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Showcase: August 19, 2009

6:30AM
Skins
A pair of Lakota Sioux brothers living on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation take very separate paths in life in this searing drama from director Chris Eyre ("Smoke Signals"). Rudy (Eric Schweig) has become a police officer who is secretly a masked vigilante by night, while Vietnam veteran Mogie (Graham Greene) is an alcoholic unable to be a good father to his beloved son. Despite their great love for each other, their fates will intersect in an emotionally devastating tragedy. Gary Farmer, Noah Watts and Michelle Thrush costar.
8:00AM
Slappy And The Stinkers
Five feisty second-graders nicknamed the "Stinkers" set out to rescue their new friend, Slappy the sea lion, from an animal thief in this family comedy starring Jennifer Coolidge, Bronson Pinchot, B.D. Wong and Sam McMurray.
9:20AM
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
The video game Dungeon Siege is the basis for this action-packed epic starring Jason Statham as Farmer, a humble commoner who must save his family and his king from a cruel, power-hungry invader. Ray Liotta, Claire Forlani and Burt Reynolds costar in this fantasy from director Uwe Boll.
11:30AM
Beowulf
Director Robert Zemeckis uses cutting edge, digital motion-capture animation to bring to dazzling life the epic poem of an ancient Scandinavian warrior and the mythical creature he conquers, only to fall prey to the beast's vengeful mother and his own selfish vices. This eye-popping fantasy features the voices of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright Penn and John Malkovich.
1:30PM
On The Beach
Remake of the classic Cold War drama starring Armand Assante as the commander of a submarine in 2006, when a nuclear war between the U.S. and China has wiped out most of the world's population. Only pockets of humanity remain, mostly in Australia, so that's where the skipper and his crew head, never suspecting that fate has one last mission in store for them. Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward costar in this terrifying vision of humanity's demise.
5:00PM
Semper Fi
This documentary feature from director Vince DiPersio tells the true story of a Marine who served in Iraq by hiding his homosexuality, until his experiences there inspired him to speak out about the war and travel the country with an acclaimed one-man show based on his personal journals.
6:30PM
Slappy And The Stinkers
Five feisty second-graders nicknamed the "Stinkers" set out to rescue their new friend, Slappy the sea lion, from an animal thief in this family comedy starring Jennifer Coolidge, Bronson Pinchot, B.D. Wong and Sam McMurray.
8:00PM
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
The video game Dungeon Siege is the basis for this action-packed epic starring Jason Statham as Farmer, a humble commoner who must save his family and his king from a cruel, power-hungry invader. Ray Liotta, Claire Forlani and Burt Reynolds costar in this fantasy from director Uwe Boll.
10:15PM
Beowulf
Director Robert Zemeckis uses cutting edge, digital motion-capture animation to bring to dazzling life the epic poem of an ancient Scandinavian warrior and the mythical creature he conquers, only to fall prey to the beast's vengeful mother and his own selfish vices. This eye-popping fantasy features the voices of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright Penn and John Malkovich.
12:15AM
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Chilling horror sequel about aspiring filmmaker Amy (Jenny Morrison), who tackles the subject of urban legends for the bloody splatter movie she's shooting as her college thesis project. As she recreates gruesome murders with her cast and crew, Amy's fictional slayings begin coming to life, resulting in a grisly mystery that must be solved before the next terrifying death. Loretta Devine, Hart Bochner, Rebecca Gayheart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Davis and Anson Mount costar in this scary sequel to "Urban Legend."
1:55AM
Ju-on 2
After her pregnancy is tragically ended by a car accident, a horror actress filming a movie inside a real-life haunted house is shocked to learn that something is still growing inside her. Writer and director Takashi Shimizu crafts this chilling sequel to "Ju-On" ("The Grudge").
3:30AM
Another Day in Paradise
The bond holding a dysfunctional pseudo-family together is drug addiction in this unflinching, critically acclaimed drama, the sophomore production of filmmaker Larry Clark. James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Nathasha Gregson Wagner and James Otis star.
5:15AM
Bright Lights, Big City
Michael J. Fox stars in this acclaimed adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's best-selling, controversial novel as a naive Kansas native who comes to New York for a job at a slick metropolitan magazine, and quickly falls in with a glamorously privileged, fast-living, drug-abusing crowd. Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, John Houseman and Tracy Pollan costar in this film from director James Bridges.

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