There are now TWO forms of Love Island competing for your attention. But! There's also movies!
Yep, Romance Compound Australia and Romance Compound: Original Flavour (aka Love Island UK) are both on the air, but there's also movies to enjoy.
First of all, maybe head to the cinema? There's some great stuff in the cinemas right now, and we review them all here:
But if you are insisting on sitting in (and insisting on ignoring the multiple Romance Compounds), then here's what we recommend:
TUESDAY 24 JULY
The Specialist - TV3 - 9.00pm
The trashiest trash that ever trashed, but by God is it fun. Sly Stallone is the explosives expert who is hired by Sharon Stone to kill the mobsters who killed her family as a child, only to find that the mobsters are protected by James Woods, the guy who set-up Stallone years ago and forced him to go into hiding. Everything explodes. Also features the worst sex scene ever filmed.
Evil Dead II - SyFy - 9.00pm
The sequel that is really a remake, and ends up becoming one of the most enjoyable and bizarre horror movies ever made. A group of friends hang out in a cabin in the woods, and an evil book drives them all slowly mad, possessing them with demons, and things get increasingly violent and demented from there.
The Bourne Identity - ITv4 - 9.00pm
The movie that made us take Damon seriously as an action star, and also the reason why Bond stopped running away from lasers and started to take itself more seriously.
Die Hard 4.0 - Film 4 - 9.00pm
The third best of the five. Don't @ us.
Saw - ITV4 - 11.20pm
The director would go on to classier affairs like Insidious and The Conjuring, but he got his horror kick-start right here, with the movie that spurned on the whole gornography subgenre. Yes, it ended with what feels seventeen increasingly awful sequels, but the first one remains a gritty, nasty sorta-classic.
This Is 40 - Film 4 - 11.35pm
Pitched as a semi-sequel to Knocked Up, the problem with this Paul Rudd/Leslie Mann movie is that it isn't actually funny. Although we get the impression that it wasn't supposed to be funny, as it deals with the emotional fallout of a marriage finally recognising its own cracks. If you go in knowing that, you might enjoy it more as a drama with a few jokes, than a comedy with long spells of non-funny scenes.
