A-Z Movies

April 2017
A-Z Movies
a trail of clues to try and save the
brilliant City of Ember, which has
flourished in secret for 200 years.
City Slickers
COMEDY 1991 Comedy (PG)
April 6
Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern.
Three New York friends trade their
briefcases for saddle bags and set
out to find freedom and adventure
herding cattle. Instead, they discover
scorching sun and sore backsides.
Clambake
FOX CLASSICS 1967 Musical/Dance
April 12
Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares.
The heir to an oil fortune trades places
with a water-ski instructor at a Florida
hotel to see if girls will like him for
himself, rather than his father’s money.
H The Clan
WORLD MOVIES 2015 Argentina
Thriller (MA 15+ sv)
April 7, 8
Dir. Pablo Trapero, Guillermo
Francella, Peter Lanzani.
Chronicles the true story of the Puccio
Clan, a family who kidnapped and
killed people in the ’80s.
Cloverfield
ACTION 2008 Action/Adventure (M v)
April 2, 11, 17, 30
Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas.
Rob and his friends are at his farewell
party when they are jolted by a fireball
on the horizon and find their world
overrun by a terrifying, otherworldly
monster.
Coal Miner’s Daughter
FOX CLASSICS 1980 Drama (PG)
April 9, 10
Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones.
Depicts the world Loretta Lynn grew
up in, which she both immortalised
and lost when she became famous as
a country music star.
Cold Creek Manor
THRILLER 2003 Thriller/Suspense
(M lv)
April 20, 21, 30
Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone.
When the Tilsons move into a country
house with a murky past the previous
owner, a bitter psychopath, shows
up and their home becomes a house
of horrors.
Cold Mountain
ROMANCE 2003 Drama (MA 15+ sv)
April 2, 5, 11, 17, 22, 27
Jude Law, Nicole Kidman.
A wounded Confederate soldier
struggles to return home to the
woman he loves after the Civil War.
The woman, pining for her soldier
lover, is helped by a pragmatic girl. But
the war takes its toll on all.
The Colditz Story
FOX CLASSICS 1955 Drama (PG)
April 30
Lionel Jeffries, John Mills.
Allied prisoners of various nationalities
pool their resources to plan numerous
escapes from an ‘escape-proof’
German POW camp in a Medieval
castle.
The Colour Of Money
MASTERPIECE 1986 Drama (M lnsv)
April 12, 24, 28
Paul Newman, Tom Cruise.
Fast Eddie Felson forms a profitable,
yet volatile partnership with Vince,
a young pool hustler with a toughtalking
girlfriend.
Commando
ACTION 1985 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ v)
April 2, 28
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn
Chong.
Retired special forces colonel John
Matrix races to rescue his kidnapped
daughter from an exiled dictator who
threatens to kill her unless Matrix
assassinates a political rival.
The Commitments
MASTERPIECE 1991 Comedy (M lv)
April 5, 12
Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne.
Jimmy Rabbitte gets a brilliant idea:
put a soul band together in Barrytown,
his slum home in north Dublin.
The Concierge
COMEDY 1993 Comedy (PG)
April 11
Michael J Fox, Gabrielle Anwar.
A concierge dreams of opening his
own luxury hotel and winning the girl
he loves, but his love of money may
ruin his plans.
H = PREMIERE
Confessions Of A
Teenage Drama Queen
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2004
Family (PG)
April 4, 10, 14, 20, 29
Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia.
A teenage girl is convinced that city
life revolves around her until her family
moves out to the suburbs, where she
finds herself competing for attention.
The Conjuring
THRILLER 2013 Horror (MA 15+ hv)
April 21
Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga.
This is the true story of Ed and Lorraine
Warren, world renowned paranormal
investigators, who were called to help
a family terrorised by a dark presence
in a secluded farmhouse.
H The Conjuring 2
PREMIERE 2016 Horror (MA 15+ av)
April 7, 8, 29
THRILLER 2016 Horror (MA 15+ av)
April 21
Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga.
Supernatural demonologists must
travel to London to help a single
mother and her four children when
their house is plagued by malicious
spirits.
Contempt
WORLD MOVIES 1963 France
Drama (PG)
April 2, 19, 20, 20, 29, 30
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Piccoli,
Brigitte Bardot.
Godard’s ultra-cynical look at the
movie making industry.
Cop Land
ACTION 1997 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ lv)
April 4, 11, 20
Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro.
A small-town sheriff gets to mix it up
with the big boys in a murder case
implicating crooked cops.
Coraline
FAMILY 2009 Family (PG)
April 8, 14
Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher.
A young girl finds a secret door in
her new house. But her new parents
on the other side try to keep her, so
she must find courage if she wants
to return.
Tim Burton’s Corpse
Bride
FAMILY 2005 Family (PG)
April 14
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter.
A nervous groom accidentally marries
a long-dead bride in a twisted tale of
nuptials gone horribly wrong.
Cosmopolis
THRILLER 2012 Drama (MA 15+ vs)
April 4, 12, 27
Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche.
In New York City, in the not-toodistant-future,
Eric Packer, the
uncontested king of Wall Street, must
piece together clues that lead him to
a most terrifying secret, as his empire
disintegrates.
The Count Of Monte
Cristo
ACTION 2002 Action/Adventure (M v)
April 6, 20, 24
James Caviezel, Guy Pearce.
After his best friend has him jailed
so he can steal his woman, a sailor
escapes and plots revenge by posing
as a nobleman.
The Country Bears
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2002 Family
April 3, 9
Haley Joel Osment, Candy Ford.
Young Beary Barrington convinces
legendary rock group The Country
Bears to reform to save their first
performance venue from a vengeful
banker.
Courted
WORLD MOVIES 2015 France
Comedy Drama (PG)
April 13, 14
Dir. Christian Vincent, Fabrice Luchini,
Sidse Babett Knudsen.
A feared judge encounters a French-
Danish juror at a murder trial and their
shared past is slowly uncovered.
Crash
MASTERPIECE 2004 Drama (MA 15+ al)
April 7, 17, 29
Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle.
Tracks the volatile intersection of
multi-ethnic characters struggling to
overcome their fears as they careen in
and out of one another’s lives over the
course of 36 hours.
Crazy Heart
MASTERPIECE 2009 Drama (M l)
April 3, 13, 26
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal.
A boozy, broken-down singer searhes
for salvation with the help of a
journalist who discovers the real man
behind the music.
Creature From The
Black Lagoon
FOX CLASSICS 1954 Action/Adventure
(PG)
April 12, 13
Richard Carlson, Julie Adams.
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the
depths of the Amazonian jungle, and
a group of scientists try to capture the
animal and bring it back to civilization
for study.
Creed
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (M alv)
April 6, 11, 17, 30
Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone.
Adonis Johnson, the son of boxing
champion Apollo Creed, seeks out the
mentorship of Rocky Balboa to train
him to be the boxer that his father
once was, and lead him to glory.
Crime Of The Century
THRILLER 1996 Drama (M av)
April 11, 18
Stephen Rea, Isabella Rossellini.
In 1932, aviation hero Charles
Lindbergh’s son was kidnapped
and murdered. The police arrested
German immigrant Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, who was tried and
convicted on circumstantial evidence.
Criminal
PREMIERE 2016 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ lv)
April 7, 8, 17, 24, 28
Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds.
In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical
plot, a dead CIA agent’s memories
are implanted into an unpredictable
death-row inmate in the hopes that he
will complete the mission.
The Crow’s Egg
WORLD MOVIES 2014 India
Comedy Drama Comedy (PG alv)
April 10, 11
Dir. M Manikandan, Ramesh,
J Vignesh.
Two kids from the slums of India go
to extreme lengths to taste a slice
of pizza.
The Cruel Sea
FOX CLASSICS 1953 War/‌Western (PG)
April 4, 5
Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden.
Follows the World War II adventures
of a British convoy escort ship and
its officers.
H Crumbs
WORLD MOVIES 2015 Spain, Ethiopia,
Finland
Adventure
April 3, 4
Dir. Miguel Llanso, Daniel Tadesse,
Tsegaye Abegaz.
A figurine sized super hero embarks
on an epic surreal journey that will
take him across the Ethiopian post
apocalyptic landscape in search of a
way to get on the hovering spacecraft
that for years has become a landmark
in the skies.
The Crying Game
MASTERPIECE 1992 Mystery/Crime
(MA 15+ alsv)
April 2, 10, 27
Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker.
A reluctant IRA agent discovers that
some people just aren’t who you
expect them to be.
Curious George 3:
Back To The Jungle
FAMILY 2015 Family
April 9
Angela Bassett, John Goodman.
A monkey joins a space mission, only
to crash-land in Africa after monkeying
around. Great fun unfolds as George
makes new friends in another jungle
adventure.
Cut Snake
MASTERPIECE 2014 Thriller/Suspense
(MA 15+ sv)
April 4, 11, 24
Alex Russell, Sullivan Stapleton.
Trying to make an honest life for
himself in a new city, Sparra is tracked
down by a man from his past and is
drawn back into the world that he
thought he had left behind.
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D-Day The Sixth June
FOX CLASSICS 1956 Drama (PG)
April 30
Robert Taylor, Richard Todd.
En route to Normandy, an American
and a British officer reminisce in
flashback about their romances with
the same woman.
Dad’s Army
PREMIERE 2016 Comedy (PG)
April 4, 7, 12, 19, 25
Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
As World War II nears its end, the
part-time soldiers of the Walmingtonon-Sea
Home Guard platoon receive a
visit from a mysterious journalist.
Daddy’s Home
COMEDY 2015 Comedy (PG)
April 16, 17, 22, 25, 30
Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg.
After trying hard to get his
stepchildren to love him and call him
Dad, Brad’s plans turn upside down
when their biological father reenters
her life.
Dangerous Company
PREMIERE 2015 Thriller/Suspense
(M adsv)
April 5, 12, 17, 20, 21
Alicia Leigh Willis, Rick Ravanello.
When a businesswoman starts
losing track of time and is unable to
recognise her husband, she fears she
has inherited Alzheimer’s disease.
The Danish Girl
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (M ansv)
April 9
Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander.
When Gerda, a Danish artist, asks her
husband Einar to fill in as a portrait
model, he discovers the person he’s
meant to be and begins living life as
Lili Elbe, a transgender pioneer.
Dark Places
THRILLER 2015 Thriller/Suspense
(MA 15+ al)
April 3, 8, 20, 26
Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult.
A woman faces traumatic childhood
memories of the murder of her mother
and two sisters when she investigates
the possibility that her brother is
innocent of the crime.
Darling Companion
ROMANCE 2012 Drama Comedy (PG)
April 8, 9, 15, 21, 27
Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline.
A married couple’s love and
commitment is rekindled during a
search for their beloved dog.
A Date With Judy
FOX CLASSICS 1948 Musical/Dance
April 17, 18
Wallace Beery, Jane Powell.
Hyperactive teenager Judy both
challenges, and is challenged by,
her overly proper parents, pest of
a brother Randolph, and boyfriend
Oogie.
Daughter Of God
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (MA 15+ asv)
April 5, 9, 15, 23, 26
Keanu Reeves, Ana De Armas.
While investigating the death of
his partner, a detective uncovers
disturbing police corruption and
a dangerous secret involving a
mysterious young woman.
The Daughter
MASTERPIECE 2015 Drama (M als)
April 3, 9, 21
Geoffrey Rush, Odessa Young.
A man returns to his home town to
right the wrongs of the past, but his
actions threaten to shatter the lives of
those he left behind.
Day And Night
WORLD MOVIES 2010 Austria
Drama (R 18+ sv)
April 21, 22
Dir. Sabine Derflinger, Anna Rot,
Magdalena Kronschläger.
Lea and Hanna are studying in Vienna,
and need to earn extra cash. They
could get waitressing jobs, but call
girls make more money. They assume
prostitution is an adventure, but reality
quickly catches up with them.
Deadpool
ACTION 2016 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ sv)
April 10, 20, 29
Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin.
A former Special Forces operativeturned-mercenary
is subjected to a
rogue experiment that leaves him with
accelerated healing powers.
H Death Of A Corrupt
Man
WORLD MOVIES 1977 France
Drama (MA 15+)
April 30
Dir. Georges Lautner, Alain Delon,
Ornella Muti.
In the middle of the night, a police
deputy wakes an old friend to confess
he has killed a racketeer who was
blackmailing him.
Death To Smoochy
COMEDY 2002 Comedy (M alsv)
April 3, 6, 12, 16, 23
Robin Williams, Edward Norton.
Randolph Smiley, a children’s show
host, is fired from his job and replaced
with the successful Smoochy. Smiley
wants his life back and Smoochy dead.
Decadencia
WORLD MOVIES 2015 Mexico
Drama (MA 15+ nsv)
April 4, 5, 5, 17, 18, 18, 27, 28
Dir. Joaquin Rodriguez, Alejandro
Estrada, Nataly Umana.
Wealthy entrepreneur Oskar begins
a torrid romance with a naïve young
woman.
Deck The Halls
FAMILY 2006 Family (PG)
April 2, 18
Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick.
Two neighbours come to blows over
Christmas trees and home decoration
– in the true spirit of the holidays.
Deep Impact
ACTION 1998 Action/Adventure (M al)
April 6, 14, 22, 26, 30
Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall.
Leo Beiderman did not expect to make
an earth-shattering discovery when he
joined his high school astronomy club.
Yet a photograph he took makes him
co-discoverer of a comet that is on a
fatal collision course with the Earth.
H Demolition
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (M adls)
April 29, 30
Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts.
An investment banker struggles after
losing his wife in a car crash. With
the help of two strangers he starts to
rebuild, beginning with the demolition
of the life he once knew.
Demon
WORLD MOVIES 2015 Poland, Israel
Thriller (MA 15+ s)
April 4, 5, 5, 23
Dir. Marcin Wrona, Itay Tiran,
Agnieszka Zulewska.
A bridegroom is possessed by an
unquiet spirit in the midst of his own
wedding celebration.
Demonic
THRILLER 2015 Horror (MA 15+ av)
April 22
Maria Bello, Frank Grillo.
After five people mysteriously die
while trying to conjure up spirits,
a police officer and psychologist
join forces to uncover the truth
surrounding the deaths.
The Descendants
MASTERPIECE 2011 Comedy (M al)
April 4, 16, 27
George Clooney, Shailene Woodley.
An indifferent husband and father
of two girls, is forced to re-examine
his life when his wife is involved in a
boating accident.
The Descent
THRILLER 2005 Horror (MA 15+ vh)
April 5, 22
Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson
Mendoza.
After a caving trip goes horribly wrong,
a group of women become trapped
underground. Stalked by bloodthirsty
beasts and turning against each
other, they must become as savage as
the creatures hunting them in order
to survive.
The Descent: Part 2
THRILLER 2009 Horror (MA 15+ hv)
April 22
Shauna Macdonald, Jessika Williams.
A dazed and bloodied woman
emerges alone from the Appalachian
cave system, and must return to help
find her missing friends and face the
terror lurking there.
The Devil’s Double
THRILLER 2011 Drama (MA 15+ adlsv)
April 4, 9
Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier.
A chilling vision of the house of
Saddam Hussein comes to life through
the eyes of the man who was forced
to become the double of Hussein’s
sadistic son.
Devil’s Knot
THRILLER 2013 Drama (M al)
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April 6, 14, 21
Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth.
The savage murders of three children
spark a heated trial of three teens
accused of killing the kids as part of a
satanic ritual.
Diary Of A Wimpy
Kid: Dog Days
FAMILY 2012 Family (PG)
April 2, 8, 13, 19, 27
Zachary Gordon, Steve Zahn.
During his summer vacation, wimpy
kid Greg Heffley hatches a plan to
pretend he has a job at a ritzy country
club, but it fails to keep him away from
the season’s dog days.
Die Hard
ACTION 1988 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 9, 18
Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia.
High above the city of LA, a team
of terrorists has seized a building,
taken hostages, and declared war.
But one man has managed to escape
detection – an off duty cop armed with
only a service revolver.
Die Hard 2
ACTION 1990 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 9, 19
Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia.
McClane returns as the heroic cop
who battles not only terrorists, but
also an incompetent airport Police
Chief, the tough commander of the
army’s anti-terrorist squad and a
deadly winter snowstorm.
Die Hard 4.0
ACTION 2007 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 9, 21
Bruce Willis, Justin Long.
NYC detective John McClane
delivers old school justice to a new
breed of techno-terrorists when a
massive computer attack on the US
infrastructure threatens to shut down
the entire country.
Die Hard: With A
Vengeance
ACTION 1995 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 9, 20
Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson.
Beleaguered NYC Detective John
McClane faces his worst day yet when
a new foe wreaks havoc in downtown
Manhattan, then threatens more
devastation if his demands aren’t met!
Dino Time
FAMILY 2012 Family
April 6, 21
Rob Schneider, Jane Lynch.
Three kids accidentally activate a
time machine and find themselves
transported back in time where they
meet a T-Rex named Tyra and her
rambunctious son Dodger.
Dirty Grandpa
PREMIERE 2016 Comedy (MA 15+ dlns)
April 9, 14, 19, 23, 27
Robert De Niro, Zac Efron.
A straight-laced grandson is tricked
into driving his foul-mouthed
grandfather to Daytona for spring
break.
Dirty Sanchez: The
Movie
COMEDY 2006 Comedy (MA 15+ alns)
April 3, 13, 15, 21, 27
Matthew Pritchard, Mike Locke.
At the behest of the devil, the
infamous pranksters of the Dirty
Sanchez troupe act out the seven
deadly sins around the world. This
scatological spectacle will leave you
speechless.
A Dog Year
MASTERPIECE 2009 Comedy
April 12, 13, 22, 28
Jeff Bridges, Lauren Ambrose.
After a blocked writer adopts a
dog crazier than he is, he hires a
no-nonsense trainer who endeavours
to teach life lessons to both dog
and man.
Don King: Only In
America
MASTERPIECE 1997 Drama (MA 15+ l)
April 13, 14, 26
Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall.
Based on Jack Newfield’s biography,
John Herzfeld directs Ving Rhames
as the legendary, flamboyant boxing
promoter Don King, which garnered
Rhames a Golden Globe for his
outstanding performance.
Donnie Darko:
The Director’s Cut
MASTERPIECE 2001 Thriller/Suspense
(M alsv)
April 3, 11