Recommended Movies on TV

Kingp35

I know an idea like this was brought up before but the thread never really took off. I think its a good idea so im gonna start it up again and see how it does.

Tonights recommended movie is:

18th April

Battle Royale
Sci-Fi Channel 10pm

http://imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

meldrew

i think its a great idea I'll definitely contribute !

Pigman II

After numerous failed attempts I reckon the only this idea will ever catch on is if it's made a sticky.

Anyway here's a couple for consideration...

FILM: Cool Hand Luke
Channel: RTÉ 1
Date: Monday 24th April 2006

FILM: Dial M For Murder
Channel: RTÉ 1
Date: Saturday 29th April 2006

Kingp35

Tonights Recommended movie is:

19th April

Dog Day Afternoon
TCM 9pm

http://imdb.com/title/tt0072890/

satchmo

Kingp35 wrote:

Dog Day Afternoon
TCM 9pm

Oooo great movie, not to be missed.

lostexpectation

you could always make it a combined recommend/what movie di you watch last night thread... they never pretty but make it a sticky...

Karl Hungus

Pigman II wrote:

After numerous failed attempts I reckon the only this idea will ever catch on is if it's made a sticky.

Oh, er, em... that my queue, is it?

Running Bing

nice one:cool:

Kingp35

Tonights Recommended Movies:

Thursday 20th April

Unforgiven
TCM 9pm
http://imdb.com/title/tt0105695/

The Terminator
Channel 6 10pm
http://imdb.com/title/tt0088247/

Easy Rider
Channel 4 1:40am
http://imdb.com/title/tt0064276/

Dudess

Sigh! So many good films on tonight. Damn you law essay due for tomorrow morning!:mad:

munkeehaven

i think it is on sunday rte 2 at 9.30pm "Downfall" ( Der Untergang)

German speaking film...about the last few days of hitler in his bunker in berlin with his various remaining conspirators..i know there are countless films about the nazis and hitler himself but this film really is amazing...

here is a summary from imdb.com

"In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender"



btw watched cool hand luke, handy for my insomniac hours..brilliant..dont think i could look at another boiled egg again though :-o

Necronomicon

Hate to plaguerise someone else's post, but for those who don't really look at the film review forum:

lukegriffen wrote:

This film is on TV tonight, rte2 at 12.30

Great film & excellent soundtrack.

He's talking about Requiem For A Dream, if you haven't seen it you should check it out.

lostexpectation

Watch Truman show, its one of the few films I could watch again and again , its such a classic.

Pigman II

FILM: Breaking The Waves
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Sunday 18th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 01:25 to 04:04 (2 hours and 39 minutes long)

A powerful story, set in a remote Scottish village in the early 1970s, about a unique young woman and her profound experience of love and devotion. Bess falls madly in love with Jan, an oil-rig worker, and against the wishes of the strict Calvinist elders of her community, she marries this outsider. Jan is captivated by the innocence radiated by his new bride and for a brief time they have an intensely happy, passionate life together...until Jan is paralysed in an accident on the oil-rig.
(1996, 18, 4 Star)

Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan Hackett

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FILM: Good Bye Lenin!
On: RTÉ 2
Date: Sunday 18th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 00:20 to 02:30 (2 hours and 10 minutes long)

October, 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany--and this is precisely what happened to Alex's proudly socialist mother. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. And what could be more shocking than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of capitalism in her beloved East Germany? (In German with English subtitles).
(Subtitles, 2003, 15, 4 Star)

Director: Wolfgang Becker
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer

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FILM: Rear Window
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Monday 12th June 2006 (starting in 4 days)
Time: 00:35 to 02:40 (2 hours and 5 minutes long)

A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
(1954, PG, 5 Star)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn

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FILM: Rebel Without A Cause
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Thursday 8th June 2006 (starting in 4 hours and 38 minutes)
Time: 00:20 to 02:25 (2 hours and 5 minutes long)

Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.
(1955, PG, 5 Star)

Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen

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FILM: Superman 2
On: Sky One
Date: Thursday 29th June 2006 (starting in 22 days)
Time: 20:00 to 22:25 (2 hours and 25 minutes long)

The Man of Steel is kept busy when three villains from his home planet Krypton cause chaos on Earth. Super sequel with Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Terence Stamp.
(Widescreen, 1980, PG, 3 Star)

Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder

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FILM: The Majestic
On: TG4
Date: Tuesday 20th June 2006 (starting in 13 days)
Time: 21:05 to 23:50 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Tarlaíonn timpiste cairr do scríbhneoir as Hollywood agus ní fhanann aon chuimhne aige. A Hollywood screenwriter crashes his car and developes amnesia.
(2001, PG, 3 Star)

Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau

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Pigman II

ENTERTAINMENT: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
On: TG4
Date: Monday 19th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 12:00 to 14:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

(1966 Elizabeth Taylor) Is é Nick an teagascóir bitheolaíochta nua sa choláiste. New college Biology instructor, Nick, and his wife Honey, visit the home of History professor George.
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FILM: Enemy at the Gates
On: RTÉ 2
Date: Friday 9th June 2006 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 22:05 to 00:25 (2 hours and 20 minutes long)

Fact-based war drama set during the 1942-3 battle of Stalingrad. A Russian marksman is given the task of killing a German major, whose own expert shooting skills make him a formidable enemy. Supported by a propaganda officer, the Russian soldier takes up the challenge with resilient determination. But a personal battle develops between the two allies when they both fall for an attractive Jewish comrade.
(2001, 15, 5 Star)

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman

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FILM: The Abyss
On: Channel 4
Date: Sunday 18th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 22:30 to 01:05 (2 hours and 35 minutes long)

After Aliens, James Cameron took to the ocean's depths for this sci-fi thriller. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star as a husband-and-wife team running the rescue rig that's trying to get to a nuclear submarine that's gone down on the lip of one of the deepest sea trenches. But when psychotic Navy SEAL commander Lt Hiram Coffey launches a nuclear warhead into the trench, they discover they are not alone...
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1989, 15, 4 Star)

Director: James Cameron
Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff, John Bedford Lloyd

Pigman II

FILM: Rope!
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Saturday 1st July 2006 (starting in 15 days)
Time: 02:20 to 03:40 (1 hour and 20 minutes long)

Manhattan socialites Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan choke the life out of an associate, David, as an intellectual challenge to commit the perfect murder. Not content to escape the penalty of law by simply disposing of the body quietly, they furthermore devise an elaborate and dangerous display of arrogance: The two stuff David's lifeless body into a chest and throw a dinner party serving their guests, literally, from the convenient tabletop of the young man's grave.
(1948, PG, 3 Star)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick

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FILM: The Big Lebowski
On: TV3
Date: Saturday 24th June 2006 (starting in 8 days)
Time: 21:00 to 23:20 (2 hours and 20 minutes long)

When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
(1998, 18, 4 Star)

Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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FILM: The Untouchables
On: Sky One
Date: Sunday 25th June 2006 (starting in 9 days)
Time: 22:00 to 00:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

Robert De Niro stars as mob boss Al Capone, with Kevin Costner as the Treasury agent determined to take him down. Outstanding gangland thriller from Brian De Palma.
(Widescreen, 1987, 15, 5 Star)

Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro

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Anam

Rope by Alfred Hitchcock.
Friday 30th of June 2.20am on RTE1.Looking forward to seeing this.

Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock.
Saturday 1st of July 12.40am on TG4.Great movie.

Pigman II

FILM: Rio Bravo
On: UTV
Date: Wednesday 28th June 2006 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 15:30 to 18:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Classic western set in a small Texas border town under the grip of an evil cattle baron. After a fight in the local saloon, which ends in a shooting, the sheriff arrests the cattle baron's psychopathic brother for murder - and puts the town of Rio Bravo under siege from the tyrant's henchmen. With only a handful of supporters, including an old man and the town drunk, the sheriff attempts to hold out until help arrives.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1959, U, 3 Star)

Directors: B.H. McCampbell, Jules Furthman
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond

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FILM: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
On: Paramount Comedy Channel
Date: Saturday 22nd July 2006 (starting in 25 days)
Time: 22:05 to 00:00 (1 hour and 55 minutes long)

Starring Matthew Broderick. A high school student takes the day off school, taking his friends along for what turns into a dizzying ride.
(1986, 15, 4 Star)

Director: John Hughes
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Cindy Pickett

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FILM: Super Troopers
On: TV3
Date: Saturday 8th July 2006 (starting in 11 days)
Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (2 hours long)

Thorny, Mac, Rabbit, Foster and Farva are Vermont state troopers out to have a good time. Stationed in a remote area near the Canadian border, the troopers, avid pranksters with an affinity for syrup, have a knack for screwing up on the job. When budget cuts in the town of Spurbury threaten their livelihood and put them against archrival Spurbury P.D., the five friends try to straighten up and fly right. That is, until a dead body is discovered and a possible drug ring is unearthed. The super troopers spring into action attempting to solve the crime, save their jobs and outdo the local police department.
(2001)

Starring: Andre Vippolis, Joey Kern, Geoffrey Arend

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FILM: The Cable Guy
On: Sky One
Date: Friday 14th July 2006 (starting in 17 days)
Time: 22:00 to 00:00 (2 hours long)

Life goes haywire for yuppie Matthew Broderick when manic TV man Jim Carrey knocks on the door. He wanted an installer, not a stalker! Ace Ventura with a dark side.
(Widescreen, 1996, 12, 3 Star)

Director: Ben Stiller
Starring: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Baker

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FILM: The Commitments
On: Channel 4
Date: Sunday 9th July 2006 (starting in 12 days)
Time: 23:00 to 01:10 (2 hours and 10 minutes long)

(Subtitles, 1991, 15, 4 Star)

Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher

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FILM: The Omen
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Saturday 8th July 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 00:45 to 02:40 (1 hour and 55 minutes long)

Disturbing horror about a wealthy American diplomat who agrees to adopt an orphaned child when his own son is delivered stillborn in a Rome hospital. Five years later, his idyllic life as US ambassador in London is shattered when a series of sinister deaths persuades him that his child is not what he seems. A landmark 1970s shocker.
(1976, 18, 4 Star)

Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton

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FILM: Tora! Tora! Tora!
On: UTV
Date: Saturday 1st July 2006 (starting in 4 days)
Time: 12:55 to 15:30 (2 hours and 35 minutes long)

Realistic and well-documented drama re-enacting the events that led up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged the United States into World War II. Boasting Oscar-winning special effects, the film gives both the Japanese and American perspectives on events, and highlights some of the major and minor errors that were made on both sides.
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1970, U, 4 Star)

Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, Takahiro Tamura

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Pigman II

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FILM: Equilibrium
On: Channel 4
Date: Sunday 9th July 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 23:05 to 01:05 (2 hours long)

In the near future, following WWIII, the population of the nation of Libria must take the expression-suppressant Prozia II to suppress the emotions their ruler believes caused the war. To prevent violation of the law, enforcement officers called Grammatons punish anyone that shows signs of emotion.
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15)

Director: Kurt Wimmer
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Christian Kahrmann, John Keogh, Sean Pertwee

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FILM: JFK
On: RTÉ 2
Date: Tuesday 11th July 2006 (starting in 11 days)
Time: 00:15 to 03:50 (3 hours and 35 minutes long)

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison takes it upon himself to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Garrison is extremely suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI, and what he already knows and what he subsequently learns lead him to suspect that there is more to the story than the public is being told.
(1991, 15, 5 Star)

Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Oldman, Beata Pozniak

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Pigman II

FILM: 10 Things I Hate About You
On: UTV
Date: Friday 7th July 2006 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 23:00 to 00:55 (1 hour and 55 minutes long)

Romantic tale, based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, following the courtship between a surly teenager and a rebellious young man as orchestrated by the girl's younger sister. Having been forbidden from dating until her elder sister does so, the matchmaker and her would-be boyfriend set about sowing the seeds of romance between the ill-tempered sister and a new kid at their school.
(Stereo, Followed by ITV News Headlines, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)

Director: Gil Junger
Starring: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan

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FILM: North By Northwest
On: TG4
Date: Wednesday 12th July 2006 (starting in 6 days)
Time: 23:35 to 02:15 (2 hours and 40 minutes long)

Ceaptar trí thimpiste gur gníomhaire rialtais é Roger O Thornhill. Roger O Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent.
(1959, PG, 5 Star)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson

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FILM: The Silence of The Lambs
On: UTV
Date: Saturday 15th July 2006 (starting in 9 days)
Time: 23:55 to 02:03 (2 hours and 8 minutes long)

Multi-Oscar-winning thriller about a female trainee FBI agent who is seconded to the hunt for a horrific serial killer. For insight into the workings of his diseased mind she turns to the psychotic yet urbane Dr Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lecter, with whom she forms a compelling and dangerous relationship. From Thomas Harris's best-selling novel.
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1991, 15, 5 Star)

Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine, Frankie Faison

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Miguel_Sanchez

FILM: Super Troopers
On: TV3
Date: Saturday 8th July 2006 (tomorrow)


Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.
(2001)

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Starring: Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter and Brian Cox

I heartily recommend this film. Drink a few beers and have a laugh. Best viewed with a few friends.

onlymoon

thank you

Pigman II

FILM: 12 Angry Men
On: Channel 6
Date: Thursday 10th August 2006 (starting in 2 days)
Time: 22:00 to 23:55 (1 hour and 55 minutes long)

Made for cable television remake of the 1957 classic about eleven jurors quick to condemn a Latino youth on trial for murdering his father before reviewing the evidence. Juror #8 holds out with a verdict of not guilty, thus setting the stage for arguments and reasons why or why not the boy may be guilty..
(Made For TV, 1997, 12, 4 Star)

Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Courtney B. Vance, Ossie Davis, George C. Scott, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Dorian Harewood, James Gandolfini

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FILM: Carnal Knowledge
On: RTÉ 2
Date: Wednesday 16th August 2006 (starting in 7 days)
Time: 03:05 to 04:40 (1 hour and 35 minutes long)

Jonathan, a cruel but charismatic misogynist, and Sandy, a bland idealist, meet as roommates at a small New England college in the 1940s. As their friendship progresses through the following decades, their search for the ideal woman leads to failed marriages, bad relationships, and emotional emptiness.
(1971, 18, 3 Star)

Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret

Pigman II

FILM: 25th Hour
On: BBC 2 Northern Ireland
Date: Monday 28th August 2006 (starting in 8 days)
Time: 22:00 to 00:05 (2 hours and 5 minutes long)

Moody crime drama, based in New York, in which a drug dealer about to go down for a seven-year stretch spends his final day of freedom re-evaluating his life and tidying up loose ends with two of his closest friends.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2002, 15, 4 Star)

Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox

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FILM: Cool Hand Luke
On: TG4
Date: Sunday 3rd September 2006 (starting in 13 days)
Time: 00:00 to 02:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Paul Newman gives one of his finest performances as Luke in this superbly acted character driven story about prison life in the late 1940s and one man's fight against authority.
(1967, 15, 4 Star)

Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

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FILM: Mystic River
On: TV3
Date: Sunday 3rd September 2006 (starting in 13 days)
Time: 21:00 to 23:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Childhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie. Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution.
(2003, 15, 3 Star)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney

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FILM: Return to The Batcave
On: TV3
Date: Sunday 3rd September 2006 (starting in 13 days)
Time: 15:45 to 17:30 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)

Adam West and Burt Ward are taken on a crazy adventure when the Batmobile is stolen from a car museum and they must track down the thief and return it. After solving a puzzle, they realise that the clues to finding the fiend who stole the Batmobile are hidden in their past. During the search, they flashback to their three seasons in tights. Ultimately they find the Batmobile, but get caught in the villain's lair. Tied to dynamite, will Adam and Burt get out in time?
(2003, 12, 3 Star)

Director: Paul A. Kaufman
Starring: Adam West, Burt Ward, Jack Brewer, Jason Marsden

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FILM: Welcome to Sarajevo
On: Channel 4
Date: Friday 1st September 2006 (starting in 11 days)
Time: 01:50 to 03:30 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)

Michael Winterbottom's film takes the story of a foreign correspondent, whose character is largely based on ITN correspondent Michael Nicholson, to tell the complicated story of the conflict in Bosnia. Using a mix of film, video and news footage, the film captures the conflict between everyday humdrum human existence and the sudden explosions of violence that bring home in human terms the effects of the siege.
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, 15, 3 Star)

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nusevic, Kerry Fox, Goran Visnjic

mike65

Videodrome Channel 4 Saturday
01:20 to 02:50

James Woods plays a television executive searching for the ultimate show for his sex-based network. Then he comes across Videodrome, a pirate broadcast of what appears to be pornographic snuff films. Trying to track down the makers, he enters a world of extreme sex and violence in one of David Cronenberg's early films that, while explicit, also satirises the media industry and its attempts at mind-control.


Frankenstein Unbound, SCI FI Wednesday 22:00 to 23:35

Roger Corman guides John Hurt and Bridget Fonda through an inventive take on the Frankenstein tale. A scientist from the future meets Mary Shelley - and Dr Frankenstein - in the past!.


I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle Men & Motors Wednesday
22:00 to 00:00

Spoof horror about a motorcycle from Hell which runs on blood and refuses to start during the daytime. A Birmingham youth who buys the killer bike is forced to call in a priest to help him purge it of its dark powers.


Bird With The Crystal Plumage On: Film4 Tuesday 19th September
00:50 to 02:22

Dario Argento's debut is a Hitchcockian chiller rather than one of the splatter gorefests with which he was later to make his name. Sam Dalmas, an American writer in Rome, witnesses an attempted murder and finds himself under suspicion. When he's attacked himself, the police realise his innocence, but Dalmas has become intrigued by the assault, which is the work of a serial killer, and sets out on the killer's trail.

Mike.

Necronomicon

Film: Lady Vengeance

Channel: Film Four

Time: 10:55pm

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Just a heads up for anyone who hasn't seen it. Probably my least favourite of the Vengeance Trilogy, but still quite a good show.

mike65

Michael Manns debut feature-filum Thief on BBC1 at about 00.30am Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

Worth seeing for the opening 12 mins alone. Pure "urban-noir" cinema.

Mike.

gandalf

Hmmmm I have that on DVD haven't watched it yet!!

mike65

That was a waste of ? euro then! That said it may be the "directors cut" the BBC version is no doubt OEM.

Mike.

qwertplaywert

tuesday-Film 4-10.40pm[i think] Mallrats

great film,although its considered the worst of Kevin Smiths ''View askguard'' films its still a pretty good movie

Jello

FILM: Terminator 2: Judgement Day
On: RTE 2
Date: Thursday 14 December 06
Time: Starts 9:35 pm.

Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Year: 1991

Colonel Kurtz

Lantana
Channel 4
Wednesday 20th December

Have'nt actually seen this, but have it on reliable information that it's really very good. Has been described as the Australian Magnolia.

qwertplaywert

Kill Bill volume 1 on tonight[7th jan] at 10pm on bbc2...........great movie

mike65

A rare chance to catch a forgotten Aussie horror flick called Thirst

Mike.

mike65

Shawn of teh Dead on TV3 tonight!

Mike.

qwertplaywert

second that......excellent movie

byte

mike65 wrote:

Shawn of teh Dead on TV3 tonight!

Mike.

Awh damn! Missed that. Great film that.

mike65

Its a premier in these islands so you'l get another chance soon on C4 Id say. It feels like a C4 kinda film.

Mike.

WindSock

Osama Network 2
A young girl in Afghanistan has to pretend she's a bloke and work to support family, then gets whisked off to join the taliban.
00.25 Wed night. (sorry its already started and Im watching it now)

johnny_ultimate

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Sun 11 Mar, 11:15 pm - 12:55 am 100mins, BBC2.

Havent seen it, but the genius of Michel Gondry combined with Dave Chapelle is bound to make some good watching.

RadioGaGa

Dirty Harry
TCM 9.00pm 7 April
bit of classic clint eastwood. 'well, do you punk?'

_Kaiser_

Rambo: First Blood

Just started on BBC 3 - birth of a legend!

Aedh Baclamh

American Psycho is on late tonight on RTÉ 2.

Pigman II

FILM: Do The Right Thing
On: Channel 6
Date: Thursday 28th June 2007 (starting in 3 days)
Time: 22:30 to 00:45 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

A hilarious, insightful, and ultimately devastating day in the life of a Brooklyn street. A brilliant study of racism that has never been surpassed in the years since its release..
(1989)

Starring: Samuel Jackson, Spike Lee

Jello

Film: The Big Lebowski
On: Film 4
Tonight! 23:10

qwertplaywert

the stoner.....legendary movie!highly recommended!

johnny_ultimate

30th June:
21:00 - TV3 - Mullholland Drive
00:00 - BBC2 - Requiem for a Dream

Two of the great modern films make for one exciting double bill tonight.
Mullholland Drive being wonderful David Lynch mind trip.
Requiem for a Dream being the finest drug drama, from the great Darren Aronofsky. If anyone has yet to see / hear of it yet, I recommend watching this with no preconceptions. Anyone who has MAY not want to watch again.

DeepBlue

Channel: RTE 2 Date: Wednesday 11, July, 2007, Time: 00:15 - 02.10

All About My Mother (1999, Drama, subtitled)

A distraught woman attempts to overcome the shock of her son's death by changing her job, moving to a new town and becoming a pillar of strength for her friends. Simply superb, affectionate drama, with Penelope Cruz, Candela Pena, Marisa Paredes and Cecilia Roth. Directed by renowned Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar, who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for his endeavours. Directed by Pedro Almodovar*.

*Description taken from www.entertainment.ie

johnny_ultimate

*insert shock here* Great week for TV if you have digital - some terrific films showing:

Sunday - Garden State / Secretary - Film Four from 9 - the former being one of my all time favourites. Two quirky little numbers.

Monday - Hidden (Caché) - Sky Movies Indie (7 pm) - one of the finest European films of the last few years
Persona - Film Four - 2.25 AM (ooh.. late) - Must check this out - some Ingmar Bergman for all of you all

Tuesday - I Heart Huckabees / 5 X 2 - Film Four from 9 - the former: existential slapstick comedy. The latter: bizarre French relationship drama.

Wendesday - Brick / The Death of Mr Lazeracu - Film Four from 9 - Brick being my favourite of last year, TDOFL being a difficult but rewarding watch that litereally does with it says on the tin.

All week - Slither - Sky Movies Premiere - hilariously dark B Movie satire. Pretty demented, hugely entertaining.

Lots of terrific films in there, well worth watching all of them. One or two I havent seen myself, so looking foward to them. You very rarely get a TV line up this good, so check some of them out! Probably wont all be for you, but everyones bound to find something worthwhile in there.

Jesus Wept

Turner and Hooch is on the telly

Network 2 (yes.)

Pride Fighter

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Persona - Film Four - 2.25 AM (ooh.. late) - Must check this out - some Ingmar Bergman for all of you all

He is dead now. A TV channel should have a tribute to him and show the 7th seal. Goodbye to a legend. For those of you who dont know him here he is http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000005/ check out some of his films to pay tribute to him.