From Friday evening to last thing Sunday night, we’ve got you covered.
If you’ve already listened to our amazing new movie podcast (and if you haven’t check that bad boy out right here!), and you’ve already hit up our cinema recommendations, then it might be a good idea to sit in and check out some of these, too.
Plus the weather is still pretty manky, so it isn’t like we need a million reasons to leave the couch, anyways…
FRIDAY
Godzilla – RTE 2 – 9.35pm
Unfortunately this ISN’T the weird ’90s remake with Puff Daddy and Jamiroquai on the soundtrack. No, this is the very grim but still very good version with Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olsen, with the gigantic monster awoken to take on some nuclear-powered beasts. Watch it with the volume turned WAY up.
Spring Breakers – Channel 4 – 12.20am (technically Saturday morning, but still…)
James Franco as a gangster named Alien. Selena Gomez, Ashley Beson, Vanessa Hudgens and Rachel (daughter of Harmony, the movie’s director) Korine as gun-toting villains. This is a day-glo trip that is part euphoria, part nightmare, like a prolonged music video that you can’t drag your eyes away from. That is a compliment, by the way…
Clip via A24
SATURDAY
Kung Fu Panda – RTE One – 3.15pm
A very impressive voice-cast including Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen and Jackie Chan, involving a cute panda discovering that he may have untapped potential for martial arts. Good thing too, because a scary bad-guy (voiced by Ian McShane) is heading their way…
Sicario – Channel 4 – 9pm
Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin play American agents attempting to go to war with the Mexican drug cartels, but nobody is prepared for the depths they’ll need to go to in order to win. A horror movie disguised as an action-thriller, with one of the best soundtracks of the last decade.
Clip via Movieclips Coming Soon
Calvary – RTE 2 – 9.15pm
Love it or hate it, John Michael McDonagh’s reunion with Brendan Gleeson for their follow up to The Guard is one of the most talked about Irish movies of all time. When a small town priest is told by a local parishioner that he will be murdered by the end of the week, he spends his last days attempting to come to terms with his own mortality.
SUNDAY
Kindergarten Cop – UTV – 2.30pm
“Who is your Daddy? And what does he do?”
Clip via Movieclips
Aladdin – Channel 4 – 4.50pm
One of the trio of Disney movies that brought them out of the doldrums – along with The Little Mermaid and The Lion King – and made them super relevant again. A lot of that is down to the still-beautiful animation, the incredibly catchy songs (“You ain’t never had a friend like me!”) and Robin Williams’ incredible voice work forcing those poor animators to attempt to keep up with him.
Lockout – E4 – 9pm
Guy Pearce is a soldier in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, but he is released to help save the President’s daughter, who has been kidnapped while visiting a space prison. This is high-concept sci-fi action stuff, effectively bringing Escape From New York into the modern day, and best of all, it was directed by two Irish guys!
Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgandy – TV3 – 9.15pm
Do we really need to explain this movie to you? Let us just look at the hilarious bloopers instead.
Clip via Alexander Shaw
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