Recommended Movies on TV

OutlawPete

Alicat wrote: »

only about 20 minutes

Ray Charles Love this song!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhxdQBFmDZ0

This song was played throughout the movie just in case anyone thinks I've gone mad

MagicMarker

Primal Fear on RTE 2 just now, brilliant movie.

grames_bond

Great movie! some brilliant performances! gotta love it!

MagicMarker

Just posted this in the ''recommended movies on tv'' thread, brilliant movie. Oscar worthy performance from Norton.

waterford1988

Primal Fear on rte now. Absolutely brilliant film in my opinion, probably made so by Ed Nortans breathtaking performance. Anyone who hasnt seen it I recommend it highly!

I still get chills with the twist at the end when nortan shows his true colours!

DeepBlue

Two good ones on tonight. Hayden Christensen belies his wooden performance in the Star Wars franchise to show some great acting chops in Shattered Glass.

TG4 9.05pm FILM: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

A petty crook poses as an actor to avoid the law, only to inadvertently walk into a successful role playing a detective. The thief is sent to work with a real-life private eye to perfect his performance, but the unlikely duo end up stumbling on a murder. Comedy thriller, starring Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer and Michelle Monaghan.

RTE2 1.40am FILM: Shattered Glass (2003)

An ambitious journalist lands a coveted job at prestigious political magazine New Republic in the 1990s, where he sets about fabricating a series of articles as a way of improving his career prospects. However, with a change of editor, he comes under greater scrutiny and faces exposure as a liar. Fact-based drama, with Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard and Chloe Sevigny.

JP Liz

Christmas movies on TV3
Monday 21st December
9pm Belonging to Laura
(2009) Belonging to Laura is an outstanding modernisation and hilariously witty remake of Oscar Wilde’s classic play, which sticks as close as possible to its original language. Like Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet, credible modern situations, and certain new staging detail, are created/twisted in order to retain almost all of Wilde’s dialogue. On a broader, more thematic level, Wilde’s obsession with the complexities of morality are revealed to be just as relevant today as they were in the late nineteenth century. Belonging to Laura shows that now, as well as then, there are certain secrets worth keeping in order to maintain a healthy relationship.

Tuesday 22nd December
9pm Bad Santa
(2003) A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. Starring Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox.

Wed 23rd December
9pm Lethal Weapon 4
(1998) Promoted to desk jobs to keep them out of trouble, the two maverick cops join forces with a junior detective and a fast-talking private investigator to unravel a series of crimes involving immigrant smuggling and counterfeiting. Staring Mel Gibson & Danny Glover.

Christmas Eve
12.55am The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve
(2004) Steven Weber (Leaving Las Vegas), Molly Shannon (The Grinch) and Patricia Velasquez (The Mummy) star in the story of successful business executive and workaholic Calvin Carter. Success has come at a price for Calvin, and cost him his marriage and his relationship with his son. One Christmas Eve, when the rest of the world has gone home, Calvin is trying to close a billion dollar deal that will mean international success for his company. For Calvin this is the best Christmas Eve ever, but it soon turns into a nightmare when disaster unexpectedly strikes and he wakes up in hospital. He learns that he has just twelve days to actually achieve "the best Christmas Eve ever", or never see another Christmas again. Each time Calvin relives December 24th he must figure out what to do differently to make it right, and finally learns to reconnect with the people who constitute the meaning of his life, and for the first time understand what Christmas is all about.

Christmas Eve
2.35pm Casper
(1995) Casper hits the big screen! Casper the friendly ghost, one of the most beloved characters in TV history, stars in this delightful supernatural romp! A parapsychologist's lonely daughter is befriended by Casper - but Casper's brothers aren't nearly as friendly as he is! Great comedy and dazzling special effects make this a winner. Get an afterlife! Starring Bill Pullman & Christina Ricci.

Christmas Eve
5.50pm Miracle on 34th Street
(1994) A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus Stars: Mara Wilson.

Christmas Day
8am Anna and The King
(1999) This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

Christmas Day
11.45am Muppets From Space
(1999) Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his cereal. He is kidnapped and it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue him and reunite him with his family. Starring The Muppets and Ray Liotta.

Christmas Day
1.25pm Beethoven
(1992) The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into a giant of a dog... a St Bernard.

Christmas Day
9pm Ocean's Thirteen
(2007) Thirteen is the new twelve in the third terrific chapter of Oscar® winners George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's criminal caper series. With a stellar cast of criminal cohorts (including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac and newcomers Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin), it doesn't matter if it's eleven, twelve or thirteen -- it all adds up to fun.

St Stephen’s Day
1.05pm The Muppets Take Manhattan
(1984) Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated. Starring The Muppets, Dabney Coleman and Joan Rivers.

St Stephen’s Day
2.55pm Peter Pan
(2003) The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. Stars: Jason Isaacs and Jeremy Sumpter.

St Stephen’s Day
9pm Evan Almighty
(2007) God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood. Starring Steve Carell.

Sunday 27th December
1.15pm Annie
(1982) A red-haired mop-top orphan yearning to break out of her dreary life in an orphanage run by an iron-fisted, boozy matron charms billionaire Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Stars: Aileen Quinn

Sunday 27th December
3.45pm A Cinderella Story
(2004) Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Sam Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance. Stars: Hilary Duff

Wednesday 30th December
9.30pm Seven
(1995) Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO. Stars: Brad Pitt & Morgan Freeman.

New Years Eve
3.05pm The mask of Zorro
(1998) In early 19th century Mexico the masked swordsman hero Zorro was a champion of the people against the tyranny of Spanish rule, represented by the ruthless Governor Montero. Unfortunately, on the eve of his greatest triumph, the liberation of Mexico, Montero learns of Zorro's secret identity as Don Diego de la Vega

New Years Eve
9pm Kisses
(2009) On the fringes of Dublin two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of life, colour and the prospect of escape. Kylie lives with five other siblings and her overworked mother. Next door, Dylan lives in the shadow of an alcoholic father and the memory of an elder brother who ran away from home two years earlier. After a violent altercation with his father, Dylan runs away from home and Kylie decides to run away with him. Together they make their way to the magical night time lights of inner city Dublin, to search for Dylan’s brother, and in the hope of finding, through him, the possibility of a new life. Lance Daly’s vision of Dublin, as seen through the innocent eyes of our protagonists, is a kaleidoscope of magic, wonder and mystery. But as the night wears on, and Dublin takes on a darker character, the two kids have to rely on the kindness of strangers, the advice of Bob Dylan and their trust in each other to survive the night.

New Year’s Eve
11.30pm Moulin Rouge
(1999) Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor star in this Academy Award winning musical masterpiece. The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge.

New Years Day
9.30pm Gladiator
Winner of five Academy Awards, Gladiator revived the sword and sandal epic while becoming one of the most acclaimed and popular historical dramas of the decade! Russell Crowe won an Oscar for his star-making turn as a general whose family is murdered by a corrupt prince (Academy Award-nominee Joaquin Phoenix). He embarks on a desperate quest for revenge that sees him fighting in front of thousands of Romans in the Coliseum.

Glico Man

For anyone that's interested it's on Film4 tonight at 9

I for one think it's a good film...can't believe its so old 1989

Besides it's got two things that can make a film good: Ed Harris in front of the camera and James Cameron behind it

ThatGuyAgain

Good film alright. I'd like to know wheni it's coming out on bluray tho.

fonecrusher1

Great show, definitely gonna be watching that tonight.:D One of the oldest movies to use relatively advanced CGI i would say.

Kiith

Is it the directors cut version though? Cause that is, imo, the only version worth watching. Great film though.

fonecrusher1

Why was this thread moved?

JP Liz

Hunger is on Channel 4 Tuesday night

Richard Dower

Weepy for you guys!

L'prof

Must keep an eye on this thread, I'm always missing good films on tv!

JP Liz

Hunger is on Channel 4 tonight

davenewt

JP Liz wrote: »

Hunger is on Channel 4 Tuesday night

JP Liz wrote: »

Hunger is on Channel 4 tonight

:rolleyes: Are you in it?

JP Liz

davenewt wrote: »

:rolleyes: Are you in it?

its a great film

bnt

Two interesting films on tonight:

One Hour Photo, RTE2, 21:00: Robin Williams in a very serious, creepy role. He sees all the photos of happy families, and he's not in them ... :eek:

City Hall, TG4, 23:50: Al Pacino is the Mayor, while John Cusack is the Deputy Mayor, the one who gets all the dirty jobs.

mike65

Blade Runner (1991 directors cut) Saturday 9 pm BBC2

constitutionus

mike65 wrote: »

Blade Runner (1991 directors cut) Saturday 9 pm BBC2

thanks mike !

i was meant to be going out tonight but the session got shifted to tomorrow so now i got something to watch tonight as ive never seen the directors cut.

JP Liz

My Cousin Vinny is on TV3 tonight

Richard Dower

Total Recall is on RTE 2 tonight at 2am!

mike65

The Eagle Has Landed - woot!

BBC2 4.50pm today.

mike65

Hardly a reccomendation but if you saw the 2003 Toolbox Murders remake, the 1978 original is on channel 157 (Film 24) at 10 pm.

Edit - the EPG says it is the remake...we'll see.

bnt

TG4, Saturday, 13:45: Casablanca. If you haven't seen it, now's your chance.
RTE1, Sunday, 0:30: L.A. Story. Harris (Steve Martin) gets relationship advice from a L.A. freeway sign, and that seems "normal" in L.A. Features a younger Sarah Jessica Parker on bubblegum and rollerskates:

Harris: SanDeE*, your... your breasts feel weird.
SanDeE*: Oh, that's 'cause they're real.

Ghost Train

Really like LA Story's
Also Saturday night/Sunday morning
UTV 01;40 The Graduate
RTE1 02:15 City Slickers

JP Liz

The Departed is on RTE 1 on New Year's Day Night

Aidric

Brokeback Mountain starting on RTE2 now.

m83

Aidric wrote: »

Brokeback Mountain starting on RTE2 now.

gheeeey :pac:


I bet RTE will get loads of complaints about airing this