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17th Aug 2018

Here are the 7 best films on the telly tonight

Rory Cashin

Training Day

Denzel? Ryan Gosling? Bradley Cooper? Seth Rogen? Robert DeNiro (times two!)? Choices, choices.

The best movies on the telly tonight are some seriously good picks, if we do say so ourselves, but any film fans out there should check out the latest episode of The Big Reviewski, in which we chat to Denzel Washington himself about his new movie The Equalizer 2.

We also review the movie, and every other cinema release, right here:

Sitting in? We got you covered!

FRIDAY 17 AUGUST

Bad Neighbours – Film 4 – 9.00pm

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are a happily married couple with a baby on the way, when the discover the house next door has been bought by a college fraternity, headed by Zac Efron and Dave Franco. In trying to get them to move out, an all-out prank war kicks off between them.

Training Day – TV3 – 9.00pm

Denzel Washington week continues to go strong (did we mention we spoke to him about his new movie?!), and it was for this movie he bagged one of his Oscars, playing a totally corrupt cop who is training in rookie Ethan Hawke on his first day in the new job. Things don’t go so great.

The Inbetweeners Movie – E4 – 9.00pm

Jay, Will, Simon and Neil head to Crete to celebrate school being over forever. But will this party-hardy holiday finally put their friendships to the ultimate test?

Skyfall – ITV2 – 9.00pm

The best Bond movie ever made? Discuss.

Heat – Dave – 9.00pm

The best heist movie ever made? Discuss.

The Place Beyond The Pines – RTE Two – 9.30pm

Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Dane DeHaan and more star in this multi-generational story of two men and their two sons who find themselves on a fateful head-on collision.

Taxi Driver – Film 4 – 12.45am

Scorsese. DeNiro. “You talkin’ to me?” You know this movie.

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