THE WEEKEND.
Oh yes oh yes oh yes indeed.
It is, in fact, the weekend.
Not a Bank Holiday weekend, but a weekend nonetheless.
So yeah, movies.
Here’s the best available on the box tonight – Friday 10 May.
The Abyss – SyFy – 9pm
Vintage sci-fi horror from James Cameron.
Non-Stop – E4 – 9pm
Liam Neeson in an utterly ridiculous, so-bad-it’s-good thriller set on an airplane.
Quantum of Solace – ITV2 – 9pm
Casino Royale 1.5.
Manchester by the Sea – RTÉ 2 – 9.40pm
Highly intense and patient drama that led Casey Affleck to Oscar gold.
Gangster Squad – ITV4 – 10pm
Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling go all old-timey gangster movie in an effort that really should have been a good deal better.
Goodfellas – TCM – 11pm
A significantly superior gangster movie.
This Is England – Film 4 – 11.10pm
Superb, unflinching coming-of-age tale as a young boy falls in with a gang and is exposed to racism in the process in 1980s England.
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone – Film 4 – 1.15am
Shane Meadows again, this time chronicling the popular Manchester indie band as they make their comeback in 2012.
LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge
