AUSSIES
IN ACTION
Wednesday April 25 at 7.05am
on Action Movies [406]
Celebrate Australia’s fighting spirit
with an ANZAC Day movie marathon
led by an army of homegrown stars.
Brenton Thwaites (pictured) battles
evil in Alex Proyas’s action fantasy
Gods of Egypt, Russell Crowe leads
Gladiator and there are many more.
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PIRATES OF THE
CARIBBEAN POPUP
from Friday March 30 at 6am
on Channel 400
What’s better than one Pirates of the Caribbean
movie? All five, airing in an Easter long weekend
special! Captain Jack Sparrow’s (Johnny Depp,
pictured) Black Pearl sets sail for a swashbuckling
adventure on the high seas, beginning with
Will Turner’s (Orlando Bloom) quest to save
his love Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley)
from Sparrow’s undead former pirate pals.
CASANOVAS OF COMEDY
Double bills Saturdays from April 7 at 8.30pm
on Comedy Movies [407]
Let cinema’s funniest lady-killers seduce you this month
with this collection of unconventional lotharios. Included
is the psychedelic super spy Austin Powers (Mike Myers,
pictured with Heather Graham), who has success with
pick-up lines in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
CLEOPATRA
Sunday April 1 at 9.05am
on Movie Greats [403]
They just don’t make ’em like this
anymore. The opulent, four-hour epic, which
nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox, runs on
the palpable chemistry of Richard Burton and
Elizabeth Taylor (pictured) – who began an
adulterous affair on set. In fact, the production
was almost derailed by the scandal, as well
as spiralling costs and Taylor’s ill health.
WORLD MOVIES WITH
MARGARET: GLORY
Wednesday April 25 at 8.30pm
on Masterpiece Movies [402]
Denzel Washington (pictured centre,
with Matthew Broderick, left, and
Morgan Freeman, right) scored an
Oscar for this film about the Civil War’s
first all-black volunteer company.
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DON’T
MISS
THE OTHER
WOMAN
Hell hath no fury... like women
cheated upon. Kate Upton,
Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann
(pictured from left) team up for
revenge Friday April 27 at 8.30pm
on Romance Movies [408].
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LIGHTNING
Celebrate the world’s speediest
superstar as Lightning McQueen
(voiced by Owen Wilson) does his
thing in Cars and Cars 3, airing
back-to-back Saturday April 7 at
7.55pm on Disney Movies [404].
WAR FOR
THE PLANET
OF THE APES
Caesar (Andy Serkis) leads the apes
into battle in the conclusion to this
rebooted trilogy. Sunday April 29 at
8.30pm on Premiere Movies [401].
LEONARDO
DICAPRIO
THRILLER
COLLECTION
Saturday April 7
at 3.25pm on
Thriller Movies [409]
Few do the genre quite
like this Oscar-winner.
Fortunately, you can
relive four of his best
this month. Included
in the line-up is
The Beach (pictured),
the heart-stopping tale
of paradise gone
terrifyingly wrong.
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