Quite the double bill.
It is Thursday.
Sadly, that means it ain’t the weekend yet.
However, you can still have a good night as there’s plenty of movies on telly.
Your options for Thursday, 24 March are:
Green Book/Manchester by the Sea – BBC Four – 9pm/11pm
BBC Four is airing two Oscar-winning dramas back-to-back this evening, starting with 2018 Best Picture winner Green Book.
The uplifting comedy-drama centres on the unlikely friendship that develops between an African-American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali in an Academy Award-winning performance) and a working-class Italian-American bouncer (Viggo Mortensen).
This is as they travel the Deep South in the ’60s.
Airing after Green Book is Manchester by the Sea, the 2016 drama which took home the Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay prizes at the awards.
A devastating but very powerful and worthwhile watch, Casey Affleck stars as an asocial man who is asked to take care of his teenage nephew (Lucas Hedges) after the boy’s father dies.
Ocean’s Twelve – Turner Classic Movies – 9pm
Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon have fun again playing suave thieves in this hit sequel.
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage – Film4 – 9pm
For my money, the craziest and thus, best of the three xXx movies.
Bugsy – Great! Movies Classic – 9pm
This ’90s gangster drama sees Warren Beatty play US mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel.
Straw Dogs – Horror Channel – 9pm
A remake of the very disturbing ’70s thriller.
Windtalkers – ITV4 – 10.35pm
Face/Off director John Woo reteamed with Nicolas Cage for this WWII drama.
First Man – Film4 – 11.10pm
Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in this thrilling biopic following the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969.
Maniac – Horror Channel – 11.10pm
Elijah Wood plays a terrifying serial killer in this slasher notable for being almost entirely shot from the murderer’s point of view.
Machine-Gun Kelly – True Movies – 11.45pm
Charles Bronson stars as the titular gangster in this ’50s crime drama.
Main images via Studio Canal and Universal Pictures
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