So let's see if that working theory holds up, shall we?
Here's the very best available on your TV screen on this Saturday 29 June...
In Time - SyFy - 6.50pm
Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried go on the run in a dystopian world where time literally is money.
Enchanted - RTÉ One - 7.05pm
Enjoyable fairytale fish out of water adventure that made a star of Amy Adams.
Captain America: The First Avenger - Channel 4 - 8pm
Where it all began for Chris Evans in the MCU proper.
Notting Hill - ITV Be - 9pm
Hugh Grant in charmingly befuddled mode.
The Shawshank Redemption - Virgin Media Two - 10.05pm
It's probably possible to one day get sick of this film, but we're nowhere near there yet.
Knight and Day - Channel 4 - 10.15pm
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz mill about in a spy-themed comedy action jaunt that isn't as good as it should be, but coasts by on its dazzling star power.
Raw - Film 4 - 10.45pm
Rather great and terrifically bloody European horror. Warning - will likely change how you feel about food.
Buried - BBC One - 11.50pm
Ryan Reynolds wakes up inside a box.
Pandorum - SyFy - 11.50pm
Space-based terror that will remind you of Event Horizon, isn't as good as Event Horizon, but is still decent nonetheless.
When a Stranger Calls - RTÉ 2 - 12.35am
Horror update that barely works in terms of its gimmick and certainly wouldn't work today. Find out why by watching. Maybe.
Stoker - Film 4 - 12.40am
Oldboy director Park Chan-wook makes his English-language debut with this tale of a house full of terrible people.
Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode and Dermot Mulroney make up the numbers.
Written by an Irishman, the movie was only out in cinemas a few weeks ago. Prime Video has just added Mercy, the 2026 sci-fi action thriller starring Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Terminal List). The movie is set in a near-future Los Angeles, which has taken radical steps to combat crime levels surging […]
Holding an 85% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film is ‘based on an unbelievable true story’. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 24 March) is American Made, the 2017 action crime comedy thriller loosely based on real events. The film follows an American pilot (Oscar-nominee Tom Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July) in the […]
Featuring four massive stars, the Western was made by the same director as some of the most famous James Bond films. Red Sun, the 1971 cult classic spaghetti Western with an all-star cast, is airing on TV today (Tuesday, 24 March). Set in the 1870s in the Old West, the movie follows two bandits: Link […]