Fourteen movies across the weekend to choose from!
Get your calendars out and start making movie-watching plans!
SATURDAY 5TH
Moana – RTE One – 6.35pm
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana’s island, she answers the Ocean’s call to seek out the Demigod (The Rock) to set things right.
Raiders of the Lost Ark – FilmFour – 9pm
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler’s Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Ingrid Goes West – MTV – 9pm
An unhinged social media stalker (Aubrey Plaza) moves to LA and ingratiates herself into the life of an Instagram star (Elisabeth Olsen).
The Town – RTE Two – 9.15pm
A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold Claire (Rebecca Hall), the assistant manager, hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members (Ben Affleck) falls in love with Claire.
Shakespeare in Love – TG4 – 9.50pm
The world’s greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Commando – Channel 4 – 11pm
A retired Special Forces colonel (Arnold Schwarzenegger) tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate.
Scream – Comedy Central – 11.20pm
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl (Neve Campbell) is terrorised by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
Oasis: Supersonic – RTE Two – 11.30pm
Oasis’s breakthrough years documented into a detailed depiction of the infamous brothers from Manchester forming the band in the early 90’s leading up to the legendary performance at Knebworth.
The Hurt Locker – BBC One – 11.45pm
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant (Jeremy Renner) recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
SUNDAY 6TH
The House Bunny – Comedy Central – 7pm
After Playboy bunny Shelley (Anna Faris) is kicked out of the playboy mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls.
Changeling – Virgin Media Two – 9pm
Grief-stricken mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – FilmFour – 9pm
The early years of James Logan (Hugh Jackman), featuring his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), his service in the special forces team Weapon X, and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine.
This Is 40 – Comedy Central – 9pm
Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they’re on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
Funny Cow – Channel 4 – 12.10am
A comedian (Maxine Peake) uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England’s working men’s clubs.
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