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January 19 - 25, 2011
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WEDNESDAY (Jan 19) Film - Disturbia on Fox Movies at 11pm

After his father's death, Kale becomes withdrawn and troubled and finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbours, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer.

THURSDAY (Jan 20)

Film - When in Rome on Super Movies at 9pm

An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of those who threw them in: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?

FRIDAY (Jan 21)

Film - Prince of Persia: Sands of Time on Showmovies at 8pm

It's a race against time when a rogue prince reluctantly teams up with a rival princess to safeguard a magical dagger that gives its possessor the power to reverse time and rule the world.

SATURDAY (Jan 22)

Film - Jumper on Fox Movies at 11pm

David Rice is a high school student in Ann Arbor, abandoned by his mother at five, enamoured with Millie, a fellow student, and picked on by at least one classmate. One day he discovers he can transport himself instantaneously to any place on earth. He leaves town, goes to New York City, robs a bank vault, and comes to the attention of a shadowy group of government hunters. Eight years later, the hunters, led by the murderous Roland, get a fix on David. He heads home, searches out Millie, invites her to travel with him, and only later realises that Roland and his crew are seriously deadly.

SUNDAY (Jan 23)

Film - Wild Hogs on Fox Movies at 11pm

A group of middle-aged friends decide to rev up their routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip. Taking a long dreamed-of breather from their stressful jobs and family responsibilities, they can't wait to feel the freedom of the open road. The trip begins to challenge their wits and their luck, especially during a chance run-in with the Del Fuegos, a real-life biker gang. They soon find that they've embarked on a journey they will never forget.

MONDAY (Jan 24)

Animation - Madagascar 2: Escape of Africa on Showmovies Kids at 6pm

When a plane made by the penguins to fly them back to New York crash-lands in Africa, Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo find themselves in Africa. Here they encounter species of their own kind for the first time, and Alex is reunited with his long lost parents. But can he stop the evil Makunga who's trying to replace his father as Alpha Lion?

TUESDAY (Jan 25)

Film - Mission Impossible II on Fox Movies at 9pm

When Agent Ethan Hunt takes holiday on a rock climbing expedition, he is rudely interrupted by a pair of missile- launched, self-destructing designer sunglasses encoded with instructions for his latest mission. It seems Biocyte Pharmaceuticals is missing Chimera, a skin-corroding virus that was manufactured to boost sales of their super-strength antiviral formula. Unfortunately, it has fallen into the hands of Sean Ambrose, a business- minded MIF traitor.







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