The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 116
Cheese on toast! It's movie day which must mean it's the weekend!
Like a mysterious and shady detective complete with trilby, trench coat and cigarette, we'll be lurking in the shadows always on the hunt for our next lead. We'll sniff out as much retro movie magic as we can, taking notes as we go while we snap up some evidence on our trusty camera ready to be forever printed into celluloid wonder.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 20th SEPTEMBER
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Murder at 1600 (1997) Sky Movies Crime & Thriller 12:50pm-2:50pm (2 hours)
A homicide detective joins forces with a Secret Service agent to investigate the murder of a White House employee - an assignment that leads the officers to a trail of conspiracy and corruption reaching the very top of government. Political thriller, starring Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Alan Alda, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller and Ronny Cox.
Kindergarten Cop (1990) Sky Movies Comedy 1:20pm-3:20pm (2 hours)
A tough detective is forced to pose as a preschool teacher in a bid to capture a drug dealer whose son is one of the pupils. However, his biggest challenge turns out to be controlling a class full of five-year-olds. Comedy, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Linda Hunt, Pamela Reed and Richard Tyson.
Twister (1996) ITV2 7:00pm-9:20pm (2 hours 20 minutes)
A storm-chaser and her estranged husband are brought together in a joint project to monitor the path of an oncoming tornado - but the pair face a race against the clock as a rival government-backed group with hi-tech resources tries to beat them to it. Action thriller, starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Fun Fact: Twister was the first movie released on DVD, and the last to be released on HD-DVD.
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Film4 7:20pm-9:00pm (1 hour 40 minutes)
Hapless hero Ted Striker tries to prevent the launch of a passenger space shuttle, certain it will end in disaster. Sadly, his prediction comes true when a computer malfunction sends the spacecraft hurtling toward the sun, while a man driven mad by sexual inadequacy smuggles a bomb on board. Disaster movie spoof sequel, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, William Shatner, Sonny Bono and Chad Everett.
Transformers (2007) Film4 9:00pm-11:45pm (2 hours 45 minutes)
Teenager Sam Witwicky is treated to his first car by his dad, but it turns out to be an alien scout with a life of its own. Before long, the vehicle embroils Sam in a long-running intergalactic war between two factions of giant shape-changing robots, which have come to Earth to find a mystical cube that grants infinite power to its possessor. Michael Bay's sci-fi action adventure, inspired by the toy franchise, with Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Jon Voight and John Turturro.
Fun Fact: Bumblebee's original alternate mode in The Transformers (1984) was a Volkswagen Beetle, but this was revised to a 1976/2009 Chevrolet Camaro because they wanted to avoid comparisons with Herbie the Love Bug
SUNDAY 21st SEPTEMBER
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Beethoven's 2nd (1993) ITV London 1:20pm-3:00pm (1 hour 40 minutes)
The slobbering St Bernard is now grown up and in love with his beautiful sweetheart Missy. Together they bring a litter of puppies into the world - but have to go on the defensive when Missy's owner, the evil Regina, sets out to steal them for herself. Comedy sequel, starring Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Chris Penn, Nicholle Tom and Christopher Castle.
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) Channel 4 3:30pm-5:30pm (2 hours)
Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew uncover a conspiracy by their own superiors and a sinister alien race to take over a peaceful world and exploit its power to prolong life. However, the crew is forced to defy Federation orders and turns renegade to protect the planet's inhabitants. Sci-fi adventure sequel, starring Patrick Stewart, F Murray Abraham, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) Syfy 4:30pm-7:00pm (2 hours 30 minutes)
The daredevil heroine returns on a new quest, this time to search the world for the legendary Pandora's Box. However, a devious scientist is determined to get his hands on it first and realise his cunning scheme to harness the box's power as a deadly weapon. Action adventure sequel, starring Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds, Chris Barrie and Djimon Hounsou.
Fun Fact: Much of the background story of this film revolves around Alexander The Great AKA Alexander of Macedonia. Angelina Jolie actually later portrays Alexander The Greats mother, Olympias, in Alexander (2004).
Twins (1988) ITV2 6:50pm-9:00pm (2 hours 10 minutes)
An unlikely pair of brothers, who were born as the result of a one-off genetic experiment and separated at birth, are reunited in adulthood. They set out on a cross-country search for their unknown mother - fending off vicious loan sharks and a professional assassin along the way. Comedy, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston and Chloe Webb.
A Time to Kill (1996) Film4 9:00pm-11:55pm (2 hours 55 minutes)
A lawyer in Mississippi agrees to defend a black man charged with killing the two racist thugs who raped his 10-year-old daughter - but he is ill-prepared for the racial tension and violence that erupts during the course of the trial. Courtroom drama, based on a novel by John Grisham and starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland and Kevin Spacey.
The Sixth Sense (1999) Channel 4 11:15pm-1:10am (1 hour 55 minutes)
A child psychologist, disheartened after the suicide of a former patient, takes on the case of a terrified boy haunted by ghostly apparitions, and tries to help him discover what the spirits want from him. M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller, starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette and Olivia Williams.
Whatever you're up to this weekend, make sure you always make your bed and try food before your add salt.
xoxo