AFN Movie TV Channel Program Schedule
AFN Movie Channel features a wide range of movies as well as “behind- the-scenes” film programs
Thursday, May 28
11:00 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Prod Year 2007 – Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) join forces with Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) to free Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones’ locker. Meanwhile, the crew of the Flying Dutchman ghost ship wreaks havoc on the Seven Seas. The friends must navigate dangerous waters to confront Chinese pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) and, ultimately, they must choose sides in a battle wherein the pirate life hangs in the balance.
14:00 Interview With the Vampire
Prod Year 1994 – Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat, a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl — whose addition to the “”family”” breeds even more conflict.
16:00 Instant Karma
Prod Year 2021 – A ride-share driver hits rock bottom after his car breaks down. However, new things start miraculously appearing in his car every day, and he sets out to find what is causing his new streak of good luck.
18:00 ES.TV
18:30 Access
19:00 Truth or Dare
Prod Year 2018 – Olivia, Lucas and a group of their college friends travel to Mexico for one last getaway before graduation. While there, a stranger convinces one of the students to play a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare with the others. Once the game starts, it awakens something evil — a demon which forces the friends to share dark secrets and confront their deepest fears. The rules are simple but wicked — tell the truth or die, do the dare or die, and if you stop playing, you die.
21:00 Umma
Prod Year 2022 – A woman’s quiet life on an American farm takes a terrifying turn when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea.
22:30 Night of the Sicario
Prod Year 2021 – Taking refuge in a woman’s home, a DEA agent must protect a federal witness’s family from vicious cartel gunmen.
Friday, May 29
00:00 Never Better
Prod Year 2022 – A young woman learns that boredom may be the least of her worries while stuck in quarantine.
01:30 Phantom Thread
Prod Year 2017 – Renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion in 1950s London — dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites and debutantes. Women come and go in Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship. His carefully tailored existence soon gets disrupted by Alma, a young and strong-willed woman who becomes his muse and lover.
04:00 Out of Nowheresville
Prod Year 2020 – A middle-aged woman, struggling to make ends meet and survive in a remote desert town, stumbles onto a dead body and nearly $1 million in cash. Along with her best friend, the two become swept up in a chaotic world of drugs and bad cops.
06:00 Hollywood on Set
Carry On/ Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Must File/ The Six Triple Eight – Features behind-the-scenes footage from movie sets and discussions with the cast and crew about the details of each film.
06:30 The Groomsmen Last Dance
Prod Year 2025 – Jackson moves to Italy to be near his daughter, but a chance meeting with cafe owner Gabriella, and some meddling friends, may lead to a second chance at love.
08:00 Take a Look
Take a Look will feature candid celebrity interviews, exclusive information, insightful movie critiques, and unique perspectives on upcoming major motion pictures, television shows, streaming series, and more.
08:30 Access
09:00 The Perfect Summer
Prod Year 2013 – Forced to move from Chicago to a small town, a teenager (Adam Horner) asks his grandfather (Eric Roberts) to teach him how to surf.
10:30 Field of Dreams
Prod Year 1989 – When Iowa farmer Ray (Kevin Costner) hears a mysterious voice one night in his cornfield saying “”If you build it, he will come,”” he feels the need to act. Despite taunts of lunacy, Ray builds a baseball diamond on his land, supported by his wife, Annie (Amy Madigan). Afterward, the ghosts of great players start emerging from the crops to play ball, led by “”Shoeless”” Joe Jackson. But, as Ray learns, this field of dreams is about much more than bringing former baseball greats out to play.
13:00 Hollywood on Set
The Instigators/ Wicked Part 1/ Ultraman Rising – Features behind-the-scenes footage from movie sets and discussions with the cast and crew about the details of each film.
13:30 A League of Their Own
Prod Year 1992 – As America’s stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell co-star as two of the sisters’ teammates.
16:00 42
Prod Year 2013 – In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, defies major league baseball’s notorious color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to the team. The heroic act puts both Rickey and Robinson in the firing line of the public, the press and other players. Facing open racism from all sides, Robinson demonstrates true courage and admirable restraint by not reacting in kind and lets his undeniable talent silence the critics for him.
18:30 Access
19:00 Snow White
Prod Year 2025 – A princess joins forces with seven dwarfs and a group of rebels to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Queen.
21:00 Something From Tiffany’s
Prod Year 2022 – A woman gets upended when an engagement ring that was for someone else leads her to the person she’s meant to be with.
22:30 Pride
Prod Year 2014 – Realizing that they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, London-based gays and lesbians lend their support to striking coal miners in 1984 Wales.
Saturday, May 30
01:00 Sadistic Intentions
Prod Year 2018 – A psychotic musician lures a band mate and a woman to a remote mansion for a night of heavy metal terror.
02:30 Range Roads
Prod Year 2021 – An actress tries to reconnect with her estranged brother after their parents die in a car accident.
04:00 Patriot Games
Prod Year 1992 – When former CIA agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) hampers an IRA terrorist attack in London, he kills one of the terrorists. The dead man’s brother, another member of the group named Sean Miller (Sean Bean), is arrested but quickly escapes. Vowing revenge against Ryan, Miller travels to the United States, where he forces Ryan’s wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch) into a car accident that badly injures them. This convinces Ryan to rejoin the CIA in order to track down Miller.
06:00 The Princess Diaries
Prod Year 2002 – Mia, an awkward San Francisco teenager, has just learned her deceased father was the crown prince of Genovia. To keep the royal reigns from passing to another family due to a broken bloodline, the queen seeks the favor of her estranged granddaughter in hopes that she will take her father’s place as the crown princess.
08:00 Prom Pact
Prod Year 2023 – It is the height of prom season, but high school senior Mandy Yang has her sights set on a singular goal: attending Harvard. When she finds out she has been deferred, she is determined to do whatever she can to get herself off the waitlist, even if that means asking the one person who represents everything she abhors, all-star jock Graham Lansing, whose father is a powerful Senator and Harvard alum.
10:00 Access
10:30 Planet of the Apes
Prod Year 2001 – Director Tim Burton (“”Batman””) reinvents one of the most acclaimed and beloved works of science fiction, Pierre Boulle’s classic novel “”Planet of the Apes.”” Burton’s “”Planet of the Apes”” begins with the famed original’s premise — a pilot finds himself in a world turned upside down after landing on a strange planet.
12:30 King Kong
Prod Year 2005 – Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depressin era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong.
16:00 Kong: Skull Island
Prod Year 2017 – Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they venture into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery soon becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape from a primal world where humanity does not belong.
18:00 War for the Planet of the Apes
Prod Year 2017 – Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless colonel (Woody Harrelson). After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both of their species and the future of the planet.
20:30 Rampage
Prod Year 2018 – Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, an extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla that’s been in his care since birth. When a rogue genetic experiment goes wrong, it causes George, a wolf and a reptile to grow to a monstrous size. As the mutated beasts embark on a path of destruction, Okoye teams up with a discredited genetic engineer and the military to secure an antidote and prevent a global catastrophe.
22:30 Ray Donovan: The Movie
Prod Year 2022 – A showdown, decades in the making, brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past.
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