<![CDATA[This Easter season, DStv pack a fun viewing experience for audiences across Africa from movies, to series, music and more. Check out some of the highlights:
The Grace Card: The tale of a police officer named Bill ‘Mac’ McDonald whose life is shattered (and his faith severely challenged) when he loses his son in a tragic accident. Eighteen years of rage and hostility ensue, marked by rapidly crumbling relationships with his family members and strained relationships on the force. Events reach a fever pitch, however, when Mac gets partnered up in the squad car with Sam Wright, an African-American ordained minister-turned-cop with a loving and supportive family. Despite the many obstacles standing in the way, the men gradually work toward overcoming their differences and helping one another. DStv audiences can tune into M-Net West on Monday 9 April at 23:30 CAT to watch Michael Joiner, Mike Higgenbottom and Louis Gossett in this riveting drama.
Hop: Russell Brand, James Marsden and Elizabeth Perkins star in this movie that blends state-of-the-art animation with live action. DStv audiences can tune into M-Net West on Tuesday 10 April at 22:00 CAT to watch Hop, the comic tale of Fred, an out-of-work slacker who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny and must take him in as he recovers. As Fred struggles with the world’s worst house guest, both will learn what it takes to finally grow up.
Splice: DStv audiences can tune into M-Net West on Friday 13 April at 23:25 CAT to watch Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chanéac in this movie about two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms’ DNA. They decide to secretly continue their work, but this time splicing in human DNA.
The American: Alone among assassins, Jack is a master craftsman. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, he vows to his contact Pavel that his next assignment will be his last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town and relishes being away from death for a spell. The assignment, as specified by a Belgian woman, Mathilde, is in the offing as a weapon is constructed. DStv audiences can tune into M-Net West on Saturday 14 April at 22:00 CAT to watch George Clooney as an assassin hiding out in Italy for one last assignment.
The Next Three Days: Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there’s no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way to break her out. DStv audiences can tune into M-Net West on Sunday 15 April at 22:00 CAT to watch Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson in this drama.
Country Strong: A drama centered on a rising country-music songwriter who sparks with a fallen star. Together, they mount his ascent and her comeback, which leads to romantic complications involving her husband/manager and a beauty queen-turned-singer. DStv audiences can tune into M-Net West on Sunday 15 April at 00:10 CAT to watch this movie. Starring Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow and Leighton Meester.
Rebel Without a Cause: Jim Stark’s (James Dean) family has just moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles. He meets Plato, and Judy (Natalie Wood), whom he likes. He somehow gets mixed up with some tough guys who talk him into participating in their ‘Chickie run’, which involves driving cars towards the edge of a cliff. One of the other boys (Judy’s boyfriend) accidentally dies resulting in Jim, Judy and Plato being forced to hide from the police and some of Judy’s boyfriend’s friends, who believe that Jim ratted on them to the cops, in an old abandoned mansion. DStv audiences can tune into TCM on Saturday 14 April at 19:10 CAT to explore the social problem of juvenile delinquency from the adolescent’s point of view. James Dean struck a nerve with many teenagers as the new kid in town, whose failed relationships result in switchblade fights and dangerous cliff top races.
Naked Gun: Don’t miss hilarious comedian Leslie Nielsen in the epic Naked Gun movies playing on M-Net Stars on DStv. In the early 1980s, after an extensive film career, Nielsen reinvented himself as a comedian. He hit the big time when he took up the role of Lieutenant Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun movies, also starring Priscilla Presley and George Kennedy. DStv audiences can tune into M-Net Stars on Friday 13 April at 17:30 CAT to watch Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell Of Fear (1991); Friday 13 April at 19:30 CAT to watch Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994); and Friday 20 April at 19:30 CAT to watch Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad (1998). After the release of Naked Gun 2 1/2, he capitalised on the films’ success by publishing a fictitious autobiography titled The Naked Truth in 1993.
Harry’s Arctic Heroes: Prince Harry joins four soldiers who were wounded in the Afghanistan conflict, in a gruelling 160 mile charity trek to the North Pole. DStv audiences can tune into BBC Knowledge from Tuesday 10 April at 22:00 CAT to watch him join in with the first leg of the trip and face the same gruelling conditions as his fellow servicemen. During the expedition, he must pull his own sledge, help pitch the tents, and prepare meals along with everyone else, all whilst facing the threat of polar bears, treacherously thin ice, boulder fields and freezing temperatures.]]>
