Your TV Guide to the Week - May 6th, 2022

The Rum Diary

Length: 1hr 59min
Mood: Drama, Comedy
Director: Bruce Robinson
Starring: Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli

Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.

Idiocracy

Length: 1hr 24min
Mood: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard

Private Joe Bauers, a decisively average American, is selected as a guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten, awakening to a future so incredibly moronic he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

Jawbreaker

Length: 1hr 27min
Mood: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director: Darren Stein
Starring: Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz

Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.

Showtime

Length: 1hr 34min
Mood: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Tom Dey
Starring: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo

A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm.

Beverly Hills Ninja

Length: 1hr 28min
Mood: Action, Comedy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Nathaniel Parker

This is the story of an unlikely overweight man named Haru, who was an orphaned baby back then when he was raised by ninjas in Japan. His physical challenges, still becomes a Ninja, albeit a klutzy white one. His first mission brings him to Beverly Hills, California to investigate a murder mystery.

Pearl Harbor

Length: 3hr 3mins
Mood: Action, Drama, History
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale

Childhood friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker enter World War II as pilots. Rafe is so eager to take part in the war that he departs to fight in Europe alongside England's Royal Air Force. On the homefront, his girlfriend Evelyn, finds comfort in Danny's arms. The three reunite in Hawaii just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Maze Runner

Length: 1hr 53mins
Mood: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director: Wes Ball
Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster

A 10-year-old girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father, a preacher. While there, she adopts a stray dog whom she names after the local supermarket where he was found. With her goofy pooch by her side, she meets an eclectic group of townspeople and rekindles an almost lost relationship with her father.

Revelations

Length: 43mins
Mood: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Creator: David Seltzer
Starring: Bill Pullman, Natascha McElhone, Michael Massee

Set just before the start of the Armageddon, the series follows two central characters, a physicist and a nun in a race against time to see if the end of the world can be averted. Bill Pullman plays the role of Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard physics professor and father mourning the death of his daughter, who was murdered by an evil satanist with seemingly supernatural abilities. Natascha McElhone stars as a nun who appeals to Massey to help her investigate whether the apocalyptic prophecy from the Book of Revelations is starting to come true.