Isn’t it a bummer when you see your favorite movie already playing halfway through when you turn on the TV? Fret not! From rom-com and action to horror and thriller, we’re giving you a heads up on all the must-watch movies on TV from December 14 to 20, 2020.
December 14, Monday
X-Men The Last Stand
(2:20pm, FOX Movies)
A government-supported laboratory finds a cure for the mutants and the DNA of a powerful boy is used for it. However, the mutants must give up their powers and become human, hence splitting them.
Through Night and Day
(3:15pm, PBO)
It is about Ben and his fiancé Jen’s tour in Iceland that made them knew each other more.
The Lake House
(5:30pm, HBO)
Love blooms when Kate, a doctor, exchanges letters with Alex, an architect who is fed up with his life. Unknown to them, they lead lives two years apart.
Spider-Man 2
(6:15pm, Cinemax)
Peter Parker is dissatisfied with life when he loses his job, the love of his life, Mary Jane, and his powers. Amid all the chaos, he must fight Doctor Octopus who threatens to destroy New York City.
Pitch Perfect
(7:10pm, HBO)
Beca, a college fresher, reluctantly joins an all-girls a cappella group and later infuses freshness into their repertoire. They then take on a male a cappella group in a competition.
December 15, Tuesday
Just The 3 Of Us
(5pm, Cinema One)
Strangers, forced by circumstance to live together, find love despite being polar opposites.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
(6:10pm, HBO)
Lara Croft, an adventurer, embarks on a journey to find an artefact that possesses the ability to control time. A secret society wants to lay its hands on the relic for its own immoral purposes.
Red
(8:10pm, Cinemax)
Frank Moses, a former black-ops agent, learns that his life is under threat from an assassin. In a bid to protect himself, he reunites with his old team to nab the man who has vowed to kill him.
Taken 3
(9pm, FOX Movies)
Bryan Mills is accused of a murder he did not commit. He does not want to accept this unjust fate and makes a run for it, but Inspector Franck Dotzler seeks to hunt him down.
December 16, Wednesday
Never Not Love You
(1:30pm, PBO)
Two young lovers meet and fall in love. Together they build a life until career opportunities bring them out of the country. Out of the comforts of home and with individual careers going different directions. Will their love survive?
My Sister’s Keeper
(3:40pm, HBO)
Anna, a young girl, seeks a lawyer’s help to earn medical emancipation from her parents when they force her to donate organs, blood and tissue to her leukaemia-stricken elder sister and help her live.
Barcelona: A Love Untold
(5pm, Cinema One)
While earning a degree in Spain, a young architecture student dealing with grief meets a fellow expatriate trying to escape her past.
Charlie’s Angels
(5:05pm, Cinemax)
Natalie, Dylan and Alex are three beautiful and uniquely talented tough girls are given the task of finding the kidnapped owner of Knox Enterprises, Eric Knox, by their millionaire boss, Charlie.
Doctor Strange
(9pm, FOX Movies)
In an accident, Stephen Strange, a famous neurosurgeon, loses the ability to use his hands. He goes to visit the mysterious Ancient One to heal himself and becomes a great sorcerer under her tutelage.
December 17, Thursday
Five Feet Apart
(10:55am, FOX Movies)
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness.
Love Actually
(2:55pm, HBO)
Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
Alone/Together
(5pm, Cinema One)
It follows the love story of Christine and Raf, who cross paths again eight years after they first met during their college years.
Taken 2
(11:45pm, Cinemax)
Bryan Mills, a former CIA agent, and his ex-wife, Lenore, are taken hostage by a ruthless gang in Albania. However, his daughter Kim helps Bryan break free and rescue Lenore.
December 18, Friday
Between Maybes
(1pm, Cinema One)
A man lives as a recluse in Japan until a washed up actress arrives. As he checks up on her, the two lost souls find comfort in each other.
Les Miserables
(4:50pm, HBO)
Jean Valjean, a prisoner, breaks parole in order to start life anew. He soon becomes the caretaker of a young girl but his past comes back to catch up with him.
Up
(5:35pm, FOX Movies)
Carl, an old widower, goes off on an adventure in his flying house in search of Paradise Falls, his wife’s dream destination.
Vince & Kath & James
(7pm, Cinema One)
Love can be complicated, especially when Vince agrees to secretly woo Kath via text on behalf of James, while falling for her, too.
December 19, Saturday
The Day After Valentine’s
(10:30am, PBO)
Two perfect strangers form an unlikely friendship at an Airbnb, which leads them to overcome their personal issues around racism and misogyny in their home lives.
Hancock
(2:30pm, Cinemax)
Ray decides to help Hancock, an unpopular superhero, enhance his public image. When Hancock meets Ray’s wife, he discovers that he is not the only one of his kind.
The Intern
(3:20pm, HBO)
Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower, realises that he is not cut out for retirement. He then applies to become a senior intern for a sceptical boss at an online fashion site.
My Ex and Whys
(7pm, Cinema One)
Popular blogger Cali is hired to work on a marketing campaign alongside another viral sensation, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Former playboy Gio is intent on proving he has changed and winning Cali back.
December 20, Sunday
The Wolverine
(9pm, FOX Movies)
Logan travels to Tokyo to meet Yashida, an old acquaintance who is dying. The situation regresses when Yashida offers to take away his healing abilities, but Logan refuses.
Spider-Man 3
(10pm, Cinemax)
Peter Parker becomes one with a symbiotic alien that bolsters his Spider-Man avatar and affects his psyche. He also has to deal with Sandman and maintain a fragmented relationship with Mary Jane.
