The TV schedule was pretty poor for the upcoming week so I decided to give you the films I am looking forward to watching next week. All the film are worth seeing again if you have seen them before.
Saturday - Channel 4 –Lucy (2014) 9pm
What to do with the wife watching Casualty … Spend an hour or so in the company of Scarlett Johansson and who wouldn’t. I have seen the film a few times than most but I have a soft/hard spot for Scarlett playing the title role in this film.
Lucy an American woman living and studying in Taipei, Taiwan her new boyfriend, Richard asks her to deliver a briefcase supposedly containing paperwork. It actually contains four packets of CPH4, a highly valuable synthetic drug and the mob boss and drug lord Korean Mr. Jang turns Lucy into a drugs mule.
Along with three other mules, they have the drugs forcibly sewn into their abdomens to transport the drug for sale in Europe. While Lucy is in captivity, one of her captors kicks her in the abdomen, breaking the bag and releasing a large quantity of the drug into her system. As a result, she begins acquiring increasingly enhanced physical and mental capabilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, mental time travel, and the ability not to feel pain or other discomforts.
Her personality also changes into a more ruthless and emotionless one. She seeks out a scientist in Paris as well as contacting the French police to arrest the other mules she needs the CPH4 to finish her development. She rushes to France with Mr. Jang and his men chase to catch her but she reaches her goal and along the way kills a lot Jang men with the help of a French police office.
Sunday – Sky Cinema Premiere – In a Valley of Violence (2016) 9:50pm ***First showing on UK TV***
A mysterious drifter named Paul and his dog Abbie make their way towards Mexico through the barren desert of the old west. In an attempt to shorten their journey they cut through the centre of a large valley - landing themselves in the forgotten town of Denton - a place now dubbed by locals as a "valley of violence”.
The once popular mining town is nearly abandoned and controlled by a brash group of misfits and nitwits - chief among them, the seemingly untouchable, Gilly who is the troublemaking son of the town's unforgiving Marshal. As tensions rise between Paul and Gilly, Denton's remaining residents bear witness to an inevitable act of violence that starts a disastrous chain reaction, infecting the petty lives of all involved and quickly drags the whole town into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.
Mary-Anne and Ellen, two bickering sisters who run the town's only hotel, try to find the good in both men, while desperately searching for their own salvation. Only the world-weary Marshal struggles to stop the violent hysteria, but after a gruesome discovery about Paul's past, there is no stopping the escalation.
Monday – Sky Cinema Select – The Danish Girl (2016) 8pm
I can see why I haven’t seen this film yet but our paths have not passed which will end tonight.
Inspired by the true story of Danish artists Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio.
Her portrait model has cancelled and his wife asks would he mind replacing her, which he doesn’t slipping into a pair of women's shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. This awakens something in the husband that is going to change their lives forever turning this story into one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.
Tuesday – Sony Movie Channel – Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 9pm
First time around the wife and I loved this strange film so much so we have watched it many time and will be watching again.
The Hoover family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big dreams. Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks, and a broken-down VW bus, leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself.
On their travels through this bizarre landscape, the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life, no matter what the challenge.
Wednesday – Horror Channel Wake Wood (2009) 10:40pm
A veteran and a pharmacist learn there is no cheating death after losing their daughter in a tragic accident, then taking part in a Pagan ritual to bring her back to life. Their nine-year-old daughter Alice killed in a vicious canine attack, Patrick and Louise move to the sleepy village of Wakewood to start a new life.
Once there, they encounter mysterious village leader Arthur, who claims he can resurrect Alice for three days so the grieving parents can say their proper goodbyes. If they agree, however, Patrick and Louise will be binded to Wakewood forever. Shortly thereafter, and the ritual is conducted. As Arthur promised, Alice returns to her parents as if she were never gone. But when three days pass and the time comes for Alice to go, Patrick and Louise discover just how frightening things can get when the rules are broken.
Thursday – ITV4 – American Gangster (2007) 10pm
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas, the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream.
Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars. Richie Roberts is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene.
Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.
Friday – Sky Cinema Christmas – A Christmas Carol (2009) 8pm
The lovely bit of Christmas because everyone loves the story of Scrooge I know I do.
Robert Zemeckis directs this animated version of the Yuletide classic A Christmas Story. The story centres on Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), a penny-pinching miser who cares nothing for the people around him, least of all his hopelessly downtrodden employee Bob Cratchit (Gary Oldman) and infectiously optimistic nephew, Fred (Colin Firth).
On Christmas Eve, after a frightening encounter with the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, Scrooge is visited by three spirits -- the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come -- who take him and us on an eye-opening journey to expose the truths he is reluctant to face.
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