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June 17 - 23, 2009
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Wednesday (Jun 17)Film - Jarhead on Xtra Movies at 9.30pm Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx and Peter Sarsgaard star in Universal Pictures' adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War. Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows a third generation enlistee from a sobering stint in boot camp through the Middle East deserts. An irreverent and true account of war laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd.

THURSDAY (Jun 18)

Film - The Time Machine on Fox Movies at 11pm

Scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future. There he finds a post-apocalyptic world where he discovers that mankind has been divided into the hunter ... and the hunted.

FRIDAY (Jun 19)

Film - Gosford Park on Fox Movies at 11pm

It is November 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife, Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas), gather relatives and friends for a weekend shooting party. As the guests assemble in the gilded drawing rooms above, their personal maids and valets swell the ranks of the house servants in the teeming kitchens and corridors below-stairs. But all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejewelled guests, nor in the stark work stations where the servants labour.

SATURDAY (Jun 20)

Film - Robots on Fox Movies at 9pm

In a wondrously clanky universe populated solely by mechanical beings live memorable robots Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor), a young genius inventor who dreams of helping robots everywhere; Cappy, a beautiful, dynamic and savvy bot with whom Rodney is smitten; the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet who locks horns with Rodney; Bigweld, a master inventor who has lost his way, and a group of misfit bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender and Piper Pinwheeler. Fender's head, arms, and legs routinely fall off and Rodney fulfills his ongoing need for repairs.

SUNDAY (Jun 21)

Film - Imaginary Heroes on Super Movies at 9pm

Following a sobering family tragedy, the Travises go to pieces. Teenaged son Tim (Emile Hirsch), the black sheep of the family, walks through his life like it's a bad dream. His father Ben (Jeff Daniels) begins treating his wife and children like strangers and completely disengages from the world around him, while his mother Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) takes to smoking pot and letting loose with all the considerable sarcasm she can muster. Meanwhile, she wages a bitter feud with the next-door neighbour over carefully concealed secrets that threaten to tear the family apart.

MONDAY (Jun 22)

Film - Little Voice on Star Movies at 8.30pm

Little Voice, or LV (Jane Horrocks), is a shy, mousy woman living with her overbearing mother Mari. LV has rarely left the house since her father's death and spends her time singing along to his favourite songs in his record collection. Her talent for emulating the singing voices of Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Bassey are soon discovered by her mother's boyfriend, a small-time showbiz agent (Michael Caine). Their attempts to propel her to stardom are at first successful when the local town gets to see her perform. However, LV is soon wise to their selfish intentions.

TUESDAY (Jun 23)

Documentary - Air Crash Investigation: Crash Course on NGC at 8pm

November 12, 1996 - Shortly after take off from New Delhi, Saudia Flight 763 levels off at 14,000 feet. As the crew waits for clearance to climb to cruising altitude, the plane is hit by a Kazakhstan Airlines jet. The collision cripples both planes. They spiral violently to the ground, killing all 349 people on board. It is the worst mid-air collision in aviation history. The two wreckage fields are five miles apart. As investigators comb through the charred debris for evidence, they try and answer troubling questions.







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