Movie picks
SATURDAY Snatch, Ch4, 10.50pm
Fast-paced crime comedy from director Guy Ritchie with an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Jason Statham and Benicio del Toro, and featuring many of the themes and cast members of his first feature, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Two criminal gangs collide when the proprietor of a stolen diamond, gangster Franky Four Fingers (del Toro) arrives in London to sell the stone.
Things get complicated when Franky goes to place a bet for a friend at the ruthless Brick Top’s (Alan Ford) bookie business.
His visit does not go to plan, and when the diamond changes hands, a violent struggle for the priceless piece ensues.
SUNDAY
Con Air, Ch4, 10.55pm Nicolas Cage is Cameron Poe, an ex-army sergeant who served his time for the manslaughter of a man who tried to assault his pregnant wife. Many of his fellow passengers are en route to a supermax prison, including Cyrus ‘The Virus’ Grissom (John Malkovich), a cunning career criminal who masterminded the hijacking.
Desperate to make it home to meet his daughter for the first time, can
Poe find a way to regain control while also playing along with the violent conspirators?
MONDAY Before I Go To Sleep, TG4, 9.30pm
Ever since a vicious attack nearly claimed her life, Christine Lucas (Nicole Kidman) has suffered from anterograde amnesia and is unable to form new memories.
Every morning, she becomes reacquainted with her husband, Ben (Colin Firth), and the other constants in her life. In accordance with her doctor’s (Mark Strong) instructions, Christine keeps a video diary.
As Christine starts to uncover terrifying truths about her past, she begins to question everything — and everyone — around her.
FRIDAY Nobody, Film4, 9pm
Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad fame stars as an apparently placid family man whose hidden past puts him in a unique position to defend his loved ones when the chips are down in director Ilya Naishuller’s ass-kicking action thriller.
The film opens with a handcuffed and bloodied Hutch Mansell
(Odenkirk) lighting up a cig in an interview room.‘who the f*ck are you?’ he’s asked by the interviewing agent.
The title of the film flashes up. He’s f*cking nobody.
We then get a montage of an average Joe going about his business. He’s got a family. He puts out the trash. He tries to keep fit. He avoids confrontation. He’s unremarkable. He’s a wimp.
Except... he used to be an assassin for hire. But stuff’s about to go down that’s gonna make his repressed, ultraviolent, ‘manly’ true self rise to the surface like some crazed orca crashing through the seething ocean waves at a sniff of seal.
It ain’t gonna be pretty. But it’s sure gonna be exciting. And no doubt he’ll still be taking out the trash.