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February 18 - 24, 2009
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Wednesday (Feb 18) Film - How Stella Got Her Groove Back on Cinema City at 7pm.

Stella, at age 40, seems to have it all: a great job, a beautiful home overlooking San Francisco, and a bright, loving young son. She is a dedicated single mother, and a devoted sister and friend. But she's lost her groove. For what seems like forever, Stella has forgotten to have fun ... to take chances. But Stella's vivacious friend, Delilah, has the antidote for Stella's rut - a vacation to the golden, sun-kissed beaches of Jamaica, where the over-worked, enjoyment-deprived Stella can forget about her job, her high-maintenance sisters and being the perfect mother.

THURSDAY (Feb 19)

Film - Jumper on Super Movies at 9pm.

David Rice has grown up with a mysterious power. He is completely and utterly mobile, able to zap through wormholes in the space-time fabric to any city, any building, any place at all that his mind desires. In the blink of an eye, he can 'jump' from one side of the earth to the other and back again. But when David discovers another young man like himself, a fiery, globetrotting rebel named Griffin, the truth of his existence begins to dawn and when he's identified by the secret organisation sworn to kill him and all Jumpers, David and Griffin have to use all their skills just to stay alive.

FRIDAY (Feb 20)

Documentary - Naked Science: Cracking the Earth's Crust on NGC at 10pm.

This one-hour programme takes an imaginary subterranean journey through Earth's crust. An imaginary remote sensing vehicle circles the planet, travelling over 55,000 km from South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean as it uncovers some of the treasures the crust has to offer. Biochemist Esta Van Heerden discovers life in the crust in the Tau Tona gold mine in South Africa. Planetary geologist Jim Head explains his new theory of how diamonds, normally found in Earth's mantle, make their journey up into the crust.

SATURDAY (Feb 21)

Film - French Kiss on Star Movies at 8.30pm.

Kate and fiancŽ Charlie seem set for a predictable life together in Canada - until Charlie attends a seminar in Paris and falls for French beauty, Juliette. Kate decides to follow and win back her man. She finds herself seated next to Luc, a handsome French petty thief on her flight, who stashes some valuable jewellery in her baggage to avoid capture. While Luc simply wants to get his jewels back, he pretends to be willing to help Kate find Charlie and win him back. But to his surprise - as well as Kate's - they develop feelings for each other which alter the course of their lives.

SUNDAY (Feb 22)

Film - Ravenous on Cinema City at 7pm.

Captain John Boyd has been sent to a remote outpost in Sierra Nevada following a military disgrace in the Mexican-American War. There, his group run into Colqhoun, a starving and half-frozen Scottish traveller who tells a wild tale of cannibalism. His group, it seems, was led astray by a guide, snowed into a cave, and finally descended to eating one another. He fled from the evil Colonel Ives. Boyd determines to apprehend Ives, but when he follows Colqhoun back to the cave, events take a more dangerous turn, and Colqhoun turns out to be not quite all he claimed to

MONDAY (Feb 23)

Film - St Trinian's on Xtra Movies at 9.30pm.

St Trinian's continues to represent the unacceptable face of British education. When the new minister of education announces he will sort the place out, he doesn't realise the enormity of the task or that the headmistress is an old flame. The school is threatened with closure by its bank and with the staff clearly a waste of space, the girls realise the responsibility to save the day falls on them. Perhaps a painting by Scarlett Johansson will be the way out?

TUESDAY (Feb 24)

Film - Beyond Borders on Fox Movies at 11pm.

A romantic tale set across many years centres around a medical student who thinks he has found his calling as an international disaster relief worker until he gets sidetracked by a philanthropic socialite who is entrenched in a troubled marriage. The two keep inadvertently meeting up, and soon develop a special relationship, against the ever-changing backdrops of disasters and wars..







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