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Published 17:25 21 Mar 2025 GMT
Updated 17:42 21 Mar 2025 GMT

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 21 March) is Fresh, the excellent 2022 horror thriller starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and recent Oscar-nominee Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).
The film centres around Noa (Edgar-Jones), a young woman increasingly disillusioned with dating who thinks her luck has turned around when she meets Steve (Stan), a guy who seems perfect.
After several great dates, Steve invites Noa for a weekend break away alone with him. There, however, he reveals he has been hiding some "unusual appetites".
To reveal anymore would spoil some of the twisty thrills of Fresh so we'll just say that the movie doubles as a compellingly disturbing horror thriller and a dark satire of modern dating culture.
It also benefits from three great performances from Edgar-Jones, Stan and Jonica T. Gibbs - playing Noa's best friend - as well as from first-time feature filmmaker Mimi Cave's stylish direction.
In regards to the latter, particularly great is the moment about 30 minutes into Fresh when its title finally appears on screen as the movie switches genres from rom-com into something much darker.
Holding an 82% Rotten Tomatoes score, Fresh is airing tonight/tomorrow morning on Channel 4 at 12.10am. It is also available to stream on Disney+.
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut - Film4 - 9pm
An extended cut of Francis Ford Coppola's war epic, one of the best movies ever made.
Terminator: Dark Fate - E4 - 9pm
Linda Hamilton returns in probably the best Terminator entry since T2.
2 Guns - Legend - 9pm
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg headline this fun buddy cop action comedy.
Tremors 3: Back to Perfect - Legend Xtra - 9pm
A direct-to-video horror monster flick.
The Shepherd of the Hills - TG4 - 9.30pm
A '40s John Wayne Western.
Nocturnal - RTÉ2 - 9.50pm
This very good indie drama follows a cynical schoolgirl (Lauren Coe) who forms a secret friendship with an older man (Shōgun's Cosmo Jarvis) who's apparently obsessed with her.
Acts of Vengeance - Legend Xtra - 11.05pm
Antonio Banderas plays a man who seeks vengeance after his wife and daughter are killed in this 2017 action thriller.
Garage - RTÉ One - 11.15pm
Director Lenny Abrahamson's powerful 2007 Irish drama about a lonely petrol station (Pat Shortt) attendant in a small rural village.
Sweet Sue - BBC Two - 11.15pm
This 2023 British comedy-drama revolves around a woman (Maggie O'Neill) who meets her boyfriend's son, with whom she finds herself locked into a battle of wills.
Beetlejuice - BBC One - 11.40pm
Tim Burton’s classic comedy horror.
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