It has got a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
On Saturday afternoon (23 December), the best Christmas movie ever is playing on TV, but for a list of the films airing later in the evening – scroll below:
Die Hard – Channel 4 – 9pm
Another Christmas classic.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines/Terminator: Genisys – Film4 – 9pm/11.10pm
A Terminator double bill but probably not the Terminator double bill you want.
Godzilla vs Kong – RTÉ2 – 9pm
Does what it says on the tin.
Playing for Keeps – W – 9pm
Gerard Butler plays a former footballler who has fallen on hard times that starts coaching his son’s football team as a way to get his life together. 5% on Rotten Tomatoes suggests you should avoid.
Ransom – LegendXtra – 9pm
Not the Mel Gibson movie but a Sean Connery-led ’70s crime thriller.
American Pie: The Wedding – Comedy Central – 10pm
The third one.
Almost Christmas – TG4 – 10.20pm
A Christmas comedy-drama featuring amongst its cast Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union.
7500 – RTÉ One – 10.35pm
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this tense thriller as a co-pilot on a Berlin to Paris flight that is hijacked by terrorists.
Rocky III – ITV4 – 11.30pm
The one with Mr. T.
Scent of a Woman – Channel 4 – 11.35pm
Bad Boys for Life – E4 – 11.40pm
“All our life we’ve been bad boys. It’s time to be good men.”
Out of Sight – BBC One – 11.50pm
Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean’s trilogy) directs this incredible crime comedy starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez based on an Elmore Leonard novel.
The Night Before – Comedy Central – 11.55pm
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars again, this time opposite Anthony Mackie and Seth Rogen in a festive comedy.
Christopher Abbott in Possessor, our pick for tonight
Possessor – Film4 – 1.40am
At last, we get to our pick for tonight – this 2020 sci-fi horror-thriller from writer-director Brandon Cronenberg (Infinity Pool), son of legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.
Andrea Riseborough stars in Possessor as Tasya Vos, an assassin under mental strain who is able, through technology, to inhabit other people’s bodies to carry out killings.
However, when Vos is tasked with possessing Colin Tate (Christopher Abbott) – the fiancé of a wealthy CEO’s daughter – to perform a hit, the pair find themselves wrestling for control of the body.
Co-starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean and Tuppence Middleton, Possessor benefits from a great premise, stunning performances and creepy, grotesque visuals.
In fact, it is these elements – as well as the way Cronenberg uses sci-fi to probe issues like technological surveillance and the idea of “work-life balance” – that make it one of the most gripping and thought-provoking sci-fi movies of recent years.
Boasting a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes, Possessor is also available to rent on Apple TV+, Curzon, Google Play, the Microsoft store, Rakuten TV and Volta. Check out its trailer right here:
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