One step closer to the weekend.
It still feels a little bit like January, doesn’t it?
Maybe we need to revise this whole ‘month’ system.
For now, we’ll stick with an old reliable – a list of decent films that will appear on your television screening this evening, Thursday 7 February.
12 Years a Slave – More4 – 9pm
Steve McQueen’s brutal account of slavery features an all-star cast – Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lupita Nyong’o, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson and Brad Pitt.
Sisters – Film4 – 9pm
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are the life of the party. John Cena steals the show.
Jumper – SyFy – 9pm
Hayden Christensen makes another fist of fronting a sci-fi adventure alongside Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell and Samuel L. Jackson.
Death Wish 2 – ITV4 – 10.45pm
Charles Bronson wishes he was dead. Again.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – TCM – 11pm
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law get their Holmes and Watson on again as the villainous Moriarty comes into focus in Guy Ritchie’s detective sequel.
Goon – Film4 – 11.20pm
Seann William Scott’s bouncer finds that his propensity for violence translates rather well to the ice hockey rink in this funnier-than-you-might-expect bruising comedy.
The Wind Rises – Film4 – 1.10am
Typically striking and vivid animation from the master that is Hayao Miyazaki, this time throwing some colourful poetic licence on the life and times of a World War II engineer.
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