May 9 2008 - May 15 2008

AXN

Monday May 12
12.00 The Animal (comedy)
Directed by The Animal.
Starring Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C McGinley.
After receiving organ transplants from various animal donors, a man finds himself taking on the traits of those animals.

Tuesday May 13
00.00 The Tailor Of Panama (drama/thriller)
Directed by John Boorman.
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis.
A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British agent.

Wednesday May 14
00.00 As Good as It Gets (comedy)
Directed by James Brooks.
Starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear.
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighbouring gay artist Simon is hospitalised and his dog is entrusted to Melvin.

Saturday May 10
00.00 A Glimpse of Hell (drama)
Directed by Mikael Salomon.
Starring James Caan, Robert Sean Leonard, Daniel Roebuck.
A navy officer tries to set the record straight after the navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.

20.00 Leave It to Beaver (comedy/fantasy)
Directed by Andy Cadiff.
Starring Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley.
The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio -
wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally and eight-year-old “Beaver” Theodore.

22.30 Crash (crime)
Directed by Paul Haggis.
Starring Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze, Sandra Bullock.
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective, two car thieves, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

Sunday May 11
00.30 Black River (adventure/sci-fi)
Directed by Jeff Bleckner.
Starring Jay Mohr, Lisa Edelstein, Ann Cusack.
A writer visits a town that isn’t what it appears to be.

13.00 All Night Long (comedy)
Directed by Jean-Claude Tramont.
Starring Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd.
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24-hour drug store.

20.00 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (action/adventure)
Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan.
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees, and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Hallmark

Friday May 9
22.00 Selling Innocence (drama)
Directed by Pierre Gang.
Starring Mimi Rogers, JR Bourne, Sarah Lind.
Mia Sampson’s dream to be a model comes true when she’s asked to pose for photographs to be displayed on an internet website for members only.

Saturday May 10
20.00 Augusta, Gone (drama)
Directed by Tim Matheson.
Starring Sharon Lawrence, Mika Boorem, Tamara Hope.
Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realises that this is not typical teen angst.

Sunday May 11
16.00 Just a Dream (drama)
Directed by Danny Glover.
Starring Carl Lumbly, Robby Benson, Ally Sheedy.
A film crew arrives in a small town in the Nevada desert. It ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old and his movie-loving friend.

Monday May 12
15.00 Love Comes Softly (romance)
Directed by Michael Landon Jr.
Starring Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, Skye McCole Bartusiak.
A young woman on her way to a new life in the 1800s suddenly finds herself a widow. Now she must live with a recently widowed young man and his daughter. Can any of them find love again?

Tuesday May 13
18.00 Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well (mystery)
Directed by Armand Mastroianni.
Starring Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, William Moses.
A famous mentalist who possesses the names of secret foreign agents in the Middle East will give this information to kidnappers unless a hefty ransom is paid within 24 hours.

Wednesday May 14
18.00 Charms for the Easy Life (drama)
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
Starring Gena Rowlands, Mimi Rogers, Susan May Pratt.
The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

Thursday May 15
15.00 Hard Ground (western)
Directed by Frank Q Dobbs.
Starring Burt Reynolds, Bruce Dern, Amy Jo Johnson.
Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border.

Saturday May 10
13.30 Getting There (comedy)
Directed by Steve Purcell.
Starring Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Billy Aaron Brown.
This film is about Mary-Kate and Ashley turning 16 years old and going on a road trip without parents.

23.45 eXistenZ (crime)
Directed by David Cronenberg.
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm.
A game designer creates a virtual-reality game that taps into the players’ minds.

Sunday May 11
13.30 The Mirror Has Two Faces (comedy)
Directed by Barbra Streisand.
Starring Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall.
Rose and Gregory, both Columbia University professors, meet when Rose’s sister answers Gregory’s personals advert.

20.00 xXx (adventure)
Directed by Rob Cohen.
Starring Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas.
Xander Cage is an extreme sports athlete recruited by the government on a special mission.

22.40 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (action)
Directed by Robert Rodriguez.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida.
Once upon a time... it is a time of trouble in Mexico.