Love, action, comedy and horror entertain viewers in the Mega Movie and TV3 Cinema line up this May!
This month’s show start off with Bringing down the House, starring Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy and many more. May movies continues with Snow Dogs featuring Cuba Gooding JR, James Coburn, Mark Andrews, Nichelle Nichols and M Emmet Walsh in the snowy world of Alaska. If you’re looking for the best horror movie, don’t miss House of Wax starring Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams and Robert Richard. The next drama action movie set in beautiful ancient Japan is The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and co-starring Ken Watanabe, William Atherthon and Chad Lindberg. Meanwhile, Jet Li, DMX, Kelly Hu, Mark Dacascos and Anthony Anderson provide more action in Cradle 2 the Grave.
Shark Tale provides laughs for the family is the best package you don’t want to miss. The animated feature stars the voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Jack Black and Angeline Jolie. The cartoon fever also continues with Shrek 2, starring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas. From cartoon to comedy, Say It Isn’t So, is a comedy starring Chris Klein and Heather Graham.
As for some bits of horror, TV3 Cinema will show Locusts: Day of Destruction, featuring Lucy Lawless, John Heard, Mike Farrel and Dylan Neal. For more kick-butt action from a gorgeous heroine, Lara Croft: the Cradle of Life, stars Angeline Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, and Noah Taylor.
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Bringing Down The House (May 2)
Peter Sanderson (Martin) is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife (Smart) and can’t figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter’s trying to move on, and he’s smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he’s been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn’t refined, isn’t Ivy League, and isn’t even a lawyer. Instead, she’s Charlene (Latifah), a prison escapee who’s proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter’s perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardising his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client (Plowright). In the end, our unlikely pair has the chance to put each other’s lives on higher ground… if they don’t end up bringing down the house.
Cast : Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean Smart, Kimberly J Brown, Augus T Jones
Snow Dogs (May 9)
Snow Dogs stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ted Brooks, a Florida-dwelling dentist with a successful chain of offices and a comfy, poolside lifestyle. All this changes, however, when he finds out that he was actually adopted as a child, and that his birth mother has died and left him an inheritance in her home state of Alaska, of all places. After arriving in the snow-bound town, Ted learns that he has been willed a pack of cutely named sled dogs: Demon, Diesel, Duchess, Nana, Mack, Scooper, Sniff and Yodel. Problem is, the town’s premiere sled-dogger, Thunder Jack (James Coburn), wants the pack for himself, and encourages Ted to go back to his tropical environment. But with a major sled-dog race looming, Ted’s inspired to learn the ropes, as it were, and prove himself worthy of his birth mother’s inheritance — any way he can.
Cast: Cuba Gooding JR, James Coburn, Mark Andrews, Nichelle Nichols, M Emmet Walsh
House of Wax (May 16)
What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives. A road trip to the biggest college football championship of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), Paige (Paris Hilton) and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled, and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki) and her hot-headed brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray). They wake up the next morning to find that their car has been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded, they accept a local’s invitation for a ride into Ambrose, the only town for miles. Once there, they are drawn to Ambrose’s main attraction–Trudy’s House of Wax, which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover, there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real. As the friends uncover the town’s dark secrets, they are stalked by a demented killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose or become permanent additions to the House of Wax.
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Richard
The Last Samurai (May 23)
Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is haunted by dreams of how he was ordered to massacre Indian women and children in General Custer’s army. Algren agrees to go to Japan to train the Emperor’s newly formed army to use guns. For six months’ work, he will receive three years’ pay. The new army is to put down a rebellion against the Emperor’s Westernisation policies. The rebellion is led by a Samurai warrior named Katsumoto (Ben Watanabe) who follows the ancient teachings and traditional way of life.
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, William Atherthon, Chad Lindberg
Cradle 2 The Grave (June 29)
A team of professional thieves are hired to rob a jewellery exchange. Now a Chinese guy throws a monkey wrench into their plans. When it’s over all that they got is a bag full of black gems which is what the man who hired them wanted. Now the leader brings it to his fence. Now the Chinese man shows up wanting the gems. He also tells him that they are not gems. When they goes to the fence to get them, they discover that someone stole them. His daughter has been kidnapped by the man who owns the stones, and wants them back. They discover that the one who stole them is a rival of the criminal, while they go to every single one of his associates to find who has them. The man who kidnapped his daughter is also doing what he can to find them.
Cast: Jet Li, DMX, Kelly Hu, Mark Dacascos, Anthony Anderson
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Shark Tale (May 3)
This animated film, set in the world of saltwater fish, is the story of what happens when the son of the shark boss (Robert De Niro) of a fish crime family is killed by a dropped anchor, and a bottom-feeder named Oscar (Will Smith) is found at the scene of the crime. Hoping to win favour with the enemies of the gang lord, the fast-talking hustler poses as the killer known as the “sharkslayer”, but soon learns it’s a dangerous game in a world where the big fish generally eat the little fish.
Voice-overs: Will Smith , Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jack Black, Angeline Jolie, Renee Zellweger,
Shrek 2 (May 10)
Shrek (Myers) has rescued Princess Fiona (Diaz), got married, and now it’s time to meet the parents. Shrek, Fiona and Donkey (Murphy) set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona’s mother (Andrews) and father (Cleese). But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there’s tension in the marriage. It’s not just the family who are unhappy. Prince Charming (Everett) returns from a failed attempt at rescuing Fiona, and works alongside his mother, the Fairy Godmother (Saunders), to try and find a way to get Shrek away from Fiona.
Voice-overs: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas
Say It Isn’t So (May 17)
Bobby Farrelly and brother Peter Farrelly continue exploring outrageous premises with this comedy directed by their first assistant director J.B. Rogers. In this wacky spin on the boy-meets-girl tale, Gilly Noble (Chris Klein) enters a passionate love affair with girl of his dreams Jo Wingfield (Heather Graham). After a happy time together, they soon realise that they are brother and sister and quickly break it off. Jo begins a new life elsewhere and Gilly is left heartbroken — until he learns that Jo is not actually his sister; the incest suggestion was in fact a lie begun by a meddlesome third party. As Gilly travels to meet up with his beloved, he finds out that Jo is engaged to be married to another man; he must put a stop to it, even while everyone still believes he is Jo’s sibling and is committing an unnatural act.
Cast: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins
Locusts: Day of Destruction (May 24)
Dr. Maddy Rierdon, a USDA voracious insect expert, is hoping to work on her struggling marriage when a locust outbreak erupts on both coasts of the United States. After she is called upon to assess the situation, Maddy discovers that the locust swarms are a product of a colleague’s experiment, and are in fact bioengineered super locusts that can reproduce at a rate 10 times greater than a typical one. They are also three times longer than an ordinary locust, can travel approximately 300 miles a day and could be capable of devouring an entire continent. The entire population is in a panic as the swarms multiply and attack areas from coast-to-coast. As food supply, livestock and even human lives are threatened by these seemingly unstoppable creatures, the president orders the formation of a special task force to work with Maddy and her team. She addresses the task force, but at this point no one can come up with an answer to eradicate these insects without taking human lives in their process.
Cast: Lucy Lawless , John Heard , Mike Farrel, Dylan Neal
Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life (May 31)
Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history: an orb that leads to the mythical Pandora’s Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon. Recruited by British Intelligence to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara recruits Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a British marine turned mercenary (and her former love interest) to help. The two embark on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb…
Cast : Angeline Jolie, Gerard Butler
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