No less than fifteen movies to choose from this weekend!
Many, many, MANY movies to enjoy this Saturday and Sunday…
SATURDAY
Unsane – RTE Two – 9pm
A young woman (Claire Foy) is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear – but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Bad Boys – Dave – 9pm
Two hip detectives (Will Smith and Martin Lawrence) protect a witness (Tea Leoni) to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – FilmFour – 9pm
The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellan), continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.
The Snapper – RTE One – 9.30pm
20 year old Irish girl Sharon Curly (Tina Kellegher) lives at home with her large family. But notoriety in her neighbourhood suddenly arrives when, after a night out on the town, she becomes pregnant and refuses to divulge the identity of the baby’s father.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Channel 4 – 9.30pm
A mother (Frances McDormand) personally challenges the local authorities (headed by Sam Rockwell) to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
Changing Lanes – TG4 – 10.15pm
The story of what happens one day in New York City, when a young lawyer (Ben Affleck) and a businessman (Samuel L. Jackson) share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.
One Cut of the Dead – FilmFour – 12.10am
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
Foxcatcher – BBC One – 12.30am
U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) join “Team Foxcatcher”, led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carrell), as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John’s self-destructive behaviour threatens to consume them all.
SUNDAY
Star Trek Beyond – FilmFour – 6.40pm
The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy (Idris Elba), who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test.
Safe House – Virgin Media Two – 9pm
A young CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) is tasked with looking after a fugitive (Denzel Washington) in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – FilmFour – 9pm
Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.
The Other Woman – E4 – 9pm
After discovering her boyfriend (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is married, Carly (Cameron Diaz) soon meets the wife (Leslie Mann) he’s been betraying. And when yet another love affair (Kate Upton) is discovered, all three women team up to plot revenge on the three-timing S.O.B.
Midnight Run – FilmFour – 11.50pm
An accountant (Charles Grodin) is chased by bounty hunters (headed by Robert De Niro), the F.B.I., and the Mafia after jumping bail.
True Lies – Channel 4 – 12.15am
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) might be having an affair with a used-car salesman (Bill Paxton) while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
The Belko Experiment – FilmFour – 2.20am
In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
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