Friday - 20 January 2006
Hope and Faith III - MNET Open Time 18:30
This is what happens when life in the fast lane collides with life in the carpool...
At the end of Season II Faith had not one, but two marriage proposals. And both from very eligible men - Larry, a handsome newscaster and "The Gooch", a former baseball star. Season III opens with Faith still deciding what to do.
Friends - ETV 19:30
Chandler and Monica plan a trip to Atlantic City for some private time. When Joey discovers that they are dating, they swear him to secrecy. Ross has to tell Rachel that they can't be friends anymore.
Movie: Mercury Rising - ETV 20:00
FBI agent, Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), wrongfully disgraced after taking the fall for a botched undercover operation, defends a ten-year-old autistic boy from a national security agent (Alec Baldwin), who orders the boy assasinated after he innocently cracks the purportedly unbreakable "Mercury" code.
Movie: Kill Bill 2 - MNET 20:00
Continuing the story-line which unfolded in "Kill Bill " this is the revenge tale of an expert assassin called "The Bride", who sets out on a quest to wreak vengeanc upon her former employer, Bill and other members of their assassin circle, for shooting her on the day of her wedding and leaving her for dead. When this chapter in the story begins, The Bride will already have encountered some of her targets, having battled her way up the chain of command. So after dispensing with former colleagies, O-Ren, Ishii and Venita, she resumes her quest for justice. With those two down the Bride has two remaining foes on her death-list, Budd and Elle Driver, before moving to her ultimate goal: to kill Bill.
Movie: Reservoir Dogs - MNET 23:45
Like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases. (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities. But something has gone wrong and the plan has blown up in their faces. One-by-one the surviving robbers find their way back to the pre-arranged warehouse hide-out. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco and to identify the traitor amongst them.
Saturday - 21 January 2006
Without a trace III - MNET 19:00
The FBI's missing person's squad is back on the hunt of those who appear to have simply disappeared from their lives - either by choice or not. To find somone who's missing, you need to know where they've been. The elite search squad locate their missing persons by first peeling back the layers of the lives they've left behind. In Season 3, Jack battles to say good-bye to his family and must face the consequences of his affair - on himself and his team. Two of the team members also become romantically involved.
Movie: Terminator III - MNET 20:00
A decade has passed since John Connor (Nick Stahl) helped prevent Judgement Day - the day Skynet's highly developed network of machines were fated to become self-aware and destroy mankind. But the day came and went without incident, despite Skynet's ateempts to kill Connor. Now 22, Connor lives off "the grid" - no home, no credit cards, no job. But then out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X (Kristanna Loken) - Skyborg's most spohisticated killing cyborg yet. Sent back through time to complete the job left unfinished by her predecessor, T-1000. This machine is as relentless as her human guise is beautiful. But this time Connor isn't the only name on the hit list. Unsuspecting veterinarian Kate Brewster (Claire Danes) is also there. Together Connor and Brewster must triumph over the technologically superior T-X and forestall the looming Judgement Day.
Movie: Frequency - ETV 21:40
John Sullivan is a New York police detective who has never recovered from the death of his father, Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid), a firefighter who died when John was a boy. Experimenting with his dad's ham radio one summer night, extreme sunspot behaviour allows John to contact his dather 30 years in the past. Since he's able to warn Frank about the danger, his father's death never occurs. Then the unthinkable happens: John's altered future is one in which his mother is killed by a serial killer. Now John in the present and Frank in the past must try and solve the riddle of the killer's identity and change the time line again.
Sunday - 22 January 2006
Movie: Anaconda - ETV 20:00
A documentary film crew led by anthropologist (Eric Stoltz) and director Teri Florez (Jennifer Lopez) enters the mystery world of the Amazon in search of the legendary Shirishama Indians. Cameraman Danny (Ice Cube) smells trouble when the crew pick up a suspiscious passenger, Paul Sarone (Jon Voight), a charismatic loner and "river man", whose professed knowledge of the Shirishama entices the crew. But Sarone has motives for driving the crew deeper and deeper into the jungle. He is on his own dark quest to track down a lethal 40-foot anaconda, a predator so vicious that 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 right into the jaws of the ultimate evil and they must use every primal resource to stay alive.