Thread: HBO / Cinemax -- January

HBO

Movies
WE ARE MARSHALL
Saturday, January 5, 8 PM ET

Rating: PG
Starring: Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox

On November 14, 1970, a jet carrying 75 members of Marshall University's football team, staff and fans crashed. There were no survivors. But from the ashes of the tragedy rose hope.

NORBIT
Saturday, January 12, 8 PM ET

Rating: PG13
Starring: Eddie Murphy and Thandie Newton

Shy, sweet Norbit was a young orphan with little backbone when the robust Rasputia first stood up for him. Since then, Rasputia has called all the shots in Norbit's life--including their marriage and his employment with Rasputia's beefy brothers.

SMOKIN' ACES
Saturday, January 19, 8 PM ET

Rating: R
Starring: Andy Garcia and Alicia Keys

The world's deadliest assassins converge on a Vegas casino to take their shot at a $1 million hit in this stylish action-thriller.

BREACH
Saturday, January 26, 8 PM ET

Rating: PG13
Starring: Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe

Based on the shocking true events of 2001, this absorbing drama chronicles a two-month period in which a young FBI worker went to work for Hanssen--and found himself unraveling the worst security breach in U.S. history.

Series
Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam
hosted by D.L. Hughley, Sundays at 10 pm — beginning January 6.

HBO's cutting-edge Emmy®-nominated live talk show
Real Time with Bill Maher returns in Friday, January 11, 2008.


Daily Schedule

Monthly Schedules




Source: HBO




Cinemax

Premiering Saturday, January 5th on Cinemax... RENO 911: MIAMI The comical Reno cops are on patrol in Miami Beach in this comedy based on the hit TV series. Blood Diamond Rated R for ADULT LANGUAGE, GRAPHIC VIOLENCE Time: 143 Genre: Thriller, Drama The rumored existence of a huge pink diamond sets off a wild, violent hunt amid the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone in 1999. Leonardo DiCaprio earned a 2006 Best Actor Oscar® nomination for his performance as a gun-runner who enlists an unlikely partner to find it: the humble fisherman who found and buried the stone. Jennifer Connelly co-stars as a photojournalist out to expose the country's illegal diamond trade; and Djimon Hounsou was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for his portrayal of the quiet fisherman who is forced into slavery by local rebels only to discover the priceless jewel. Also with Michael Sheen and Arnold Vosloo. Directed by Edward Zwick; screenplay by Charles Leavitt; story by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell. (R) (AL,GV) The Fountain Rated PG13 for ADULT LANGUAGE, ADULT CONTENT, VIOLENCE Time: 96 Genre: Science Fiction, Drama Characters from three vastly different points in time search for a mystical fountain of youth in this mind-blowing excursion from the director of Requiem For a Dream. Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz each portray three different characters from three different times--a 16th-century search for the biblical "Tree of Life," a distant future in which a lone man travels through space in search of life's origins, and a present-day tale that connects past and future through the story of a man's search for a cure to his wife's terminal illness. Ellen Burstyn co-stars in this compelling film. Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky; story by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel. (PG13) (AC,AL,V) The Number 23 Rated R for VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE, ADULT CONTENT Time: 95 Genre: Drama The number 23 is the prime number for chills in this eerie tale about an average man who develops an unhealthy obsession with the numeral. Jim Carrey stars as Walter Sparrow, a dogcatcher whose wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen) gives him a mysterious book called The Number 23. Walter quickly begins to see strange parallels between the novel's events and those of his own life--including the fact that everything is linked to the number 23. His obsession begins a frightening descent that leaves Walter facing a shocking reality--a twist that will leave viewers stunned. Logan Lerman and Danny Huston co-star in this thriller. Directed by Joel Schumacher; written by Fernley Phillips. (R) (AC,AL,V) Daily Schedule Monthly Schedule Source: Cinemax

Just rented We Are Marshall on HD DVD, would not have, had I realized it was going to be on HBO.

And while it was ok, that's all it was.

I've been eyeballing all of the Saturday premieres to rent... now...I don't have to...

recorded Grease in OAR on Cinemax but no 5.1 audio. The 5.1 audio would have been great. This one is going to archive. Classic!

"Children of Men" is premiering tonight at 8 p.m. on HBO HD. I've been wanting to see it in HD, but it's only available in HD DVD and I'm a PS3 owner, so I'm very happy.

I just wish HBO would promote these other premieres as much as they do the Sat. night ones. (Norbit? puleeze) I've found some great movies premiering at weird times by scrolling through my DVR's on-screen guide. I found "Pan's Labyrinth" airing for the first time in late night in the middle of the week that way.

Do NOT watch "The Fountain". I repeat, do NOT watch "The Fountain". About 30 minutes into the movie, we have to turn it off. We have never stop watching a DVD in the middle that I can remember. It is that bad. You have been warned!