AFN Movie Channel Satellite TV Schedule Europe

AFN Movie Channel features a wide range of movies as well as "behind-the-scenes" film programs and news. The AFN Movie Channel premieres a new movie every Saturday night.

Sunday May 20

23:00 Ladder 49 - 2004
Rookie Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) rises up the rungs of Ladder 49 in this heartfelt tribute to America's fire-fighting heroes. Locating the action in Baltimore rather than New York avoids cheap comparisons with the World Trade Center attack and stresses the bloke-next-door quality of the everyman heroes.

Monday May 21

01:10 Do the Right Thing - 1989
Spike Lee's most powerful and most provocative 'joint' brings racial tension to the boil over one stifling day in New York's Bed-Stuy neighbourhood. Centring around Danny Aiello's pizza parlour, the eclectic denizens - played by Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Martin Lawrence and Lee himself - air grievances and trade jibes until someone takes it all too far. In your face from the moment Public Enemy assault your eardrums over the opening credits. Fight the power.

03:25 Gulliver's Travels - 2010
Starring Jack Black, the 2010 incarnation of Jonathan Swift's iconic literary satire drops the majority of the parody and original plot for a post-modern family-friendly take on the tale. Black plays the oversized travel writer who finds himself in Lilliput, the land of tiny people but bigger prejudices. Emily Blunt plays the princess while there's sterling British support from James Corden and Billy Connolly and Catherine Tate as Lilliputian royalty.

05:09 The Weight of the Nation

05:35 I Love You, Beth Cooper - 2009
On graduation day, mega-dork Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) seizes his last chance to tell the whole school exactly how he feels about his gorgeous classmate Beth Cooper (Heroes hottie Hayden Panettiere). But while faint heart never won fair maiden, it’s probably unwise to upset fair maiden’s psychotic army-trained boyfriend. The nerds are in for a night they’ll never forget in a comedy of adolescent errors from Home Alone/Harry Potter director Chris Columbus.

07:30 The Entertainers

08:30 Entertainment Tonight

09:00 Mi Familia - 1995

11:20 Anger Management - 2003
Jack Nicholson stars as an anger management therapist set on curing Adam Sandler of his temper. An inspired teaming of the old and the new, this shapes up to be a neat comedy lampooning the American therapy culture. "Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it" is the advice that falls on deaf ears.

13:15 The Weight of the Nation

13:40 Annie's Point - 2005
This heartwarming made-for-cable "road" picture begins in Chicago, where widowed grandmother Annie Eason (Betty White, convincingly portraying a 69-year-old while herself in her eighties!) wants to grant the final request of her husband Elliott: To release his ashes from the top of "Annie's Point"--3000 miles away. Embittered over having to manage his late father's business, Annie's son Richard (Richard Thomas) flatly refuses to take her to Annie's Point, so she goes instead with her free-spirited granddaughter Ella (Amy Davidson). Their odyssey turns into a frantic and sometimes funny chase after Annie goes on a gambling spree in Las Vegas, prompting Richard to hotly pursue his mother with the intention of having her institutionalized.

15:20 The American President - 1995
Romantic comedy starring Michael Douglas as the widowed US president who finds the political becoming rather personal when he begins dating fiery lobbyist Annette Bening.

17:30 Movie Kingdom

18:00 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

19:00 G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra - 2009

21:15 Forbidden Kingdom - 2008
Martial arts heroes Jackie Chan and Jet Li come to blows for the first time in a fantasy adventure that sends a modern-day teen on a breathless quest through ancient China. Destiny calls for kung-fu fan Jason (Michael Angarano) when he is whisked back in time to return a mystical fighting staff to the legendary Monkey King. With no fighting skills and the forces of the cruel Jade Warlord against him, Jason is lucky to have two master fighters on his side. Inauspiciously, though, they don’t get on.

23:15 Charlies Angels: Full Throttle - 2003