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05th Mar 2021

These are the eight best movies for your Friday night in

Rory Cashin

We’re not gonna lie, this is one of the best collections of movies on TV we’ve seen in some time.

There are PLENTY of great movies to enjoy on your Friday night in.

Too many, really.

Best clear some space on your DVR!

Arrival – FilmFour – 9pm

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner attempt to decipher an alien language when a number of spaceships land on Earth, in the hopes of communicating before fearful nations begin to attack them.

Man On Fire – RTE Two – 9pm

Denzel Washington is hired as the personal security for the young girl of a rich couple, and when she is kidnapped, he goes on a one-man-mission to get her back.

Kingsman: The Secret Service – E4 – 9pm

Taron Egerton is drafted by Colin Firth into a secret circle of gentleman spies who help keep the world in order, but immediately faces off against Samuel L. Jackson’s plans for world domination.

Kick-Ass – Comedy Central – 9pm

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the teenager who discovers that he has been imbued with some special powers, and decides to put them to good use as a superhero, but soon finds out that the world of superheroes isn’t quite as black-and-white as he’d thought.

Cardboard Gangsters – Virgin Media One – 9.30pm

John Connors heads up this Irish drama dealing with a group of young lads who try to take over the drug trade in Darndale, while chasing money, power and sex.

You Were Never Really Here – FilmFour – 11.20pm

Joaquin Phoenix stars in this grisly thriller as an enforcer hired to recover a kidnapped girl, but soon uncovers a deep world of corruption and abuse.

Overboard – RTE One – 11.25pm

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn star in this iconic rom-com about a gruff woodworker who saves a rich lady (who hates him) from drowning, only for her to completely forget who she was before they met.

Source Code – BBC One – 11.55pm

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this time-twisting sci-fi action-thriller, playing a man on board a train that is destined to be destroyed by a terrorist attack, but he can go back in time over and over again to find the trigger man of the bomb.

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