One more night to the weekend. We can do this...
You've got some options tonight!
There is the second part of the controversial Michael Jackson documentary
Leaving Neverland, there is whatever you might want to see in the cinema (our reviews
here!), or there is that new
Netflix murder-mystery series.
Otherwise, here are our picks for the best of the flicks on the small screen tonight:
THURSDAY 7 MARCH
Escape Plan - FilmFour - 9.00pm
Sylvester Stallone is the designer of impossible-to-escape-from prisons, who is then imprisoned in one for reasons that don't really warrant explanation. Once he gets inside, the prison's warden (Jesus Christ superstar Jim Caviezel) wants to make sure he can't get out, so Sly will have to team-up with another inmate, a serial escapist played by none other than Arnie! Fun, if not quite as fun as it should have been.
Hancock - Comedy Central - 9.00pm
Will Smith is basically Superman with a hangover, less all-American hero, more apathetic to humanity. It is only when he crosses paths with PR guy Jason Reitman, and his secretive wife Charlize Theron, that he begins to attempt to turn his life around and become the good guy everyone wants him to be.
Bobby Sands: 66 Days - RTE One - 10.15pm
The 2016 documentary explores the story of Bobby Sands's 66-day hunger strike in the spring of 1981 using extracts from Bobby Sands's diary, testimony and footage from the archives, as well as hearing from journalists, historians, sociologists, and medical experts who knew Sands.
The Devil's Advocate - TCM - 11.10pm
Keanu Reeves is the hot-shot lawyer, Charlize Theron (again!) is his loving wife, and Al Pacino is the law firm owner who sees his potential. However, all is not what it seems, but any hope you might have had about plot twists are pretty much spoiled by the movie's title... Still, a lot of over-acted entertainment to be mined.
Heat - Virgin Media Two - 12.00am
Al Pacino (again!) is the best cop in LA, and Robert DeNiro is the best criminal, and Michael Mann puts them on a collision course with each other in this stylish, tense, THREE HOUR LONG crime epic.
