3.25pm RTÉ One

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Some Like it Hot (1959)

Billy Wilder’s cult comedy is an absolute gem. The chemistry between Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis is wonderful; Marilyn has never oozed more charm and Wilder’s pen has never been so dipped in magic. Joe E. Brown’s oneword review would simply be, ‘’Zowie!’’

9.15pm, Saturday, Channel 4

‘’All this anger, man, it just begets greater anger’’

For his third directorial feature, Martin McDonagh took the bones of a real crime incident and fashioned a dark drama lled with nuggets of the writer’s inimitable black humour. In her strongest, non Coens role to date, Frances McDormand is superb as the stubborn Southern woman, unhappy that the local police force has failed to track down the man who killed her daughter. The story hinges on this grieving mother’s erce sense of indignation (she pays for the eponymous billboards to be erected, highlighting police inactivity) and McDormand delivers in spades. Yes, there is pain, but there’s also humanity and even hope. Also impressive is Woody Harrelson as the local sheri at the centre of her ire, while Sam Rockwell impresses as his trigger-happy deputy. Beautifully shot by Ben Davis and powered by a dark, Carter Burwell score, Three Billboards ... deserves all the acclaim and awards it subsequently received. Frances McDormand deservedly scooped her second Best Actress Oscar (following Fargo in 1986); while Rockwell landed his rst gong in support. McDonagh himself got a nod for Best Original Screenplay, losing out that year to Jordan Peele for

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