A-Z Movies

April 2017
A-Z Movies
Queen Of The Desert
MASTERPIECE 2015 Drama (M a)
April 6, 12
Nicole Kidman, James Franco.
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell’s life
as a traveller, writer, archaeologist,
explorer, cartographer, and political
attache for the British Empire at the
dawn of the 20th century.
H Quit Staring
At My Plate
WORLD MOVIES 2016 Croatia
Drama
April 8, 9
Dir. Hana Jusic, Mia Petricevic, Niksa
Butijer.
When an authoritarian patriarch is
incapacitated by a stroke, his 24-yearold
daughter slowly crawls out of
her shell.
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Race To Witch Mountain
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2009
Family (PG)
April 5, 10, 17, 28
Dwayne Johnson, Alexander Ludwig.
A taxi driver joins two aliens disguised
as teenagers in a race to find their
spaceship so they can save the
universe.
Radio Days
MASTERPIECE 1987 Comedy (PG)
April 8, 12, 18
Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest.
Charts the trials and tribulations of a
Jewish family living in Far Rockaway,
New York, just prior to World War
II, and the importance of radio as a
source of entertainment and news in
their daily lives.
Raging Bull
FOX CLASSICS 1980 Drama (M)
April 30
Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci.
Jake La Motta is a boxer whose
psychological and sexual complexities
erupt into violence both in and out
of the ring.
John Grisham’s
The Rainmaker
THRILLER 1997 Mystery/Crime (M av)
April 9, 13, 19, 25, 28
Matt Damon, Danny DeVito.
A young lawyer takes on a dying man’s
case after he’s denied an insurance
claim.
Raising Arizona
FOX CLASSICS 1987 Comedy (M lv)
April 6, 7
Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter.
When a childless couple, consisting
of an ex-con and an ex-cop, decide
to help themselves to one of another
family’s quintuplets, their lives
get more complicated than they
anticipated.
H Raman Raghav 2.0
WORLD MOVIES 2016 India
Thriller (MA 15+ adv)
April 21, 22
Dir. Anurag Kashyap, Manoj Bajpayee,
Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
A copycat serial killer Ramanna who is
inspired by an infamous serial killer’s
strange obsession with Raghavan,
a young cop sees him follow him
without his knowledge and often
creates situations where both of them
come face-to-face.
Ramona And Beezus
FAMILY 2010 Action/Adventure
April 2, 8, 14, 19, 24, 30
Joey King, Selena Gomez.
The adventures of young Ramona
Quimby and her big sister Beezus
come to life as Ramona’s irrepressible
sense of fun, adventure and mischief
comes in handy as she concentrates
on helping save her family’s home.
Rams
WORLD MOVIES 2015 Iceland
Drama (M ln)
April 27, 28
Dir. Grímur Hákonarson, Sigurður
Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson.
In a remote Icelandic farming valley,
two brothers who haven’t spoken in
40 years come together to save what’s
dearest to them – their sheep.
Random Hearts
THRILLER 1999 Drama (M lv)
April 4, 7, 10, 16, 24
Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas.
In the aftermath of a deadly plane
crash, a police sergeant attempts
to unravel the relationship between
his deceased wife and her travel
companion, the husband of a
Republican congresswoman.
H = PREMIERE
Rat Race
COMEDY 2001 Comedy (M as)
April 25
John Cleese, Cuba Gooding Jr.
A casino owner sets up a high-stakes
road race to impress his coterie of
compulsive high rollers.
Ratatouille
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2007
Animation (PG)
April 3, 8, 13, 19, 25
Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm.
A rat with a nose for fine food joins a
clumsy kitchenhand to open the finest
restaurant in Paris.
H Ratchet & Clank
FAMILY 2013 Family (PG)
April 4, 9, 29
Paul Giamatti, John Goodman.
Ratchet is a foolhardy Lombax who
has grown up alone and Clank is a
pint-sized robot with more brains than
brawn. Together, they must stop an
alien from destroying the galaxy.
Ratter
THRILLER 2015 Thriller/Suspense
(MA 15+ a)
April 3, 16, 21
Ashley Benson, Matt McGorry.
When a stalker hacks into her devices,
a woman’s illusion of privacy are
destroyed and she discovers just how
fragile our sense of security can be.
Read It And Weep
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2006 Family.
April 3, 15
Kay Panabaker, Danielle Panabaker.
Fourteen-year-old Jamie has a
problem. Her personal diary has
become a bestseller at school, and
some of her classmates are not happy
about it.
Recipe For Disaster
FAMILY 2003 Family
April 3, 8, 13, 19, 26
John Larroquette, Lesley Ann Warren.
When their mum and dad can’t
make it back for the opening of their
restaurant, Rebecca, Max and Sam
must keep the customers, and a
nightmare critic, satisfied.
Red Planet
ACTION 2000 Sci‐Fi/Fantasy (M lv)
April 2, 7, 18, 23
Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss.
In the mid-21st century, the nations
of a dying Earth look star-ward for a
solution, and set out to colonise Mars.
The Remains Of The Day
MASTERPIECE 1993 Romance
April 5, 11, 26
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson.
A loyal butler shuts himself off from
everyone until his master dies. He
then tries to make up for lost time with
the only person who tried to crack his
cold veneer.
Renoir
WORLD MOVIES 2012 France
Historical Drama (M ln)
April 16
Dir. Gilles Bourdos, Michel Bouquet,
Christa Théret.
The story of celebrated Impressionist
painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as he
falls in love with the same woman as
his son Jean, who returns home after
being wounded in World War I.
Resident Advisors
COMEDY 2015 Comedy (M dls)
April 3, 10, 18, 24, 28, 30
Andrew Bachelor, Jamie Chung.
A workplace comedy set in the most
hormonally-overloaded workplace in
the world: a college dorm.
Resident Evil
ACTION 2002 Sci‐Fi/Fantasy
(MA 15+ av)
April 3, 15, 24, 26
Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez.
After a virus outbreak kills everyone in
a secret underground research facility
they become zombie-like undead.
Commandos race to contain the virus
before it wipes out humanity.
Resident Evil:
Apocalypse
ACTION 2004 Sci‐Fi/Fantasy (M lv)
April 4, 15, 24, 26
Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory.
Alice returns to take out a bioengineered
killing machine, filling
Raccoon City with the undead.
Resident Evil:
Extinction
ACTION 2007 Sci‐Fi/Fantasy (MA 15+ v)
April 5, 15, 25, 27
Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr.
A band of survivors in the Nevada
desert must eliminate the T-virus
that threatens to make every human
undead.
Resident Evil: Afterlife
ACTION 2010 Horror (MA 15+ v)
April 6, 15, 25, 27
Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter.
Alice continues on her journey to find
survivors and lead them to safety.
Resident Evil:
Retribution
ACTION 2012 Sci‐Fi/Fantasy (MA 15+ v)
April 7, 15, 26, 28
Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory.
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly
T-virus continues to ravage the Earth,
and Alice must fight to survive long
enough to escape a hostile world on
the brink of oblivion.
Resident Evil:
Degeneration
ACTION 2008 Horror (MA 15+ hv)
April 7, 27
Paul Mercier, Alyson Court.
The Umbrella Incident in Raccoon
City ended with the eradication of
the deadly virus. Seven years later, at
an airport, one zombie is unleashed
to attack everyone, it seems the
horrific disaster could be about to
repeat itself.
Resident Evil:
Damnation
ACTION 2012 Horror (MA 15+ v)
April 7, 27
Matthew Mercer, Dave Wittenberg.
US Special Agent Leon S. Kennedy
sneaks into a foreign country to verify
rumours that Bio Organic Weapons
are being used in war. Determined
to uncover the truth, Leon enters the
battlefield.
The Return Of Jafar
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 1994 Family
April 10, 11, 15, 20, 26
Scott Weinger, Dan Castellaneta.
Jafar has been freed from his black
lamp by Abis Mal and returns to
Agrabah, wanting revenge. Aladdin,
Jasmine and the Genie must work
together to save the kingdom.
Return To Never Land
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2002 Family
April 6, 11, 17, 22, 27
Harriet Owen, Blayne Weaver.
Wendy’s daughter Jane is kidnapped
by Captain Hook and the ageless
Peter Pan must come to her rescue.
The Revenant
MASTERPIECE 2016 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ asv)
April 2, 10, 20, 24, 29
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy.
Driven by the sheer will to survive,
an explorer undertakes a 200-mile
odyssey through the vast and
untamed West, on the trail of the man
who betrayed him.
Revolver
ACTION 2005 Thriller Mystery
(MA 15+ lv)
April 9, 15, 19
Jason Statham, Ray Liotta.
A crime boss puts a contract on a
grifter who has taken him down. The
target then finds himself protected by
two vicious loan sharks who make him
an offer he can’t refuse.
The Rewrite
ROMANCE 2014 Romance (M al)
April 5
Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei.
A washed-up Hollywood screenwriter
reluctantly takes a college teaching
job, where he meets a single mother
who could hold the secret to rewriting
his story.
Ride Along 2
PREMIERE 2016 Comedy (M lv)
April 4, 16, 21, 27
Ice Cube, Kevin Hart.
Ben and his future brother-in-law are
sent on a mission to solve a major
crime just days before his wedding.
Riding In Cars With Boys
ROMANCE 2001 Drama (M a)
April 10, 17, 22, 24, 28
Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn.
The touching and unbelievably true
story of writer Beverly Donofrio and
her often irreverent and always unique
personal journey.
H Rio, I Love You
WORLD MOVIES 2014 Brazil, USA
Drama (M alns)
April 19, 20
Dir. Vicente Amorim & Guillermo
Arriaga & César Charlone & Stephan
Elliott & Sang-soo Im & Nadine
Labaki & Fernando Meirelles & José
Padilha & Carlos Saldanha & Paolo
Sorrentino & John Turturro & Andrucha
Waddington, Emily Mortimer, Vincent
Cassel.
A series of short films set in the
Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
Ripley’s Game
THRILLER 2002 Mystery/Crime
(MA 15+ v)
April 14, 30
John Malkovich, Dougray Scott.
Mr Ripley returns to emerge from
retirement to preside over one last
deadly game, and persuade an
innocent man to commit murder.
Rise Of The Planet Of
The Apes
ACTION 2011 Action/Adventure (M v)
April 3, 8, 12, 23
James Franco, Andy Serkis.
A single act of both compassion and
arrogance leads to a war unlike any
other, told through the eyes of a
super-intelligent chimpanzee who can
strategise, organise and ultimately
lead a revolution.
A River Runs Through It
FOX CLASSICS 1992 Drama (M l)
April 9, 10
Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn.
The story about two sons of a stern
minister– one reserved, one rebellious
– growing up in rural Montana while
devoted to fly fishing.
Road Trip
COMEDY 2000 Comedy (MA 15+ s)
April 8, 17, 28
Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott.
When a racy video of Josh and Beth is
accidentally mailed to his girlfriend, he
has three days to get to Texas before
the tape does.
The Roaring Twenties
FOX CLASSICS 1939 Mystery/
Crime (PG)
April 21
James Cagney, Priscilla Lane.
Three men attempt to make a living
in Prohibition-era America after
returning home from fighting together
in World War I.
Robin And Marian
FOX CLASSICS 1976 Action/Adventure
(PG)
April 21, 22
Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn.
Robin Hood returns from the Crusades
to woo Maid Marian one last time.
Robin Hood
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 1973 Family
April 3, 8, 14, 18, 23, 29
Brian Bedford, Peter Ustinov.
Heroic Robin Hood – along with his
trusted companion Little John and
his devoted band of merry men –
conjures up one famously funny and
daring deed after another to outfox
greedy Prince John.
Rock Star
COMEDY 2001 Comedy (M ls)
April 4, 7, 13, 20, 26
Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston.
A photocopier repairman moonlights
as the lead singer of a heavy-metal
tribute band.
Rocky
ACTION 1976 Action/Adventure (M l)
April 14, 25
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.
Rocky is a Philadelphia club fighter
who seems to be going nowhere.
When a stroke of fate puts him in
the ring with a world heavyweight
champion, he knows that it’s his one
shot at the big time.
Rocky II
ACTION 1979 Action/Adventure (PG)
April 2, 15, 25
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.
Trying to make a new life for himself,
Rocky realises that he can’t escape his
true calling. The Italian stallion must
prepare for the fight of his life when
Apollo Creed offers him a rematch.
Rocky III
ACTION 1982 Action/Adventure (PG)
April 3, 25
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.
When Rocky loses in a humiliating
defeat, it becomes apparent that
the Italian stallion has lost his edge.
Considering hanging up his gloves,
Rocky receives encouragement from
an unlikely ally.
Rocky IV
ACTION 1985 Action/Adventure (PG)
April 4, 25
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.
Balboa takes on Soviet killing machine
Drago in a globally-televised Moscow
bout. Training in Siberia, Rocky knows
he must fight not only for himself, but
for his country.
Rocky V
ACTION 1990 Action/Adventure (M v)
April 5, 25
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.
Retired and bankrupted, Rocky puts
his faith in a promising young fighter
named Tommy. But when Tommy
deserts him for a flashy promoter,
Rocky’s rage inspires him to lace up
the gloves.
Rocky Balboa
ACTION 2006 Action/Adventure (M v)
April 6, 25
Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver.
Former heavyweight champion Rocky
Balboa, steps out of retirement and
back into the ring, pitting himself
against a new rival.
Roman Holiday
FOX CLASSICS 1953 Comedy
April 17, 18
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn.
A beautiful princess travelling
incognito in Rome meets a hard-bitten
newsman who plans to get a story out
of her, but falls in love instead.
Romy And Michele’s
High School Reunion
ROMANCE 1997 Comedy (M sl)
April 14, 15, 22, 28, 30
Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow.
Romy and Michele are carefree party
girls who reinvent themselves for
their 10-year high school reunion,
making a big impression until a former
classmate blabs their real story to
everyone.
Ronin
THRILLER 1998 Action/Adventure
(M lv)
April 2, 11, 18, 23
Robert De Niro, Jean Reno.
When an international team of former
Cold War intelligence adversaries
meets in a warehouse, an adventure
of friendship, intrigue and betrayal
begins.
Room
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (M al)
April 16
Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay.
A boy and his mother escape from the
room they’ve been trapped in for his
entire life. It’s only then that he makes
a thrilling discovery: the outside world.
Rose Marie
FOX CLASSICS 1936 Musical/Dance
April 22
Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald.
An opera singer goes undercover
in the Canadian wilderness to help
her criminal brother and ends up
falling in love with the Mountie who
captures him.
Rosemary’s Baby
FOX CLASSICS 1968 Drama (M ahl)
April 27, 28
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes.
A young couple move into an
apartment, only to be surrounded by
peculiar neighbours and occurrences
H Rosita
WORLD MOVIES 2015 Denmark
Romance.
April 5, 6
Dir. Frederikke Aspock, Mikkel Boe
Folsgaard, Mercedes Cabral.
Johannes lives together with his
middle-age,d widower father in a
small fishing town. They live a quiet
routine life, each minding their
separate jobs in the fishing industry.
Ulrik misses the tenderness of a
woman and arranges for a Filipino
woman to come to Denmark
Rumour Has It
ROMANCE 2005 Comedy (M as)
April 6, 14, 19, 25
Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner.
A woman nervous about her upcoming
wedding discovers a dynamite family
secret that goes to the heart of her
trepidation.
Runaway Train
FOX CLASSICS 1985 Action/Adventure
(M lv)
April 7, 8
Jon Voight, Eric Roberts.
Two escaped convicts hop on a train
speeding through the icy Alaskan
wilderness toward an uncertain fate.
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Sabrina
ROMANCE 1995 Romance
April 6, 13, 19, 24
Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond.
The daughter of a wealthy family’s
chauffeur falls in love with one of
their sons.
Saint
WORLD MOVIES 2010 Netherlands
Horror (MA 15+ h)
April 24
Dir. Dick Maas, Huub Stapel, Caro
Lenssen.
Every 36 years, Saint Niklas rises from
the dead at Christmas time and takes
revenge for his murder. Frank is the
only survivor of the latest massacre,
but no one believes his warnings
of horror.
Salon Kitty
WORLD MOVIES 1976 Italy, West
Germany, France
Drama (R 18+ ans)
April 19, 20
Dir. Tinto Brass, Helmut Berger,
Ingrid Thulin.
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany
where soldiers come to relax.
Recording devices have been installed
in each room by a power-hungry
army official, who plans to use the
information to blackmail Hitler and
gain power himself.
The Salvation
WORLD MOVIES 2014 Denmark, UK,
South Africa, Sweden, Belgium
Drama (M av)
April 12, 13
Dir. Kristian Levring, Mads Mikkelsen,
Eva Green.
A peaceful American settler kills his
family’s murderer, which unleashes
the fury of a notorious gang leader.
His cowardly fellow townspeople then
betray him, forcing him to hunt down
the outlaws alone.
The Sandlot
FAMILY 1993 Family (PG)
April 5, 10, 14, 20
Thomas Guiry, Denis Leary.
The new kid on the block joins the
neighbourhood baseball team, but the
real challenge comes when he hits his
dad’s autographed ball into the jaws
of a legendary guard dog.
Sands Of Iwo Jima
FOX CLASSICS 1949 War/‌Western (PG)
April 2
John Wayne, John Agar.
During World War II, a Marine Sergeant
trains young recruits for service in
the Pacific, culminating in the famous
battle at Iwo Jima.
Santa Buddies
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2009 Family
April 5, 26
Zachary Gordon, Skyler Gisondo.
When Puppy Paws, the fun-loving
son of Santa Paws, gets tired of the
North Pole, he finds Budderball on
Santa’s naughty list and figures he’s
just the dog to show him how to be an
ordinary pup.
Santa’s Little Helper
FAMILY 2015 Family (PG)
April 3
Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin, AnnaLynne
McCord.
After being fired from his job, a fasttalking
businessman is thrown into
an elf competition. He and another
aspiring elf go head-to-head in the
hopes of becoming Santa’s Little
Helper.
H Sausage Party
PREMIERE 2016 Comedy (MA 15+ dls)
April 23, 24
Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig.
After falling out of a shopping trolley,
a sausage and his friends embark
on a perilous journey through the
supermarket to discover the truth
about their existence.
Saving Private Ryan
MASTERPIECE 1998 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ v)
April 7, 12, 18, 25
Tom Hanks, Matt Damon.
Following the Normandy landings, a
group of US soldiers go behind enemy
lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose
brothers have been killed in action.
Saw
THRILLER 2004 Horror (MA 15+ v)
April 6
Danny Glover, Cary Elwes.
Obsessed with teaching his victims
the value of life, a deranged, sadistic
serial killer abducts the morally
wayward. Once captured, they must
face impossible choices in a horrific
game of survival.