A big sci-fi blockbuster is among the movies on TV tonight

It saw Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise re-team to adapt another sci-fi story.

Looking for something good to watch to kick off the weekend in style. Well, Amazon Prime Video has just quietly added 18 big movies to its library. However, if none of these suit you, here are the films airing on TV this Friday evening.

War of the Worlds - E4 - 9pm

Our pick for tonight follows an American dock worker (Tom Cruise, reteaming with director Steven Spielberg three years after Minority Report) trying to protect his children when aliens invade Earth and devastate cities with giant war machines. An adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel for the modern era, War of the Worlds effectively blends thrilling blockbuster spectacle with a dark tale of ordinary people struggling to survive amid the spectre of human extinction.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Film4 - 9pm

Spielberg directs again. With the new Indiana Jones film set for release next year, what better time is there to revisit this divisive fourth entry in the franchise?

The Hitman's Bodyguard - Virgin Media One - 9pm

Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson do their thing in this watchable if forgettable action comedy.

American Pie: Reunion - Comedy Central - 9pm

The last in the sex comedy franchise to get a cinema release.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Turner Classic Movies - 9pm

A fun and stylish movie adaptation of the old spy series from director Guy Ritchie.

The Missouri Breaks - TG4 - 9.05pm

The Western with Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando that Rufus Sewell's character struggled to remember the name of in M. Night Shyamalan flick Old.