Many, many, MANY movies to choose from this evening, if you’re in a movie-viewing kinda mood!
PSA: Today is Thursday, or New Year’s Eve Eve Eve, and these are the movies on TV you can enjoy tonight, staring with:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – RTÉ2 – 5.50pm
The worst one. The one with Shia LaBeouf. The one with the vine-swinging. The one with the fridge and the nuclear bomb. The really bad one.
Knight and Day – Virgin Media One – 9pm
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz headline this very expensive action-rom-com. It is profoundly average, but not without its entertaining moments.
Bad Boys For Life – FilmFour – 9pm
Despite arriving about a decade too late and to a general consensus of apathy, it ended up being the best of the three so far. Who’d have thunk it?
Den of Thieves – Virgin Media Two – 9pm
Gerard Butler and 50 Cent attempt to remake Heat. Way more fun than it has any right to be.
Starsky & Hutch – Comedy Central – 9pm
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn star in this very funny remake of the hit TV show.
Tenet – RTÉ2 – 9pm
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action thriller. Sometimes very impressive, sometimes very frustrating, with some genuinely groundbreaking set pieces.
Borat – TG4 – 10.20pm
A powerful, emotional documentary about the people of Kazakhstan….. NOT!
Desperately Seeking Susan – BBC Two – 10.55pm
Rosanna Arquette and Madonna headline this well-regarded comedy about a case of mistaken identity.
It’s Complicated – RTÉ One – 11pm
Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin star in this likeable rom-com.
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery – Comedy Central – 11pm
Yeah, baby! Etc.
The Others – BBC One – 11pm
Our pick for the night is this brilliant, scary hidden gem.
Nicole Kidman stars in a terrific gothic horror about a mother trying to protect her two sensitive children from what she believes are aggressive spirits in their home.
Co-starring Christopher Eccleston and Ireland’s own Fionnula Flanagan, this supernatural scarer was initially overshadowed by The Sixth Sense, but hindsight has been very kind, marking this out to be the superior of the two horrors.
Charlie’s Angels – FilmFour – 11.25pm
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu star in this bad-but-still-fun camp action comedy.
Schindler’s List – RTÉ2 – 11.45pm
Spielberg’s powerful Oscar magnet, with some tremendous performances by Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes.
Jerry Maguire – Channel 4 – 12.05am
Tom Cruise again, in one of his very best movies, a flailing sports agent who ties his future to his one remaining client (Cuba Gooding Jr).
Madonna: Truth Or Dare – BBC Two – 12.35am
The documentary detailing the behind-the-scenes drama of Madonna’s “Blonde Ambition” tour. When we chatted to BROS star and co-writer Billy Eichner earlier this year, and he talked about the profound impact this documentary had on him and his generation.
Unfaithful – FIlmFour – 1.25am
One of the last great erotic thrillers, Diane Lane and Richard Gere star in this very steamy story about a woman who embarks on a torrid affair, which takes her and her husband to some very dark places.
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