Unstoppable

Sky Movies Premiere/HD

Friday 4 November

Inspired by actual events, Unstoppable is an adrenaline rush fuelled by director Tony Scott's signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances. A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train - effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper - and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

Machete

Sky Movies Premiere/HD

Friday 18 November

Based on the movie trailer featured in "Grindhouse," this is an action film about a former Federale who gets set-up and decides to turn the tables and go after the evil masterminds who betrayed him. A bad-ass, star-studded action-thriller from Robert Rodriguez (Desperado), Machete is an over-the-top homage to 1970's exploitation movies, starring Danny Trejo as a Mexican Federale seeking revenge against a vicious drug lord (Steven Seagal), a ruthless vigilante (Don Johnson) and a power-mad politician (Robert De Niro). He is helped by a savvy immigration agent (Jessica Alba), revolutionary She (Michelle Rodriguez) and by his brother, a priest (Cheech Marin), and finds solace with a drug addict (Lindsay Lohan) along the way. Viva Machete!

War Weekend

MGM HD

Saturday 12-Sunday 13 November

MGM HD, in association with Sky Movies, devotes two nights to epic tales of tragedy, heroics and warfare in a series of cinematic War classics, including The Train, Beach Red, Platoon, Navy Seals and many more!

Season of the Banned

Horror

Starts Friday 4 November, 22.55

A selection from the infamous 'video nasties' of the early 1980s starting with documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Video Tape and continuing with The Evil Dead, The Exterminator, The Beyond, Island Of Death, City Of The Living Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Tenebrae.