“I suppose a ride is out of the question?”
One of a number of memorable quotes from an all-time Irish classic, which you can relive in its entirety on the box from 10.25pm tonight.
If you’ve seen it enough times already – you can never watch The Snapper enough times for our liking – then you’re positively spoiled for choice on one of the best nights to watch a movie on TV in ages.
Don’t believe us? If you can’t find at least one selection from the list below to pass a bit of time this evening, then we may as well give up.
Beauty and The Beast – RTÉ One – 7.05pm
Magnificently-executed remake of the original, starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Kevin Kline and Ewan McGregor.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – Channel 4 – 9pm
Featuring THAT climb on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the fourth entry in the Mission: Impossible series is easily one of the best.
X-Men: Days of Future Past – E4 – 9pm
Like another superhero movie that will feature a little further down this list, all the elements fall together nicely here to create arguably the best entry in the X-Men series.
Rambo: First Blood Part II – ITV4 – 9pm
“They sent him on a mission and set him up to fail, but they made one mistake. They forgot who they were dealing with: Rambo.”
The synopsis doing this movie more justice than we ever could.
The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad – Comedy Central – 9pm
Leslie Nielsen’s first turn as Frank Drebin on the big screen and his second best ever movie after Airplane. Laughs from start to finish.
Fantastic Four – RTÉ 2 – 9.25pm
Not as fantastic as the title suggests, unfortunately.
Pulp Fiction – Dave – 9.40pm
Era-defining masterpiece which still holds up brilliantly well over a quarter of a century on.
Man on Fire – Sky One – 10pm
Is it Denzel’s best movie? Probably not.
Is it still worth watching simply because Denzel is never NOT worth watching? Absolutely.
The Snapper – RTÉ One – 10.25pm
As Georgie Burgess might say, it’s A1.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – BBC One – 10.25pm
As good as it gets as far as the MCU is concerned. You don’t even have to be a Marvel nut to enjoy it, but it helps.
In the Line of Fire – ITV4 – 11.05pm
Classic Clint Eastwood flick about an assassination attempt on the US president, well worthy of its 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
47 Meters Down – RTÉ 2 – 11.10pm
Perhaps surprisingly not bad… considering the general level of quality in the much-populated shark movie genre. It’s no Sharknado, mind, but what is in fairness?
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