There is plenty of choice on offer tonight.
Are you missing going to the cinema but are feeling like you’ve watched everything on Netflix? Not to worry, as there’s a stacked list of movies airing tonight on television.
Here are our picks for the best of the bunch.
Ghostbusters – Sky One – 9pm
Ghostbusters: Afterlife is set for a cinema release later in the year. As such, now is the time to reacquaint yourself with the original.
This acclaimed 80’s comedy stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis as a trio of eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City.
Red Sparrow – Film Four – 9pm
Jennifer Lawrence stars as a ballerina turned Russian intelligence officer. She is sent to make contact with a CIA officer in the hope of discovering the identity of a mole.
Red Sparrow’s performances, spy intrigue and sense of style just about make up for its bloated run time and grim tone.
It Follows – Horror Channel – 9pm
One of the most terrifying horrors in recent years, teenagers in a Detroit town are pursued by a shape-shifting supernatural entity that follows them everywhere they go.
22 Jump Street – Comedy Central – 9pm
One of those rare comedy sequels that surpasses the original, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill return as undercover cops. This time the pair must blend in as college students in order to find the supplier of a new drug.
Thanks to its stars’ great charisma and tons of meta-jokes about the nature of sequels, the laughs come thick and fast. Make sure to stick around for the end credits.
Anthropoid – RTÉ Two – 9.15pm
This incredibly tense thriller tells the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan play the soldiers tasked with carrying out the mission.
Sicario 2: Soldado – Channel 4 – 9.30pm
Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin return in this sequel to the excellent thriller Sicario, playing CIA agents who take radical steps to stamp down on drug cartels operating along the US-Mexico border.
While maybe not as strong as the original, great performances, muscular action set-pieces and a dark labyrinthine plot make this worth checking out.
Loving – BBC Two – 11.00pm
Irish actress Ruth Negga earned an Oscar nomination for this beautiful drama telling the true story of a couple arrested for being in an interracial marriage in 1960’s Virginia.
Dead Calm – Turner Classic Movies – 11.15pm
In this nail-biting thriller, an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill) take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident.
While on the open sea, they come across a ship with one survivor (Billy Zane) who is not at all what he seems.
The Commitments – RTÉ One – 11.50pm
To celebrate its 30th anniversary and to coincide with their new documentary series Back to Barrytown, RTÉ is screening the groundbreaking Irish comedy-drama.
Centring on an unemployed Dublin man who decides to put together a soul band, the film was one of the first to bring Hollywood to the capital.
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