ENTERTAINMENT
PREMIERING
ON HBO &
CINEMAX IN
DECEMBER
NEXT
CHANGE
PITCH PERFECT
Premieres Tuesday, December 31 at 10pm on HBO / HBO HD
On HBO: English / Mandarin
Beca Mitchell is a rebellious freshman at Barden University who is only
interested in music making and nothing else. While at her college’s orientation fair, she gets cajoled into joining The Bellas, an all-girls a capella
singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in the a capella national competition, and gives them a run for their money.
MOVIES TO
WATCH OUT
FOR FROM
NOVEMBER
Countdown to the new year and sing along to teenybopper tunes in this
highly-entertaining musical movie PITCH PERFECT that stars Academy
Award winner Anna Kendrick, Australian stand-up comedian Rebel Wilson and their entourage of talented singers, premiering New Year’s eve
Tuesday, December 31 at 10pm on HBO (StarHub TV Ch 601) / HBO HD
(StarHub TV Ch 655).
RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION
Premieres Sunday, December 15 at 10pm on HBO / HBO HD
On HBO: English / Mandarin
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth,
transforming the global population into legions of the flesh-eating Undead! Human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of
Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and continues to hunt
those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her all over the
world, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to
rethink everything that she once thought to be true.
With Milla Jovovich reprising her role as Alice, witness the intense action
and suspense in the exciting premiere of RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION
on Sunday, December 15 at 10pm on HBO (StarH ub TV Ch 601) / HBO
HD (StarHub TV Ch 655).
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ENTERTAINMENT
ENTERTAINMENT
LOOPER
Premieres Sunday, December 22 at 10pm on HBO / HBO HD
On HBO: English / Mandarin
A futuristic film where time travel has already been invented, but is illegal and only available on the black market. When a mob wants to get rid
of someone, they will send their target thirty years into the past where a
“looper” - a hired gunman, like Joe, is waiting to mop up. As time passes,
Joe gets rich and life is good...until the day the mob decides to “close the
loop,” sending Joe’s future self back for assassination.
Be kept at the edge of your seat in this exciting film LOOPER, starring
multiple award winner Bruce Willis and Golden Globe-nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premiering Sunday, December 22 at 10pm on HBO
(StarHub TV Ch 601) / HBO HD (StarHub TV Ch 655).
Captain Phillips
Release: 14 Nov 2013
Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing International
Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener,
David Warshofsky
Director: Paul Greengrass
Set almost entirely in the Indian Ocean, director Paul Greengrass who is best known for
directing political thrillers such as “Bourne”,
“United 93” and “Green Zone”, returns with
yet another dramatic thriller titled “Captain
Phillips”. Tom Hanks stars in the titular role of
American skipper Captain Richard Phillips, and
the film revolves around him and his crew’s terrifying encounter with a bunch of gun-toting
Somali pirates..
Hours
Release: 21 Nov 2013
Distributor: Shaw Organisation
Cast: Paul Walker, Genesis Rodriguez,
Nick Gomez
Director: Eric Heisserer
A disaster thriller set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Paul Walker plays a new father
whose child is stranded in a New Orleans hospital after Katrina hits, leaving him desperate to
preserve his child’s life.
Enough Said
Release: 07 Nov 2013
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Toni
Collette, Catherine Keener
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Tom Yum Goong 2
Release: 07 Nov 2013
Distributor: Shaw Organisation
Cast: Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Marrese
Crump
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Make Your Move
Release: 14 Nov 2013
Distributor: Golden Village Pictures
Cast: BoA, Derek Hough, Will Yun Lee, Wesley
Jonathan, Izabella Miko
Director: Duane Adler
A divorced and single parent, Eva spends her
days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter’s impending departure for
college. She meets Albert - a sweet, funny and
like-minded man also facing an empty nest. As
their romance quickly blossoms, Eva befriends
Marianne, her new massage client. Marianne
is a beautiful poet who seems “almost perfect”
except for one prominent quality: she rags
on her ex-husband way too much. Suddenly,
Eva finds herself doubting her own relationship with Albert as she learns the truth about
Marianne’s ex.
The sequel to “Tom Yum Goong”, stars Tony Jaa
as the hard-hitting Kham. Kham is the last of a
family line of guards who once watched over
the King of Thailand’s war elephants. Traditionally, only the most perfect elephants could
successfully defend the throne, and very great
care was taken in raising them. After his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants and his
calf, Kohrn, Kham returns to his village to live in
peace. But for someone as good in martial arts
as him, peace is but a wishful thought.
A “Romeo and Juliet”-inspired independent dance film starring K-pop singer BoA and
ballroom dancer Derek Hough. The film was
directed by Duane Adler who wrote the script
for the movies “Save The Last Dance” and “Step
Up” . Aya, who lives in New York City and is the
leader of her all female dance crew, COBU. Aya
falls in love with Donny, who moves from New
Orleans to New York to help his half-brother
Nick (Wesley Jonathan) run one of the hottest underground dance clubs in the city. They
soon find themselves at the centre of a bitter
rivalry between their brothers’ underground
dance clubs..
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