Sitting in tonight? You’ve got some movie decisions to make…
Saturday night, and you’ve got some serious movie options.
You could go to the cinema and check out one of the new releases (including Birds Of Prey, Dolittle, or Parasite), all of which we review right here.
Or you can sit in and watch one of these highlights of the small screen:
SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2 – RTE Two – 9pm
The sequel can never quite recapture the magical spirit of the first movie, but it is still a lot of fun, with some great action and great performances, especially from Kurt Russell, who is having an absolute ball playing Ego, the Living Planet.
X-Men: Days Of Future Past – E4 – 9pm
The best of the “period X-Men” movies (which also included First Class, Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix), this one sees Wolverine sent back in time from a post-apocalyptic future in order to stop a robotic menace from being created. Peter Dinklage is the baddie, but once again it is Michael Fassbender who steals the show.
Whitney – Channel 4 – 9pm
Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland, Touching The Void) examines the life and career of singer Whitney Houston. Features never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive recordings, rare performances and interviews with the people who knew her best.
Mission: Impossible III – Sky One – 9pm
The overlooked M:I is when things started to go very right for the series. Directed by JJ Abrams (before he saved and then ruined Star Wars), it has some incredible action set-pieces (the bridge attack is still a highlight for the franchise), and features the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman as the sneeringly evil villain.
Train To Busan – FilmFour – 11.15pm
A landmark modern horror from Korea sees a group of people take refuge on a train during a zombie outbreak. But it isn’t long before the horrors outside are outweighed by the new, far-more-human horrors taking place on board.
While We’re Young – BBC Two – 11.55pm
On the eve of maybe winning some Oscars for Marriage Story, one of writer/director’s Noam Baumbach most-recent outings found an older couple (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts) making friends with a younger couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried), and quickly becoming exhausted trying to keep up with their hip lifestyle.
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