Movie PICKS
FRIDAY Unfrosted, Netflix
Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever.
Jerry Seinfeld directs, co-writes, and stars in the new lm, which tells the story of the cutthroat and breakneck race to invent the Pop-tart — a tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen.
Also starring a huge cast of famous faces including Melissa Mccarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant, Max Green eld, Christian Slater, Bill Burr, Daniel Levy, James Marsden,
Jack Mcbrayer, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, Adrian Martinez, Sarah Cooper and Fred Armisen.
FRIDAY The Equalizer 3, Sky Cinema & NOW
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert Mccall (Denzel Washington) has struggled
to reconcile the horri c things he’s done in the past and nds a strange solace in serving justice on
behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his
new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, Mccall knows what
he has to do: become his friends’ protector by taking on the ma a.
SATURDAY Snake Eyes, Film 4, 9pm
Frantic martial arts action providing an origin story for a fan-favourite character from the G.I. Joe toy line.
Snake Eyes (Henry Golding) is a brooding cage ghter who accepts a contract to assassinate Tommy (Andrew Koji) but opts to save his life instead.
The grateful Tommy brings Snake Eyes into the Arashikage clan, an ancient ninja society given to putting its initiates through punishing trials like confronting past traumas and battling giant CGI snakes.
Secretly, however, Snake Eyes is still working foryakuza boss Kenta (Takehiro Hira), who’s plotting his own takeover of the Arashikage dynasty, intending to steal a magic jewel that bestows ery superpowers.
But Snake Eyes also has his own agenda dating back to his father’s murder 20 years earlier, meaning, as is the way of these things, that there’s much ado about honour and vengeance.
SATURDAY 100-Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, TG4, 9.45pm
Comedy starring Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander and David Wiberg. Directed by Felix Herngren.
A bizarre and imaginative tale of centenarian explosives expert and vodka lover Allan Karlsson who, after living a long and colourful life, nds himself stuck in a nursing home.
On his 100th birthday, his retirement home is planning to throw a party to mark the milestone, but Allan is not interested.
So he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey with no set destination in mind.
Based on the 2009 comic novel of the same name by the Swedish author Jonas Jonasson.