By Jon Donnis
May on LEGEND brings together a lively mix of classic favourites and more modern thrillers. Leading the charge is Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America, with Robert De Niro and James Woods delivering standout performances. Alongside it sits Joel Schumacher’s courtroom drama The Client, starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones, plus Spike Lee’s neo noir take on Old Boy, originally made famous by Park Chan wook. Rounding out that group is Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor, often seen as one of the defining films of 1970s paranoia cinema.
The month also features Immortals, Tarsem Singh’s bold and intense spin on Greek mythology with Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke, as well as Andrew Niccol’s In Time, a dystopian sci fi thriller starring Justin Timberlake and Cillian Murphy. The Young Americans joins the schedule too, a British crime film from Danny Cannon, featuring Harvey Keitel and Viggo Mortensen.
There are also several channel premieres to look out for. These include the police thriller S.W.A.T. with Samuel L Jackson, Colin Farrell and Michelle Rodriguez, the survival drama The Ice Road starring Liam Neeson, and the hard edged crime story The Yards, featuring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan and Faye Dunaway.
Saturday 2 May @ 21:00 – IMMORTALS (2011) *Channel Premiere
The brutal King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) searches for the legendary Epirus Bow to release the imprisoned Titans and destroy the Olympian gods. Zeus chooses a mortal stonemason, Theseus (Henry Cavill), to lead the fight against Hyperion and save humanity. Also stars Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff, John Hurt and Isabel Lucas.
Sunday 3 May @ 21:00 – THE CLIENT (1994) *Channel Premiere
A streetwise 11-year-old boy (Brad Renfro) witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer and learns where a senator's body is buried. Worried for his family, he hires a lawyer (Susan Sarandon) to protect him from both the Mafia and a ruthless federal prosecutor (Tommy Lee Jones) who seems more concerned with making headlines than with his young witness’s safety.
Saturday 9 May @ 21:00 – S.W.A.T. (2003) *Channel Premiere
Inspired by the ‘70s hit TV series, Colin Farrell plays Jim Street, a former S.W.A.T. team member demoted after a controversial decision made during a robbery standoff. He gets a chance to redeem himself when team commander Dan Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) is assigned to recruit and train five top-notch cops for a new Special Weapons and Tactics unit.
Sunday 10 May @ 21:00 – OLD BOY (2013) *Channel Premiere
Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin), an alcoholic advertising executive, is kidnapped and imprisoned in a hotel-like cell for 20 years without knowing why. Upon his sudden release, he hunts for his captor, uncovering a dark, orchestrated conspiracy and a twisted, personal vendetta against him. Spike Lee’s remake of Park Chan-wook's 2003 masterpiece, also stars Elizabeth Olsen and Samuel L. Jackson.
Thursday 14 May @ 21:00 – THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975) *Channel Premiere
CIA analyst Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find all his co-workers murdered. As the code-named "Condor" goes on the run to escape a rogue agency cell, he kidnaps a photographer (Faye Dunaway) to help uncover a conspiracy involving oil and the CIA.
Saturday 16 April @ 21:00 – IN TIME (2011) *Channel Premiere
Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a female hostage. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried co-star.
Saturday 24 May @ 21:00 – THE ICE ROAD (2021) *Channel Premiere
Liam Neeson stars as Mike McCann, a truck driver who leads a dangerous rescue mission across frozen Canadian lakes to deliver equipment to trapped miners. Alongside his brother, he battles thawing ice, a massive storm, and corporate sabotage to save them in time.
Sunday 25 May @ 21:00 – ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984) *Channel Premiere
In 1968, the elderly David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) returns to New York, where he had a career in the criminal underground in the '20s and '30s. Most of his old friends are long gone, yet he feels his past is unresolved. Told in flashbacks, the film follows Noodles from a tough kid in a Jewish slum in New York's Lower East Side, through his rise to bootlegger and then Mafia boss, a journey marked by violence, betrayal and remorse.
Saturday 30 May @ 23:05 – THE YOUNG AMERICANS (1993) *Channel Premiere
Harvey Keitel stars as a NYC detective assisting London police in dismantling a ruthless drug syndicate. The syndicate, led by an American expat (Viggo Mortensen), recruits local troubled teens to become gangsters and infiltrate a dangerous, new criminal network. Also stars Iain Glen and Thandiwe Newton.
Sunday 31 May @ 21:00 – THE YARDS (1995) *Channel Premiere
Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg), returns home after serving a prison sentence for car theft. Seeking a legitimate fresh start, Leo turns to his uncle, Frank Olchin (James Caan), a contractor who manages the city's subway car repairs. He soon discovers that Uncle Frank has turned the family business into a dangerous world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs, and murder. From James Gray, director of the upcoming 2026 crime drama, Paper Tiger.
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