Two genuine action classics, and some of the funniest movies of the last few years.
Happy Saturday!
There are some big new releases in the cinema this weekend, including The Predator, Crazy Rich Asians, and A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot, and we’ve reviewed them all in the latest episode of The Big Reviewski, which you can check out right here:
Staying in no matter what we suggest you see in the cinema? Well then, we’ve got good news on the Movies-On-TV front!
SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER
Die Hard – E4 – 9.00pm
There is legitimately no good reason for an adult not to have seen this movie by now.
The Hangover – TCM – 9.00pm
The sequels (like most sequels) put a dent in the brilliance of the original, but nearly a decade later, the Who-Did-What? mystery premise of the comedy is still as strong and original as ever, and Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms make for a perfect central trio.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby – Comedy Central – 10.00pm
“If you’re not first, you’re last.”
Sleepy Hollow – Sky One – 11.00pm
Back when the pairing of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton didn’t strike fear into lovers of good cinema, this quirky romantic horror showed what happens when both parties bring their best work, as a headless horseman is going around decapitating people in Ye Olde New York.
Predator – Film 4 – 11.05pm
We’ve gone through the best one-liners and best deaths of this movie this week, to celebrate the release of the new Predator movie in cinemas.
Blazing Saddles – TCM – 11.05pm
“My name is Jim. But most people call me……Jim.”
Zoolander 2 – TG4 – 11.15pm
Truth be told, this film is actually kind of terrible. But every single scene with Kirsten Wiig’s beauty mogul Alexanya Atoz is absolute genius.
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Mean Streets – BBC One – 11.40pm
DeNiro and Scorsese worked together before Taxi Driver, on this story of some low-level New York gangsters and petty criminals, who get caught up in debt for lot of money to the kind of loan shark you wouldn’t want to owe anything to.
Layer Cake – Comedy Central Extra – 12.00am
The movie that caught the eye of the Bond producers, and essentially got Daniel Craig the role. A slick criminal thriller, also starring Sienna Miller and Tom Hardy, with Craig playing a cocaine dealer who wants to go on the straight-and-narrow, but that one last job drags him back in deeper than he’s ever been.
The Master – Channel 4 – 12.45am
Paul W.S. Anderson’s love-it-or-hate-it drama with Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and the late, great Phillip Seymour Hoffman, dealing with a powerful group leader (with shades of early Scientology) and the individuals within his ranks.
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