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28th May 2021

These are the eight best movies on TV for your Friday night in

Rory Cashin

Holy moly, LOADS to choose from tonight!

A great selection of movies on the telly tonight to kick your weekend off the right way.

A View To A Kill – ITV4 – 8pm

The recovery of a microchip off the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond (Roger Moore) to a mad industrialist (Christopher Walken) who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California’s Silicon Valley.

Sicario 2: Soldado – Virgin Media One – 9pm

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).

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – FilmFour – 9pm

A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.

True Lies – E4 – 10pm

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.

Avengers: Age of Ultron – BBC One – 10.45pm

When Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it’s up to Earth’s mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron (James Spader) from enacting his terrible plan.

Superbad – Comedy Central – 12am

Two co-dependent high school seniors (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Daybreakers – FilmFour – 12.20am

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. Stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Neill.

Eagle Eye – Virgin Media Two – 12.30am

Jerry (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.

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