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04th Jun 2021

Eight of the best movies on TV for your Friday night in

Rory Cashin

The weekend has begun, and here are your Friday night movies!

From superheroes to true-life murder investigations, tonight has the lot!

The Incredible Hulk – FilmFour – 9pm

Bruce Banner (Edward Norton), a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper.

Selma – RTE Two – 9.30pm

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s (David Oyelowo) campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Parker – Virgin Media One – 9.30pm

A thief (Jason Statham) with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman (Jennifer Lopez) on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew’s latest heist.

The Wedding Singer – RTE One – 10.40pm

Robbie (Adam Sandler), a singer, and Julia (Drew Barrymore), a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.

American Animals – FilmFour – 11.15pm

Four young men (including Barry Keoghan and Evan Peters) mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.

Zodiac – BBC Two – 11.20pm

In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal) becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorises Northern California with a killing spree.

A Fish Called Wanda – BBC One – 11.45pm

In London, four very different people (John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtin, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin) team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.

Ouija: Origin Of Evil – FilmFour – 1.35am

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business by inviting an evil presence into their home, not realising how dangerous it is.

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