00. Thriller. Four teenagers get trapped inside a car at the bottom of a ravine after an accident. Stephanie Shield, Roxane Hayward.
SCHINDLER’S LIST ★★★★★ 1993, 195 min, 16, SABC2, 21:00. War drama. During World War 2 German businessman Oskar Schindler tries to save his Jewish factory workers from the Nazis. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley.
THE WATCH ★★ 2012, 102 min, 16VL, e.tv, 21:25 & 02:55. Sci-fi comedy. Four men who form a neighbourhood watch as a way to get out of their day-to-day family routines find themselves defending Earth from an alien invasion. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn.
SIDE EFFECTS ★★★★ 2013, 106 min, 16, SABC3, 21:30. Thriller. Instead of being elated when her beloved husband is released from prison, an affluent young woman falls into a deep depression. When she drives her car into a wall, her psychiatrist prescribes new medication that has unforeseen consequences. Jude Law, Channing Tatum. HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS ★★ e.tv, 23:30. See Friday.
THE 33 ★★★ 2015, 127 min, PG13, M-Net, 03:15. True-life drama. In 2010 33 miners are trapped inside a Chilean mine for 69 days. Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro.
A DOGGONE ADVENTURE ★★★ 2018, 84 min, PG, M-Net, 05:35. Sci-fi adventure. A telepathic dog gets help from a group of kids to solve a mystery. Dominique Swain, Kurt Yaeger.
SUNDAY
THE BANDIT HOUND ★★★ 2016, 87 min, PG, M-Net, 07:00. Comedy. A dog starts stealing money to help his adopted family. Catherine Bell, Judd Nelson. THE GOOD DINOSAUR ★★★★ e.tv, 13:10. See Saturday. 56 | THE BOSS BABY ★★★ 2017, 97 min, PG, M-Net, 13:30. Animated comedy. A seven-yearold boy is dismayed when his parents adopt a baby. Voices: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi. MUNDAASUPATTI ★★★★ 2014, 148 min, PG, SABC3, 15:00. Comedy. A photographer gets into trouble in a village where taking photos is banned. Vishnu Vishal, Nandita Shwetha. ARE WE THERE YET? ★ 2005, 95 min, A, e.tv, 15:05. Comedy. A New Yorker dating a single mom is thrown into his worst nightmare when she asks him to drive her kids, who despise him, to Vancouver in Canada. Ice Cube, Nia Long. WHAT DREAMS MAY COME ★★★ 1998, 113 min, PG13, SABC2, 16:00. Fantasy drama. After he dies in a car crash, a man goes to heaven, but when his wife commits suicide and goes to hell, he travels there to save her. Robin Williams. IRON MAN 3 ★★★★ 2013, 130 min, PG13, e.tv, 20:00. Sci-fi action. Superhero Iron Man has to confront his personal demons after a terrorist attack robs him of the technology he relies on. Robert Downey Jnr, Gwyneth Paltrow. RENEGADES ★★★ 2017, 106 min, PG13VL, M-Net, 20:05. Action. A team of US Navy Seals discover a treasure at the bottom of a Bosnian lake. JK Simmons, Sullivan Stapleton. KALUSHI: THE STORY OF SOLOMON MAHLANGU ★★★★ 2016, 107 min, 16VL, SABC1, 21:00. Biopic. A look at the life Solomon Mahlangu, a township teen who, after witnessing the Soweto Uprising in 1976, joins the ANC to fight the apartheid government. Thabo Rametsi, Thabo Malema. JAWS 3 ★★ 1983, 99 min, PG, e.tv, 22:40. Action thriller. Visitors to an ocean park try to survive when a great white shark becomes trapped inside with them. Dennis Quaid. A MAN OF INTEGRITY ★★★★ 2017, 117 min, PG13, M-Net, 22:40. Drama. An Iranian goldfish farmer goes up against a corrupt company to save his business. Reza Akhlaghirad. HYBRID ★★ 2007, 90 min, 16, e.tv, 00:40. Sci-fi horror. Wolf eyes are transplanted to a blind man. Justine Bateman, Tinsel Korey. INFECTED ★★ 2008, 90 min, 16VL e.tv, 02:20. Sci-fi horror. Two journalists try to stop an alien invasion. Gil Bellows, Isabella Rossellini. BEFORE I FALL ★★★ M-Net, 04:15. See Friday.
MONDAY
IRON MAN 3 ★★★★ e.tv, 23:00. See Sunday. LAST CHANCE ★ 2008, 90 min, PG13 e.tv, 01:40. Sci-fi action. In the future people live underground after the world was decimated by a virus. Their only hope is to retrieve crystals from a meteorite but to do this they must make it past the infected. Marius Chivu. A MAN OF INTEGRITY ★★★★ M-Net, 01:20. See Sunday.
BOUND BY A SECRET ★★★ 2009, 89 min, PG13, e.tv, 03:20. Drama. A suburban housewife and a Broadway star who are life-long friends have to decide whether to tell the daughter raised by the housewife that the actress is actually her mother. Meredith Baxter.
A ROYAL WINTER ★★★ 2017, 84 min, PG, M-Net, 04:35. Romantic comedy. An American woman on holiday in Europe finds romance with a playboy prince. Merritt Patterson.
TUESDAY
JAWS 3 ★★ e.tv, 23:00. See Sunday. THE PUFFY CHAIR ★★★★ e.tv, 01:00. See Thursday.
SPINNING BORIS ★★★ 2003, 112 min, 16, e.tv, 02:40. True-life comedy. In 1996 three American spin doctors are hired to help get Russian president Boris Yeltsin re-elected. Jeff Goldblum Anthony LaPaglia. THE 33 ★★★ M-Net, 03:55. See Saturday.
WEDNESDAY
ARE WE THERE YET? ★ e.tv, 23:00. See Sunday.
CASA VITA ★★★ 2016, 90 min, A, e.tv, 01:00. Romantic comedy. An injured baseball player falls in love with a waitress working at his favourite restaurant. Jean-Luc Bilodeau. LOVE’S UNFOLDING DREAM ★★★★ e.tv, 02:35. See Thursday. ENTER THE WARRIOR’S GATE ★★★ M-Net, 04:15. See Thursday.