The weekend is almost over.
Grim, right?
You’re probably gearing up to watch the return of Peaky Blinders – do check out our interviews with Cillian Murphy and show creator Steven Knight as the anticipation builds – but there are also some movies worth considering.
Here’s the best – and a couple of bad ones for the craic – on the box this evening, Sunday 25 August…
Mystery Men – SyFy – 6.40pm
Before The Boys came along to lampoon the world of superheroes, Ben Stiller and the rest of the Mystery Men did a decent – if far less x-rated – job of doing just that.
X-Men: The Last Stand – Film 4 – 6.55pm
Worth watching to see what a mess Brett Ratner made of the X-Men franchise.
Quantum of Solace – ITV2 – 8pm
Casino Royale 1.5.
Dumb and Dumber – Universal TV – 9pm
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels go on the road.
Deadpool – Film 4 – 9pm
In which Ryan Reynolds’ persistence pays off big time.
The Theory of Everything – RTÉ 2 – 9pm
Eddie Redmayne beat Michael Keaton to a Best Actor Oscar – which still feels wrong, tbh – for his turn here as the legendary Stephen Hawking.
Max Payne – SyFy – 9pm
Dundalk man John Moore delivers one for masochistic video game movie adaptation completionists.
Michael Collins – RTÉ One – 9.30pm
Liam Neeson goes full Irish revolutionary.
A Good Day to Die Hard – Channel 4 – 10pm
John Moore again, this time murdering the Die Hard series.
Street Kings – SyFy – 11pm
Back before John Wick resurrected Keanu Reeves, he was slumming it in edgy thrillers like Street Kings. Chris Evans and Forest Whitaker lend support.
The Taking of Pelham 123 – TCM – 11.05pm
The original – and best, by some distance – take on a tense train hijacking.
Train to Busan – Film 4 – 12.55am
If you prefer your train-based movies to have zombies in them, this excellent horror has you covered.
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