Friday, August 29, 2008
Films
Best on television
What Lies Beneath
Today, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret ... a...
Films on release
Love in the Time of Cholera
drama
Spanning a half-century in the complex, magical and sensual city of Cartageña, Colombia, this sweeping...
Best on television
AFTER THE SUNSET
Tuesday, Canale 5, 9.15 p.m.
Two master thieves are finally retiring after one last successful mission. Residing in their own...
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Once Upon a Time in America
Today, RaiTre, 8.20 p.m.
Sergio Leone's epic film chronicles the lives and loves of a quintet of Jewish mobsters...
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Bride & Prejudice
Today, Rai Uno, 9.20 p.m.
In a modest Indian village, the determined Mrs Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four...
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Pearl Harbour
Today, RaiTre, 8.30 p.m.
On a sleepy Sunday morning in December, as children played and families prayed, squadrons of Japanese...
Film feature
Cate Blanchett is Agent Irina Spalko
The 38 year-old actress, dubbed The Queen of Australia by Nicole Kidman, has done pretty much everything in...
Best on Television
NOWHERE TO HIDE
Today, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.
An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam is a...
Best on Television
BATMAN RETURNS
Today, Italia 1, 1.55 p.m.
Batman faces two new enemies in Gotham, the Penguin ? a warped and deformed individual who is intent...
Films next week
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
drama
The Golden Age finds Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) facing bloodlust for her throne and familial betrayal....
Best on television
The Alamo
Today, RaiTre, 8.30 p.m.
John Lee Hancock's historical drama details the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous...
Best on television
Hum Tum
Today, RaiUno, 9.20 p.m.
In this Indian film, a cartoonist meets a fashion designer on a six-hour flight. They talk for hours, but say...
Films on release
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
science fiction
This is a new motion picture based on the phenomenally popular, award-winning TV series The...
Best on television
The Librarian: Quest for the SpearToday, Italia 1, 9 p.m.
Flynn Carsen is a 30-year-old graduate student who has managed to collect a whopping 22...
Best on television
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Today, Italia 1, 9 p.m.
Flynn Carsen is a 30-year-old graduate student who has managed to collect a whopping...
Best on television
Apocalypse Now
Today, RaiTre, 8.30 p.m.
Vietnam, 1969. Burnt out Special Forces officer Captain Willard is sent into the jungle with top-secret...
Films on release
Shutter
horror
For photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor), his new assignment - a lucrative fashion shoot in...
Reel pride
As far as alternative cultural events go the Kinemastik International Short Film Festival has established itself on Malta's cultural calendar as...
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My Best Friend's Wedding
Today, Canale 5, 9.10 p.m.
Michael O'Neal and Julianne Potter have been friends for years but when Michael rings...
Best on television
Category 7: The End of the World
Tomorrow, Canale 5, 9.20 p.m
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects...
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Carolina Moon
Today, RaiDue, 9.05 p.m.
In her mid-20s, Tory Bodeen returns to the small Carolina town of her childhood, where her best friend...
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Hostage
Tomorrow, Canale 5, 9.30 p.m.
Jeff Talley, a former LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved himself away from his failed career outside of...
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Love's Long Journey
Today, Rete 4, 5 p.m.
Missie is pregnant as she and her husband finally settle a new home after two years of travel westward...
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The Art of War
Today, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.
Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and...
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Dr Dolittle
Today, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.
Based on Hugh Lofting's stories, this is a remake of the 1967 film about a 19th century English doctor...
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NARROW MARGIN
Today, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.
A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening by a top Mafia boss. She...
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SHREK
Today, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.
In a faraway land called Duloc, a heartless ruler, the diminutive Lord Farquaad, has banished all the fairytale...
Films on release
SHERRYBABY
drama
Three years after entering prison for robbery as a 19-year-old heroin addict, Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal) begins her...
Best on Television
THE QUEST
Today, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.
Chris embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery that spans the globe. Kidnapped and enslaved by gun smugglers,...
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MAXIMUM RISK
Today, Rete 4, 9 p.m.
A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced...
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QUO VADIS?
Today, Rete 4, 9.20 p.m.
Returning to Rome after three years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with...
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CINDERELLA STORY
Today, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.
Cinderella never had it this bad. High school senior Sam Montgomery lives at the beck and call of...
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TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA
Tuesday, Rete-4, 4 p.m.
Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to...
Best on Television
THE TRIANGLE
Monday, Rai Due, 9.05 p.m.
When a series of cargo ships vanish into the open waters of the Bermuda Triangle, a team of determined...
Best on Television
STUART LITTLE 2
Today, Italia 1, 9.05 p.m.
Stuart's mother is being over-protective of him, especially when he narrowly escapes injury in a...
Films on release
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
drama
On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat)...
Films on Television
ARE WE THERE YET?
Today, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.
Nick, a smooth operator, is trying to land a date with Suzanne. The problem is Suzanne, a divorcee,...
Best on Television
ROBOTS
Today, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.
The film is set on a world populated only by robots, with most of the action occurring in Rivet Town and Robot...
Best on television
GARFIELD
Today, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.
Life couldn't be sweeter for Garfield, everyone's favourite feline. Parked on a comfortable chair in front...
Films on release
GOOD LUCK CHUCK
comedy
It all started when Charlie Kagan was 10 years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to...
Best on television
THE GREAT ESCAPE
Monday, La7, 8.30 p.m.
Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners of war are all put in an "escape...
Film reels
If the festive period gets a little too much for you, and you need a break, here is a preview of the films you can catch at the cinema
From...
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LIONS FOR LAMBS
drama
Two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Peña), follow the inspiration...
Foreign flicks
In its fourth edition, the Malta International Film Festival is reaching out to project a more varied view of films that include everything, from...
Films on release
Get Smart
Comedy
Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known...
Films on release
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
adventure
This 2008 movie update of Jules Verne's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel uses the 1864 tale as a...
Films on release
The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
action
Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li)...
Films on release
The Dark KnightAction
The follow-up to the action hit Batman Begins reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the...
Films on release
Mamma Mia!
comedy
An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Meryl Streep) is about to let go of...
Films on release
Wall-e
animation
Academy Award-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation...
Engine of destruction
Leaping onto our cinema screens with a bang is The Incredible Hulk, kicking off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most...
Films on release
Kung Fu Panda
family
Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around... which doesn't exactly come in handy...
Films on release
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
fantasy
One year after the incredible events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Kings and...
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The Incredible Hulk
adventure
The Incredible Hulk kicks off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most popular superheroes...
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The Happening
thriller
It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling...
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Doomsday
action
Three decades after a major country is quarantined in hopes of containing a lethal and highly contagious virus nicknamed...
Indy's back
In August 1989, the greatest movie hero of all time graced the cover of Empire Magazine. Over the years, hopes of his return have been raised,...
Films on release
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
adventure
Set in 1957, this fourth film in the Indiana Jones series has an older and wiser...
Films on release
Nim's Island
family
Nim's Island tells the story of a young girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin). She lives on a beautiful uncharted island with her...
Films on release
IN BRUGES
comedy
Bruges, the most well-preserved mediaeval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over...
Films on release
ONE MISSED CALL
thriller
What will it sound like when you die? A chain of people receive terrifying cell phone messages of their own final fatal...
Films on release
NEVER BACK DOWN
action
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a...
Reel time
In the digital era when breaking news is available at the touch of a button, gone are the days when film was purely for entertainment's sake, as...
Films on release
LUST, CAUTION
thriller
Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs Mak, a woman of...
Films on release
27 DRESSES
comed
Jane (Katherine Heigl) has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself. Her entire life...
Films on release
JUNO
comedy
When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a...
Films on release
DEFINITELY, MAYBE
comedy
Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) is a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter,...
Films on release
BE KIND REWIND
comedy
When a bumbling movie lover becomes magnetised while attempting to sabotage a local power plant and accidentally erases...
Films on release
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
drama
Based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl is an engrossing and sensual tale of...
Films on release
JUMPER
thriller
David Rice (Hayden Christensen) has grown up with a mysterious power many dream of. He is completely and utterly mobile, able to...
Films on release
RAMBO
action
Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's...
Through the eyes of a falcon
Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa and the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR) provide a spectacular backdrop and desert landscape in the...
Films on release
NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS
action
For Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), history isn't just a dry record of what's occurred in a distant and...
Films on release
THE WATER HORSE: THE LEGEND OF THE DEEP GOOD LUCK CHUCK
family
A lonely young boy vows to protect the rapidly growing hatchling that emerges...
Films on release
ALIENS VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM
sci-fi
The film captures the magic of the Alien vs Predator comics, novels and videogames that established the "AVP"...
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THE LIVES OF OTHERS
drama
In 1984 East Berlin, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin wall, Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe),...
10 MUST SEE MOVIES OF 2008
What movies will you be seeing in 2008? It's a pretty simple question, but a very complex answer. Most cinema buffs don't plan their film viewing...
Films next week
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS
ˆˆfamily
Three chipmunks, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, watch as their home is chopped down by a Christmas tree company....
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BEE MOVIE
family
From creator Jerry Seinfeld comes Bee Movie, a comedy that will change everything you thought you knew about bees.
Take a...
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FRED CLAUS
comedy
Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) has lived his entire life in his brother’s very large shadow. Fred tried, but could hardly live up...
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AMERICAN GANGSTER
drama
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime...
Reality bytes
Film critics might argue that way back in 1981 Brainstorm first pioneered the notion of virtual reality for the multiplexes. Come 1999, the...
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