Brad Pitt. Tom Hardy. Idris Elba. They’re all on tonight, but the decision of who to watch is yours.
We’ll be honest, tonight’s collection of best movies isn’t actually the best.
Can we instead recommend you check out maybe the best horror movie of 2020? Or maybe Nicole Kidman’s great new murder mystery series? Or you could enjoy Barry Keoghan’s fantastic new Irish drama?
But if you are in a particularly movie-on-TV mood, there are still some decent picks to chose from, with some great actors involved, beginning with…
The Take – FilmFour – 9pm
Also known as Bastille Day, this movie tells the story of a pickpocket (Game Of Thrones’ Richard Madden), who is mistaken for a terrorist following an attack in Paris, and he is forced to team up with a special agent (Idris Elba) in order to prove his innocence and bring the real felons to justice.
World War Z – FilmFour – 10.45pm
Brad Pitt is the immunologist who finds himself at the forefront of a worldwide zombie outbreak, constantly attempting to find the source of the disease before mankind completely collapses. One of the best action-horror movies ever made, don’t @ me.
Demolition Man – TCM – 11.05pm
Sylvester Stallone is a police officer who is awoken from cryosleep in a futuristic utopia version of Los Angeles, only to discover that his former nemesis Wesley Snipes has escaped prison and causing havoc in a city not equipped to deal with his brand of violence. And if you want to stop a maniac… you need to send a maniac.
Child 44 – FilmFour – 1am
Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and more star in this Soviet-set drama, with Hardy playing a security agent investigating a series of child murders, but it is an investigation that the Soviet government would rather just went away quietly.
The Fifth Estate – Channel 4 – 1.55am
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Julian Assange in this sort-of biopic about the founding of Wikileaks, and how those involved suddenly found themselves in possession of potentially very dangerous secret information related to the American intelligence services.
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