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28th Oct 2020

These are the six best movies on TV tonight

Rory Cashin

Six very good ways to spend your Wednesday night.

We’re due to get A LOT of rain from tonight, so the best thing to do would just be sit in, get your snacks piled around the couch, and turn on one of these…

Romancing The Stone – FilmFour – 6.50pm

Back before he was remaking The Witches, Robert Zemeckis was giving us this Indiana Jones’y romantic action comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, who are trying to find the treasure with an ancient map before the local Colombian crime lords beat them to it.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – TCM – 9pm

The Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law-starring sequel is just as good as the first movie, this time pitting their unique skill set and chemistry against Moriarty, here played to understated perfection by Mad Men’s Jared Harris.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – FilmFour – 9pm

Picking up the Jack Ryan title after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck (but before John Krasinski), this time we’ve got Chris Pine as the newbie CIA recruit attempting to stop evil Russian master criminal Kenneth Branagh from beginning World War III.

Battleship – ITV4 – 10.05pm

A group of US Navy battleships are out at sea performing some war games when a group of highly advanced alien spaceships suddenly arrive. Explosions happen. Lots of them.

Mother! – FilmFour – 1.15am

Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star in this demented psychological horror about a husband and wife attempting to “get away from it all” at their isolated home, only for a series of strangers to show up at their door, each one of them sliding them down another level of torment.

Big Eyes – Channel 4 – 2.15am

Tim Burton directs this autobiographical drama about an artist (Christoph Waltz) who achieves levels of fame and wealth from his new paintings, but nobody realises they’ve actually been painted by his incredibly talented wife (Amy Adams).

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