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ANOTHER GREAT YEAR OF ENTERTAINMENT
8PM SUNDAY BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES
MAY
2012
BOA VS. PYTHON
HORROR THRILLER
SUNDAY 6TH
Seeking to arrange the perfect hunt for a group of
wealthy associates, media mogul Broddick (ADAM
KENDRICK) imports an 80-foot python. But an
accident allows the python to escape, and it begins
putting the squeeze on the locals. The snake’s trail
of carnage leads FBI agent Alan Sharpe (KIRK B.R.
WOLLER) to the underground tunnels of a water
treatment plant. He and marine biologist Monica
Bonds (JAIME BERGMAN) enlist a prominent
herpetologist (DAVID HEWLETT) whose 70-foot
Scarlet Queen boa will be outfitted with Monica’s
tracking system and used to hunt the python. But
Broddick’s hunters also want to bag it, Monica’s
equipment goes haywire, and the bodies keep piling
up. Things come to a head in a packed dance club
where two of nature’s most terrifying predators
square off in an action-packed battle of fangs.
ANACONDA
ADVENTURE THRILLER
SUNDAY 13TH
A documentary film crew led by anthropologist
STeven Cale (ERIC STOLTZ) and director Terri
Flores (JENNIFER LOPEZ) enters the mysterious
world of the Amazon in search of the legendary
Shirishama Indians. Cameraman Danny (ICE CUBE)
smells trouble when the crew picks up a suspicious
passenger--Paul Sarone (JON VOIGHT), a
charismatic loner and "river man" whose professed
knowledge of the Shirishama entices the crew. But
Sarone has his own motives for driving the crew
deeper into the river. He is on his own dark quest to
track a lethal 40-foot Anaconda, a predator so
vicious it has become legend, and he will sacrifice
anything and anyone to find his adversary. The
expedition becomes a jungle nightmare as Sarone's
obsession leads them directly into the jaws of the
ultimate evil--the largest and most vicious killer
snake into the world, and they must use every
primal resource just to stay alive.
ANACONDAS: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid
HORROR THRILLER
SUNDAY 20TH
This sequel to the 1997 hit Anaconda stars MORRIS
CHESTNUT as a pharmaceutical company
representative leading a team of scientists on an
expedition to Borneo in search of a flower that is
said to contain a youth serum. They hire a
questionable vessel and an even more questionable
American expat skipper and head up river. After
facing crocodiles, spiders, leeches and a waterfall,
the adventurers come upon a tangle of huge
anacondas who’ve feasted on the blood orchids,
proving the claims made about the unusual plants:
the snakes are bigger, faster, and smarter than
ordinary anacondas. But the lead scientist, an
obnoxious British doctor, commandeers the raft and
insists the crew forge on. It’s just a matter of time
before his greed leads to more lethal encounters.
ANACONDA 3: Offspring
ACTION HORROR
SUNDAY 27TH
After two genetically-altered 60-foot anaconda
snakes escape their lab cages, a select troop of
soldiers, big game hunters and scientists must track
the enormous creatures through the forest. The
clock ticks as the queen snake is about to give birth
to hundreds more of the deadliest animals on earth.
8PM SATURDAY FAMILY MOVIES
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
FAMILY COMEDY
SATURDAY 5TH
In modern America, where the average family has 1.87 children,
Tom Baker (STEVE MARTIN) and wife Kate (BONNIE HUNT) have
decided that life is better – if not cheaper – by the dozen. The
Bakers live in a small Illinois town where Tom coaches the local
college football team. The family’s day-to-day life is marked by
equal parts love and chaos… pet-frog-landing-in-the-breakfast
eggs type of chaos. When Tom is offered his dream job – coaching
a squad at a large university – he and Kate uproot the family, much
to the displeasure of all 12 children. At the same time, Kate learns
that her memoirs are about to be published. Her agent whisks her
away to New York to promote the book, leaving Tom home alone to
handle the increasingly unhappy and hectic household, as well as
his demanding new job. With all hell breaking loose at home, Kate
on the road, and Tom’s job on the line, the Baker family ultimately
chooses not to have it all, but to love what they do have.
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2
FAMILY COMEDY
SATURDAY 12TH
In CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2, Tom Baker and wife Kate hoping to
bring their family together for a memorable summer vacation, take their
twelve offspring to rustic Lake Winnetka, Wisconsin - their longtime
family vacation home. But their retreat soon turns cutthroat when they
enter into a competition with the over-achieving members of a large
family headed by Tom's longtime rival, Jimmy Murtaugh. Starring
STEVE MARTIN, EUGENE LEVY, BONNIE HUNT and HILLARY DUFF.
UEFA FINALS
SPORTS
SATURDAY 19TH
It is the most prestigious club competition in European football. The
final of the competition is the most watched annual sporting event
worldwide.
NACHO LIBRE
FAMILY SPORTS COMEDY
SATURDAY 26TH
Nacho is a man without skills. After growing up in a Mexican
monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery's cook, but
doesn't seem to fit in. Nacho cares deeply for the orphans he
feeds, but his food is terrible--mostly, if you ask him, a result of his
terrible ingredients. He realizes he must hatch a plan to make
money to buy better food for "the young orphans, who have
nothing" (and if in doing so Nacho can impress the lovely Sister
Encarnacion, that would be a big plus). When Nacho is struck by
the idea to earn money as a Lucha Libre wrestler, he finds that he
has a natural, raw talent for wrestling. As he teams with his rail-thin,
unconventional partner, Esqueleto (the Skeleton), Nacho feels for
the first time in his life that he has something to fight for and a place
where he belongs. As Lucha is strictly forbidden by the church
elders at the monastery, Nacho is forced to lead a double life.
Disguised by a sky blue mask, Nacho conceals his true identity as
he takes on Mexico's most famous wrestlers and takes on a
hilarious quest to make life a little sweeter at the orphanage.
Starring JACK BLACK.
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