Loads to pick from tonight!
It is a very, very busy night on the small screen, so let us just get right down into it, shall we?
SATURDAY 21 DECEMBER
The Devil Wears Prada – Film4 – 6.45pm
Anne Hathaway becomes the assistant to Meryl Streep’s ruthless fashion mogul in the acidically-funny comedy.
Men In Black – Channel 4 – 7.30pm
The first one. The best one.
American Sniper – RTE Two – 9pm
Clint Eastwood directs Bradley Cooper in this Oscar-magnet biopic of the US army’s most decorated sniper in history.
Star Trek – E4 – 9pm
The first one (of the new ones). The best one.
Transformers – Sky One – 9pm
The first one. The best one.
Lucy – Film4 – 9pm
Scar-Jo is forced to take some untested drugs that actually slowly begin to turn her into the world’s most intelligent, most powerful being. Bonkers action sci-fi.
Stand By Me – Dave – 9.20pm
Four best friends head off on a trip to find a dead body in Stephen King’s iconic coming-of-age teen drama.
Kisses – TG4 – 9.45pm
Two young friends head into Dublin city to find an older brother so that he won’t be alone for Christmas. Gritty but tender Irish movie.
Philomena – BBC Four – 10.55pm
Steve Coogan is the British journalist who decides to help Judi Dench’s elderly Irish mother try to find her child, after the Catholic Church forced her to give her up for adoption in the States decades earlier. A very funny, very touching dramedy.
Behind The Candelabra – BBC Two – 11.35pm
Michael Douglas is the legendary Liberace, Matt Damon is his secret gay lover, and this is the story of how they met, and how fame ultimately tore them apart.
Looper – BBC One – 12.20am
Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt get caught up in this futuristic time-travel action-thriller, which is about 100 IQ points higher than your average blockbuster.
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