Movies

11:15pm Sunday, September 2 on C4

Network premiere of Richard Ayoade’s directorial debut; an idiosyncratic coming-of-age drama. At home 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) has to deal with parents Jill and Lloyd’s (Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor) troubled marriage which comes under further threat with the arrival of her ex, Graham, a narcissistic guru (Paddy Considine, resplendent with mullet). Meanwhile at school, Oliver falls for classmate Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige). Based on Joe Dunthorne’s novel, the film richly conveys the complexities of growing up without pandering to nostalgia or comic exaggeration.

Hilary Swank  and Brenda Blethyn have been cast to star in Mary & Martha, a powerful new 90-minute single film written by Richard Curtis (The Girl In The Café, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually) and directed by Phillip Noyce (Salt, The Bone Collector, Catch A Fire, Rabbit-Proof Fence).

The film will be made by Working Title Television for BBC One and HBO Films, and shown in the UK during the run up to Red Nose Day. Continue reading »

6:40pm Saturday, July 14 on C4

Kristen Stewart stars in Catherine Hardwicke’s 2008 adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series of romantic fantasy novels about a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire. When Bella Swan (Stewart) moves to Washington State she is drawn to the moodily handsome, ashen complexioned Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). There’s just one problem: he’s a vampire…

11:40pm Saturday, June 30 on C4

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars alongside Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei and Albert Finney in Sidney Lumet’s multi-Oscar-nominated crime thriller. Andy (Hoffman) and his brother Hank (Hawke) are drowning in a multiplicity of problems, the principal of which are financial. Then, just as they are approaching their wits’ end, Andy makes a proposal: that they should rob a mom ‘n’ pop jewellery store. But these sorts of plans tend to take on a life of their own… Network premiere.

10:00pm Sunday, June 24 on C4

Network Premiere of Joe Cornish’s Film4-funded directorial debut, a much-praised sci-fi horror-comedy in which extra-terrestrials invade the wrong part of London.

9:00pm Sunday, June 17 on C4

The network premiere of Nick Cassavetes’ drama, based on the novel by Jodi Picoult. Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine) and her family tell, in flashbacks, the story of her older sister Kate’s (Sofia Vassilieva) diagnosis of leukaemia and her mother Sara’s (Cameron Diaz) and father Brian’s (Jason Patric) decision to conceive a genetically engineered daughter for the express purpose of donating body parts to Kate. When Kate desperately needs a kidney, Anna decides that she doesn’t want to donate hers and goes to the lengths of hiring a lawyer in her quest for medical emancipation from her family.

Barlow not interested in The Voice UK

The X Factor’s Gary Barlow is said to be not interested in a move to The Voice UK next season after it was claimed in the tabloids that the BBC One show interested in picking him up as a coach.

ITV to censor film after one complaint

ITV has been forced to censor a crucial scene in future showings of the 1978 film Death on the Nile after one complaint was received by Ofcom. The scene in question is a suicide. Continue reading »

8:00pm Sunday, June 10 on C4

Network premiere. Two weeks military leave is all it takes for US Army Staff Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum) and college student Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) to fall in love in this Lasse Hallstr�m-directed adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel. Having depended on letters to keep their romance alive, their relationship falters when John decides to re-enlist in the army. Then it arrives – the Dear John letter informing him that Savannah is engaged to someone else. But months later, John receives another letter from Savannah with their sign-off of old, ‘I’ll see you soon, then’. Could there be hope for the couple yet?

8:00pm Sunday, May 13 on C4

The network premiere of the second part of the cinematic adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is on the cusp of her 18th birthday and blissfully happy with her undead beau Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). But an incident convinces Edward that he’s too dangerous to be around his sweetheart and he decides to leave town in order to ensure her safety – leaving her behind. Bella finds some relief from her emotional numbness by succumbing to the attentions of her friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). But he is also a supernatural being, and not one with a natural affinity to vampires…

6:35pm Saturday, May 12 on C4

Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning film is the first in J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo, a hobbit who elects to become the bearer of the Ring of Power, which, if regained by its maker and master, Lord Sauron, will see him gain full and terrible power over all of Middle Earth. Frodo sets out with The Fellowship of the Ring, led by Gandalf (Ian McKellen), with Aragorn (Viggo Mortenson) and six other companions (including his faithful gardener Sam, played by Sean Astin) to Sauron’s stronghold, Mordor, the only place where the Ring can be destroyed.