No less than FOUR mega action movies on later. Some are great. Some are so-bad-they’re-great.
If you’re hoping the best films on the telly tonight will be a megamix of action movies, then we’ve got some GREAT news for you!
WEDNESDAY 15 AUGUST
Cowboys & Aliens – Film 4 – 9.00pm
Daniel Craig is the amnesiac cowboy, Harrison Ford is the local sheriff, and together they have to put aside their differences to save the planet for angry aliens. It isn’t great cinema, but it is good fun.
Armageddon – SyFy – 9.00pm
It turned 20 years old last month, and Michael Bay thinks it is the worst film he ever made. He is wrong.
American Sniper – RTE One – 9.35pm
Bradley Cooper headlines this based-on-a-true-story dramatic thriller directed by Clint Eastwood, telling the story of the US soldier sniper with the most confirmed kills to his name. It went on to bring home a few Oscars, as well as making well over half-a-billion at the box office.
The Bone Collector – Sky Witness – 10.00pm
Denzel Washington week continues to go strong in the lead-up to his latest movie hitting cinemas. Here he plays a bed-bound genius detective who must use Angelina Jolie to find the clues and figure out the identity of a serial killer before he/she/they strike again.
Exit Wounds – ITV4 – 11.05pm
Smack bang in the middle of the kind-of-but-not-really career resurgence that Steven Seagal had in the very early 21st century, this one partnered him with DMX as a good cop fighting corruption. Also, inexplicably, stars Eva Mendes, who really deserves better than this.
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl – Film 4 – 11.20pm
A beautiful film about a group of teens who become friends, and the hardship that comes with the knowledge that one of them is going to die of cancer quite soon. If you make it through this movie without crying, then you are a GOD-DAMNED ROBOT.
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