Your TV Guide to the Week - April 22nd, 2022

The Spy Next Door

Length: 1hr 34min
Mood: Action, Comedy, Family
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Madeline Carroll

Former CIA spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids. When one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, Bob's longtime nemesis, a Russian terrorist, pays a visit to the family.

Wild Hogs

Length: 1hr 40min
Mood: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Walt Becker
Starring: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence

Four middle-aged men decide to take a road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. Taking their motorcycles, these "Wild Hogs" tear up the road and eventually stop in New Mexico for a drink not knowing that the bar belongs to the "Del Fuegos", a mean biker gang. When the Del Fuegos steal a bike that belongs to the Wild Hogs, the four men form a plan to steal their bike back.

Call Me by Your Name

Length: 2hr 12min
Mood: Drama, Romance
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg

It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

The Vow

Length: 1hr 44min
Mood: Romance, Drama
Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill

When Paige wakes from a coma following a car accident she has no memory at all of the last few years of her life nor of her loving husband Leo. She remembers living with her rich parents and has to choose between the life she knows - which includes a boyfriend - or getting to know her husband all over again.

Date Night

Length: 1hr 28min
Mood: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Taraji P. Henson

In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.

Slumdog Millionaire

Length: 2hrs
Mood: Drama, Romance
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal

The quintessence thirst to know and absorb the eesence of love and life, emulates through a story of a slum boy Jamal, participating in a Indian television reality show, Koun Banaga Cororpati. The staggering experience of real life enables him to cross all hardles of answering the questions, but only to be convicted of cheating before the last answering winning streak. The film evokes the climax, regarding how Jamal tackles the final question, to win the show and prove the superiority of one's surreal ability to comply a meandering journey, abiding Nature's pragmatic ethos of life.

Remember Me

Length: 1hr 53mins
Mood: Drama, Romance
Director: Allen Coulter
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper

A romantic drama set in New York City during the summer of 2001, where Tyler, a rebellious young man, meets Ally through a twist of fate. Her spirit helps him heal after a family tragedy, though soon the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart.

London Spy

Length: 1hr
Mood: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Creator: Tom Rob Smith
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Edward Holcroft

A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them is found murdered.