It stars Vince Vaughn as you’ve never seen him before.
Looking for something to watch tonight?
Well, Amazon Prime Video just added a whopping 32 movies to its service.
But if none of them are you, here’s your movie on TV options tonight.
Black Rain – Film4 – 9pm
In this incredibly cool ’80s action flick from director Ridley Scott, two New York cops (Andy Garcia, Michael Douglas) arrest a Yakuza member (Yūsaku Matsuda) and must escort him when he’s extradited to Japan.
Mission: Impossible 2 – Sky Showcase – 9pm
Face/Off director John Woo helms this blockbuster sequel that is so over-the-top, it makes the first Mission: Impossible look like Tinker Tailor Solider Spy.
The Green Hornet – Comedy Central – 9pm
Seth Rogen stars in this action-comedy as an unlikely superhero.
Payback – Turner Classic Movies – 9pm
Mel Gibson plays a man out for, you guessed it… payback.
Intruders – Horror Channel – 9pm
Clive Owen leads the cast of this chiller about two children living in different countries that are visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them.
Anna and the Apocalypse – Horror Channel – 11pm
In this British comedy-horror musical, a young woman and her friends must fight, slash and sing their way to survival when a zombie outbreak occurs in their sleepy town.
The Missouri Breaks – Turner Classic Movies – 11.05pm
Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando star in their first and only movie together with this ’70s western.
This writer first became aware of The Missouri Breaks as it is frequently referenced in last year’s thriller Old.
Brawl in Cell Block 99 – Film4 – 11.25pm
Our pick for tonight sees a bulked-up Vince Vaughn play a former boxer-turned-drug runner sentenced to prison where he is forced to murder a fellow inmate to save his kidnapped wife and unborn child.
With its prison setting and shocking violence (this is really not one for the squeamish), Brawl in Cell Block 99 is at its core an old-school exploitation flick.
However, it also feels like an artful crime epic thanks to novelist turned filmmaker S. Craig Zahler’s ability to build fully-fleshed out characters and Vaughn’s incredible performance, with the actor managing to be scary, sardonic and sympathetic all at once.
Re-Animator – Horror Channel – 12.55am
This legendary comedy-horror centres on a medical student (Jeffrey Combs) who invents a serum that can re-animate deceased bodies and how this impacts his unsuspecting roommate (Bruce Abbott).
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