Thursday.
We are slowly but surely grinding our way to wards the end of the week and the beginning of Phase One (18 May). We’re not there yet, but until we are, there will be movies on TV.
Here are a few of the best options on the box this evening.
Housesitter – Sky Comedy – 9pm
An early 90s rom-com starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, perfect for pretending that we live in simpler times than we actually do.
Robocop – ITV4 – 9pm
Set in a dystopian future, a cop whose body is destroyed is rebuilt as a cyborg hell-bent on bringing his killers to justice…But the plot is a lot thicker than it seems. The name is a play on the idea that he’s a cop who is also a robot, a lot of people don’t get that.
Senna – ITV4 – 10.50PM
One of the best sports documentaries ever made, dealing with the glittering and brief career of tragic Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna.
Air Force One – Channel 5 – 11.05pm
Harrison Ford is the President, but he’s also an action hero, and he has to fight terrorists on his own plane. It was on last week but that’s how it goes, they’re running out of movies.
The Eagle Has Landed – Virgin Media One – 11pm
A Nazi secret agent plans to kidnap Winston Churchill while the prime minister spends a weekend in the Norfolk countryside, and plants covert operatives in the area ready for his arrival. This wasn’t a real thing that happened during World War II.
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