It is a must-watch for fans of Bruce Springsteen. But also for fans of music in general.
Today is a big day for movie fans, as both Barbie (our review here) and Oppenheimer (our review here) finally hit the big screen! But if you’re saving one or both of those for later in the weekend, here are the movies on TV for you to choose from this evening…
Deep Impact – FilmFour – 6.30pm
Forget about Barbenheimer, because FilmFour is showing the ultimate double bill this evening. First up, President Morgan Freeman tries to save the planet from an incoming asteroid by putting astronauts on it and drilling a big bomb into it.
Armageddon – FilmFour – 9pm
And next up, Best Oil Driller In The World (Bruce Willis) gets his team trained to become astronauts so they can drill a big bomb into an incoming asteroid.
Hart’s War – RTÉ2 – 9pm
Bruce Willis (again) and Colin Farrell headline this mix of WWII POW drama and courtroom thriller. It is actually pretty good, if not nearly as important as it thinks it is.
Pitch Perfect 3 – E4 – 9pm
The one where the plot suddenly involves international drug dealers? An odd duck of a movie.
The Edge of Seventeen – BBC Three – 9.30pm
If it wasn’t for the next movie, this would’ve been our pick for the night. Hailee Steinfeld is brilliant as a teenage girl who has her life turned upside down when she discovers her best friend and her brother have been hooking up, so she turns to her grumpy teacher (Woody Harrelson) for life advice.
Blinded By The Light – RTÉ One – 9.35pm
Our main pick for the night is 2019’s brilliant drama Blinded By The Light, a brilliant movie about the power of music. It tells the story of a young boy who suffers from racial abuse in 1980s England, with one of his only escapes from the real world being music. And that escape becomes all the better when he is introduced to the music of one Mister Bruce Springsteen.
Blinded By The Light is also available to rent on Apple TV, Google Play and the Sky Store. Check out our interview with Blinded By The Light director Gurinder Chadha right here:
Spider-Man: Homecoming – BBC One – 10.40pm
Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr. make a brilliant pairing in the sorta-Spidey-solo movie, but the whole thing is stolen by Michael Keaton’s truly threatening villainous turn.
The Purge: Election Year – ITV4 – 11.10pm
The third entry in the Purge-iverse, with Frank Grillo as a bodyguard trying to protect a presidential nominee on Purge night. It is actually pretty good.
Enigma – RTÉ One – 11.50pm
Dougray Scott plays a genius hired by the government to help crack the German’s WWII communications code. Kate Winslet heads an impressive supporting cast, and the whole thing is perfectly watchable if not a little too slow burning.
Dredd – FilmFour – 12.05am
Give us the sequel to this movie already!
Countdown – Channel 4 – 12.45am
A terrible horror movie about an app that predicts when you’re going to die. Not scary in the least.
Airplane II: The Sequel – FilmFour – 1.55am
The sequel to one of the best comedies ever made had a long way to fall. And it does indeed fall quite a good bit from that first movie.
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