Inception
Sky Movies Premiere/HD
TX tbc
Dominic Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his team work in a highly specialised field of corporate espionage. Infiltrating their targets' dreams, they convince victims to part with highly sensitive information while they sleep. Following a failed ‘extraction' on businessman Mr Saito (Ken Watanabe), the Japanese tycoon makes Cobb an offer he can't refuse. Implicated in the murder of his wife, Cobb is unable to return home to the US to see his children, but Saito has a solution, for a price, of course. Saito wants Cobb to pull off the seemingly impossible feat of planting an idea in the mind of his main competitor's son, causing him to sell the family business when his ailing father passes away. Recruiting new dream architect Ariadne (Page) and in-dream shape-shifter Eames (Tom Hardy), Cobb, along with regular accomplice Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), meticulously plans the ‘inception'. Director Christopher Nolan's dense yet thrilling blockbuster was a roaring summer success and, despite some voices of dissent, it was also a huge hit with the critics. Visually astounding and meticulously plotted, Inception is quite possibly the most cerebral blockbuster of all time, and one that lends itself to multiple viewings.
Shrek Forever After
Sky Movies Premiere/HD
TX tbc
Having finally had his fairy tale ending, Shrek (Mike Myers) discovers that family life with his wife Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and three kids hasn't left him happy ever after. Longing for a return to his footloose days as a fearsome ogre, Shrek makes a deal with shifty shorty Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) to get one day of his old life back, but the devious dwarf double-crosses him. Finding himself in a twisted alternate version of the land of Far Far Away, Shrek is shocked to find that he has never been born and, as a result, the kingdom is now being run into the ground by new ruler Rumpelstiltskin. Much better than its predecessor, but not a patch on the original, Shrek Forever After is still a treat for Shrek fans.
Western Season on MGM HD
MGM HD
Throughout August
MGM HD offers round‐the‐clock movies from MGM's extensive and eclectic library of the worlds best loved and most Iconic films.Truly ‘a movie channel for movie lovers', all films are screened uninterrupted, in True HD and wherever possible, in full widescreen extended versions - the way the filmmakers intended them to be seen. The Western Season on MGM HD will showcase countless classics from the archives, featuring stars like Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Charles Bronson.
FrightFest: Best of the Fest Season
Horror
Starts Monday 15 August, 22.55
A selection of FrightFest premiere movies from festivals past will serve a real treat for horror fans. The season includes titles like Storm Warning and Welcome to the Jungle. In Storm Warning, a yuppie couple lost in a thick brush filled marsh seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire! In Welcome to the Jungle, two young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared in 1961.
