Not one but TWO brilliantly funny Christmas movies on your TV tonight.
Yep, we’re getting closer to Christmas Day, so more and more Christmas movies are featuring in your nightly Movies On TV line-ups.
But for those not interesting in the festive films, you’ll be happy to hear there is plenty of action, rom-com, drama, and horror on the movie menu, too.
Star Trek Into Darkness – FilmFour – 6.25pm
Benedict Cumberbatch arrives into the updated Star Trek action series as the big bad guy with designs to completely destroy the Enterprise and the entire Federation. Lots of space explosions happen.
How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days – Comedy Central – 6.30pm
Kate Hudson is a journalist who pitches an idea to her editor that she can make a guy fall OUT of love with her in ten days. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey is a salesman who convinces his marketing team he can get a woman to fall IN love with him in same amount of time. Romantic comedy hijinks ensue.
Elf – Sky One – 7pm
Will Ferrell’s iconic Christmas movie, playing a human who was raised as an elf, who decides to travel to New York after years in the North Pole, in order to find her real father.
The Hitman’s Bodyguard – FilmFour – 9pm
Samuel L. Jackson is the hitman, Ryan Reynolds is his bodyguard, and they do not get on at all. A fun buddy action-comedy with lots of shoot outs.
Notting Hill – RTE One – 9.30pm
Julia Roberts is a huge movie star! Yes, in real life, but also in this movie, where she crosses paths with nice guy book shop owner Hugh Grant, and an unconventional romance begins.
Warrior – FilmFour – 11.20pm
Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton are two brothers who haven’t spoken to each other in years, both coming from dysfunctional family, and both highly skilled MMA fighters, heading for an eventual, highly emotional title match against each other.
The Night Before – Comedy Central – 12am
Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie are three best friends who are on the hunt for the best Christmas Eve party in town.
The Big Sick – BBC One – 12.10am
Loosely based on his own life, stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjani falls in love with a graduate student (Zoe Kazan), who soon develops a mysterious illness that puts her into a coma, forcing Kumail to build a relationship with his girlfriend’s family while they all wait for her to recover.
Drag Me To Hell – FilmFour – 2.05am
A nice bank teller tells an old lady that she can’t have a bank loan, so the old lady puts a tormenting curse on the bank teller, which will eventually, literally, drag her to hell. An insanely over-the-top horror.
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