At slow speed, we all seem focused.
In motion, we seem wrong.
In summer, we can taste the rain.
I want you to be free.
Don’t worry about me.
And just like the movies.
We play out our last scene.
‘Movies’ – Alien Ant Farm (2001)
Here are the best movies on TV tonight, Thursday 16 May…
The Game – TCM – 9pm
Michael Douglas has his privileged life turned upside down in increasingly bizarre fashion in David Fincher’s excellent thriller.
Tropic Thunder – Comedy Central – 9pm
Raucous comedy in which a troupe of actors – led by Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black – are forced to become the troop of soldiers that they are playing.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage – Film 4 – 9pm
Vin Diesel back from the dead as the most extreme secret agent around, brah!
Neymar is also here, because marketing.
Gangster Squad – ITV4 – 10.05pm
A great cast – Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Sean Penn, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, Nick Nolte – get their Untouchables cosplay on with mixed results.
Van Helsing – ITV4 – 12.15am
Hugh Jackman, vampire hunter.
Bully – Film 4 – 1.25am
Deeply unpleasant portrayal of a quite horrific real life small town America story in which teens take grim revenge on a local bully.
Bonnie & Clyde – TCM – 1.40am
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway step into the shoes of the notorious criminals.
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