A very solid selection for your Thursday night in.
If you’re looking for one more evening of relative relaxation before the weekend hits us properly, then we recommend six of the following seven movies.
One of the recommendations really is more of an experiment than anything else…
THURSDAY 24 JANUARY
Men In Black – FilmFour – 7.05pm
Before the rebootquel arrives this summer (check out the trailer for that one here), you can go back and watch the very funny, very original original with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe.
16 Blocks – Virgin Media One – 9.00pm
Bruce Willis is a nearly retired police officer who is tasked with transporting important witness Mos Def to a nearby police station, only for all of the criminals in New York to come out of the woodwork in an attempt to kill them both.
Unbroken – More4 – 9.00pm
Angelina Jolie directs this powerful biopic about an Olympian who becomes a POW during WWII. Stars Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, and Jai Courtney, with a script co-written by The Coen Brothers themselves.
Die Another Day – ITV4 – 9.00pm
Without a doubt the worst Pierce Brosnan-as-Bond movie, and arguably the worst Bond movie full stop. But there is something to be said about the entertainment value in watching something you KNOW is absolutely terrible. Plus it has Madonna in it, so… there’s that.
From Dusk Till Dawn – Syfy – 11.00pm
George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as a pair of bank robbers who try to hide out in a bar after a job goes wrong, only to find that it is a frequent feeding spot for vampires. Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, and Cheech of Cheech and Chong fame star in this cult favourite horror-comedy.
The Gift – FilmFour – 11.05pm
Joel Edgerton stars, writes, and directs in this creepy thriller about a formerly bullied boy who revisits his bully as a grown man, here played by Jason Bateman, who soon begins to fear that there is trouble on the horizon for him and his wife (Rebecca Hall).
Swordfish – ITV4 – 11.40pm
Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, John Travolta, and… Vinnie Jones? An absolutely bonkers action movie that never lives up to that absolutely jaw-dropping opening scene.
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