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Screen Watch: Your guide to the best TV movies this week

Here are our picks of movies on TV this week.

WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the movie options available to watch on TV and streaming services over the week.

Your Action Thriller

Cold Pursuit

  • RTÉ One at 9.30pm today 

Lionsgate Movies / YouTube

Nels Coxman’s (Liam Neeson) quiet life with his wife (Laura Dern) is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels’ search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking (Tom Bateman), a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. Directed by Hans Petter Moland. 

Your Drama Pick

Only the Brave

  • FilmFour at 6.25pm on Tuesday

Sony Pictures Entertainment / YouTube

Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, this film tells the story of a unit of local firefighters battling to protect their families and communities and to become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the country. Directed by Joseph Kosinski.

Your New Release Pick

Hustle

  • Netflix from Wednesday

When a down-on-his-luck basketball scout (Adam Sandler) finds a potential superstar in Spain, he sets out to prove they both have what it takes to make it in the NBA. Directed by Jeremiah Zagar. 

Netflix / YouTube

Your Documentary Pick

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

  • Netflix from Wednesday

Netflix / YouTube

This documentary takes an in-depth look into the secretive polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the rise of self-professed prophet Warren Jeffs, who had 78 wives, 24 of whom were underage.

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    May 16th 2018, 6:47 AM

    Blandness for the masses.

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    May 16th 2018, 6:13 AM

    Hoping to have a cracking night tonight. I live thousands of miles away, by the way.

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    May 16th 2018, 6:28 AM

    @Martin Flood: sounds like Ed should have a great night too

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    May 16th 2018, 7:25 AM

    Almost every woman in the country will have seen him by this weekend

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    May 16th 2018, 6:59 AM

    I see the Moaning Michaels are up early today.
    I’ve passed by a few times this week, venue looks great, should be a great night for those going if the rain holds off!

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    May 16th 2018, 8:28 AM

    Sheeran shuttle €12.50/€15 big difference between that and the gig in Galway €1.30/€2.30 for the bus. Unbelievable show tho from all acts

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    May 16th 2018, 12:14 PM

    Phoenix Park shouldn’t be a concert area. More than 60.000 people will come for 3 nights in a week. That’s not a regional or national event. All animals, and habitat will be affected. I live next to Phoenix Park and they told me I can’t drive during the concert nights. We have other stadiums and concert areas.

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    May 16th 2018, 1:59 PM

    @penyez: You’re spot on, going by previous events the park will be in bits, there’s no respect for nature anymore. I know Croke Park can’t be used because of the Rolling Stones gig, but we still have the Aviva as big venue.

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    May 17th 2018, 12:42 AM

    @Bart Hoppenbrouwers: don’t worry all the wildlife will be fast asleep due to the blandness of it all.

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    May 16th 2018, 6:18 AM

    Oh God and sweet baby Jesus…….
    There’s enough going on in Croke Park tomorrow night to entertain the masses

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    May 16th 2018, 7:29 AM

    @Gareth Cooney: I know, I’m thinking of all the poor men been dragged along by their girlfriends

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    May 16th 2018, 7:29 AM

    @Alana: to Ed

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    May 16th 2018, 2:16 PM

    These concerts seem to be attracting the type of people who don’t usually go to gigs. John and Aisling who were looking forward to Garth Brooks a few years ago are attending these concerts en masse.
    Meanwhile Ed Sheeran is laughing all the way to the bank.

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    May 16th 2018, 9:30 AM

    Is he still a thing

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    May 16th 2018, 8:59 AM

    Seated ticket for tonight for sale . Block D row AA. 50 euro.

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    May 16th 2018, 11:53 AM

    @Alan Campbell: Don’t feel bad. Some people paid a lot more.

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    May 16th 2018, 11:48 PM

    I feel sorry for the animals in the zoo. They had no say in this and have to sit through three nights of torture!

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    May 16th 2018, 8:11 PM

    Please don’t turn up to the stones concert ed

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    May 16th 2018, 11:37 AM

    The LCD.

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