FILM HIGHLIGHTS
SUNDAY
Men in Black 2 (1999) TV3, 5.20pm Sci-fi action comedy, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Agent J must coax Agent K out of retirement, and reverse his memory wipe in order to save Earth from a shape-shifting alien seductress who is seeking to destroy the world. The Bourne SUPREMACY (2004) TV3, 9pm Action thriller, starring Matt Damon and Franka Potente. After escaping his last adventure, Jason Bourne is determined to leave his past as a trained assassin behind and live incognito. However, a CIA operation gone wrong forces him to return to his deadly skills once again in order to survive. Magic Mike (2012) Channel 4, 11pm Comedy drama, starring Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Olivia Munn. A talented male stripper who gets by dancing and doing odd jobs teaches a young newcomer about how to seduce women, make money and party all night in Steven Soderbergh’s film based partly on Tatum’s youth.
MONDAY
BRIDESMAIDS (2011) E4, 9pm Comedy, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd. A woman suffers a series of misfortunes when she is asked to be her best friend’s maid of honour, only to find out she has a rival for the position. She does her best to hold on to the role, but faces a series of misfortunes. cloverfield (2008) 9pm, Sky Atlantic Found footage sci-fi-horror, starring T J Miller, Lizzy Caplan and Jessica Lucas. A leaving party quickly turns to disaster when a group of friends witness an alien attack and embark on a desperate rescue to save a friend as a beast ravages New York city. The BUCKETLIST (2007) Channel 5, 10.30pm Comedy drama, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. A corporate billionaire is forced to share a cancer ward with a humble mechanic while they both undergo treatment for cancer. After being told their time is running out, they decide to leave and embark upon a mission to do everything they have always wanted to do in life.
TUESDAY
killer assistant (2016) Channel 5, 3.20pm Thriller, starring Arianne Zucker and Brando Eaton. A successful editor struggling with her marriage is seduced by her charming assistant. However, this one mistake quickly escalates into blackmail and manipulation as the assistant becomes more and more unhinged. Mud (2012) Film4, 6.15pm Drama, starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon. Two boys encounter a mysterious fugitive named Mud living in a treehouse on the Arkansas river. Mud asks the boys for help in contacting his love; she is being watched by ruthless bounty hunters hired to capture Mud after he killed a man who assaulted her. TWISTED (2004) TV3, 9pm Thriller, starring Ashley Judd. A police officer who suffers from a drinking problem because her father killed her mother and committed suicide, is placed under suspicion after her former lovers start being killed.
WEDNESDAY
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT day (1991) 3e, 10pm James Cameron’s legendary sci-fi action sequel, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda
Hamilton. An advanced cyborg is sent from the future in order to kill a baby who will become the future leader of a rebel resistance. However, the older cyborg model is also sent to protect the child. SOMEONE To WATCH over Me (1987) BBC1, 12.10am Ridley Scott’s romantic crime drama, starring Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers and Lorraine Bracco. A NYPD officer is assigned to protect a wealthy socialite who witnessed a murder. This puts a strain on his marriage as the two gradually fall in love. Warm bodies (2013) Channel 4, 1.30am Zombie comedy, starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich. After a zombie apocalypse ravages the earth, one of the creatures fills his days consuming people until one day he saves a human from an attack. This sets off a series of events no-one predicted, and could be the key to saving humanity.
THURSDAY
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Sky Atlantic, 10pm Crime comedy, starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver and Dan Aykroyd. An unenthusiastic hitman is sent to perform a job in the same suburb as his 10year high-school reunion and must deal with an ex-girlfriend, special agents, an assassin who wants him dead and another who wants to recruit him into his newly formed assassin cartel. RESIDENT evil: EXTINCTION (2007) Film4, 10.45pm Action-packed horror sequel, starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter and Oded Fehr. A group of survivors from the zombie outbreak in Racoon City travel across America, which has since become a desert wasteland, in the hopes of making it to a new life in Alaska. Elsewhere, Alice is coming to terms with her spectacular powers, and is determined to take down the evil Umbrella Corporation once and for all. PRISONERS (2013) 3e, 11pm Thriller, starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano. A desperate father takes the law into his own hands when his daughter and her friend are kidnapped. He abducts a suspect and goes to increasing lengths to extract a confession. Viola Davis and Terrence Howard also star.
FRIDAY
ANCHORMAN: The legend of ron Burgundy (2004) RTE2, 9.35pm Cult comedy, starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd and Steve Carrell. Ron Burgundy and his all-star news team are the big shots of 1970s TV news with a penchant for slick suits and perfect hair, but are soon forced to come to terms with an ambitious female reporter determined to end their misogynistic and bumbling grip on the newsroom. More dead Than alive (1969) TG4, 10.45pm Western, starring Clint Walker, Vincent Price and Anne Francis. Recently released after 18 years in prison gunslinger ‘Killer’ Cain wants to put his past behind him and settle down, but old enemies and an ambitious cowboy looking to make a name for himself are determined to prevent him from doing so. Blood diamond (2006) BBC1, 11.55pm Thriller, set during Sierra Leone’s brutal 1990s civil war starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. A fisherman’s life is turned upside down when his family are captured and he is enslaved by rebel fighters and is forced to mine for diamonds to fund their war effort. A government army raid occurs just as a huge rough diamond is found, which the fisherman smuggles into prison. A young mercenary smuggler, upon hearing the story, releases the fisherman and offers, with the help of an American journalist, to find the man’s family in exchange for the diamond. The two then embark on a perilous journey across the war-torn West African nation to find redemption.
SATURDAY
The day after tomorrow (2004) RTE2, 7.30pm Disaster film, starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. A paleoclimatologist notices that huge swathes of the world’s ice caps have broken off, triggering weather events which lead to the beginning of another ice age. Humanity attempts to cope with the disaster by fleeing to the warmer cities of the southern hemisphere. However, the climatologist must attempt a daring trek across the United States in order to rescue his son who is trapped in New York City. Crash (2004) RTE1, 12.25am Drama, which focuses on the issues of race and loss starring Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle and Ludacris. A series of crashes and crimes invoke, perpetuate and calm a diverse group of interconnected people’s attitudes towards race and each other over 36 hours in Los Angeles. Predator (1987) RTE2, 12.30am Sci-fi action thriller, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. An elite group of commandos are sent to Central America by the CIA to rescue a group of hostages held by guerilla fighters. However, they soon find out they are being stalked by an alien hunter that can camouflage itself into its surroundings, and begins to hunt down and kill the commandos one at a time, taking trophies from its victims.