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09th Feb 2021

These are the five best movies on TV tonight

Rory Cashin

Including one of the very worst movies ever made, because sometimes you gotta take the bad with the good.

Okay, we’ll come clean. Tonight’s list of Best Movies on TV isn’t actually all that great. Slim picking this evening, for some reason.

Still though, there is enough actual quality movies for your Tuesday night in, just less of them than usual…

X-Men: Days of Future Past – FilmFour – 6.30pm

Arguably the best of the X-Men movies sees Wolverine travel back in time from a post-apocalyptic future to attempt to stop the creation of mutant-hunting robots in the 1970s.

Robocop 2 – ITV4 – 9pm

Doesn’t really compare to the iconic original, but it is still kind of fun, with the police wanting to create a new, more-powerful Robocop, but putting in the brain of one of the most notorious criminals in Detroit. Because that will definitely end well.

The Post – FilmFour – 9pm

Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star in Spielberg’s true-story political drama about the editor and owner of The Washington Post, as they begin to uncover the scandal behind Watergate and potentially taking down a presidency.

Snowden – FilmFour – 11.15pm

Joseph Gordon-Levitt headlines Oliver Stone’s drama about the National Security Agency member who makes thousands of classified files public in an attempt to call attention to major problems within the NSA.

Jaws: The Revenge – ITV4 – 11.20pm

Chief Brody’s wife goes head-to-head with a killer shark who was killer her son, this movie stands tall with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, and generally considered to be one of the worst movies ever made. And for that reason, it is almost worth watching. Almost.

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