Including the single greatest pratfall in cinema history.
HAHA. What even day is it? LOL! Cos Christmas, right? And New Year’s?? THIS WHOLE WEEK IS ONE LONG DAY AND WHY CAN’T I STOP EATING EVERYTHING???!!!
Anyways. Here is some background light and noise for the endless feast that is now referred to as the Christmas Taint: the neither region between the 24th and the 2nd. No, we don’t care for that terminology either, but this is the world we live in now.
SATURDAY 28 DECEMBER
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – RTE Two – 5.55pm
Looking back at this now, and comparing it to the reaction that The Rise Of Skywalker is getting, it doesn’t seem so bad, does it?
Bridge Of Spies – Film4 – 6.15pm
Another Spielberg movie, and a much better one, although admittedly a lot less fun, as it deals with Tom Hanks trying to free a man from post-WWII Germany, just as the Berlin Wall is going up.
Snow White & The Huntsman – Channel 4 – 6.40pm
Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth stand back and let Charlize Theron devour the scenery in this OTT-gritty retelling of the Disney classic.
John Wick – Virgin Media Two – 9pm
Someone killed Keanu’s puppy. So he’s going to kill everyone in the whole world. And we totally agree with him.
Kingsman: The Secret Service – Film4 – 9pm
Colin Firth, Sam Jackson, Mark Strong, and new arrival Taron Egerton have a lot of fun sending up the Bond cliches in this violent, bonkers action comedy.
Serenity – Syfy – 9pm
Basically a western movie that just happens to be set in space, and was also the movie that likely singled out director Joss Whedon to land the Avengers gig. Not to be confused with the 2019 movie of the same name, which will go down in history as one of the most bizarrely terrible movies of all time.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles – Sky One – 10pm
Steve Martin just wants to get home to his family for Christmas, but he somehow keeps crossing paths with John Candy, who is finding just as much trouble to get to his destination. An iconic comedy.
Fargo – TG4 – 10.10pm
The Coen Brothers at the top of their game. That should be all you need to know.
Along Came Polly – Comedy Central – 10.10pm
Ben Stiller is a super-uptight insurance agent, who falls in love with Jennifer Aniston, a carefree, no-regrets type. Completely mismatched, but can they find a middle ground? Features the late, great Phillip Seymour Hoffman delivering one of the greatest pratfalls in cinema history.
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Fast & Furious 7 – Virgin Media Two – 11.05pm
A toss-up between this one and the 5th one as the best of the bunch. Also a very emotional farewell to Paul Walker.
The Green Mile – Channel 4 – 11.20pm
Another Tom Hanks movie, this time taking on a rare non-horror by Stephen King, playing the prison warden who may be holding an innocent, gifted man on death row.
Presumed Innocent – RTE One – 12.45am
And, start as we end, another Harrison Ford movie. A tense thriller in which Ford is the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman that he was assigned to investigate, a woman he had an affair with years earlier.
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