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18th Jan 2019

Here are the 9 best movies on TV this Friday

Dave Hanratty

Movies on TV Friday January 18

The weekend is here.

The weekend is now.

But you’re probably broke or smothered with a cold or the flu and thus absolutely won’t be going out for the night.

So stay in and watch a movie, yeah?

Here are your televisual options on this Friday 18 January…

Safe – SyFy – 9pm

Jason Statham’s best film. Why? Read on…

A Good Day to Die Hard – Film4 – 9pm

Terrible, but worth watching just for how much of a mess Dundalk man John Moore made of the Die Hard franchise.

American Pie – ITV2 – 9pm

The original and, by some distance, the best.

Face/Off – Universal TV – 9pm

Nic Cage at his most Nic Cage versus John Travolta in John Woo’s bonkers action epic.

The Green Mile – Virgin Media One – 9pm

Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan bring the emotion in a prison-set Stephen King adaptation that isn’t The Shawshank Redemption.

True Grit – TG4 – 9.45pm

The Coen Brothers update a classic western with the help of Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and a debuting Hailee Steinfeld.

Sexy Beast – Film4 – 10.55pm

A sun-kissed Ray Winstone faces off against Ben Kingsley at his most profane in this well-crafted British crime thriller.

The Place Beyond the Pines – RTÉ One – 11.30pm

Ambitiously sprawling drama boasting the talents of Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Mahershala Ali and Ben Mendelsohn, who steals the show as always.

Swordfish – ITV4 – 12.40am

In which John Travolta sports the most audacious hair of his career.

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