What’s on TV: Sunday 19 April – ‘X-Men Dark Phoenix’, ‘Shanghai Noon’ and more

It’s day 24 and those lockdown blues might be kicking in by now. If you need some movie suggestions for tonight, turn to M-Net, Action Plus, eTV and SABC 3 to get through the dark times. Here are the most popular movie titles in the Sunday lineup.

M-Net Movie – X-Men: Dark Phoenix

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Plot

The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control.

During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she’s hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable.

The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey’s new abilities to rule the galaxy.

On air: Sunday, 19 April, 20:30 on M-Net, Channel 106.

Watch: X-Men: Dark Phoenix trailer

X-Men: Dark Phoenix main cast and characters

• James McAvoy as Professor Chares Xavier
• Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
• Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique
• Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy / Beast
• Sophie Turner as Jean Grey / Phoenix
• Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers / Cyclops
• Alexandra Shipp as Ororo Munroe / Storm
• Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver

Movies Action+ – The Girl In The Spider’s Web

The Girl In The Spider’s Web Plot

Fired from the National Security Agency, Frans Balder recruits hacker Lisbeth Salander to steal FireWall, a computer programme that can access codes for nuclear weapons worldwide.

The download soon draws attention from an NSA agent who traces the activity to Stockholm. Further problems arise when Russian thugs take Lisbeth’s laptop and kidnap a math whiz who can make FireWall work.

Now, Lisbeth and an unlikely ally must race against time to save the boy and recover the codes to avert disaster.

On air: Sunday, 19 April, 20:30 on M-Net, Channel 106.

Watch: The Girl In The Spider’s Web trailer

The Girl In The Spider’s Web main cast and characters

• Mikael Blomkvist – a journalist at Millennium magazine
• Lisbeth Salander – a computer hacker known as “Wasp”
• Frans Balder – a leading researcher in artificial intelligence
• August Balder – Frans’ autistic-savant son
• Hanna Balder – Frans’ ex-wife and August’s mother
• Lasse Westman – Hanna’s abusive boyfriend
• Edwin Needham – security chief at National Security Agency
• Alona Casales – National Security Agency agent
• Gabriella Grane – Swedish Security Service analyst
• Camilla Salander – also known as “Kira” and “Thanos”, Lisbeth’s estranged fraternal twin sister and leader of the Spider Society
• Jan Holtser – real name Boris Latvinov, former Soviet special forces soldier and member of the Spider Society
• Jurij Bogdanov – hacking expert in the Spider Society
• Erika Berger – editor-in-chief of Millennium and Blomkvist’s on–off lover

eTV Movie – Shanghai Noon

Shanghai Noon Plot

Bumbling Chon Wang works as an Imperial guard in the Forbidden City of China. When Princess Pei Pei is taken hostage, Wang pursues her captors to the wild frontier land of Nevada.

There he meets a good-natured thief and occasional cowboy Roy O’Bannon, Using O’Bannon’s love of money, Wang convinces him to help recover the princess, and together the two form a curious partnership.

On air: Sunday, 19 April, 20:00 on eTV

Watch:Shanghai Noon movie trailer

Shanghai Noon cast and characters

• Jackie Chan as Chon Wang
• Owen Wilson as Roy O’Bannon/Wyatt Earp
• Lucy Liu as Princess Pei-Pei
• Brandon Merrill as Falling Leaves
• Xander Berkeley as Marshal Nathan Van Cleef
• Roger Yuan as Lo Fong
• Kate Luyben as Fifi
• Jason Connery as Calvin Andrews
• Simon R. Baker as Little Feather
• Walton Goggins as Wallace
• Henry O as Royal Interpreter
• Yu Rongguang as Imperial Guard Rong Guang Yu
• Eric Chen as Imperial Guard Eric Chi Cheng Chen

SABC 3 Movie – How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days

How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days Plot

An advice columnist tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man she can use for the experiment.

Enter executive Ben Berry, who is so confident in his romantic prowess that he thinks he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. When Andie and Ben meet, their plans backfire.

On air: Sunday, 19 April, 21:30 on eTV

Watch: How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days movie trailer

How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days and characters

• Kate Hudson as Andie Anderson
• Matthew McConaughey as Benjamin Barry
• Kathryn Hahn as Michelle
• Annie Parisse as Jeannie
• Adam Goldberg as Tony
• Thomas Lennon as Thayer
• Michael Michele as Judy Spears
• Shalom Harlow as Judy Green
• Robert Klein as Phillip Warren
• Bebe Neuwirth as Lana Jang
• Liliane Montevecchi as Mrs. DeLauer
• Marvin Hamlisch as Himself (Cameo)

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