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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 Gambling Drama

Molly’s Game

  • TG4 at 9.30pm today

STXfilms / YouTube

Based on a true story, Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) faces life in prison after running the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade. Her only ally is her defence lawyer, Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba). Directed by Aaron Sorkin.

Your Documentary Pick

Schumacher

  • Netflix from Wednesday

Netflix / YouTube

 Featuring rare interviews and previously undisclosed archival footage, the documentary explores the many facets that defined this athlete and his meteoric rise in a challenging and dangerous sport. Directed by Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker and Michael Wech.

Your Musical Pick

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

  • Amazon Prime Video from Friday

Amazon Prime Video UK / YouTube

Inspired by true events, the movie follows Jamie New (Max Harwood), a teenager from Sheffield, who dreams of life on stage. While his classmates plan their careers after they leave school, Jamie contemplates revealing his secret ambition to become a drag queen. Also starring Sarah Lancashire and Richard E Grant, directed by Jonathan Butterell.

Your Classic Action Pick

The Specialist

  • RTÉ 2 at 9.50pm Friday

Forever Cinematic Trailers / YouTube

May Munroe (Sharon Stone) hires former bomb expert Ray Quick (Sylvester Stallone) to help track down the gang responsible for the deaths of her parents. Directed by Luis Llosa.

Your Thriller Pick

The Man with the Iron Heart

  • RTÉ 2 ar 9.30pm on Saturday

LionsgateFilmsUK / YouTube

A group of Czechoslovak Resistance fighters led by Jan Kubiš (Jack O’Connell) and Jozef Gabčík, (Jack Reynor) plan to assassinate high ranking German SS and police official, Reinhard Heydrich (Jason Clarke), making him the highest-ranking Nazi officer ever to be killed during World War II. Directed by Cédric Jimenez.

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    Jul 10th 2021, 8:33 AM

    Affordable housing!?! How about helping those who can work and do work to buy a house at an affordable level first instead of perpetuating the entitlement attitude of many to a house without doing any of the work or contributing to greater society.

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    Jul 10th 2021, 9:13 AM

    @RogerRamjet: FG/FF’s efforts at fixing the housing crisis has ended up as the unmitigated mess as outlined in the report above. Millions wasted on creating and maintaining the mess also.

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    Jul 10th 2021, 9:56 AM

    @RogerRamjet: We have a housing crisis in this Country and blaming people on lower income isn’t the answer! In the Tipperary area where I live if you earn less than €25,000 as a couple you are eligible to apply for social housing, in the cities the limit is a little more it would be between €31,000 to €35,000 to apply for social housing if you are in one of the lower paid Jobs or on a social welfare payment you would qualify, NO BANK is going to give you a mortgage on that income. However, at the moment there is NO SOCIAL HOUSING being built and the local government through the Government is housing many of these families in private rental units which in turn leaves no rental units for others to rent and this keeps the cost of rental units in the state extremely high. If someone can get a mortgage and we had affordable housing in the Country fair play to them but please don’t blame people on a lower income from stopping anyone from buying a house and look at where the actual problem is its our government allowing investment funds to bulk buy all of housing so your affordable house is now in their hands and they will not sell but rent them back to you and at crazy prices. I am a full time family carer working 24/7 contributing to the state by and on a so called welfare payment of €219 per week who is going to give me a mortgage? there’s only a tiny fraction of people on welfare that don’t contribute for what ever reason. I can assure you the welfare system just don’t hand you a payment without dragging you through the coals first so if you do get a payment that would mean you qualified for it!

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    Jul 10th 2021, 10:04 AM

    @RogerRamjet: yeah let’s all tackle those in need of housing rather than tackle the cause of the problems in housing. FFG policy and support of vulture/ cuckoo funds and developers over citizens needs.

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    Jul 10th 2021, 10:22 AM

    @Charliegrl80: where am I blaming people on lower income? You can work and do, I’ve no issue with you getting access to housing. It’s the people who get handouts including housing and have no intention of doing an honest days work (but are well capable of doing it) or contributing to society I’m talking about.

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    Jul 10th 2021, 4:43 PM

    @RogerRamjet: There are many different kinds of welfare allowance in Ireland from the state pension down to jobseekers including the many people that lost jobs and some lost their homes during the down turn that are now aged out of employment and through no fault of their own have to stay on one of the most degrading payments in the state “jobseekers” if they take two weeks work they are cut off that payment and will go through hell to get it back. Yes there are a few people that don’t work but it’s a very tiny fraction of people claiming welfare and these people should be helped back on their feet by education and somebody actually giving a dam you see many of these people outside the court houses of this country every week for mainly drug related issues. Until this country tackles our massive drug problem these issues will never go away as they go hand in hand. Please do not blame people down on their luck because of circumstances in their lives and put the blame where is needs to be and that’s the housing crisis created by greed and the policies of the current and past governments as they are continually selling the family silver!

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    Jul 10th 2021, 8:02 AM

    Can someone give the exact number of houses that were bought under REITS/bulk buy/cookoo funds in last few years? As in a percentage of houses bought???

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    Jul 10th 2021, 9:29 AM

    Can someone far more informed than me on this matter explain why we can’t temporarily ban bulk buying of houses entirely during a housing crisis? Make it mandatory that you can only own one or max two houses? Maybe that violates EU or WTO agreements? The government seems perfectly content to get fined for breaking emissions targets by completely failing on climate change and isn’t out VRT straight up illegal?

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    Jul 10th 2021, 9:37 AM

    @Daniel Murray: government is being fined by EU for breaking violations with our huge money making scam – VRT.
    But they make far,far more from VRT than the EU fines us.

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    Jul 10th 2021, 9:31 AM

    Greed and high cost of living in this small little sod run by self serving goombeen men in suits ,remove these three ! problem solved and therefore it will never be solved it’s our culture now

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    Jul 10th 2021, 8:11 AM

    Excellent piece Conal!!!

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    Jul 10th 2021, 10:59 AM

    So many different institutions and bodies to deal with the housing crisis, but house prices continue to rise and are getting more and more unaffordable. One could come to the conclusion that the goal of all those bodies (quite a few created in the last several years) isn’t to tackle housing crisis or make houses more affordable, despite what is publicly declared, but quite the opposite. As if they’re there to put the veil over people’s eyes that they’re doing something, but in reality the measures they’re bringing forth do not give the desired outcome. So something is more than just rotten in the spiderly interconnected housing industry (government, city councils, developers, different type of funds mentioned in the article, emergency accommodation providers, homelessness etc).

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    Jul 10th 2021, 12:38 PM

    If you put government in charge of the supply your bread you will soon want for bread. It’s nature of the beast

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    Jul 10th 2021, 11:45 PM

    Fianna Fail: 4.9% of the electorate want them in power but they are still “in power”!

    The only way to put citizens in power and in control of Housing for the benefit of citizens and not “others” is a Referendum.

    https://www.change.org/p/irish-referendum-on-family-home-special-status

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    Jul 17th 2021, 2:51 PM

    The article misses the Bank influence and mortgages in low supply and demand; if supply of housing too low prices of property are set by the Banks and both the duration of mortgages and max amount they will pay out; USA even worse re duration eg 90 yr second geberation mortgages; the benefit in USA is bank takes responsibility so if you decide you cannot pay your mortgage you can return the house keys to banks and its their problem not yours; so ling as bank gives out outrageous mortgages and longer durations and vultures funds own properties to let then Ireland is fubbered

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