Foxtel Magazine – August 2019

(Martin Jones) #1

THRILLER/HORROR


SCI-FI/FANTASY


COMEDY


Nobody’s Fool


12 STRONG


Following the tragic events of


9/11, US Special Forces embarked


on a top-secret deployment to


Afghanistan. Riding horseback


through the vast desert, they worked


with an Afghan warlord to take down


the Taliban from the inside. This is


their story. Hemsworth again proves


his worth in a serious capacity as


Captain Mitch Nelson, who’s tasked


with this seemingly impossible feat.


STAR TREK


INTO DARKNESS


Hemsworth has a small but


memorable role as George Kirk



  • the father of Chris Pine’s Captain


James T Kirk – in this follow-up


to 2009’s Star Trek. With all-out


war looming at the hands of Khan


(Benedict Cumberbatch), the crew


of the USS Enterprise mounts


a manhunt in a deadly war zone


to stop him in his tracks.


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THE BREAK-UP
ROMANCE MOVIES
2006, Comedy (M ls)
August 9, 10, 18, 27, 31
Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau,
Jennifer Aniston.
Feeling under-appreciated
and neglected, an art dealer
decides to break up with
her immature partner and
begins dating other men to
make him jealous.

THE CAMPAIGN
COMEDY MOVIES
2012, Comedy (MA 15+ ls)
August 5, 14, 22, 25, 30
Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis,
Jason Sudeikis.
Reacting to revelations
about a long-serving
US Congressman’s
extra-marital affair, his
opponents attempt to oust
him by promoting a rival
candidate – the eccentric
and naive director of the
local tourism centre.

THE AMITYVILLE
MURDERS
THRILLER MOVIES
2018, Horror (MA 15+ ahv)
August 2, 16
John Robinson, Paul Ben-Victor,
Chelsea Ricketts.
In 1974, a seemingly normal
young man murders his
entire family as they sleep,
later claiming that evil voices
in the house made him do it.

FLIGHTPLAN
THRILLER MOVIES
2005, Thriller/Suspense
(M v)
August 5, 8, 14, 18, 27, 30
Jodie Foster, Sean Bean,
Peter Sarsgaard.
The daughter of an
aeroplane engineer
vanishes midway through
a transatlantic flight, with
all evidence indicating
that the child was never
onboard in the first place.

IN DARKNESS
PREMIERE MOVIES
2018, Thriller/Suspense
(MA 15+ v)
August 1, 2, 14, 22, 31
Natalie Dormer, Ed Skrein,
Emily Ratajkowski.
A foreign woman falls to her
death from the apartment
above that of a blind pianist,
who is unwittingly drawn
into London’s underworld.

THE CORE
ACTION MOVIES
2003, Sci-Fi/Fantasy (M al)
August 31
Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank.
After it is discovered the
planet’s core has stopped
spinning, scientists
attempt to save the world
by launching a mission to
the centre of the Earth in an
untested digging machine.

MEAN GIRLS
ROMANCE MOVIES
2004, Comedy (M a)
August 8, 11, 19, 27, 30
Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey,
Rachel McAdams,
Lacey Chabert.
The homeschooled
daughter of zoologists
attends public school for the
first time and finds herself at
odds with a clique of snooty
girls after she falls for their
leader’s ex-boyfriend.

NOBODY’S FOOL
PREMIERE MOVIES
2018, Comedy (MA 15+ ls)
August 13, 14, 21, 26, 29
Tiffany Haddish, Missi Pyle,
Tika Sumpter.
Upon being released from
prison, a wild woman
looks to her successful yet
buttoned-up sister for help
getting back on her feet,
but ends up completely
disrupting her life.

THE INSULT
MASTERPIECE MOVIES
2017, Thriller/Suspense
August 7, 8
Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha.
In Beirut, a dispute blown
out of proportion finds a
Lebanese Christian and
a Pakistani refugee facing
off in court, while the media
circus surrounding the case
inflames memories of the
civil war.

THE SIXTH SENSE
THRILLER MOVIES
1999, Thriller/Suspense
(M av)
August 16, 21, 26
Bruce Willis, Toni Collette,
Haley Joel Osment.
As a child psychologist tries
to uncover the truth behind
a young boy’s trauma, the
consequences give both
a jolt that awakens them
to something harrowing
and unexplainable.

WIDOWS
PREMIERE MOVIES
2018, Thriller/Suspense
(MA 15+ lsv)
August 31
Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki,
Michelle Rodriguez.
When four thieves are killed
during a heist, their widows
decide to pull off the next
robbery themselves.

HOW TO BE SINGLE
ROMANCE MOVIES
2016, Comedy (M ls)
August 4, 11, 17, 22, 28
Dakota Johnson, Alison Brie,
Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann.
Four women navigate the
changing landscape of
love, lust and singledom
in New York City while
trying to figure out what
they truly want from their
lives and relationships.

THE INBETWEENERS
MOVIE
COMEDY MOVIES
2011, Comedy (MA 15+ lsn)
August 9, 17, 26, 27
James Buckley, Simon Bird,
Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas.
Having graduated high
school, four awkward
18-year-old boys from the
south of England celebrate
with a week of drinking and
debauchery in the seaside
town of Malia, Crete.

RUSHMORE
MASTERPIECE MOVIES
1998, Comedy (M ls)
August 1, 2, 14, 27
Jason Schwartzman,
Bill Murray, Olivia Williams.
Though excelling at
extracurricular activities,
15-year-old Max discovers
he has been placed on
academic probation while
pulling out all the stops
to impress a first-grade
teacher he has fallen for.

WAYNE’S WORLD
COMEDY MOVIES
1992, Comedy (PG)
August 2, 7, 16, 28
Mike Myers, Dana Carvey,
Rob Lowe.
Two slacker friends from
Illinois try to promote their
public-access cable TV
show after a producer
offers to help them hit the
big time. However, they
soon learn their newfound
success comes at a cost.

STAR TREK
INTO DARKNESS
ACTION MOVIES
2013, Sci-Fi/Fantasy (M v)
August 6, 11, 19, 23, 27
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto.
Hunting a terrorist who has
destroyed most of the fleet,
the crew of the Enterprise
must take a leap into
unknown territory, where
loyalties will be tested.

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