TV MOVIES: THURS 28 NOV – WED 4 DEC
THURSDAY
THE DROP ★★★★ 2014, 106 min, 16LV, e.tv, 23:00. Crime drama. A lonely man working at a bar used by gangsters as a drop-off point for dirty money is in big trouble when the place is robbed and they expect him to pay back the cash. Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace.
BFF BRIDE ★★★ 2019, 77 min, 13, M-Net, 04:25. Romantic comedy. Things get complicated when a man asks his female best friend to plan his wedding to another woman. Jocelyn Hudon, Ryan Paevey.
FRIDAY
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE ★★★ 1997, 92 min, PG, e.tv, 14:30. Comedy adventure. A man raised by apes in the jungle rescues an American woman on safari and follows her back to San Francisco. Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA ★★★★ 2001, 134 min, 16, SABC1, 21:00. Action. In 19th-century China a martial arts master must protect his martial arts school from foreign invaders. Jet Li.
DIFRET ★★★ 2014, 99 min, PG13V, SABC3, 22:00. True-life drama. A young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent a 14-yearold girl who shot a man trying to abduct and marry her. Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere.
IN HELL ★★ 2003, 98 min, 16VL, e.tv, 22:00. Action. A man is thrown into a brutal prison where he must fight to the death for the warden’s amusement. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor.
INDISCRETION ★★ 2016, 99 min, PG13, e.tv, 01:05. Thriller. A wife’s affair comes back to haunt her when her obsessed former lover won’t leave her alone. Mira Sorvino.
BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB ★★ 2018, 108 min, 16VLS, M-Net, 03:15. True-life crime drama. In ’80s Los Angeles a group of rich teenagers get involved in a Ponzi scheme that ends in murder. Ansel Elgort.
MURDER IN-LAW ★★★ 2019, 90 min, PG13, M-Net, 05:30. Thriller. After her daughter-in-law receives a promotion that will relocate her far away, a woman goes to extremes to ensure her son and granddaughter won’t move too. Kristen Dalton, Barbara Williams.
SATURDAY
AZZU & GAZZU: INTERNATIONAL SUPER DETECTIVES ★★ 2016, 75 min, PG, M-Net, 07:05. Animated fantasy. Two detectives race against time to stop a villain from raising dangerous supernatural beings.
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE 2 ★★ 2003, 87 min, PG, e.tv, 14:20. Comedy. A man raised by apes in the jungle must save his family and stop bulldozers from destroying their home. Christopher Showerman, Julie Benz.
PEGASUS: PONY WITH A BROKEN WING ★★ 2019, 86 min, A, M-Net, 15:30. 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.
ANNIE ★★ 2014, 118 min, PG, SABC2, 16:00. Musical comedy. An orphan who lives with a nasty foster mother is taken in by a wealthy businessman to help with his political campaign. Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis.
THE LORAX ★★★ 2012, 86 min, PG, e.tv, 16:10. Animated fantasy. Based on the book by Dr Seuss. A boy who lives in a town where everything is made of plastic goes on a quest to find a real tree to impress the girl of his dreams.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ★★★ 2017, 129 min, PG, e.tv, 19:30. Musical fantasy. In Mediaeval France a beautiful young woman agrees to take her father’s place as a prisoner in a monstrous beast’s castle. Emma Watson.
JUNCTION ★★★ 2012, 91 min, 16VL, SABC2, 21:00. Thriller. Four drug addicts make a disturbing discovery about a homeowner when they break into his house. David Zayas, Michael O’Keefe.
COACH CARTER ★★★ 2005, 136 min, PG13, SABC3, 21:30. True-life sport drama. A high school basketball coach causes outrage when he benches the entire team for not keeping up with their studies. Samuel L Jackson, Ashanti.
GIRLS TRIP ★★★ 2017, 122 min, 16SL, e.tv, 22:15 & 02:40. Comedy. Four friends travel to New Orleans to rekindle their friendship and rediscover their wild sides. Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish.
MY MANY SONS ★ 2016, 97 min, PG, e.tv, 00:50. True-life sport drama. A look at the life of Don Meyer, who overcame becoming paralysed after a car accident to lead his team to the most victories of any American college basketball coach. Judge Reinhold, Alex MacNicoll.
WONDER PARK ★★★ 2019, 85 min, PG, M-Net, 02:55. Animated fantasy. A girl finds the magical amusement park she imagined has become real. Voices: Sofia Mali, Jennifer Garner.
A-X-L ★★ 2018, 98 min, 13V, M-Net, 04:20. Sci-fi action. A teen befriends a robotic dog lost in the desert, but its creators will go to any lengths to get it back. Alex Neustaedter, Becky G.
SUNDAY
DADDY DAY CAMP ★ 2007, 93 min, PG, e.tv, 12:35. Comedy. The sequel to Daddy Day Care. After taking their children to visit the summer camp of their youth, two men discover it’s on the verge of bankruptcy and try to save it. Cuba Gooding Jnr, Lochlyn Munro.
A WRINKLE IN TIME ★★ 2018, 109 min, PG, M-Net, 13:00. Fantasy adventure. Based on the book by Madeleine L’Engle. After her scientist father disappears, a girl is visited by three beings who send her, her younger brother and friend into space to find him. Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ★★★ e.tv, 14:15. See Saturday.
MERRY IN-LAWS ★★★ 2012, 88 min, PG, SABC2, 16:00. Fantasy comedy. A woman plans a party so her parents can meet her new fiancé’s folks, who turn out to be Mr and Mrs Claus. Shelley Long, George Wendt.
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. ★★★ 2015, 116 min, PG13, e.tv, 20:00. Action adventure. Based on the TV series. In the ’60s during the Cold War, a CIA agent and a KGB spy are forced to work together to track down terrorists who plan to build a nuclear bomb. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ★★★★ 2018, 134 min, PG13, M-Net, 20:05. Music biopic. A look at the life of British band Queen’s flamboyant frontman, Freddie Mercury. Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton.
COURTED ★★★ 2015, 98 min, PG, M-Net, 23:20. Comedy. A strict French judge is distracted when one of the jurors in his latest trial turns out to be a doctor with whom he’s secretly in love. Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen.
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE ★★★ 2013, 84 min, PG, SABC3, 21:30. Romantic comedy. A single mom who’s given up on love after a horrible divorce finds love again in the form of a mysterious shopping mall Father Christmas. Samaire Armstrong, Matthew Lawrence.
I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE ★★★ 2007, 90 min, 16L, e.tv, 23:25. Comedy. A married man who daydreams about being with other women is tested when the ex-mistress of an old friend takes an interest in him. Chris Rock, Kerry Washington.
THE HAZING SECRET ★★★ 2014, 86 min, PG13, e.tv, 02:50. Thriller. A woman has a recurring nightmare about a first-year student dying in a hazing ritual. When she’s invited to a college reunion, she begins to suspect there’s more to the nightmare than she thought. Shenae Grimes-Beech, Keegan Allen.
CINDERELLA AND THE SECRET PRINCE ★★ 2018, 105 min, PG, M-Net, 04:20. Animated fantasy. Based on the fairytale. A girl and her mice friends try to help a prince who’s been turned into a mouse by an evil witch. Voices: Cassandra Lee Morris, Chris Niosi.
MONDAY
THE DEADLIEST PREY ★★ 2013, 80 min, PG13V, e.tv, 00:00. Action. The sequel to Deadly Prey. Thirty years after a Vietnam War veteran was abducted and forced to fight mercenaries trying to kill him for sport, the man behind it is released from prison and seeks revenge. Ted Prior, David Campbell.
ASSASSINS’ CODE ★★ 2011, 90 min, 16VL, M-Net, 02:45. Action. Spies from three countries fight for a high-tech computer disk containing plans for a powerful missile. Min-su Choi, Tiffany Yee.
LEGO DC SUPER HERO GIRLS: SUPER-VILLAIN HIGH ★★ 2018, 78 min, PG, M-Net, 04:40. 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. Voices: Yvette Nicole Brown, Greg Cipes.
TUESDAY
HOUSE OF DARKNESS ★ 2016, 85 min, PG13, e.tv, 00:00. Thriller. A woman thinks her house is haunted, but no one believes her. Sara Fletcher, Gunner Wright.
FURLOUGH ★★★ 2018, 83 min, PG13, M-Net, 03:00. Comedy drama. A rookie corrections officer struggles to keep an inmate in line when she’s granted a weekend outside to attend her mom’s funeral. Melissa Leo, Tessa Thompson.
PEGASUS: PONY WITH A BROKEN WING ★★ M-Net, 04:30. See Saturday.
WEDNESDAY
SEAL TEAM VI ★ 2008, 99 min, 16, e.tv, 00:00. True-life action. A team of US Navy Seals head to Iraq for a secret operation. Ken Gamble, Jeremy Davis.
COURTED ★★★ M-Net, 02:50. See Sunday.
NOT CINDERELLA’S TYPE ★★★ 2018, 97 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:25. Romantic comedy. Based on the book by Jenni James. A teenage girl who lives with her mean aunt and stepsisters is befriended by the most popular guy in school who tries to make amends for running over her cat. Paris Warner, Tim Flynn.