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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 Comedy Biopic Pick

I, Tonya

  • TG4 at 9.30pm today

Universal Pictures All-Access / YouTube

Based on true events, the film tells the story of one of America’s most iconic figure skaters, Tonya Harding (played by Margot Robbie), and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Directed by Craig Gillespie.

Your Cold War Thriller Pick

Bridge of Spies

  • FilmFour at 6.15pm on Thursday

20th Century Studios UK / YouTube

James Donovan (Tom Hanks), a Brooklyn lawyer, finds himself thrust into the centre of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American pilot. On top of that, he is tasked with defending a Soviet spy (Mark Rylance) in court. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

Your Documentary Pick

Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan

  • Netflix

In the late 1970s, an accused serial rapist claimed multiple personalities control his behaviour, setting off a legal odyssey that captivates America.

Your Fact-Based Drama Pick

Detroit

  • RTÉ 2 at 10pm on Friday

Annapurna Pictures / YouTube

A raid by a rogue group of police officers in 1967 triggers large-scale riots across the city. Based on real events and directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

Your Action Pick

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

  • RTÉ 2 at 9.45pm on Saturday

Mission Impossible / YouTube

When his elite organisation is shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) race against time to stop the rise of a dangerous network of rogue operatives turned traitors. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

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    Oct 18th 2021, 6:59 PM

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was Sean Connery’s final film role, and it’s worth watching by mere virtue of having him in it in his last outing. The other reason is that it’s an Alan Moore story, and even though Moore disowned it as he disowned all Hollywood productions of his work after having signed away his rights as a young writer, a mistake countless others in other arts made too, his stories even if flawed reproductions of the original graphic novels are usually still worth it (other examples being V for Vendetta and Watchmen).

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    Oct 18th 2021, 7:25 PM

    @Mick Tobin: I watched this a few years back, wouldn’t want to see it again. Long before the end I had lost interest. I seem to remember reading that Connery stopped making movies as a result of this film.

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    Oct 18th 2021, 7:35 PM

    @Bert Carolan: Yes, here it is: https://screenrant.com/sean-connery-league-extraordinary-gentlemen-hated-why/ – but much of that had to do with delays concerning the weather, and over-sensitivity on the director’s part about how realistic some of the props were.

    If that’s what caused Connery to withdraw from acting, so be it, but it seems to me it had more to do with the circumstances of the production than with the eventual result, but allegedly Sir Sean did go into the editing room to help edit the final cut as he wasn’t satisfied.

    He said the director should’ve been arrested for insanity, but still, that doesn’t make it a film not worth watching. I enjoyed it sufficiently to watch it till the end, but if you couldn’t, well fair enough.

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    Oct 18th 2021, 7:45 PM

    There should be a pour bleach in me eye’s section because film and TV at the moment is terrible

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    Oct 18th 2021, 7:59 PM

    @Matthew Doyle: in your opinion…

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    Oct 18th 2021, 10:42 PM

    @Matthew Doyle: I agree, full of ghastly horrendous remakes and superhero movies, shocking time for films

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    Oct 18th 2021, 8:04 PM

    What a transformation Matthew McConaughey made to his career. Was a run of the mill rom com guy and became an acting giant! Similar to Tom Hanks after his more goofy roles in the 80s.

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    Oct 18th 2021, 10:18 PM

    Deadpool!

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