5 StarMAX TV Schedule
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Time Show -
- 54 mins ago
In BrugesTwo hit men are ordered to lie low in Belgium after an assignment goes wrong. Trying to pass as tourists in the medieval city of Bruges, the bickering assassins are drawn into an increasingly surreal series of misadventures involving a dwarf actor and a secretive drug dealer. But when their gangster boss turns up, they face a fight for their lives. Crime comedy, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.
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- 4:40pm
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Alien
The crew of a cargo spacecraft inadvertently pick up a malevolent, seemingly indestructible life-form which slaughters them one by one. Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece boasts a truly terrifying monster designed by artist HR Giger, and stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto and Veronica Cartwright, with Ian Holm on brilliant chilling form as emotionless science officer Ash, and John Hurt, who becomes the creature's first victim during a memorable dinner scene
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- 6:40pm
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Aliens
Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as tough Ellen Ripley in the action-packed sequel to Ridley Scott's acclaimed sci-fi thriller. This time she returns to the planet where her crew encountered the first creature, taking along a crack squad of galactic marines to battle not one but an entire colony of the vicious extraterrestrials. But as their comrades are picked off one by one, they're left wondering whether their impressive military hardware and kill-or-be-killed attitude will really be enough to vanquish the malevolent monsters. Directed by James Cameron, and also starring Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn and Lance Henriksen
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- 9:00pm
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Alien 3
Gritty sci-fi sequel, with Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Officer Ripley for another showdown with her seemingly indestructible extraterrestrial nemesis, this time while marooned in an all-male prison colony with weapons in short supply. Director David Fincher, making his feature debut, keeps the tension rising and concocts a suitably bleak vision of the future. Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Charles S Dutton and Lance Henriksen co-star
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- 11:00pm
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Alien Resurrection
Having been cloned by a fanatical geneticist keen to retrieve the alien inside her, bold heroine Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) wakes to find she has heightened senses and a super-strength that come in handy when her old enemies strike again. Fourth instalment in the sci-fi series, with Winona Ryder and Ron Perlman.