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Albert's Memorial

September 12th, 2010

Sunday, 12 September 2010, 9:00PM - 10:30PM on ITV1

Written by Thomas Ellice (A Touch of Frost, Inspector Morse) with Sir David as co-Executive Producer, Albert’s Memorial follows the story of three World War Two veterans, Harry (Sir David Jason) and his friends Frank (David Warner) and Albert (Michael Jayston).

The story begins as Harry (David Jason) and Frank (David Warner) prepare to visit Albert at his hospital bedside amid IV drips, fruit and ‘Get Well Soon’ cards. He maybe dying, but Albert (Michael Jayston) is still smiling and happy to see his old comrades whose life-long friendship was forged in the heat of battle. Albert reflects on his life as he comes to terms with the fact he hasn’t long to live.

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World Trade Center

September 10th, 2010

9:00pm Friday, September 10 on F4

Oliver Stone's dramatic take on the events of 9/11, based on a true story, features two New York Port Authority cops, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno (Nicolas Cage and Michael Pe�a). Two of the first to enter the World Trade Center, they are trapped in the rubble when it collapses. Refusing to give up hope, they fight for survival while, in the outside world, their wives Donna and Allison (Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal) wait for any news of their plight.

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Dead Man's Shoes

September 9th, 2010

11:00pm Thursday, September 9 on F4

Shane Meadows' thriller is set in a small, bleak Derbyshire town. After seven years in the army, Richard (Paddy Considine) returns to find out what happened to his beloved brother Anthony (Toby Kebbell), who latched on to the local drugs cartel and became the butt of their cruelty. As Richard begins to take revenge against the gang, led by Sonny (Gary Stretch, an ex-boxer turned surprisingly good actor), the story of Anthony's life and fate unfolds through flashback and revelations.

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Once Upon A Time In The Midlands

September 8th, 2010

9:00pm Wednesday, September 8 on F4

Shane Meadows' western set in, erm, Nottingham stars Robert Carlyle as an ex-con back in town to look up old girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson). But Dek (Rhys Ifans), who's also set his sights on her, won't give up without a fight (even if he's got the physical courage of a rabbit...). With Kathy Burke and Ricky Tomlinson.

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The Italian Job

September 7th, 2010

9:00pm Tuesday, September 7 on F4

Mark Wahlberg stars in this affectionate re-make of the British classic as Charlie Croker, who, after taking over from John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) as the leader of a gang of thieves, celebrates his new status with a multi-million-dollar job in Venice. But gang member Steve Frezelli (Edward Norton) double-crosses his friends, kills Bridger and leaves the rest for dead. The gang survive and Croker spends a year tracking the traitor, using the safecracking skills of Bridger's daughter Stella (Charlize Theron) to rob Steve and avenge her father's death. F Gary Gray's all-action movie does, of course, include the famous Minis sequence, with several of the cast doing their own driving.

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Failure To Launch

September 6th, 2010

9:00pm Monday, September 6 on F4

Tom Dey's romcom stars Matthew McConaughey as Trip, a 35-year-old professional layabout happy to stay at home where he's waited on hand and foot by his mum Sue (Kathy Bates). But she and her husband Al (Terry Bradshaw) have had enough and decide that to get him to leave, they have to use subtle methods. So they hire Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) to use her feminine wiles to lever him out of the family home. There's just two problems: Trip is just too stuck in his ways and Paula breaches her first rule of operation and falls in love with him.

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X-men

September 5th, 2010

9:00pm Sunday, September 5 on F4

Bryan Singer's fantasy film is set on a parallel Earth where humans reluctantly live alongside mutants, those with genetic "defects" that give them superhuman powers. The mutants are gathered into two camps. Those at Professor Charles Xavier's (Patrick Stewart) school are taught to curb their powers and use them for good, while his opposite number, Magneto (Ian McKellen), believes that humans want to destroy mutants and is assembling a force to win the day by making the world's leaders into mutants. The film concentrates on Wolverine and Rogue (Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin), who side with Xavier as the two sides launch into their climactic battle.

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Transformers

September 5th, 2010

6:20pm Sunday, September 5 on C4

Network Premiere of Michael Bay's all-action adventure, based on the popular toy. Earth becomes the battleground between the good Transformers (Autobots) and the bad (Decepticons) who are searching for the all-powerful Allspark which could destroy humanity. Caught up in the middle is Sam Witwicky, whose beaten-up old car reveals itself to be an Autobot called Bumblebee. The duo hold the key to the battle which rages between the Decepticons and the government forces, led by Sgt Lennox, but can they stop the evil Megatron?

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Three Men And A Baby

September 5th, 2010

3:00pm Sunday, September 5 on E4

Leonard Nimoy's classic comedy stars Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson as Peter Mitchell, Michael Kellam and Jack Holden, three very determined bachelors who share an apartment.

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Take The Lead

September 4th, 2010

11:00pm Saturday, September 4 on E4

Liz Friedlander's feelgood movie, based on a real-life story, stars Antonio Banderas as Pierre Dulaine, a dance teacher who takes it upon himself to improve the behaviour of the pupils of an inner city school by teaching them ballroom dancing.

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Joy Ride

September 4th, 2010

9:00pm Saturday, September 4 on E4

John Dahl's chiller stars Steve Zahn and Paul Walker as Fuller Thomas and his brother Lewis who, along with Lewis' friend from college, Venna (Leelee Sobieski), decide to drive across the Sates to their vacation.

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Shallow Grave

September 4th, 2010

9:00pm Saturday, September 4 on F4

Danny Boyle's award-winning directorial debut tells the tale of three flatmates, one corpse and a suitcase full of money. David (Chris Eccleston), Alex (Ewan McGregor) and Juliet (Kerry Fox) are looking for a new flatmate for their trendy Edinburgh flat, and Hugo (Keith Allen) seems ideal. But shortly after he moves in, they find him dead in bed beside a large suitcase full of cash. Should they inform the police or dispose of the body and keep the cash? They choose the latter but there are other parties after the money who have little to do with the forces of law and order... So begins a dark and sometimes hilarious journey through death, dismemberment and dementia.

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Cloverfield

September 3rd, 2010

9:00pm Friday, September 3 on F4

Matt Reeves' smart monster thriller has been favourably compared to The Blair Witch Project , with which it shares the concept of using "found" camcorder footage to reveal its horrors. The film opens at a party for Manhattan yuppie Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) where the revelries are interrupted by a loud explosion. As he and his friends Hud, Jason, Marlena and Lily (TJ Miller, Mike Vogel, Lizzy Caplan and Jessica Lucas) emerge onto the street, the head of the Statue of Liberty cartwheels past them. Something very big, scaly and angry is trashing the city.

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There's Something About Mary

September 2nd, 2010

9:00pm Thursday, September 2 on F4

After Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin , this was the Farrelly brothers' breakthrough movie, an all-round laugh-out-loud comedy of bad taste leavened by stand-out performances from a top-notch cast. Ben Stiller plays high school geek Ted, invited to the prom by the gorgeous Mary (Cameron Diaz). He can hardly believe his luck; but the night goes wrong when he arrives to pick up his date, and has a painful accident in the toilet, failing to stow his tackle before zipping up. Thirteen years later Ted still yearns for what might have been and hires private dick Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) to find Mary.

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Take The Lead

September 1st, 2010

10:00pm Wednesday, September 1 on E4

Liz Friedlander's feelgood movie, based on a real-life story, stars Antonio Banderas as Pierre Dulaine, a dance teacher who takes it upon himself to improve the behaviour of the pupils of an inner city school by teaching them ballroom dancing.