TV MOVIES / THURSDAY 3 MARCH– WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH
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THURSDAY
LUPIN III: THE FIRST ★★★ 2019, 93 min, PG, M-Net, 06:00. Animated adventure. Based on the comics. A gentleman thief and his crew go on a globetrotting adventure to find a mysterious diary. Voices: Tony Oliver, Richard Epcar.
SECRET SUMMER ★★★ 2016, 84 min, A, e.tv, 00:00. Drama. An appraiser and a writer try to save the library of a small town from being demolished. Lindsey Shaw, Derek Theler.
THIS IS OUR TIME ★★★ 2013, 104 min, PG13, e.tv, 01:30. Drama. After graduating from university, five Christian friends try to find God’s purpose for their lives. Bruce Marchiano.
S.W.A.T.: FIREFIGHT ★★★ 2011, 89 min, PG, e.tv, 03:10. Action. The sequel to S.W.A.T. A group of highly trained police officers become the target of revenge after a hostage is killed during an assignment. Gabriel Macht, Robert Patrick. FIT FOR A PRINCE ★★★ 2021, 81 min, PG, M-Net, 04:25. Romantic comedy. A fashion designer hired to dress wealthy women for a charity ball meets a prince who falls for her. Jonathan Keltz, Natalie Hall.
FRIDAY
FOR THE LOVE OF CHOCOLATE ★★★★ 2021, 90 min, PG, M-Net, 06:00. Romantic drama. A chocolatier loses her partner just before a major competition, but luckily a single father steps in to help her. Rhiannon Fish, Jesse Hutch.
JUSTIN AND THE KNIGHTS OF VALOUR ★★ 2013, 90 min, PG, e.tv, 14:30. Animated adventure. A young boy is determined to fulfil his dream of becoming a knight like his grandfather. TIGER CAGE ★★★ 1988, 92 min, 16VL, SABC1, 21:00. Action. A group of Hong Kong cops try to catch a drug trafficker who murdered one of their own in retaliation for raiding his operation. Simon Yam, Carol Cheng.
BAD BOYS ★★★ 1995, 119 min, 16VL, e.tv, 22:05. Action. Two Miami detectives must swop identities to protect a murder witness and find a consignment of drugs stolen from their police station. Martin Lawrence, Will Smith.
KILL CHAIN ★★★ 2019, 91 min, 16VLN, e.tv, 00:30. Action. A hotel owner with a shady past gets drawn into the conflict between two assassins and a mysterious woman who rents a room from him. Nicolas Cage, Enrico Colantoni.
PAWN ★★★ 2013, 88 min, 16, e.tv, 02:10. Crime thriller. Three petty criminals hold up a diner that unbeknown to them is a front for the Mob, and events quickly spiral out of control. Michael Chiklis, Common. THE CROODS: A NEW AGE ★★★ 2020, 95 min, PG, M-Net, 04:25. Animated adventure. The sequel to The Croods. After the destruction of their cave forced a prehistoric family to search for a new home, they encounter a rival family living in paradise who claim to be more evolved. Voices: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone.
SATURDAY
A MONSTER CALLS ★★★★ 2016, 108 min, PG13, e.tv, 14:00. Fantasy drama. A boy is comforted by a tree monster while his mother is terminally ill. Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones.
COME AWAY ★★★ 2020, 94 min, PG, M-Net, 16:00. Drama. In 19th-century England, two siblings use daydreams and fantasy to try to help their parents deal with the death of their older brother. David Oyelowo, Anna Chancellor.
STUART LITTLE 3: CALL OF THE WILD ★★ 2005, 72 min, PG, SABC2, 16:00. Animated adventure. While a superintelligent adopted mouse and his human family spend their holiday at a lakeside cabin, a strange beast living in the nearby forest captures the family cat and it’s up to the mouse to save him. Voices: Michael J Fox, Geena Davis.
‘TIL DEATH DO US PART ★★ 2017, 101 min, PG13, SABC3, 19:30. Thriller. When her controlling husband wants her to terminate her pregnancy, a woman flees and takes on a new identity. Taye Diggs, Annie Ilonzeh.
R.I.P.D. ★★ 2013, 96 min, PG13, e.tv, 20:00. Action fantasy. After being killed on duty, a cop joins a group of ghosts that protect the world of the living from the dead while trying to find his killer. Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds.
2 GUNS ★★★ 2013, 109 min, 16, e.tv, 21:55. Action. Two undercover agents go on the run after their attempt to infiltrate a notorious drug cartel is exposed. Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg.
GIRL ★★★★ 2018, 105 min, 16, SABC3, 22:00. Drama. A Belgian transgender girl enrols in a prestige ballet school, but struggles to keep up with her classmates. Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter.
VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA ★★★★ 2018, 96 min, PG13, e.tv, 00:10. Comedy drama. Two American women on holiday in Spain fall for the same artist, but things get even more complicated when his volatile ex-wife enters the picture. Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz.
JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN ★★ 2011, 85 min, PG13, e.tv, 01:55. Fantasy action. Based on the book by John Hagee. While it seems the countdown to the end of days has begun and the Rapture will soon take place, an FBI agent must find nuclear weapons that have been smuggled into America before they’re detonated. David AR White, Anna Zielinski.
LOVE IN TRANSLATION ★★★ 2021, 85 min, PG, M-Net, 04:00. Romantic drama. After the funding for her doctorate in ancient languages is cut, an American woman decides to become a language tutor and is hired to teach French to a museum curator. Michelle Argyris.
SUNDAY
JUSTIN AND THE KNIGHTS OF VALOUR ★★ e.tv, 12:20. See Friday.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, SCOOBY-DOO! ★★★ 2020, 80 min, PG, M-Net, 13:00. Animated comedy. Based on the series. A team of amateur detectives must save a town from toxic monsters. Voices: Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard. R.I.P.D. ★★ e.tv, 14:10. See Saturday. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ★★★ 2012, 136 min, PG13, SABC3, 19:30. Sci-fi action. Based on the comics. 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.
CRIMINAL ★★★ 2016, 113 min, 16VL, e.tv, 20:00. Sci-fi action. The memories, secrets and skills of a dead CIA agent are implanted into the mind of a death-row inmate so he can complete his mission. Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman.
F9: THE FAST SAGA ★★★ 2021, 143 min, PG13, M-Net, 20:05. Action. The ninth film in the Fast and the Furious series. A black-ops agent and his team go after an international terrorist who happens to be his estranged brother. Vin Diesel, John Cena.
BANGKOK DANGEROUS ★★ 2008, 99 min, 16, SABC1, 21:00. Action. While in Bangkok, Thailand, for a job, an American hitman violates his personal code when he falls for a local woman and bonds with a local boy. Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm.
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 ★★★ 2009, 106 min, 16VL, e.tv, 22:50. Thriller. Armed men hijack a New York subway train and take the passengers hostage. Denzel Washington, John Travolta. STANDBY ★★★ 2014, 90 min, 16, e.tv, 00:45. Romantic comedy. A down-on-his-luck Irishman working as a tourist adviser at Dublin airport gets a second chance at love when the American woman he had a romance with eight years previously is stuck for on standby for the night for a flight to New York. Jessica Paré, Brian Gleeson. BAD BOYS ★★★ e.tv, 02:15. See Friday. THE LOST HUSBAND ★★★ 2020, 109 min, PG13, M-Net, 02:30. Romantic drama. Trying to put her life back together after her husband’s death, a woman and her kids move to her estranged aunt’s goat farm in Texas. Leslie Bibb, Josh Duhamel.
SPIRIT UNTAMED ★★★ 2021, 88 min, PG, M-Net, 04:25. Animated adventure. In the 1900s an American city girl moves to a small frontier town where she befriends a wild horse. Voices: Isabela Merced, Marsai Martin.
MONDAY
FIT FOR A PRINCE ★★★ M-Net, 06:00. See Thursday.
ANDERKANT DIE STILTE ★★★ 2012, 90 min, PG, SABC2, 22:00. Local drama. The residents of a retirement home decide to put on a play. Johan Botha, Andre Rossouw. CRIMINAL ★★★ e.tv, 00:00. See Sunday. 2 GUNS ★★★ e.tv, 02:05. See Saturday. LUPIN III: THE FIRST ★★★ M-Net, 04:15. See Thursday.
TUESDAY
THRILL RIDE ★★★ 2016, 86 min, PG, M-Net, 06:00. Fantasy adventure. Three kids sneak into an abandoned theme park to look for the fortune that gangster Al Capone supposedly hid there. Kristen Johnston, Lucas Jade Zumann. GIRL ★★★★ SABC3, 23:00. See Saturday. BAD BOYS ★★★ e.tv, 00:00. See Friday. IN HELL ★★★ 2003, 98 min, 16V, e.tv, 02:10. 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.
SWEET AUTUMN ★★★ 2020, 84 min, PG, M-Net, 04:15. Romantic drama. A marketing exec returns to her hometown for the reading of her aunt’s will and is surprised to find her aunt left half her maple-candy store to her and half to a maple-syrup supplier. Nikki Deloach, Andrew W Walker.
WEDNESDAY
EAT, PLAY, LOVE ★★★ 2017, 83 min, PG, M-Net, 06:00. Romantic comedy. A vet falls for the owner of a dog shelter she frequently visits but he’s about to get married to a glamorous TV presenter and move to New York. Jen Lilley.
LOOSIES ★★ 2011, 89 min, PG13, e.tv, 00:00. Crime comedy. A New York pickpocket must decide whether to continue his life of crime when a woman he had a one-night stand with tells him she’s pregnant. Peter Facinelli, Jaimie Alexander. CRIMINAL ★★★ e.tv, 01:40. See Sunday. FOR THE LOVE OF CHOCOLATE ★★★★ M-Net, 04:20. See Friday.