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

Here are our picks of movies on TV and streaming platforms this week.

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

Your Period Drama Pick

Persuasion

  • Netflix 

Netflix / YouTube

Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) – the dashing man she once sent away -crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart. Adapted from the Jane Austen novel, directed by Carrie Cracknell.

Your Biblical Drama Pick

Risen

  • FilmFour at 6.55pm on Tuesday

Sony Pictures Entertainment / YouTube

A Roman military tribune (Joseph Fiennes) and his trusted friend (Tom Felton) are sent by Pontius Pilate (Peter Firth) to investigate the disappearance of Jesus’ body following his crucifixion. The two non-believers embark on an astounding journey. Directed by Kevin Reynolds.

Your Wartime Drama

Dunkirk

  • RTÉ One at 10.25pm on Friday

Warner Bros. Pictures / YouTube

During a brutal battle with German forces during World War II, soldiers from Britain, Belgium and France try to make it out of the town of Dunkirk alive. Starting Cillian Murphy, Harry Stlyes, Fionn Whitehead and Tom Hardy. Directed by Christoper Nolan.

Your Romantic Comedy Pick

Home Again

  • RTÉ 2 at 10.30pm on Friday

Zero Media / YouTube

Recently separated from her husband, Alice (Reece Witherspoon) moves back to her parents’ home with her two daughters. It’s her 40th birthday and she’s ready to let loose, but one night of fun results in three young, aspiring filmmakers moving into the family guesthouse. Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer.

Your Action Thriller Pick

The Last Stand

  • Virgin Media Two at 9.05pm on Saturday

Lionsgate Movies / YouTube

After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation, Sheriff Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) settles into a life fighting what little crime takes place in a sleepy border town Summerton Junction.

But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes an escape from an FBI prisoner convoy – and he’s heading straight through Summerton Junction. Directed by Kim Jee-woon.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:34 PM

    Reaction videos for me is one of the worst things the Internet has ever produced. Watching people and listening to their opinions to something they are watching on the Internet is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Terrible shite that needs to be exterminated in 2016.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:40 PM

    Reaction videos are just comment sections you don’t have to read =P

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:46 PM

    These videos though are invariably y of people who have been carefully selected to give the reaction the person producing it wants.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 4:35 AM

    They’re pretty bad but I can think of far worse things. MRA’s, faux liberal youtube atheism, let’s plays. The list is endless.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 8:13 AM

    Faux liberal YouTube atheism? What’s that?

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:18 PM

    I cringed more at the tossers watching than the Fox News clips.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:21 PM

    The clips were funny though,comedy gold.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:23 PM

    I wonder if the Russell Brand impersonator gets many bookings.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:25 PM

    More beatings than bookings id say.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:48 PM

    I don’t know but I think he has good chemistry with the Ed Byrne impersonator

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:37 PM

    Citizens of a country who consistently elect FG/FF/LAB hardly in a position to laugh at politics in another country…

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:42 PM

    Sadly true. I winced at the hard hitting truth of that comment.

    Fox “News” and Trump enjoy significant conservative middle class support in Ireland, sad to say.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:59 PM

    And long may it continue. Letting the lefties take charge of my money would be an even bigger disaster than the current crowd.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:34 PM

    @Valthebear Indeed.
    Catherine Murphy will get my first preference at the next election, which will take place whenever Inda’s football tells him it’s time to call one.

    For anyone who doesn’t get the reference, just Google “Enda Kenny Election Football”.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:54 PM

    Valthebear and Fiona, I regret to inform both of you that (a) we are in a position to laugh at politics in the US which is much more extreme and awful than in Ireland and (b) that most conservative middle class voters in Ireland would almost certainly be appalled at Trump because he is a crass, over-privileged, spoilt, hypocritical misogynistic moron. I have yet to meet a single Irish person who supports Trump. He built his business on Daddy’s money. He is the antithesis of everything that made America great.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 10:00 AM

    TLH, your money? You must be the only one paying tax in Ireland?

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:35 PM

    And if an American site did an ‘Americans reacting to Vincent Browne’ would we laugh or be annoyed?

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:17 PM

    Great channel

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:01 PM

    What about irelands very own fox news .. rte … pure right wing blueshirt propaganda at is finest .. lot more subtle than fox but still doing the exact same thing. Time to stop paying the t.v. tax as well

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:35 PM

    John. If you think Fine Gael are right wing then why on earth are so many people on middle incomes paying an effective tax rate of 52%? Give us a break will you. We haven’t got a right wing economic party in Ireland unfortunately.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:44 PM

    They only pay that much on earnings over a certain amount, up to that amount they pay less.. No one is handing over 52% of what they earn after tax free allowances and other tax rebates are taken into consideration.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:50 PM

    52% is the marginal rate shanti above a certain level of income so people do reach a point where any additional income they earn is taxed at this rate.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:13 PM

    A single person earning €200k and contributing max pension of €34.5k per year comes out with €87,818 of their earnings after tax, prsi and usc. Their taxable earnings €165.5k. Thats not 52%. Bear in mind that pension is the only deduction calculated here, property tax is something else entirely. Source pwc http://download.pwc.com/ie/budget-2016/index.html

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:22 PM

    Sorry shanti but you’re confusing effective tax rates with marginal tax rates. If someone is already earning an income where they are paying 52% in tax, usc and prsi has the option to earn further income above that then they will receive only 48% of that additional income. Simple fact.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:33 PM

    Ok, then I appear to have my definitions confused, they’re still bringing home more of their income than not. Are you saying it makes them not want to take on extra work? Because that could provide an opportunity to employ someone else who may be happy to take on the extra income, gotta be better than unemployment right?

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:46 PM

    Sorry shanti I actually said effective rate first in my first post when I meant to say marginal rate but the point I’m making is still valid. It may or may not be a disincentive to a higher earner to take on additional work but it isn’t always the case that the work they do can be transferred to someone else to do as you suggest. Either way, government policy should promote innovation and entrepreneurship and high marginal tax rates have a negative impact on these things. That doesn’t mean that you can’t have a fair distribution of wealth mind but fairness has to be applied across the board and that includes to higher earners too.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:06 PM

    Well I had them confused so it doesn’t matter whether you said the wrong thing earlier anyway! And if you’re talking about entrepreneurs, they get all sorts of other tax rebates and they can pay themselves a wage from their company to reduce their tax liability.. Let’s not kid ourselves here, the more you earn as a self employed individual or even a company director the more loopholes you get to claim back. Unlike a PAYE worker (which is likely why they get a higher tax free allowance, although there’s still less deductions permitted, so the higher the income the more it may not be to your advantage to be PAYE..

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    Jan 4th 2016, 12:09 AM

    John if you think RTE are Ireland’s Fox News then you clearly have never spent time watching that appalling channel where things are said that are utterly unthinkable in Ireland or most other civilised democracies. America is no longer a civilised democracy across whole swathes of its society.

    It is a sad reflection on the intelligence of the average Fox viewer that they could listen to such non-factual ignorant bs which is also anti-science and not be repelled. I have met numerous highly informed educated Americans but I have also met numerous educated and Ill informed Americans who would put the most ignorant Irish idiot to shame. I suspect that some of this is down to hubris. Never having been invaded some Americans regard war as an overseas video game.

    Please do not compare RTE to Fox. It makes a mockery of language. Thankfully we have no equivalent in either the media or in politics. One reason is that the Irish Government never gave up control of the airwaves and stations and media must abide by some rules. This is not so in the US where President Ronald Reagan sold off the airwaves to capital and there is no requirement whatever for any balance. Fox is pure propaganda. Facts are optional. Orwell would have been proud.

    Pres. Reagan killed pluralism in the US and surrendered the State to the interests of corporate capitalism. Ireland is still a largely mainstream European social democracy. America is “exceptional” but increasingly not in a good way.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 10:18 AM

    RTE are worse, at least Fox doesn’t force you to pay them.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:47 PM

    Fox News is without a doubt the best comedy channel around. I once watched Bill O’Reilly call for the imposition of a dictator in Iraq because the “democratic” government of the criminal puppet that the US had installed wasn’t doing what it was told by Washington. O’Reilly spent years ranting about getting that evil dictator Saddam out and installing democracy and then turns around and with a straight face says that they (the US) should install another dictator!!! Priceless stuff.He also went on to sat that if he was President of Iraq http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/06/19/220256/-O-Reilly-I-d-run-Iraq-the-way-Saddam-did-that-and-more

    “President O’Reilly… Curfew in Ramadi, seven o’clock at night. You’re on the street? You’re dead. I shoot you right between the eyes. Ok? That’s how I run that country. Just like Saddam ran it. Saddam didn’t have explosions – he didn’t have bombers. Did he? because if you got out of line, your dead.”

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:19 PM

    Fox News = Irrationality cubed

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:25 PM

    The Journal is the Irish left wing equivalent.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:33 PM

    @codology
    Totally agree re the comments section of the journal, not necessarily the reporters.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:47 PM

    So what media outlets do you read for your confirmation bias, if thejournal doesn’t suit your world view.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:18 PM

    @PJ

    The reporters are clones of each other. They all seem to be in agreement on everything all the time. What good is that to anyone? This publication can’t seem to find anything of any real substance or interest to readers when you take abortion, LGBT, and laughable feminist articles out of the equation. There’s nothing left but a shell.

    For a young and upcoming publication with reasonable resources (staff) and an online platform in 2016 it seems to me to be clean out of ideas. All feeling a little like Bebo, and FB will come eventually.

    It used to be, 2 or 3 years ago, a handy condensed news app. Now it just can’t help itself promoting agendas and I think it has cost the publication an awful lot.

    How come there are now so few contributors of columns for example? There used to be one every 2 hours or so. Now it’a one or 2 a day and less again sometimes. Have people stopped submitting almost entirely? Most of the best comment contributors have long upped and left too.

    For a publication that could and should be flourishing it seems to me to be floundering, and floundering badly.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:32 PM

    Couldn’t agree more codology. You’ll be swamped with red thumbs in the next few hours though once the lefties zone in on you. Comments like yours cannot be let go unpunished. It’s no wonder that socialists produce as many dictators as right wingers.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:29 PM

    I too can write lot of crap, and at the same time say absolutely nothing.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:29 PM

    I bet you can and do all the time Terry. All the time.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:26 PM

    When Fox News and Trump get together the carbon emissions which are released are humongous .

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:30 PM

    Can the crusties at facts come up with a video that’s not “Irish people react to x”.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:56 PM

    Slightly ironic The Journal posting this, what with them being a mouthpiece for our own right-wing government.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:00 PM

    Wrong direction mate, this “site” is a leftie mouthpiece.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:35 PM

    I don’t agree with either of you.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:08 PM

    I agree with all three of ye.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:08 PM

    I agree with all three of ye.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 9:29 AM

    Lol

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 9:30 PM

    Do you guys own facts? You seem to promote them on a weekly basis.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:47 PM

    O yes that KKK channel…

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 8:48 PM

    Kouldn’t Kive a Kare about facts lol.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:26 PM

    Serious question.
    Did you actually laugh out loud?
    If not, then why type “lol”?
    Are you an idiot?

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:17 PM

    I did not use the lol for a joke a few times before and people replied to me thinking I was serious?

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    Jan 4th 2016, 1:42 AM

    Anybody who watches fox news knows its the most right wing republican station you could watch. “fair and balanced” is their motto but only if your right wing

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    Jan 4th 2016, 12:08 AM

    lol the Ulster dude is hilarious.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 7:38 AM

    Apologize doesn’t need (sic). It’s right.
    I have NO idea why FOX ‘News’ has a licence to broadcast.
    It’s there to stir hate and fear and provoke wars so arms dealers can get rich.
    Don’t use ‘Freedom of Speech’ to excuse hate groups and war mongers.
    America’s worst enemy is its media.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 10:43 AM

    Nobody summarised Murdoch’s tantrum station better than Jim Carrey after he was attacked for criticising American gun culture:

    “Since I released my “Cold Dead Hand” video on Funny or Die this week, I have watched Fux News rant, rave, bare its fangs and viciously slander me because of my stand against large magazines and assault rifles. I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery. That would gain them far too much attention which is all they really care about.
    I’ll just say this: in my opinion Fux News is a last resort for kinda-sorta-almost-journalists whose options have been severely limited by their extreme and intolerant views; a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public health issue.
    I sincerely believe that in time, good people will lose patience with the petty and poisonous behavior of these bullies and Fux News will be remembered as nothing more than a giant culture fart that no amount of Garlique could cure.
    I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence.”

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    Jan 4th 2016, 2:15 AM

    Male grooming has gone to the dogs.

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 11:00 PM

    *onanists

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    Jan 3rd 2016, 10:59 PM

    Fox news is full to the rafters with onenists.

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    Jan 4th 2016, 7:20 PM

    why rte is worse than fox news: our own propaganda and they force you to pay for it.

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