Recommended Movies on TV

Capt'n Midnight

RTE 1 tonight
23:35 90 min Sat 25 April
A Film with Me in it

Dark comedy set in Dublin
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139319/

corkie

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

RTE 1 tonight
23:35 90 min Sat 25 April
A Film with Me in it

Dark comedy set in Dublin
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139319/

𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘: 𝕯𝖞𝖑𝖆𝖓 𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖆𝖓, 𝕸𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝕯𝖔𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖞, 𝕶𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝕬𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓

zac8

The Elephant Man - BBC1 Sun Apr 26 @ 10.30pm

Capt'n Midnight

The Ladykillers (1955)
Film4 12:50-14:40 Tue 28th Apr 2020 115m

IMHO one of the best of the Ealing Comedies.

Review with some Spoilers
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/07/my-favourite-film-the-ladykillers




Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979)
Talking Pictures TV 00:00-02:15 Sat 2nd May 2020 135m

Review with some Spoilers
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-nosferatu-the-vampyre-1979

JP Liz V1

Hail Caesar is on RTE 2 now

JP Liz V1

The Handmaid's Tale is on TG4 (1990 film with Natasha Richardson)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/

Maze is on RTE 1

Capt'n Midnight

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Hail Caesar is on RTE 2 now

RTE 2 had a 1978 version of Julius Caesar on this morning. Brutal.




Man of Aran (1934) Part documentary , part fiction.
09:20-11:00 Mon 4th May 2020 90m
Talking Pictures TV

Short notice, only just realised, but should be repeated later.




The Ladykillers (1955) - just watch it again
15:05-16:55 Mon 4th May 2020 115m
Film4

Capt'n Midnight

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)[/URL]
21:00-23:05 Thu 7th May 2020 90m
Film4
Nice New Zealand film, worth watching.



Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
16:45-19:05 Thu 7th May 2020 135m
True Movies

If you like Ray Harryhousen's stop motion creature effects this is for you.

Otherwise YMMV

PsychoPete

Split - 9pm - RTÉ2

Pursuit of Happyness - 10pm - Virgin Media One

Man on Fire - 10.10pm - Alibi

corkie

Hampstead (2017) RTE 1 @ 21:45 / +1 @22.45

An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home.
Romantic comedy drama, starring Brendan Gleeson, Diane Keaton and James Norton

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life TG4 @22:05




Darkest Hour (2017) BBC One @ 19:30

May 1940. As the Nazis advance against Britain's European allies, newly elected prime minister Winston Churchill must decide whether to leave neighbouring countries to their fate, by striking a peace deal with Hitler, or fight on against terrifying odds for the greater good. Double Oscar and Bafta-winning period drama, starring Gary Oldman, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas

Scan other channel listing yourself here and after midnight here.

JP Liz V1

Den of Thieves is on Channel 4 and Channel 4 + 1

DenMan

There's a Western on tonight called High Plains Drifter starring Clint Eastwood. He also directed it. ITV4 @9pm.

Capt'n Midnight

American Graffiti (1973)
21:00-23:20 Sun 10th May 2020 140m - followed by Rock Around the Clock record it for the music if you like that sort of thing.
True Movies / Sony Classic and the +1
also Sun 17.05.2020 00:10


https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AmericanGraffiti

Set in small-town California in 1962, it follows a bunch of teenagers as they spend the last night of summer goofing around, getting into trouble and contemplating their futures while listening to Nothing but Hits. No, there really is no plot. Get over it.

....
While it has a lot of funny moments, the film could act as a thorough deconstruction of nostalgic teen flicks, especially Grease:

seligehgit

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Den of Thieves is on Channel 4 and Channel 4 + 1

It's on 4seven at 9.

An excellent film!

branie2

The 1991 version of Cape Fear is on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday at 9:00

DenMan

RoboCop (1987) is on ITV4 tonight @9pm.

JP Liz V1

Election is on BBC 1 now

DenMan

Hacksaw Ridge is on Paramount Network tonight @9pm.

Capt'n Midnight

RTE 1 21:35 125 min
Sat 23 May

Baby Driver (2017) [15]
Edgar Wright's music-themed action thriller, starring Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey and Jon Hamm.

Take the riveting first scene. Three criminals—Buddy (Jon Hamm), Darling (Eiza Gonzalez), and Griff (Jon Bernthal)—leap from a car outside of a bank just as Baby cues up “Bellbottoms” by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in his 'buds. Everything from this point on moves in rhythm with the music from the slamming of the car doors after the bank robbers return to the squealing tires of one of the best car chase scenes in years.

Capt'n Midnight

Citizen Kane (1941) BBC2
15:15-17:15 Sat 23rd May 2020 120m

Parts of this film have been copied so much of the impact is lost. And it's in Black and White.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-citizen-kane-1941 - spoilers in the link

It is one of the miracles of cinema that in 1941 a first-time director; a cynical, hard-drinking writer; an innovative cinematographer, and a group of New York stage and radio actors were given the keys to a studio and total control, and made a masterpiece. “Citizen Kane” is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound,

Capt'n Midnight

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
21:30-23:40 Sat 23rd May 2020 130m
ITV4

On the one hand it's just a remake of the Japanese Samuri Film Yojimbo

On the other it changed Westerns.

(Last Man Standing is a by the numbers remake of one or both of these two during probibition)





The Age of Shadows (Korean.)
00:45-02:55 Sun 24th May 2020 90m
BBC2


I haven't seen it but has good reviews.
From the Director of “The Good, the Bad and the Weird” which itself was based on another film in the "Dollars" series. Which brings us full circle back to Japan, or at least the Japanese ocupied Korea.

DenMan

The Green Mile is on Film4 tonight @9pm.

branie2

Goldfinger is on tomorrow on RTE 2 at 6.25 pm

branie2

Two James Bond films on RTE 2 next week:

Thunderball on Sunday at 6.05 and Casino Royale the next day at 9.00

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^
i nearly know them off by heart now

Atlantic Dawn

Crocodile Dundee II on RTE2 at 15:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kmLjUS35w

gmisk

For anyone who doesn't listen kermode and mayo go an excellent overview of the best films in free to air every week

DenMan

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) is on the Horror Channel tonight @9pm.

zac8

Some Like It Hot on BBC2 today at 3:40pm

Capt'n Midnight

A Man For All Seasons 1966
True Movies / Sony Classic 21:00-23:25 Sat 30th May 2020 90m

Set in the time of Henry VIII
It is a literate, humane treatment of the dilemma an honest man faces in a corrupt society.