Movies

8:35pm Tuesday, May 29 on Prime

Action Movie

A computer hacker, recruited by a shadowy figure, has executed the largest disaster to hit California, completely shutting down the state’s vulnerable electrical system. With the outage comes chaos, as record heat waves and the dark of the night create a city by city panic. As residents across the West Coast fight to survive, Agent Strickland of Homeland Security’s Cyber Terrorism Division enlists a squadron of experts to outwit the conspiratorial source of the blackout. Starring Anne Heche and Billy Zane.

SKY BOX OFFICE – Friday 1 June, CH 206 from 9.05pm

Drama/Thriller

Every Secret Comes With A Price

Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington star in this powerful story of Rachel Singer (Mirren), a former Mossad agent who endeavours to capture and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ends with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced and Rachel must go back to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth.

SKY BOX OFFICE – Friday 1 June, CH 027/202 & 204 from 8.05pm/9.05pm

Action/Fantasy

The Gods Need A Hero

Set eons after the Gods won their mythic struggle against the Titans and at a time when a new evil threatens the land. Mickey Rourke portrays King Hyperion, a tyrant who has amassed a bloodthirsty army in pursuit of the legendary Epirus Bow, a weapon of unimaginable power that can unleash the Titans and ultimately rain destruction on all mankind. The people are powerless to stop Hyperion until a peasant named Theseus (Henry Cavill) comes forth as their only hope.

SKY BOX OFFICE – Friday 1 June, CH 026/201 & 203 from 7.35pm/8.35pm

Drama/Family

One of the most legendary directors of our time takes you on an extraordinary adventure

Hugo is an astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father which will transform him and all those around him.

RIALTO CHANNEL – Friday 1 June, 7.25pm

Icelandic criminal drama based on the novel by Arnaldur Indridason

When an elderly man is found murdered in his basement flat, Inspector Erlendur and his team don’t have much to go on, except a photograph of a young girl’s grave. They discover that, many years ago, the man was accused (though not convicted) of horrible crimes. Did his past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence to the national genetic database where he encounters the hacker Orn, distraught at the death of his own young daughter. Together they uncover secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man with clues knitted into the bloodline of an entire country.

TCM – Friday 1 June, 8.30pm

The Globe Theatre, London, 1600. The Chorus requests the audience use its collective imagination to summon up mental images of the various locations of Shakespeare’s play Henry V, set in England in the early 15th Century. The political situation in England is tense: King Henry IV has died and his son, the young King Henry V, has just assumed the throne. Several bitter civil wars have left the people of England restless and dissatisfied. In order to gain the respect of the English people and the court, Henry must live down his wild adolescent past. Henry lays claim to certain parts of France, based on his distant roots in the French royal family and on a very technical interpretation of ancient land laws. When the young prince of France sends Henry an insulting message in response to these claims, Henry decides to invade France. Staring Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton and Leslie Banks. Directed by Laurence Olivier.

SKY MOVIES GREATS – Friday 1 June, 8.30pm

Science Fiction

A haunting, early prophetic mixture of science fiction and film noir, director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner boasts one of the most astonishingly designed futures ever put on film – a dark and decaying Los Angeles circa 2019. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a one-time “blade runner” (or sanctioned assassin). The cynical, world-weary Deckard is called out of retirement to stop four “replicants” – genetically altered humans with superior strength and intellects who are used as slave labour on “off-world” colonies. These homicidal androids have returned to Earth for a murderous killing spree.

SKY MOVIES – Friday 1 June, 8.30pm

Action

Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of LA’s most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene until his father (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father’s more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. To get closer to the criminals, they decide to pose as criminals themselves. Protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets. They begin hunting down the man who controls LA’s gritty underworld, Benjamin Chudnofsky (Chistoph Waltz, but Chudnofsky has plans of his own.

RIALTO CHANNEL – Thursday 31 May, 8.30pm

The true story of a multi-billion dollar heist and how they got away with it.

Don Argott’s gripping documentary The Art Of The Steal chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion. In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes’ death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of Barnes’ former students and his will which strictly states the Foundation should always be an educational institution and the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a man’s will be broken and one of America’s greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?

RIALTO CHANNEL – Wednesday 30 May, 8.30pm

Starring Eva Green, Juno Temple and Maria Valverde.

Innocence isn’t lost. It’s taken.

Cracks follows an elite group of boarding school girls who compete for the attention of their free-thinking and glamorous young teacher Miss G. She encourages them to indulge their desires, flout the establishment and (suggesting a world of adventures in her own past) pursue a life of independence and travel. The girls are thrilled to have such an inspiring teacher but the status quo is threatened when an exotic and beautiful Spanish student arrives and disturbs the girls’ rigid and remorseless power structure. Favoured girl Di Radfield feels especially threatened and, as Ms G’s hold over the girls progresses from emancipation to obsession, there are tragic consequences for everyone.