THIS WEEK’S SBS WORLD MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS:
- Audio Description (AD) available for The Last Full Measure, Animal Kingdom, Resurrecting the Champ, Flight of the Navigator, Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds, Seeking Fire, Miles Ahead, The Nine Lives of Vince McMahon and Rurangi
- Closed Captions (CC) available for Animal Kingdom, Flight of the Navigator, Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds, Subjects of Desire and Rurangi
WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL
The Last Full Measure
9:35pm, SBS VICELAND
MA15+, AD
USA, 2020
Genre: War, Drama
Language: English
Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson
What’s it about?
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
Animal Kingdom
11:45pm, SBS VICELAND
MA15+, AD, CC
Australia, 2010
Genre: Crime, Drama
Language: English
Director: David Michôd
Starring: James Frecheville, Jackie Weaver, Ben Mendelsohn, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton
What’s it about?
Set amidst the explosive world of a family addicted to crime, as experienced through the eyes of a naïve 17-year-old youth (Frecheville) who enters their lair. It’s the Wild West, where criminals and police wage their war on the city’s streets, while the innocent suffer the consequences. Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize (World Dramatic Competition) in 2010, nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver) at the next year’s Academy Awards, and regarded as one of the finest contemporary Australian films.
THURSDAY 27 APRIL
Resurrecting the Champ
9:30pm, NITV
M, AD
USA, 2007
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Rod Lurie
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Alan Alda, Teri Hatcher, Kathryn Morris
What’s it about?
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man (“Champ”) only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ’s story and escape the shadow of his father’s success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
FRIDAY 28 APRIL
Flight of the Navigator
7:30pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 29 April, 10:00am)
G, AD, CC
USA, 1986
Genre: Family, Science Fiction, Adventure
Language: English
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Joey Cramer, Paul Reubens, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Jessica Parker
What’s it about?
A 12-year-old boy (Cramer) loses consciousness in the woods near his home and awakens eight years into the future without ageing a day. Although his family is overjoyed to be reunited, they are perplexed by his appearance. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, and David gets a chance to unravel the mystery. Directed by Randal Kleiser (Grease).
Friday After Next
9:05pm, NITV
MA15+
USA, 2002
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
Director: Marcus Raboy
Starring: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, K.D. Aubert, Anna Maria Horsford, Clifton Powell
What’s it about?
In this third instalment of the Friday trilogy, Craig (Ice Cube) and his cousin Day Day (Epps) have finally moved out of their parents’ houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.
SATURDAY 29 APRIL
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds
11:35am, NITV
G, AD, CC
France, 2010
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Language: English
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Robert Stanton, Penny Balfour, David Gasman
What’s it about?
The evil Maltazard is now over two metres tall and causing terror wherever he goes. His goal is simple: forming an army of giant henchmen and ruling over the universe. Only Arthur, who’s still shrunken, can thwart his plans, but first he has to get back to his bedroom and return to his normal size. Directed by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element).
Leave No Trace
4:30pm, SBS VICELAND
G
Canada, USA, 2018
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Debra Granik
Starring: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey
What’s it about?
A father (Foster) and daughter (Jojo Rabbit‘s Thomasin McKenzie) live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own. From Debra Granik, acclaimed writer-director of Winter’s Bone.
Seeking Fire
8:30pm, SBS VICELAND
M, AD
Canada, 2022
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Ian Bawa, Quan Luong
What’s it about?
This feature documentary focuses on people’s relationship with money and how financial independence can fuel passion. Filmmakers Ian Bawa and Quan Luong travelled around the world meeting with people that are financially free as well as exploring their own personal relationship with money.
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
Natural Born Killers
9:30pm, NITV
MA15+
USA, 1994
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Language: English
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones
What’s it about?
Mickey (Harrelson) and Mallory Knox (Lewis), united by their common love for violence, go on an interstate killing spree that triggers a deadly pursuit and garners high ratings for a tabloid journalist (Downey Jr.). Directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK).
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Miles Ahead
1:15am, SBS VICELAND
M, AD
USA, 2016
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Don Cheadle
Starring: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lakeith Stanfield
What’s it about?
Inspired by events of his life, this is a wildly entertaining, impressionistic, no-holds barred portrait of one of 20th century music’s creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career defining performance by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. Working from a script he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Cheadle also makes his directorial debut with this unconventional biographical drama.
SUNDAY 30 APRIL
The Nine Lives of Vince McMahon
8:30pm, SBS VICELAND
MA15+, AD
USA, 2022
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Collin Friesen
What’s it about?
From Hulk Hogan to Mr. T to the Rock, Vince McMahon the powerhouse founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) – has spent forty years turning pro wrestling superstars into household names. In the process, McMahon has almost single-handedly transformed pro wrestling into a billion-dollar-a-year industry.
Subjects of Desire
8:30pm, NITV
MA15+, CC
Canada, 2021
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jennifer Holness
Featuring: India.Arie, Jully Black, Alexandra Germain, Brittany Lee Lewis, Seraiah Nicole
What’s it about?
Examines the cultural shift in beauty standards towards embracing (or appropriating) Black aesthetics and features, deconstructing what we understand about race and the power behind beauty.
Rurangi
10:15pm, NITV (repeats Monday 1 May, 11:30am)
M, AD, CC
New Zealand, 2020
Genre: Drama
Language: English, Maori
Director: Max Currie
Starring: Elz Carrad, Arlo Green, Āwhina-Rose Henare Ashby, Kirk Torrance, Aroha Rawson
What’s it about?
After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn’t heard from him since before Caz transitioned.
The Eight Hundred
12:30am, SBS VICELAND
MA15+
China, 2020
Genre: War, History, Drama, Action
Language: Chinese, Japanese, English
Director: Guan Hu
Starring: Wang Qian-Yuan, Zhang Yi, Huang Zhizhong, Jiang Wu, Oho Ou
What’s it about?
From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr Six comes this riveting war epic. In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
MONDAY 1 MAY
Tupaia’s Endeavour
9:05pm, NITV (repeats Tuesday 2 May, 11:20am)
M
New Zealand, 2020
Genre: Documentary
Language: English, French, Maori, Tahitian
Director: Lala Rolls
What’s it about?
Lala Rolls’ fascinating quest to examine what happens to a Tahitian high priest and navigator when he travels across the pacific – and further on towards England as a translator and guest (or is it as a living trophy?) – aboard Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
Fukry
11:15pm, NITV
M
USA, 2019
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Blackhorse Lowe
Starring: Lydell Mitchell, MorningStar Angeline, Nasheen Sleuth, Shannon Yazzie
What’s it about?
Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this unconventional romantic comedy follows a group of Native American men and women as they go through the ups and downs of love over the course of a long weekend involving punk rock shows, a gallery opening and some comic fighting.
TUESDAY 2 MAY
Blacula
9:00pm, NITV
M
USA, 1972
Genre: Horror, Cult
Language: English
Director: William Crain
Starring: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent
What’s it about?
African Prince Mamuwalde (Marshall) is bitten by Count Dracula and develops the requisite insatiable thirst for blood, doing all that he can to satisfy the craving. Two centuries later, the princely ghoul is unwittingly transported to modern day Los Angeles where bloodthirst is a way of life. Blaxploitation and the horror genre mingle in this cult classic that inspired the sequel Scream Blacula Scream.
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