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12th Aug 2018

Here are the 7 best films on the telly today

Rory Cashin

One of the best Bonds, one of the best Star Wars, and one of the best kids movies of all time.

Heading to the cinema? There’s still Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, The Incredibles 2 and Ant-Man And The Wasp to chose from, not to mention new releases The Meg and Unfriended: Dark Web to chose from, all of which we review in the latest episode of The Big Reviewski, which you can check out right here:

Sitting in? Lots of choose from.

SUNDAY 12 AUGUST

Flight Of The Navigator – Film 4 – 2.45pm

A little kid wakes up 20 years into the future, and hasn’t aged a day. Freaking out, he gets studied by the government, and happens across a crashed alien spaceship that may hold secrets to what happened to him. Seriously, this is SUCH a great family movie, and even more seriously, how has Hollywood not remade this yet??

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope – ITV2 – 6.35pm

AKA The movie that they pretty much remade when The Force Awakens came out. Still a classic.

The Other Guys – Comedy Central – 9.00pm

Ferrell and Wahlberg are cops who somehow happen across a huge heist job, and are forced to work together despite the fact that they hate each other. Also features Eva Mendes as a scene-stealing, put-upon wife. And that amazing scene with The Rock and Sam Jackson.

Skyfall – ITV2 – 9.00pm

The only Bond movie that was so classy it got Oscar talk, the action scenes are incredible, the whole film is beautiful to look at, and it features Javier Bardem as a truly brilliant villain.

Assault On Precinct 13 – ITV4 – 11.00pm

The remake of the 70s classic (which was itself a remake), this one sees Ethan Hawke as the captain of an about-to-be-shut-down police precinct, when a massive snowstorm forces a traveling prisoner (Laurence Fishburne) to be kept there until it passes. But there are a lot of criminals who want him dead, and the cops are forced into a violent siege.

The Counselor – Film 4 – 11.35pm

The writer of No Country For Old Men and The Road. The director of Gladiator and Alien. Featuring Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. This should have been great but was a massive flop when it was first released. Has time away from it made it better? Only one way to find out.

Fruitvale Station – Channel 4 – 12.15am

The first movie from the director of Creed and Black Panther, working with his favourite actor Michael B. Jordan, telling the story of a young man trying to make ends meet, and the inherent racism of America proving that doing just that can be incredibly hard work.

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