There are plenty of films to feast your eyes on this Easter on GREAT! movies. Featuring top stars such as Timothée Chalamet, Adam Sandler, Amanda Seyfried, and Christian Bale, there’s movies for everyone including action thrill seekers, blockbuster comedy and family film fans, as well as lovers of timeless romance and Oscar-winning dramas.
Call Me By Your Name, Monday 3rd April at 9pm
In the summer of 1983, in the north of Italy, 17-year-old American Elio, (Timothée Chalamet) and graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) meet for the first time, and embark on a summer that will alter their lives forever. Directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, this touching coming-of-age story won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. It’s a cinematic classic and a must-see channel premiere for GREAT! movies.
Daddy Day Care, Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb, Pixels, Sunday 2nd April from 3pm
Daddy Day Care is a hilarious comedy about kids ruling the roost! When ad exec Charlie (Eddie Murphy) loses his job, he can’t afford to keep his kids at the fancy Chapman Academy and begins his own adventures in babysitting!
If it’s more laughter you’re after, get ready for the most hilarious night ever! Ben Stiller leads an all-star comedy cast, including Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Rebel Wilson and Ricky Gervais, for one final, fun-filled Night at the Museum: In Secret Of The Tomb. Larry Daley and his heroic friends travel to London in order to save the magic that brings the museum exhibits to life!
In action-comedy Pixels, aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, and attack the Earth, using PAC-MAN, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders as models for their various assaults. President Will Cooper (Kevin James) calls on his childhood best friend, ’80s video game champion Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler) to lead a team of old-school gamers to take on the aliens and save the planet.
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain, Dear John, Walk The Line, Easter Sunday 9th April from 2.15pm
When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that in the sweet comedy, The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain, starring Hugh Grant.
Soon after John (Channing Tatum) and Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) fall madly in love, their relationship is put on hold in Dear John. With one leaving to complete his service, and the other to complete her college education, they pass the time by exchanging love letters, until they can be reunited. But when war breaks out, their separation is extended indefinitely. Will their relationship survive the greatest test of all: the test of time?
Singer. Rebel. Outlaw. Hero. With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, the legendary “Man in Black” revolutionized music – and forged his legacy as a genuine American icon. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon star (and sing) as Johnny Cash and June Carter in Walk The Line, the inspiring, Oscar-winning true story of one man’s unwavering devotion to his sound, his message and the greatest love of his life.
A Good Day To Die Hard, Friday 14th April at 9pm
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, for the first time, finds himself on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack — unaware that Jack is really a highly trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes. Brilliant action starring Bruce Willis.
I Am Number Four, The Last Airbender, Reign Of Fire, Sunday 16th April from 2.45pm
I Am Number Four is an action-packed thriller about an extraordinary teen, John Smith, who hides his true identity and passes as a typical high school student to elude a deadly enemy seeking to destroy him. Three like him have already been killed … he is Number Four.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender is a fantastical film which follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground in Reign Of Fire starring Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey.
GREAT! movies is available on FREEVIEW 34, SKY 321, VIRGIN 425 and FREESAT 302
