PICK OF THE WEEK
The Full Montys 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road, Sicario, Ex Machina,...
It's the end of the year and SquareEyed's Chief Film Critic Monty Smith has decided to put together a special highlights list of all...
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TURKEY OF THE WEEK
Sex and the City 2
(2010) ★
ITV1: Saturday 9 January, 10.35pm
Straitened times for most of us, but for Manhattan minxes Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker it’s...
FIRST RUN
Movies on TV Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
(2015) ★★½
Sky Movies Premiere: PREMIERE Friday 22 January, 3.45pm and 8pm
Dev Patel’s refurbished dump in Jaipur is now quite the going concern. With settled-in...
Movies on TV Review: Sword of Vengeance
(2014) ★
Sky Movies Premiere: PREMIERE Friday 22 January, 02.00pm and 10.15pm
With perfectly coiffured cornrows adorning his barnet, freed slave Stanley Weber is the Shadow...
Movies on TV Review: Into the Grizzly Maze
(2014) ★★
Channel: PREMIERE Friday 22 January, 11.45am
Deputy sheriff Thomas Jane not thrilled when younger brother James Marsden returns to his neck of the woods,...
Movies on TV Review: Seventh Son
(2014) ★½
Sky Movies Premiere: PREMIERE Friday 22 January, 9.45am and 6pm
“When darkness falls, the son will rise…” You see what they did there? Not...
Movies on TV Review: Hitchcock
(2012) ★★★★
Film4: PREMIERE Wednesday 20 January, 9pm
Anthony Hopkins is Alfred Hitchcock, sweating over his contentious follow-up to his big 1959 hit, North By Northwest....
TV Movie Review: Epic
(2013) ★★½
Channel 4: PREMIERE Sunday 17 January, 5.30pm
Amanda Seyfried voices MK, an American teenager transported to a fairyland battle in the deep woods. There’s...
CLASSIC CORNER
River of No Return
(1954) ★★★
Widower Robert Mitchum is stranded in hostile Injun territory with his young son and Marilyn Monroe, a saloon singer with a gold claim...
Rear Window
(1954) ★★★★★
Like William Shakespeare, Alfred Hitchcock understood the human condition. Rear Window is perhaps the clearest example of this. Although here – as James...
GUILTY PLEASURES
Fallen
(1998) ★★★
Coincidentally, Mars mission leader Elias Koteas appears upfront in Fallen, too. He’s the serial killer dying with obscene defiance in a gas execution...
The Last Days on Mars
(2013) ★★½
Liev Schreiber among the eight weary explorers led by Elias Koteas on the first mission to Mars. At the end of their six-month...
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