Recommended Movies on TV

mostly from https://www.viewfilm.net/tonight UK movies today/tomorrow
01:20-03:40 Wed 5th Feb 2020 140m
Film4 Byzantium (2012)
Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan star as vampires.


15:00-17:15 Wed 5th Feb 2020 160m Cromwell (1970)
BBC2


Also if you liked the first one, more Superheros in Space
Saturday RTE 2 21:00 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2




Driving Movies

00:05-01:55 Thu 6th Feb 2020 100m The Driver (1978)
Talking Pictures TV

I prefer it to Drive, (below) better ending IMHO.

01:30-03:35 Wed 5th Feb 2020 95m Drive (2011)
Sony Movies Christmas

This is a nice feel good movie
01:35-03:55 Thu 6th Feb 2020 140m Rush (2013)
Film4

Baby Driver was on Sony Movies two weeks ago so keep an eye out for it if you like driving music

Saturday BBC1 all the HD with none of the ad breaks.
9:20 Guardians of the Galaxy

Rocket: What has the galaxy ever done for you? Why would you wanna to save it?!

Quill: Because I'm one of the idiots who lives in it!

Spoiler alert - It's a man in a gorilla suit pretending to be King Kong.

Haven't seen it but some say it's a guilty pleasure.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055058/reviews?ref_=tt_urv

"Konga" is a badly written, acted and directed piece of poverty row exploitation British-style,but you'd have to be utterly cold hearted not to get a lot of fun out of it.

TalkingPictures
Fri 20.03.2020 Konga
12:05 - 13:55 (110 min.)
[Movie] (1960) [PG]

15:45-17:45 Mon 13th Apr 2020 115m
ITV3
Carry On Screaming (1966) - One of the better Carry On's it's a spoof of Hammer Horror


14:00-15:45 Mon 13th Apr 2020 92m
ITV3
Carry On Cleo (1964) - "Infamy ! infamy ! They've all got it in for me"



08:15-09:40 Mon 13th Apr 2020 90m
True Movies
Duck Soup (1933) - Seven years before Chaplin did The Great Dictator the Marx Brothers were taking a dig at Fascism.


21:00-23:15 Mon 13th Apr 2020 90m
Sony Movies
Baby Driver (2017) - Ansel Elgort should have played the young Han Solo. Anyway there's bank robberies, fast cars and music



12:40-14:50 Mon 13th Apr 2020 90m
Horror Channel
The Arrival (1996) - Charlie Sheen is a cable guy worrying about global warming.


13:40-15:40 Mon 13th Apr 2020 90m
BBC1
Film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - still a roller coaster ride of a movie so best viewed without Ads.

If you want more fighting Nazi's in castles there's also this
17:50-21:00 Mon 13th Apr 2020 158m
ITV4
Where Eagles Dare (1969)


02:50-04:35 Tue 14th Apr 2020 90m
True Movies
Breaker Morant (1981) - Australian film based on true events from the second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. The Australian Army refused to ever again allow their troops to be tried by British court-martial.




Not really a recommendation but I don't remember RTE showing it on St Patrick's day.
17:00-19:00 Tue 14th Apr 2020 90m
Talking Pictures TV
Flight of the Doves (1971) - I don't remember RTE showing it on St Patricks day. The past is a different county. Cringey but you can try to recognise the locations.


01:10-03:25 Wed 15th Apr 2020 100m
Sony Movies
The Road (2009) - Set in a post apocalyptic ash-covered wasteland, good but it's very much not a feel good movie.

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Sneakers is great, very underrated with a good cast

Brilliant film.

If you were to remake this film today you'd explain the use of low tech phones as smartphones are too traceable, and you'd name check quantum computing or whatever.

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

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

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,