It is Sunday. It is cold out. Stay on the couch and watch one of these.
You could venture out to the cinema? There are some great films out right now – definitely The Favourite, and definitely Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, but definitely not Holmes & Watson – but if you’re in more of a comfy couch-y mood, then these are the movies we recommend you spend time with today:
SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER
Flight Of The Navigator – Syfy – 5.00pm
The director of Grease (?!) is behind this sci-adventure about a young boy who wakes up 8 years in the future, and finds himself somehow inexplicably linked to a wisecracking alien spaceship that crash landed the same day he first went missing. Seriously, Hollywood, how have you not remade this underappreciated gem yet??
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith – ITV2 – 6.15pm
The best of the sequels, mostly thanks to the end of the romance between Natalie Portman and charisma void Hayden Christensen. There are also some great action sequences (that open spaceship crash comes to mind), and it isn’t afraid to go to some VERY dark places. Those poor younglings…
Inception – RTE Two – 9.00pm
The director of The Dark Knight teams up with Leo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Paige, Ken Watanabe and more in this mind-bending sci-fi action epic.
Scott Pilgrim VS The World – Syfy – 9.00pm
The director of Hot Fuzz teams up with Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzmann, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and more in this mind-bending comic-book action epic.
While We’re Young – BBC Two – 10.50pm
An older couple (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts) make friends with a much younger couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) and while they initially find themselves enjoying their company, it soon becomes a comedy of errors as the generational gap between them causes more than a few cracks to appear in each of their relationships.
Entrapment – BBC One – 12.05am
Sean Connery teams up with Catherine Zeta-Jones in order to steal some priceless art from the world’s tallest building (or at least it was back in 1999 when this movie was released). What he doesn’t know is that she has actually been sent from an insurance company to catch him in the act.
Big Eyes – Channel 4 – 12.55am
Amy Adams stars as the real life artist who finds her husband (Christoph Waltz) taking the credit for unique artworks, in a time when female artists weren’t taken seriously. A rare pure drama from director Tim Burton.
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