AFN Movie TV Channel Program Schedule
AFN Movie Channel features a wide range of movies as well as “behind- the-scenes” film programs
Wednesday, August 12
00:00 Those Who Wish Me Dead
Prod Year 2021 – Still reeling from the loss of three lives, Hannah is a smoke jumper who’s perched in a watchtower high above the Montana wilderness. She soon encounters Connor, a skittish boy who’s bloodied, traumatized and on the run in the remote forest. As Hannah tries to bring him to safety, she’s blissfully unaware of the real dangers they face — two relentless killers hunting Connor, and a fiery blaze consuming everything in its path.
02:00 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Prod Year 2017 – After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon — an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence — gets involved, the battle is only exacerbated.
04:00 A Walk Among the Tombstones
Prod Year 2014 – Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
06:00 Spanglish
Prod Year 2004 – Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno (Paz Vega) finds housekeeping work with Deborah (Tea Leoni) and John Clasky (Adam Sandler), a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can’t handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.
08:30 Access
09:00 Seven Pounds
Prod Year 2008 – A life-shattering secret torments Ben Thomas (Will Smith). In order to find redemption, he sets out to change the lives of seven strangers. Over the course of his journey, he meets and falls in love with a cardiac patient named Emily (Rosario Dawson), and in so doing, complicates his mission.
11:30 The Blind Side
Prod Year 2009 – Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a homeless black teen, has drifted in and out of the school system for years. Then Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) and her husband, Sean (Tim McGraw), take him in. The Tuohys eventually become Michael’s legal guardians, transforming both his life and theirs. Michael’s tremendous size and protective instincts make him a formidable force on the gridiron, and with help from his new family and devoted tutor, he realizes his potential as a student and football player.
14:00 Hollywood on Set
The Great Wall/ The Lego Batman Movie/ Get Out – Features behind-the-scenes footage from movie sets and discussions with the cast and crew about the details of each film.
14:30 Searching for Sugar Man
Prod Year 2012 – Though he faded into obscurity in the U.S., an early ’70s musician known as Rodriguez became a huge hit in South Africa and was widely rumored to have died. Two obsessed fans set out to learn the man’s true fate.
16:00 Dear Evan Hansen
Prod Year 2021 – Evan Hansen is an anxious, isolated high-school student who’s aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social media age. He soon embarks on a journey of self-discovery when a letter he wrote for a writing exercise falls into the hands of a grieving couple whose son took his own life.
18:30 Access
19:00 Ten Thousand Reasons for Revenge
Prod Year 2026 – After a struggling single mom’s daughter takes money from a dying bank robber, the two become entangled in a tense investigation that threatens everything they love.
20:30 The Man in the Window
Prod Year 2026 – A widow becomes suspicious that the man who just moved in across the street is a killer after a neighbor is murdered.
22:00 Totally Killer
Prod Year 2023 – Thirty-five years after the shocking murders of three teens, an infamous killer returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. When 17-year-old Jamie comes face-to-face with the masked maniac, she accidentally time-travels back to 1987. Forced to navigate the unfamiliar culture, Jamie teams up with her teenage mother to take down the psycho once and for all.
Thursday, August 13
00:00 Triangle of Sadness
Prod Year 2022 – Two models and a cleaning lady become stranded on a desert island with a group of billionaires.
02:30 Uncut Gems
Prod Year 2019 – A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
05:00 Ultimate Countdown
Best Improvised Movie Moments
06:00 Captain Phillips
Prod Year 2013 – In April 2009, the U.S. containership Maersk Alabama sails toward its destination on a day that seems like any other. Suddenly, Somali pirates race toward the vessel, climb aboard and take everyone hostage. The captain of the ship, Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), looks to protect his crew from the hostile invaders, and their leader, Muse (Barkhad Abdi). The pirates are after millions of dollars, and Phillips must use his wits to make sure everyone survives and returns home safely.
08:30 Access
09:00 Suffragette
Prod Year 2015 – In early 20th-century Britain, the growing suffragette movement forever changes the life of working wife and mother Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan). Galvanized by political activist Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Watts joins a diverse group of women who fight for equality and the right to vote. Faced with increasing police action, Maud and her dedicated suffragettes must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, risking their jobs, homes, family and lives for a just cause.
11:00 Warcraft
Prod Year 2016 – Looking to escape from his dying world, the orc shaman Gul’dan utilizes dark magic to open a portal to the human realm of Azeroth. Supported by the fierce fighter Blackhand, Gul’dan organizes the orc clans into a conquering army called the Horde. Uniting to protect Azeroth from these hulking invaders are King Llane, the mighty warrior Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel) and the powerful wizard Medivh. As the two races collide, leaders from each side start to question if war is the only answer.
13:30 Hollywood on Set
Never Let Go/ The Killer’s Game/ Megalopolis – Features behind-the-scenes footage from movie sets and discussions with the cast and crew about the details of each film.
14:00 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Prod Year 2017 – Roman J. Israel is an idealistic defense attorney whose life gets upended when his boss and mentor — the legendary civil rights icon William Henry Jackson — dies unexpectedly. He’s then recruited to join a law firm led by George Pierce, an ambitious lawyer who was one of Jackson’s former students. Israel’s legacy of activism soon gets put to the test when he takes on the case of Langston Bailey, a young man accused of murdering a convenience store clerk.
16:30 Breakthrough
Prod Year 2019 – Tragedy strikes when Joyce Smith’s adopted son, John, falls through the ice on a frozen lake in Missouri. Trapped underwater for more than 15 minutes, rescuers bring John back to the surface and rush him to the nearest hospital. While doctors fear the worst, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.
18:30 Access
19:00 Blue Beetle
Prod Year 2023 – Jaime Reyes suddenly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab. When the Scarab chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he’s bestowed with an incredible suit of armor that’s capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.
21:30 ES.TV
22:00 Upgraded
Prod Year 2024 – Ana, an ambitious intern at an art auction house in NYC, misrepresents herself as the director to a handsome wealthy man. As their romance develops, her deception creates challenges that threaten her career and relationship.
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