You’re in luck tonight if you happen to be a fan of action movies!
What to do with your weekend?
Maybe head to the cinema? Check out one of the new releases? We’ve reviewed Detective Pikachu, The Hustle, and High Life, right here.
Or you could sit in and watch one of these instead?
SATURDAY 11 MAY
Monsters University – RTE One – 6.35pm
The prequel to Monsters Inc. isn’t quite as good as the original, but there is still plenty of laughs to be found in the story of how Mike and Sully came to be BFFs.
Jurassic Park III – ITV2 – 7.25pm
Sam Neill is back to help some parents find their son who got lost on the dino-island. It is the closest the JP movies have come to being a full-on B-Movie, never more so than when the bigger, badder Spinosaurus and the T-Rex bump into each other and get into a big scrap.
Moulin Rouge! – E! Entertainment – 9.00pm
Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman in a big, lavish musical romantic drama that is guaranteed to get you singing, and then have you crying, like all good musical romances should!
John Wick – Virgin Media Two – 9.00pm
They killed Keanu Reeves’ dog, which is the greatest reasoning for revenge ever to exist in cinema.
World War Z – Channel 4 – 9.00pm
Brad Pitt is sent around the world to find the cause for a sudden zombie apocalypse, even as the apocalypse continues to ravage entire cities around him. A very decent mix of action and horror.
The Invention Of Lying – Comedy Central – 10.00pm
In a world where everyone can only tell the truth, all of the time, one day Ricky Gervais wakes up with the ability to lie, except nobody can tell that he’s lying. It is a full on high concept comedy, and one that mostly works, thanks to an amazing supporting cast including Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, and Fionnula Flanagan.
Thor: The Dark World – BBC One – 10.20pm
Yeah, it is definitely one of the worst MCU movies to date, but there is still some fun to be had, especially in the Portal-esque finale that sends Hemsworth and co. all over the universe.
Dead Man’s Shoes – FilmFour – 11.15pm
An incredibly dark but effective thriller in which Paddy Considine plays a PTSD-suffering soldier who returns to his hometown to get revenge on the gang that brutalised his younger brother.
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