October 3 2008 - October 9 2008

AXN

Friday October 3
22.00 Art of Fighting (comedy/drama)
Directed by Han-sol Shin.
Starring Yun-shik Baek, Yeo-jin Choi, Hae-Yeon Gil.
A fighting movie from Korea, not the first one or the last, but one which didn’t wish to be entwined within a fluffy romance angle or a heavily calculated action caper.

Saturday October 4
23.00 Maid in Manhattan (comedy/romance)
Directed by Wayne Wang.
Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson.
A senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman’s dress.

Wednesday October 8
22.00 Spider-Man (thriller/action)
Directed by Sam Raimi.
Starring Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst.
When bitten by a genetically modified spider, an awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.

Friday October 3
00.00 Buried Alive II (horror/thriller)
Directed by Tim Matheson.
Starring Ally Sheedy, Stephen Caffrey, Tracey Needham.
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her.

Saturday October 4
20.00 Gone in Sixty Seconds (comedy/crime)
Directed by Dominic Sena.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Giovanni Ribisi, Angelina Jolie.
A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother’s life.

23.40 I Want You (drama/music)
Directed by Michael Winterbottom.
Starring Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Luka Petrusic.
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man’s obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

Sunday October 5
17.00 Captain Ron (adventure/comedy)
Directed by Thom Eberhardt.
Starring Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place.
A family in Chicago inherits a yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste. Pomme de Terre to Miami with the assistance of Captain Ron.

20.00 The Parent Trap (comedy/family)
Directed by Nancy Meyers.
Starring Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson.
Identical twins Hallie and Annie were separated at birth when their parents divorced. After the two meet at summer camp, they begin plotting to reunite their estranged parents.

Friday October 3
22.50 The Queen (biography/drama)
Directed by Stephen Frears.
Starring Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings.
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.

Saturday October 4
21.05 V for Vendetta (action/sci-fi)
Directed by James McTeigue.
Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea.
A shadowy freedom fighter known only as “V” uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. On rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.

Sunday October 5
21.05 Lucky You (romance/drama)
Directed by Curtis Hanson.
Starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall.
A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

23.05 Kingdom of Heaven (action/history)
Directed by Ridley Scott.
Starring Orlando Bloom, Bronson Webb, Kevin McKidd.
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.

Monday October 6
22.35 Perfect Stranger (crime/drama)
Directed by James Foley.
Starring Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi.
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend’s killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

Tuesday October 7
21.05 There’s Something About Mary (comedy/romance)
Directed by Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly.
Starring Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller.
A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his previous date with her was a complete disaster.

Wednesday October 8
23.25 The Groomsmen (comedy/romance)
Directed by Edward Burns.
Starring Edward Burns, Heather Burns, John Leguizamo.
A groom and his four attendants wrestle with issues related to friendship and maturity a week before the big day.

Thursday October 9
21.30 The Baker (comedy)
Directed by Gareth Lewis.
Starring Damian Lewis, Kate Ashfield, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
A hit man has second thoughts about his career and seeks refuge from his boss by finding work as a baker in a rural Welsh village.

Saturday October 4
20.00 Rush Hour (action/thriller)
Directed by Brett Ratner.
Starring Ken Leung, Jackie Chan, Tom Wilkinson.
Two cops team up to get back a kidnapped daughter.