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Movies & TV

16th May 2019

Here are the 7 best movies on TV this Thursday

Dave Hanratty

At slow speed, we all seem focused.

In motion, we seem wrong.

In summer, we can taste the rain.

I want you to be free.

Don’t worry about me.

And just like the movies.

We play out our last scene.

‘Movies’ – Alien Ant Farm (2001)

Here are the best movies on TV tonight, Thursday 16 May…

The Game – TCM – 9pm

Michael Douglas has his privileged life turned upside down in increasingly bizarre fashion in David Fincher’s excellent thriller.

Tropic Thunder – Comedy Central – 9pm

Raucous comedy in which a troupe of actors – led by Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black – are forced to become the troop of soldiers that they are playing.

xXx: Return of Xander Cage – Film 4 – 9pm

Vin Diesel back from the dead as the most extreme secret agent around, brah!

Neymar is also here, because marketing.

Gangster Squad – ITV4 – 10.05pm

A great cast – Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Sean Penn, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, Nick Nolte – get their Untouchables cosplay on with mixed results.

Van Helsing – ITV4 – 12.15am

Hugh Jackman, vampire hunter.

Bully – Film 4 – 1.25am

Deeply unpleasant portrayal of a quite horrific real life small town America story in which teens take grim revenge on a local bully.

Bonnie & Clyde – TCM – 1.40am

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway step into the shoes of the notorious criminals.

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