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The Movie Channel: October 2, 2009

7:45AM
The Medicine Show
Hospitalized with cancer, a cynical young man meets a brash leukemia patient who more than matches his distaste for intravenous drips and weepy sentimentality in this romantic comedy-drama starring Jonathan Silverman, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Greg Grunberg and Kari Wuhrer.
9:30AM
Love and Other Disasters
A cheerful matchmaker who works for the London office of "Vogue" remains blissfully unaware that her own soul mate is right under her nose in this charming romantic comedy starring Brittany Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Santiago Cabrera.
11:00AM
Mighty Aphrodite
Woody Allen's charming comedy follows a New York sportswriter, Lenny (Allen) whose adopted son turns out to be a genius. Obsessed with finding the boy's biological parents, Lenny instead finds a prostitute named Linda Ash (Oscar winner Mira Sorvino), possibly one of the dumbest women on the planet but the proverbial hooker with a heart of gold. Determined to help the sweetly stupid Linda, Lenny tries to find her a man, with unexpected results. Helena Bonham Carter and F. Murray Abraham costar.
12:40PM
Beyond the Gates
During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a Catholic priest (John Hurt) and an idealistic young English teacher (Hugh Dancy) are abandoned by U.N. forces and cut off from the outside world as they try to shield thousands of Tutsi refugees from the Hutu militants that want to slaughter them. Nicola Walker and Claire-Hope Ashitey costar in this gripping drama from director Michael Caton-Jones.
2:40PM
A Mighty Heart
Angelina Jolie stars in this emotionally wrenching adaptation of the book by Mariane Pearl, whose journalist husband was kidnapped and slain by fundamentalist militants in Pakistan. Dan Futterman costars with Irfan Khan and Will Patton in this searing chronicle of violence and redemption directed by Michael Winterbottom.
4:30PM
Desert of Blood
After fifty year entombed below a Mexican desert, a vampire awakens to embark on a bloody odyssey of revenge in this psychological horror film starring Justin Quinn and Brenda Romero.
6:00PM
A Room With A View
The creators of such masterpieces as "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day" first hit it big with this drawing room drama, a box office success about a well-bred English girl (Helena Bonham Carter) who awakens to the world around her and her own lusty impulses during a chaperoned journey to Florence. Based on the novel by E.M. Forster, this sumptuous visual feast costars Daniel Day-Lewis, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Simon Callow, Rupert Graves, Judi Dench and Denholm Elliott.
8:00PM
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.
10:00PM
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is a buxom cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond, a British aristocrat who makes her living acquiring priceless antiquities by any means necessary. When she discovers that an ancient relic sought by her late father holds the key to power over time, she's quickly strapping on her side arms and hopping the globe, hoping to beat a sinister ancient group called the Illuminati in the quest to recover the artifact. Jon Voight, Iain Glen and Mark Collie costar in this action-packed smash based on a popular video game.
11:45PM
From Dusk Till Dawn
What starts out as a taut crime thriller about fugitive brothers (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) taking a vacationing family hostage turns into something else entirely when the entire clan becomes trapped in a backwater biker bar that's under siege by vampires. Harvey Keitel and Salma Hayek costar in this cult classic thriller, co-written by Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez, the duo who would later give the world "Grindhouse."
1:35AM
Talk Sex
Sparks fly on and off the air when rival sex-advice radio show hosts are teamed up together to match wits with their competing philosophies, one hedonistic and the other moralistic. Kelli McCarty and Bobby Johnston star in this erotic romance with April Flowers, Jacy Andrews and Katie Lohmann.
3:05AM
Mr. Brooks
Kevin Costner stars in this unusual psychological thriller as Earl Brooks, a doting husband and father, a successful businessman, and an award-winning philanthropist. Earl is beloved by his family and community, so nobody suspects that he is also a notorious, deranged serial killer who is under pressure from a zealously determined female detective (Demi Moore) and a sleazy photographer (Dane Cook) with evidence of his crimes. Marg Helgenberger and William Hurt costar.
5:05AM
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.

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