Kick off your weekend right with one of these movies.
The weekend is here, finally! How has this week been nineteen days long? Anyways, here are the best ways to spend your Friday evening on the couch:
Pitch Perfect 2 – FilmFour – 6.45pm
Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and the rest of the Bellas are banned from national competitions after a scandalous performance, but they decide to head to Copenhagen to compete in the world championships and turn their luck around.
Spy – E4 – 9pm
Melissa McCarthy is the tech assistant to a super suave spy (Jude Law), but when he suddenly goes missing mid-mission, she is sent out into the field to pick up his trail. A very funny comedy, featuring a surprisingly hilarious turn by Jason Statham.
White House Down – Comedy Central – 9pm
Comedy Central are obviously having a great time laughing at their own scheduling joke, as this isn’t the first time they’ve shown this Die Hard-in-The White House movie this week. But it is a decent action movie with good chemistry between Channing Tatum and President Jamie Foxx, so we’ll let them off with it.
Red Heat – FilmFour – 9pm
Arnie is the Russian detective sent to America to bring a Moscow drug dealer to justice, but when he escapes and goes on the run, he teams up with local cop James Belushi to bring him to justice.
The Specialist – TG4 – 9.40pm
Sylvester Stallone is the master-bomber-for-hire, and he is hired by Sharon Stone to take out the mob family who killed her parents years earlier. It is one of the most ridiculous action movies ever made, and it features maybe the most hilariously unerotic sex scene in cinema history.
Attack The Block – FilmFour – 11.10pm
Residents at a tower block in London are tormented by a local gang, but they soon all have to team up together during a sudden alien invasion. This was the world’s introduction to the great John Boyega, and for that we’ll be forever grateful.
T2 Trainspotting – Channel 4 – 12.30am
The surviving gang from the original Trainspotting movie reunite several decades later, and while some of them have successfully managed to move their lives forward, others are still very much stuck in the ruts they were before.
