M O N D A Y.
The weather.
The fear.
The hundreds of unopened emails.
The meetings.
The kitchen-based nothing chit-chat.
The cruel time of year that is the first ‘proper’ week of January.
Let’s just try and be kind to one another and get through it together, yes?
Here’s the best movies on the box on this grim Monday 6 January…
G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra – Film 4 – 6.45pm
Ludicrous action romp.
The Girl on the Train – Film 4 – 9pm
Possibly unreliable narrator Emily Blunt may hold the key to a missing person’s fate.
Enemy of the State – Sky One – 9pm
Breathless – if slightly dated – conspiracy thriller that finds Will Smith on the run from ruthless government agents.
Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Gabriel Byrne, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Jack Black, Seth Green, Jake Busey and Jason Robards all feature.
Get Carter – ITV4 – 9pm
Michael Caine seeks revenge.
Full Metal Jacket – TCM – 9pm
A tale of two harrowing halves as Stanley Kubrick focuses his masterful attention on the evil that men do to one another in the name of war.
Atonement – TG4 – 9.30pm
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan suffer the consequences of a deadly lie.
The Babadook – SyFy – 11.20pm
Effective horror in which grief manifests as a supernatural spectre.
LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge
