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03rd May 2020

Here are the 8 best movies on TV this Sunday evening

Carl Kinsella

Movies on TV

And so we’ve reached the end of another week.

Slowly, and not exactly all that surely, Ireland is creeping towards a relaxation of our containment measures. Eventually, there will be more and more opportunities to leave our homes, see our friends, take part in activities, and find our new normal.

But until then, we’ve got to content ourselves with back gardens, running around with our 2km, and watching movies on TV.

Here are the best movies on TV today (3 May).

Shark Tale – 7.10pm – E4

The cast boasts many Oscar-winners and nominees: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie (and Jack Black). Except it’s a children’s movie about fish. A really good children’s movie about fish though.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – 7.10pm – ITV4

The only George Lazenby James Bond movie. Hard luck, Lazenby.

Backdraft – 9pm – Sky Witness

In the words of Homer Simpson: BILLY BALDWIN! Also, Kurt Russell and Robert de Niro, in a movie about two firefighter brothers who end up tangled in the web of a serial arsonist.

Split – 9pm – RTÉ2

James McEvoy has 24 personalities, directed by M. Knight Shyamalan.

Pursuit of Happyness – 10pm – Virgin Media One

Will Smith and his son Jaden play a salesman father and his son, struggling to make a life for themselves in a cruel world. Definitely a tear-jerker.

In The Line of Fire – 10pm – ITV4

An ageing secret service agent, tormented by his failure to save the life of John F Kennedy in 1963, is drawn into a battle of wits with a sinister CIA-trained assassin out to kill the current president. As the day of reckoning draws closer, the agent’s nerves are tested to the limit. Wolfgang Petersen’s thriller, starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo and Dylan McDermott.

Man on Fire – 10.10pm – Alibi

Denzel! In this one, Washington is hired to be a bodyguard, but when his charge goes missing… he goes on the rampage.

The King’s Speech – 11.35pm – BBC One NI

Oscar-winning movie about how King George V needs to overcome his speech impediment before World War II starts. Colin Firth is very good in it though.