Sixteen movies across Saturday and Sunday to enjoy!
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SATURDAY
Ghostbusters – Sky One – 9pm
Three former parapsychology professors (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis) set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
Red Sparrow – FilmFour – 9pm
Ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent (Joel Edgerton), threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Anthropoid – RTE Two – 9.15pm
Based on the extraordinary 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. Stars Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan.
Parenthood – TG4 – 9.20pm
The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse. Stars Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Mary Steenburgen, Rick Moranis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Keanu Reeves.
Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado – Channel 4 – 9.30pm
The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro).
Loving – BBC Two – 11pm
The story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.
The Commitments – RTE One – 11.50pm
Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
The Ring – BBC One – 12.05am
A journalist (Naomi Watts) must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Margin Call – BBC Two – 12.55pm
Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. Stars Stanley Tucci, Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, and Demi Moore.
The Lobster – FilmFour – 1.20am
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. Stars Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, and John C. Reilly.
SUNDAY
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York – FilmFour – 6.40pm
One year after Kevin McCallister (Macauley Culkin) was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City – and the same criminals are not far behind.
True Lies – E4 – 9pm
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.
Star Trek Into Darkness – FilmFour – 9pm
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon (Benedict Cumberbatch) of mass destruction.
Scary Movie 2 – Comedy Central – 11pm
Four teens are tricked by Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) into visiting a haunted house for a school project.
Allied – Channel 4 – 11.15pm
In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer (Brad Pitt) in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Starred Up – FilmFour – 11.35pm
Eric Love (Jack O’Connell), 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He’s offered group therapy and his dad (Ben Mendelsohn), an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?
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