Next week is poor for my normal TV recommendation so for this week I decided to check out film I may have seen or not. I love a good film and never listen to critics I can make my own mind up like you if you don’t agree with my selection for the upcoming week.
Saturday Premiere Sky Cinema Passengers 8pm
I love a space movie and throw in Jennifer Lawrence and I am interested and the trailer looked like I would enjoy it anyway. In the film a passenger (Chris Pratt) aboard a spacecraft travelling to a distant planet is awakened from suspended animation by a technical glitch -- 90 years before the vessel is due to reach its destination.
Faced with the possibility that he will live out the rest of his life alone, he considers waking up another traveller (Jennifer Lawrence) in order to have a companion but will she be happy being woken. Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne co-star.
Sunday BBC 2 Grand Prix 1:45am
A fantastic film a real treat for a Sunday afternoon the film is packed with driving and unlike today with the cars full of computers; they were driven in this film. The only way to give drivers messages with a pitboard.
In Grand Prix after his Jordan-BRM racing team fires American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, Aron begins to drive for the Japanese Yamura team, and becomes romantically involved with Stoddard's estranged wife.
Monday Film4 Prometheus 9pm
Ridley Scott, director of Alien, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of humankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe.
They arrive at a moon trillions of miles away from Earth. The team spot what they believe to be signs of civilization. They go to investigate and find more conclusive evidence. But some of them have an ulterior motive for being there, including the Weyland Corporation. A interesting prequel I was left wondering why the spaceship was better than the on in Alien.
Tuesday TMC The Night of the Hunter 7:10pm
Imprisoned with thief Ben Harper (Peter Graves), phony preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) learns that Ben has hidden a huge sum of money somewhere near his home. Upon his release, the murderously misogynistic Powell who ingratiates himself into Ben's home, eventually marrying his widow Willa (Shelley Winters).
Eventually all that stands between Powell and the money are Ben's son (Billy Chapin) and daughter (Sally Jane Bruce), who take refuge in a home for abandoned children presided over by the indomitable, scripture-quoting Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish). The war of wills between Mitcham and Gish is the heart of the film's final third, a masterful blend of horror and lyricism.
Wednesday Film4 The ladykillers 12:55
Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter Sellers, homicidal Herbert Lom and punch drunk Danny Green.
The gang uses Guinness' flat as headquarters as they conceive a daring 60,000-pound robbery. After pulling off the job, the gang stuffs the loot in a railway station locker. To avoid detection, Guinness convinces the ever-trusting Johnson to pick up the money. Through a series of comic complications, Johnson returns home with a police escort, with neither the woman nor the bobbies suspecting that she's carrying a fortune in her suitcase. Mistakenly believing that Johnson has ratted on them, the gang reluctantly plans to eliminate her.
Thursday Sony Movies Dear John 9pm
A sweet slow film involving a Dear John letter. Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) was on spring break when she first met John Tyree (Channing Tatum), who was home on temporary leave. For the smitten soldier it was practically love at first sight. Over the course of the next seven years, when each deployment seemed more treacherous than the last, the love letters that Savannah sent to John were one of the only things that kept him going.
However, those loving and heartfelt correspondences would ultimately yield consequences that neither the brave soldier nor his one true love could have ever foreseen.
Friday C4 The French Connection 1:30am
Why this great film is on so early in morning is beyond me but I will definitely record it. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman) and his partner, Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider), are New York City police detectives on narcotics detail, trying to track down the source of heroin from Europe into the United States. Suave Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) is the French drug kingpin who provides a large percentage of New York City's dope, and Pierre Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi) is a hired killer and Charnier's right-hand man. Acting on a hunch, Popeye and Buddy start tailing Sal Boca (Tony Lo Bianco) and his wife, Angie (Arlene Faber), who live pretty high for a couple whose corner store brings in about 7,000 dollars a year.
It turns out Popeye's suspicions are right -- Sal and Angie are the New York agents for Charnier, who will be smuggling 32 million dollars' worth of heroin into the city in a car shipped over from France. The French Connection broke plenty of new ground for screen thrillers; Popeye Doyle was a highly unusual "hero”, an often violent, racist, and mean-spirited cop whose dedication to his job fell just short of dangerous obsession. The film's high point, a high-speed car chase with Popeye tailing an elevated train, was one of the most viscerally exciting screen moments of its day and set the stage for dozens of action sequences to follow. And the film's grimy realism (and downbeat ending) was a big change from the buff-and-shine gloss and good-guys-always-win heroics of most police dramas that preceded it.
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