Baby, it’s grim outside.
Stay in.
Turn the lights down.
Light the fire.
Watch a movie. Here’s the best available on your television on this rainy Saturday 2 November…
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Film 4 – 6.25pm
In which the X-Men go back in time.
Frozen – RTÉ One – 6.35pm
Animated smash that you should probably catch up on before the sequel arrives in just a few weeks.
Jurassic World – ITV2 – 6.40pm
Dinosaurs.
The Hangover Part 3 – ITV2 – 9pm
The third one.
Taken 3 – E4 – 9pm
Also the third one.
They Live – SyFy – 9pm
‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper is here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and he’s all outta bubble gum…
The Shallows – Film 4 – 9pm
Blake Lively battles a shark. About as good as that sounds.
Ghostbusters – Channel 4 – 9pm
The recent remake that caused a weird amount of controversy.
Psycho – TCM – 9.15pm
The original. Let’s just pretend the remake ever happened, eh?
How to Be Single – RTÉ 2 – 10pm
Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson clown around in one of those modern-day rom-com-dram things that’s not as funny as you want it to be.
Brawl in Cell Block 99 – Film 4 – 10.45pm
Vince Vaughan goes to prison. It doesn’t go well.
Hard to Kill – ITV4 – 11pm
Steven Seagal IS hard to kill.
Election – BBC Two – 11.25pm
Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick are both superb in this darkly comic tale of a high school election and the cut-throat fallout thereof.
Full Metal Jacket – TCM – 11.30pm
Stanley Kubrick’s hellish vision of war.
Disturbia – BBC One – 12.30am
Shia LaBeouf goes all Rear Window as a house-arrested teen who is fairly sure he saw his neighbour murder someone.
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