Movies

8:30pm – Saturday, November 12 on ABC2

Paths Of Glory remains a monument to the anti-human aspects of war. Kirk Douglas leads a consistently excellent cast as a man of peace who answers his country’s call to war.

He and his regiment are set up for suicide missions and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives. Time and again, Douglas finds himself in the centre of a power struggle that has nothing to do with the war. And he is constantly frustrated in his attempts to do right by his men.

Paths Of Glory, even today, stands as one of the most moving studies of men in armed conflict ever to be recorded on film.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Paths Of Glory stars Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou and George Macready.

9.30pm Friday November 11 on Ten

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.

Underbelly Razor, Nine, 8.30pm
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Number One Ladies Detective Agency, ABC1, 8.30pm
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Movie: Julia & Julia, GEM, 8.30pm

Movie: Napoleon Dynamite, ELEVEN, 8.30pm

Movie: Body of Lies, Nine, 9.30pm

9.05pm Saturday November 5 on Ten

On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capitol, a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport, and now holds thousands of holiday travelers hostage.

The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer, have come to rescue a drug lord from justice.

They’ve prepared for every contingency, except for an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly deja vu. Cue John McClane (Bruce Willis).

8:30pm – Saturday, November 5 on ABC2

Ex-con Johnny Clay has plans. Five men will make a big killing, robbing a race track for two million dollars. He has a timetable. The plan is all laid out, step by step. Several people become involved.

George Peatty is a Caspar Milquetoast, a timid character who works at the race track as a cashier. Peatty is willing to risk his neck to buy the love of his wife, Sherry. She is sleazy and rotten to the core, two-timing her husband with her boyfriend, Val Cannon. Maurice is a professional wrestler who becomes part of the holdup team. Marvin Unger is an aging member of the gang. Randy Kennan is a corrupt cop. Mike O’Reilly is a bartender at the race track who is looking for some quick money to help his sick wife. Fay is engaged to marry Johnny Clay. Nikki is a psychotic gunman.

The robbery, the killing, has been planned in detail, to the minute, but it doesn’t work perfectly. Instead, it ends in bloody slaughter.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, The Killing stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray and Vince Edwards.

Tuesday November 1 at 7:30pm on W

Criminal Darren Tracey returns to Dublin from Spain to celebrate his brother Robbie’s release from prison. However, a tragic event forces him to stay longer than planned and he soon finds himself being sucked back into old conflicts. Cast: Cast: Aiden Gillen, Robert Sheehan, Tom Vaughan Aiden Gillen, Robert Sheehan, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Lawlor, Killian Scott. Killian Scott.

6:30pm – Monday, October 31 on ABC3

Join the spooky spree on ABC3 – October 31 from 6.30pm Grab your Halloween candy and settle in for an evening of spookiness.

Halloween is Shrek’s favourite holiday – and this year he’s planning a night of frights, ogre style. Instead of the usual tricks or treats, Shrek ups the ante and challenges Donkey, Puss in Boots, Pinocchio and other fairytale characters to spend the night in Lord Farquaad’s haunted castle telling scary stories.

One by one, they compete through the night, putting their own fairytale spin on infamous spine-tingling tales that everyone knows and loves! The last one to be scared ‘Shrekless’ wins.

Scared Shrekless stars the voices of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, and Antonio Banderas.

8:30pm – Saturday, October 29 on ABC2

Trelkovsky is a naturalised Frenchman in his early thirties who works as a clerk in an archive. He is very shy, awkward and ill at ease with strangers.

He comes to inspect an apartment in a run-down quarter of Paris. A grouchy concierge shows him dingy, sparsely furnished quarters on the third floor and volunteers the information that the previous tenant, a Mlle. Simone Choule, threw herself out of the window two days before.

Mr. Zy, the building’s landlord, is willing to rent the apartment to Trelkovsky for a premium, provided Mille.

Choule does not recover and return. Trelkovsky later learns that Mlle. Choule has died.

Hurrying back to the apartment he makes a deal with Mr. Zy, assuring him that he is a bachelor, lives quietly, will not make any noise.

After he moves his meagre belongings into the apartment, Trelkovsky invites two of his office colleagues to a house warming. The noise they make outrages the neighbours and their host nervously ushers them out.

The next day Monsieur Zy warns Trelkovsky about the disturbance. The clerk becomes so obsessed with keeping quiet that he walks about on tip-toe and watches his television without sound.

One evening Madame Gaderian, a tearful neighbour, comes to see him. She tells him she is being forced to vacate the building because of mysterious complaints that she has caused noise. She plants the idea in Trelkovsky’s mind that Madame Dioz, a bizarre scornful neighbour, is in league with his imperious landlord Monsieur Zy and others in the building. Now he believes they all have driven Mlle. Choule to suicide. Slowly he becomes convinced that they are trying to turn him into a reincarnation of the previous tenant and drive him to a similar fate.

Directed by Roman Polanski, The Tenant stars Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Shelly Winters and Melvin Douglas.

Movie: Wall-E, Seven, 7.30pm
After hundreds of years working alone to clean up the planet, lovable robot Wall-E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets the sleek, search robot, Eve, and embarks on a space journey.

Movie: The Tenant, ABC2, 8.30pm.
Horror with Roman Polanski and Isabelle Adjani. A displaced person becomes convinced that his fellow lodgers are out to murder him.

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption, Nine, 9.15pm
Soft-spoken, respected Maine banker Andy Dufresne is convicted for the murders of his unfaithful wife and her lover and receives a double life sentence.

Movie: Nikita, SBS TWO, 9.35pm
Nikita, a punk-junkie sociopath is sentenced to life imprisonment for the vicious and cold-blooded killing of a Parisian cop. At the eleventh hour, she’s given a second chance in the form of a choice: face the life sentence or become an assassin for the French Secret Service. Three gruelling years later, Nikita emerges as a glamorous, highly trained assassin. Then she falls in love and realises that all she wants is out.

Movie: Day of The Triffids, ABC2, 10.36pm
Horror with Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey. From the greatest science-fiction novel of all time! When a meteorite shower hits earth, Triffids – experimental plants that attack people – also arrive on earth.

BBC Worldwide Australia has confirmed that production is underway on Dripping in Chocolate, a one x 90 minute Southern Star commission for UKTV Australia and New Zealand, starring David Wenham, Louise Lombard and Geoff Morrell.

A delicious mix of love and mystery, Dripping in Chocolate is a contemporary crime drama set in the laneways of inner city Sydney. When Detective Bennett O’Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl, it leads him to enigmatic chocolatier Juliana Lovece. Just as this perceptive woman gets under his hardened skin, he suspects she may be at the centre of an increasing murder count.

Acclaimed Southern Star drama producers Julie McGauran and Sarah Smith are at the helm of this Australian production. Dripping in Chocolate is directed by Mark Joffe, and is written by AWGIE award-winning writer Sarah Smith and John Ridley.

Sarah Smith and Julie McGauran – Producers – Southern Star Entertainment stated: “We are extremely proud and excited to be working with BBC Worldwide. Dripping in Chocolate brings together not only an internationally renowned cast but also an exceptional director in Mark Joffe, who will collectively take viewers on a journey of intrigue and suspense”.

Director of Television for BBC Worldwide Australia Deirdre Brennan said, “It is incredibly exciting for UKTV to expand our Australian production slate with a sophisticated murder mystery, a genre that really resonates with our audience. Like the enticing, complex flavours of a boutique chocolate, Dripping in Chocolate blends great production pedigree, a fabulous international cast and a whodunit that will challenge even the most passionate mystery fan!.”

A stellar cast includes David Wenham (Australia, The Proposition, Getting’ Square) British beauty Louise Lombard (C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation, The House of Elliott), Geoff Morrell (Cloudstreet, Grass Roots), Caroline Brazier (Packed to the Rafters) and Chelsie Preston Crayford (Tilly Devine in Underbelly: Razor).

Warm and inviting, Lovece Chocolates is Juliana’s (Lombard) personal haven and a world away from the vicious murder that has been perpetrated just outside her door.

When the doorbell chimes the next morning, the damaged and detoxing Detective Bennett O’Mara (Wenham) brings the baffling case to her door. The victim is an occasional customer but the chocolates come from a special order for one of her clients – Dr Finch, an addiction psychiatrist.

When a connection is made between State Planning Minster Stuart Verger (Morrell) who determined to evict her from her beloved shop, the victim and Dr Finch; detective and chocolatier again cross paths. Who’s following whom?

With infidelity and lies rife, Juliana and Bennett must confront the demons of their past in an attempt to catch the killer and start afresh.

Dripping in Chocolate will premiere on UKTV Australia and New Zealand in 2012.